{{Infobox given name | name = Masato | image = | image_size = | caption = | pronunciation = | gender = Male | meaning = | region = | language = | origin = Japanese | alternative spelling = | nickname = | variant forms = | related names = | name day = | derived = | popularity = | footnotes = }} '''Masato''' (written: {{Nihongo2|正人}}, {{Nihongo2|雅人}}, {{Nihongo2|理人}}, {{Nihongo2|眞人}}, {{Nihongo2|聖人}}, {{Nihongo2|聖仁}}, {{Nihongo2|真人}}, {{Nihongo2|典人}} or {{Nihongo2|正外}}) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
*Masato (kickboxer) (born 1979), Japanese former welterweight kickboxer, won K-1 WORLD MAX kickboxing tournament in 2003, 2008 *Masato Amada (born 1974), Japanese voice actor *{{Nihongo|Masato Furuoya|古尾谷 雅人||1957–2003}}, Japanese actor *Masato Hagiwara (born 1971), Japanese actor *Masato Harada (born 1949), Japanese film director and actor *Masato Hatanaka (born 1975), Japanese musician *Masato Hayakawa (born 1986), Japanese singer and musician *Masato Ichishiki (born 1971), author of the SD Gundam comics *{{Nihongo|Masato Ishioka|石岡 正人||born 1960}}, Japanese film director and screenwriter *{{Nihongo|Masato Jinbo|神保 昌登}}, Japanese anime director and screenwriter *{{Nihongo|Masato Kato|加藤 正人||born 1963}}, Japanese game developer and scenario writer *Masato Kawabata (born 1977), professional drifting driver *Masato Kitera, Japanese diplomat *Masato Kurogi (born 1989), Japanese football player for Cerezo Osaka *{{Nihongo|Masato Mihara|三原 正人||born 1959}}, Japanese judoka *Masato Morishige (born 1987), Japanese football player for F.C. Tokyo *Masato Nakamura (born 1958), member of the band Dreams Come True *{{Nihongo|Masato Nakamura (baseball)|中村 真人||born 1982}}, Japanese baseball player *Masato Nagai a Japanese anime singer *{{Nihongo|Masato Osugi|大杉 誠人||born 1983}}, Japanese footballer *{{Nihongo|Masato Saito|斉藤 雅人||born 1975}}, Japanese footballer *Masato Sakai (born 1973), Japanese actor *{{Nihongo|Masato Tachibana|橘 典人||born 1972}}, Japanese weightlifter *{{Nihongo|Masato Takaki|高木 正人||born 1966}}, Japanese sailor *{{Nihongo|Masato Watanabe|渡辺 正人||born 1979}}, Japanese baseball player *Masato Yokoyama (born 1964), perpetrator of the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway *Masato Yoshii (born 1965), Japanese professional baseball player
==Fictional characters== *Masato (Pokémon), known in English as Max, a character in ''Pokémon'' and ''Ash & Pikachu'' *Masato Inohara, a character in ''Little Busters!'' *Masato Jin from ''Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters'' *Masato Kusaka of ''Kamen Rider 555'' *Masato Mishima of ''Kamen Rider Kabuto'' *Masato Sanjouin from ''Sailor Moon'' *Masato Wakamatsu of ''Miyuki'' *Masato Yamanobe, a character in the manga ''Phoenix'' (''Hi no Tori'') * Masato Hijirikawa, a character from the ''Uta no Prince-sama'' series. * Masato Kageura, a character in the manga ''World Trigger''.
==See also== *Masato, Peruvian Amazonian regional variation of the fermented beverage chicha
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