Masao Explained
Masao |
Gender: | Male |
Meaning: | Different meanings depending on the kanji used |
Origin: | Japanese |
Masao (written: 正雄, 正夫, 正生, 正男, 正郎, 雅雄, 雅央, 雅夫, 雅勇, 雅男, 昌雄, 昌夫, 昌男, 昌朗, 昌郎, 昌大, 政雄, 政夫, 政男, 政於, 征夫, 優夫, 聖雄, 利生, 将雄, 将夫 or 眞男) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
- , Japanese philosopher and writer
- , Japanese screenwriter and film director
- , Japanese politician
- , Japanese sumo wrestler
- , Japanese sport wrestler
- , Japanese motorcycle racer
- , Japanese general
- Masao Doi, Japanese academic
- , Japanese baseball player
- , Japanese photographer and sculptor
- Inaba Masao, Japanese military officer and rebel
- , Japanese activist and academic
- , Japanese triple jumper
- , Japanese photographer
- , Japanese sprinter
- , Japanese actor and film director
- , Japanese professional wrestler
- , Japanese neuroscientist
- , former President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
- Masao Kanamitsu (1943–2011), Japanese American meteorologist
- , Japanese Go player
- , Japanese primatologist
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese baseball player
- , Japanese businessman
- , Japanese botanist
- , Japanese sumo wrestler
- , Japanese politician
- , Japanese composer and guitarist
- , Japanese actor
- , Japanese theoretical physicist
- , Japanese playwright, writer and poet
- , Japanese printmaker
- , Japanese animator and film producer
- , Japanese general
- , Japanese political scientist and historian
- , Japanese volcanologist
- , Japanese psychiatrist
- , Japanese sociologist
- , Japanese baseball player
- , Japanese conductor
- , Japanese ice hockey player
- , Japanese judoka
- , Japanese cinematographer
- , Japanese general
- , Japanese politician and diplomat
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese boxer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese professional wrestler
- , Japanese World War II flying ace
- , Japanese singer
- , Japanese actor
- , Japanese drifting driver
- Masao Sugimoto (born 1967), Japanese footballer
- , Japanese Go player
- Masao Takada, Japanese footballer
- , former President of South Korea
- Masao Takahashi (born 1929), Canadian judoka
- , Japanese artistic gymnast
- Masao Takenaka (1925–2006), Japanese theologian
- , Japanese television producer
- Masao Tsuchida, Japanese baseball player
- , Japanese shogi player
- , Japanese footballer and manager
- , Japanese lyricist, screenwriter and film director
- , Japanese general
- , Japanese jazz musician
- , Japanese anthropologist
- , Japanese photographer
- Masao Yoshida (disambiguation), multiple people