# Masato

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Masato
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Masato.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masato
> Source revision: 1297859354
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

{{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)](/source/Masato_(kickboxer)) (born 1979), Japanese former welterweight kickboxer, won K-1 WORLD MAX kickboxing tournament in 2003, 2008
*[Masato Amada](/source/Masato_Amada) (born 1974), Japanese voice actor
*{{Nihongo|[Masato Furuoya](/source/Masato_Furuoya)|古尾谷 雅人||1957–2003}}, Japanese actor
*[Masato Hagiwara](/source/Masato_Hagiwara) (born 1971), Japanese actor
*[Masato Harada](/source/Masato_Harada) (born 1949), Japanese film director and actor
*[Masato Hatanaka](/source/Masato_Hatanaka) (born 1975), Japanese musician
*[Masato Hayakawa](/source/Masato_Hayakawa) (born 1986), Japanese singer and musician
*[Masato Ichishiki](/source/Masato_Ichishiki) (born 1971), author of the SD Gundam comics
*{{Nihongo|[Masato Ishioka](/source/Masato_Ishioka)|石岡 正人||born 1960}}, Japanese film director and screenwriter
*{{Nihongo|[Masato Jinbo](/source/Masato_Jinbo)|神保 昌登}}, Japanese anime director and screenwriter
*{{Nihongo|[Masato Kato](/source/Masato_Kato)|加藤 正人||born 1963}}, Japanese game developer and scenario writer
*[Masato Kawabata](/source/Masato_Kawabata) (born 1977), professional drifting driver
*[Masato Kitera](/source/Masato_Kitera), Japanese diplomat
*[Masato Kurogi](/source/Masato_Kurogi) (born 1989), Japanese football player for Cerezo Osaka
*{{Nihongo|[Masato Mihara](/source/Masato_Mihara)|三原 正人||born 1959}}, Japanese judoka
*[Masato Morishige](/source/Masato_Morishige) (born 1987), Japanese football player for F.C. Tokyo
*[Masato Nakamura](/source/Masato_Nakamura) (born 1958), member of the band Dreams Come True
*{{Nihongo|[Masato Nakamura (baseball)](/source/Masato_Nakamura_(baseball))|中村 真人||born 1982}}, Japanese baseball player
*Masato Nagai a Japanese [anime](/source/anime) singer
*{{Nihongo|Masato Osugi|大杉 誠人||born 1983}}, Japanese footballer
*{{Nihongo|[Masato Saito](/source/Masato_Saito)|斉藤 雅人||born 1975}}, Japanese footballer
*[Masato Sakai](/source/Masato_Sakai) (born 1973), Japanese actor
*{{Nihongo|[Masato Tachibana](/source/Masato_Tachibana)|橘 典人||born 1972}}, Japanese weightlifter
*{{Nihongo|[Masato Takaki](/source/Masato_Takaki)|高木 正人||born 1966}}, Japanese sailor
*{{Nihongo|[Masato Watanabe](/source/Masato_Watanabe)|渡辺 正人||born 1979}}, Japanese baseball player
*[Masato Yokoyama](/source/Masato_Yokoyama) (born 1964), perpetrator of the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
*[Masato Yoshii](/source/Masato_Yoshii) (born 1965), Japanese professional baseball player

==Fictional characters==
*[Masato (Pokémon)](/source/Max_(Pok%C3%A9mon)), known in English as Max, a character in ''Pokémon'' and ''Ash & Pikachu''
*[Masato Inohara](/source/List_of_Little_Busters!_characters), a character in ''[Little Busters!](/source/Little_Busters!)''
*[Masato Jin](/source/Energy_Management_Center) from ''[Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters](/source/Tokumei_Sentai_Go-Busters)''
*Masato Kusaka of ''[Kamen Rider 555](/source/Kamen_Rider_555)''
*Masato Mishima of ''[Kamen Rider Kabuto](/source/Kamen_Rider_Kabuto)''
*[Masato Sanjouin](/source/Masato_Sanjouin) from ''Sailor Moon''
*[Masato Wakamatsu](/source/Masato_Wakamatsu) of [''Miyuki''](/source/Miyuki_(manga))
*[Masato Yamanobe](/source/Masato_Yamanobe), a character in the manga ''[Phoenix](/source/Phoenix_(manga))'' (''Hi no Tori'')
* Masato Hijirikawa, a character from the ''[Uta no Prince-sama](/source/Uta_no_Prince-sama)'' series.
* Masato Kageura, a character in the manga ''[World Trigger](/source/World_Trigger)''.

==See also==
*[Masato](/source/Masato_(beverage)), Peruvian Amazonian regional variation of the fermented beverage [chicha](/source/chicha)

{{given name}}
Category:Japanese masculine given names
Category:Masculine given names

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Masato](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masato) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masato?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.