Masami
Masami is a common Japanese given name and can be given to either sex.
Written forms
- マサミ in
- まさみ in
- 惟美, meaning "Considerate beauty"
- 真己, meaning "True self"
- 真巳, meaning "Truth, Snake"
- 昌美, meaning "Prosperous beauty"
- 雅美, meaning "Gracious beauty"
- 成美, meaning "Become beautiful"
People with the name
- Masami Akita, Japanese Noise musician
- Masami Anno, Japanese director of the anime series Chūka Ichiban! which is based on the manga series of the same name
- Masami Chinen, Okinawan martial arts master
- Daishōhō Masami, Japanese sumo wrestler
- Masami Fukushima, Japanese science fiction editor, author, critic, and translator
- Masami Hata, Japanese animator and director
- Masami Hirosaka, Japanese radio-controlled car racer
- Masami Hisamoto, Japanese comedian, actress, singer and tarento
- Masami Horikoshi, Japanese rugby union player and coach
- Masami Horiuchi, Japanese actor
- Masami Ichimura, Japanese alpine skier
- Masami Ihara, Japanese former footballer and manager
- Masami Imai, Japanese economist
- Masami Ishigaki, Japanese professional baseball infielder
- Masami Iwaki, Japanese sports shooter
- Masami Iwasaki, Japanese voice actor
- Masami Kageyama, Japanese racing driver
- Masami Kawamura, Japanese rugby union player
- Masami Kikuchi, Japanese voice actor and narrator
- Masami Kobayashi, Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II
- Masami Kubota, Japanese former gymnast who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Masami Kurumada, Japanese manga artist and writer
- Masami Kuwashima, Japanese former racecar driver
- Masami Masuda, known as Cusi Masuda, Japanese-American artist, sculptor and painter
- Masami Mitsuoka, Japanese pop singer
- Masami Miyamoto, Japanese diver
- Masami Nagasawa, Japanese TV drama and movie actress
- Masami Nakabo, Japanese former swimmer
- Masami Nishimura, Japanese former politician
- Masami Ōbari, Japanese anime director, animation director and mecha and character designer
- Masami Odate, Japanese professional wrestler
- Masami Ohinata, Japanese academic and president of Keisen University in Tokyo
- Ōishi Masami, Japanese daimyō during late-Edo period
- Masami Okui, Japanese singer and songwriter
- Inaba Masami, Japanese singer and songwriter
- Masami Sato, Japanese former football player
- Masami Shimojō, Japanese film and stage actor
- Masami Shinoda, Japanese alto-saxophonist and composer
- Masami Shiratama, Japanese musical composer and former bass guitarist for the band Porno Graffitti
- Masami Suzuki, Japanese actress, voice actress and singer
- Masami Tachikawa, Japanese basketball player
- Masami Taki, Japanese football manager
- Masami Tanabu, Japanese politician and former ice hockey player and coach
- Masami Tanaka, Japanese former breaststroke swimmer
- Masami Taniguchi, Japanese volleyball player
- Masami Teraoka, Japanese-American watercolor artist who mimics the style of traditional Japanese wood-block prints
- Masami Tsuchiya (Aum Shinrikyo), Japanese convicted terrorist and senior member of Aum Shinrikyo
- Masami Tsuchiya (singer), Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer
- Masami Tsuda, Japanese manga artist
- Masami Tsuruoka, Japanese-Canadian karate instructor and practitioner
- Masami Uno, Japanese writer
- Vanilla Yamazaki, Japanese katsudō-benshi, voice actor, actress, choreographer and a tarento
- Masami Yokoyama, Japanese volleyball player
- Masami Yoshida (javelin thrower), Japanese javelin thrower
- Masami Yoshida (sprinter), Japanese sprinter
- Devil Masami,known as Devil Masami Japanese professional wrestler
- Masami Yūki, Japanese manga artist
Fictional characters
- Masami Eiri, villain from the anime Serial Experiments Lain
- Masami Kaida, a character in the air combat video game The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces
- Masami Oyamada, from the manga and anime Someday's Dreamers
- Masami Saotome, from the live action film: Boogiepop and Others
- Masami Yamada, teacher from the anime Onegai Teacher
- Masami Aomame, the full name of the lead female protagonist in Haruki Murakami's novel, 1Q84
- Masami Yoshida the wealthy daughter of the Rainbow Factory Owner from The Amazing World of Gumball
- Masami Kousa, a yakuza boss in the manga/anime series Black Lagoon
- Masami Fujii, a character in the manga/anime series Ro-Kyu-Bu!
- Masami Iwasawa, the original lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of Girls Dead Monster from the anime Angel Beats!