Masato

Template:Infobox given name Masato (written: Template:Category handler, Template:Category handler, Template:Category handler, Template:Category handler, Template:Category handler, Template:Category handler, Template:Category handler, Template:Category handler or Template:Category handler) 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
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• 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
• , Japanese film director and screenwriter
• , Japanese anime director and screenwriter
• , 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
• , Japanese judoka
• Masato Morishige (born 1987), Japanese football player for F.C. Tokyo
• Masato Nakamura (born 1958), member of the band Dreams Come True
• , Japanese baseball player
• Masato Nagai a Japanese anime singer
• , Japanese footballer
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• Masato Sakai (born 1973), Japanese actor
• , Japanese weightlifter
• , Japanese sailor
• , 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