Gotō (surname)

Artists

• Jin Goto, Japanese nihonga painter
• John Goto, British artist known for his montage color photography
• Joseph Goto, American sculptor
• Keiichirō Gotō, Japanese photographer
• Goto Yujo, Japanese artisan and sword fitting maker

  Film, television, and video games

• Hirohito Gotō, Japanese television and stage director
• Hiroki Gotō, Japanese voice actor
• Hiroyuki Goto, Japanese game designer and pi reciter
• Keiji Gotoh, Japanese anime director
• Kenji Goto, Japanese freelance video journalist
• Mai Goto , Japanese voice actress
• Risa Goto, Japanese actress and gravure idol
• Saori Gotō, Japanese voice actress
• Satoshi Goto, Japanese voice actor
• Tetsuo Gotō, Japanese voice actor
• Yūko Gotō, Japanese voice actress
• Terumoto Gotō, Japanese comedian, member of the duo Football Hour
• Toshio Gotō, Japanese film director

  Musicians

• Kumiko Goto, Japanese singer
• Maki Goto, Japanese singer in Hello!Project
• Mariko Gotō, 21st-century Japanese singer
• Masafumi Gotoh, member of the Japanese rock band Asian Kung-Fu Generation
• Midori Gotō, Japanese-born American violinist
• Ryu Gotō, Japanese-American violinist
• Suguru Goto, 21st-century Japanese composer and new media artist
• Tsugutoshi Gotō, Japanese musician
• Yukari Goto, Japanese singer and voice actress

  Government

• Fumio Gotō, Japanese politician and theoretician
• Hitoshi Goto, Japanese politician, governor of Yamanashi Prefecture
• Gotō Morinori, Japanese daimyō of Fukue Domain in what is now Nagasaki Prefecture
• Gotō Shinpei, Japanese statesman and cabinet member
• Gotō Shōjirō, Japanese politician and leader of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement
• Shigeyuki Goto, Japanese politician, Liberal Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives

  Military and samurai

• Aritomo Gotō, Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II
• Eiji Gotō, Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II
• Jūrō Gotō, Imperial Japanese Army major general during the Second Sino-Japanese War
• Fusanosuke Gotō, Imperial Japanese Army soldier
• Gotō Mototsugu, Japanese samurai who served the Kuroda and Toyotomi clans
• Goto Nobuyasu, Japanese samurai who served the Uesugi clan

  Sportspeople

• Ai Goto, Japanese badminton player
• Ayumi Goto, Japanese figure skater
• Hideko Goto, Japanese table tennis player
• Hirooki Goto, Japanese professional wrestler
• Kanoko Goto, Japanese cross-country skier
• Keita Goto , Japanese footballer
• Michi Goto, Japanese football forward
• Mitsutaka Goto, Japanese baseball infielder
• Ryo Goto, Japanese football forward
• Shunta Gotoh, Japanese baseball outfielder
• Tadaharu Goto, Japanese swimmer
• Takasuke Goto, Japanese footballer
• Tarzan Goto, Japanese professional wrestler
• Tatsutoshi Goto, Japanese professional wrestler
• Teruya Goto, Japanese rugby sevens player
• Toru Goto, Japanese freestyle swimmer
• Yoshikazu Goto, Japanese football midfielder
• Yuji Goto, Japanese football midfielder
• Yukio Goto, Japanese football defender
• Yusuke Goto, Japanese football forward

  Writers

• Ben Goto, Japanese documentarist and novelist
• Cassern "Multilaser" Goto, American science fiction writer
• Gotō Chūgai, Japanese essayist, novelist and literary critic
• Hiromi Goto, Japanese-born Canadian fantasy novelist
• Meisei Goto, Japanese novelist

  Other

• Eiichi Goto, Japanese computer scientist
• Gotō Zuigan, Japanese Buddhist Rinzai Zen master
• Katsu Goto, Japanese merchant, interpreter, and lynching victim
• Kazushige Goto, Japanese software engineer known for hand-optimized assembly routines
• Keita Gotō , Japanese businessman, founder of the Tokyu Group
• Kumiko Goto-Azuma, Japanese Antarctic palaeoclimatologist and glaciologist
• Seitarō Gotō, Japanese zoologist and parasitologist
• Tadamasa Goto, yakuza boss

  Organizations

• Gotoh, Japanese manufacturer of guitar and musical instruments parts

  In fiction

• Goto Dengo, a character in the novel Cryptonomicon
• Goto Shinpachi, an interpreter in the novel The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
• Gabriel Goto, a minor character in the Baroque cycle
• Kasumi Goto, a character from the video game franchise Mass Effect
• The Goto Family, a powerful yakuza family from The Raid 2
• * Hideaki Goto, yakuza boss, father of Keiichi Goto and head of Goto Family
• * Keiichi Goto, son of Hideaki Goto and heir of Goto Family
• Tojiro Goto, a character from the Kamen Rider Fourze
• Gotō Matabei, a character of vídeo game Sengoku Basara 4
• Gotou, the main antagonist of Parasyte franchise.
• Shinichi Goto, the main protagonist from Old Boy.
• Jun Gotō, one of main protagonists from Angel's 3Piece!
• Moka Gotō, one of main characters from Clean Freak! Aoyama kun.
• Hidenori Gotō, one of main characters from Samurai Flamenco.
• Ren Goto, a character from K Project.
• Kosei Goto, a character from Giant Killing.
• Takuya Gotou, a character from Sound! Euphonium.
• Shintaro Goto, one of main characters from Kamen Rider OOO.
• Hitori Gotō, one of main characters from Bocchi the Rock!