Sakai (name)

Surname

• Atsushi Sakai, Japanese professional wrestler
• Daniel Sakai, Oakland SWAT police officer killed in 2009
• Frankie Sakai, Japanese comedian
• Gotoku Sakai, Japanese football player currently playing for Hamburger SV
• Hideyuki Sakai, professional Go player
• Hirofumi Sakai, Japanese race walker
• Hiroko Sakai, Japanese softball player who won the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics
• Hiroyuki Sakai, Japanese chef, starred in the original Iron Chef
• Sakai Hōitsu, Japanese painter of the Rinpa school
• Izumi Sakai, J-pop singer, song writer, and lead singer of the group Zard
• Kanako Sakai, Japanese voice actor
• Katsuyuki Sakai, Japanese rugby union player
• Kazufumi Sakai, Japanese basketball player
• Keikō Sakai, Japanese voice actor who works at 81 Produce
• Kenichi Sakai, Japanese wrestler known by his ring name Ken45°
• Kiyoshi Sakai, anime producer and animator
• Kōji Sakai, general in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II
• Maki Sakai, Japanese actress
• Manabu Sakai, Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet
• Masaaki Sakai, Japanese rock musician and television performer
• Sakai Masahisa, Japanese samurai of the Sengoku Period
• Masato Sakai, Japanese actor
• Miki Sakai, Japanese actress and J-pop idol singer
• Mikio Sakai, Japanese singer-songwriter
• Natsumi Sakai, Japanese swimmer
• Nick Sakai, a Japanese-American actor
• Noriko Sakai, Japanese J-pop star and actress
• Richard Sakai, Emmy-winning Japanese-American television producer
• Ryūichi Sakai, better known as Marc Panther, Japanese rapper, singer, and co-producer, and a member of the J-pop groups globe and 245
• Saburō Sakai, Japanese fighter ace during World War II
• Seth Sakai, Japanese-American actor known for various characters he played on Hawaii Five-O and Magnum P.I.
• Shiho Sakai, Japanese swimmer
• Sho Sakai, Japanese diver
• Shogo Sakai, Japanese football player currently playing for Montedio Yamagata
• Shoichiro Sakai, Japanese mathematician
• Stan Sakai, Japanese-American comic book creator known for his Usagi Yojimbo series
• Sumie Sakai, Japanese-American professional wrestler
• Sakai Tadaaki, Japanese daimyō of the Edo period, and a prominent Tokugawa shogunate of Japan
• Sakai Tadakatsu, Japanese tairō, rōjū, master of Wakasa-Obama Castle, and daimyō of Obama Domain in Wakasa province in the mid-17th century Japan
• Sakai Tadakatsu , Japanese daimyō of the early Edo period in Japan
• Sakai Tadakiyo, daimyō in Kōzuke Province, and a high-ranking government advisor and official in the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan
• Sakai Tadamochi, Japanese daimyō of the mid-Edo period in Japan
• Sakai Tadatsugu, Japanese military commanders for Tokugawa Ieyasu in the late-Sengoku period, and one of the Four Guardians of the Tokugawa
• Sakai Tadayo, Japanese daimyō of the Sengoku period, and high ranking government advisor holding the title of Rōjū, and later Tairō
• Sakai Tadayuki, Japanese daimyō of the mid to late Edo period who ruled the Obama Domain
• Takao Sakai, Japanese bobsledder
• Takashi Sakai, Japanese lieutenant general of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II
• Tatsuya Sakai, Japanese footballer
• Tatsuya Sakai, Japanese sport shooter
• Tomohito Sakai, Japanese baseball player
• Tomoyuki Sakai, Japanese football player who played in the J-League and on the Japan national team in 2000
• Toshihiko Sakai, Japanese socialist known for cofounding the Common Peoples' Newspaper with Shusui Kotoku
• Toshio Sakai, photographer for United Press International who won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 1968
• Toshio Sakai , professional Go player in Japan
• Toshiyuki Sakai, Japanese ice hockey player
• Yoshinori Sakai, the Olympic flame torchbearer who lit the cauldron at the 1964 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, and gold and silver medalist at the 1966 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand
• Yoshio Sakai, Japanese field hockey player who competed in the 1932 and 1936 Summer Olympics
• Yuki Sakai, Japanese footballer
• Yuki Sakai, Japanese footballer

  Given name

• Sakai Tanaka, Japanese freelance journalist