Masato
Masato is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Masato , Japanese former welterweight kickboxer, won K-1 WORLD MAX kickboxing tournament in 2003, 2008
- Masato Furuoya, Japanese actor
- Masato Hagiwara, Japanese actor
- Masato Harada, Japanese film director and actor
- Masato Hatanaka, Japanese musician
- Masato Ichishiki, author of the SD Gundam comics
- Masato Ishioka, Japanese film director and screenwriter
- Masato Kato, Japanese game developer and scenario writer
- Masato Kawabata, professional drifting driver
- Masato Kitera, Japanese diplomat
- Masato Kurogi, Japanese football player for Cerezo Osaka
- Masato Mihara, Japanese judoka
- Masato Morishige, Japanese football player for F.C. Tokyo
- Masato Nakamura, member of the band Dreams Come True
- Masato Nakamura, Japanese baseball player
- Masato Osugi, Japanese footballer
- Masato Saito, Japanese footballer
- Masato Sakai, Japanese actor
- Masato Sasaki, Japanese footballer
- Masato Tachibana, Japanese weightlifter
- Masato Takaki, Japanese sailor
- Masato Watanabe, Japanese baseball player
- Masato Yokoyama, perpetrator of the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
- Masato Yoshii, Japanese professional baseball player
Fictional characters
- Masato, 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
- Masato Hijirikawa, a character from the Uta no Prince-sama series.
- Masato Kageura, a character in the manga World Trigger.
