Masaru


Masaru is a masculine Japanese given name.

Written forms

Masaru can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
  • 勝, "excel"
  • 優, "excel"
  • 大, "large"
  • 将 or 將, "commander"
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People with the name

  • Masaru Akiba, a Japanese football player
  • Masaru Emoto, a Japanese author
  • Masaru Furukawa, a Japanese swimmer and olympic champion
  • Masaru Fuse, Japanese equestrian
  • Gagamaru Masaru, a Georgian sumo wrestler
  • Masaru Hamaguchi, Japanese comedian
  • Masaru Hayami, the 28th Governor of the Bank of Japan
  • Masaru Ibuka, a Japanese electronics industrialist
  • Masaru Ikeda, a Japanese actor and voice actor
  • Grant Masaru Imahara, an American electronics and radio control expert
  • Masaru Inada, a Japanese skeleton racer
  • Inoue Masaru, a Japanese samurai known as the "father of the Japanese railways"
  • Masaru Kanbe, Japanese field hockey player
  • Masaru Katori, a female Japanese writer and manga author
  • Masaru Kageura, a Japanese baseball player
  • Masaru Kato, Japanese footballer
  • Masaru Kitao, a Japanese animator
  • Masaru Konuma, a Japanese director
  • Masaru Kurotsu, a Japanese football player
  • Kyokutenhō Masaru, a Mongolian sumo wrestler
  • Masaru Matsuhashi, a Japanese football player
  • Masaru Motegi, Japanese sport wrestler
  • Masaru Edward Fulenwider-Musashi, a Wushu martial artist, stuntman, and an actor
  • Masaru Nagai, Japanese actor known for Mirai Sentai Timeranger
  • Masaru Nagaoka, Japanese ski jumper
  • Masaru Nakamura, Japanese baseball player
  • Masaru Ogawa, a Japanese figure skater
  • Masaru Saito, Japanese baseball player
  • Masaru Sakurai, a member of the Japanese musical group The Alfee
  • Masaru Sato, a Japanese composer
  • Masaru Shimabukuro, a member of the Okinawan music band Begin
  • Masaru Shintani, a Japanese-Canadian Karate master
  • Masaru Takumi, a Japanese yakuza
  • Masaru Tobita, known as Survival Tobita, a Japanese professional wrestler
  • Wakanohana Masaru, a Japanese sumo wrestler
  • Masaru Wakasa, Japanese lawyer and politician

    Fictional characters

  • Masaru, a character in the manga and animated film Akira
  • Masaru Daimon, a character from the anime series Digimon Savers
  • Masaru Kato, a character from the anime and manga series Gantz
  • Masaru Aoki of Hajime no Ippo
  • Masaru Sera, the Third Chairman of the Tojo Clan in the first game in the Yakuza series
  • *Masaru Watase, the Waka gashira of the Omi Alliance in Yakuza 5
  • Masaru "Echo" Enatsu, an SAT operative in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege.
  • Masaru Daimon, a character in Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls.
  • Masaru Bakugou, Katsuki Bakugo's father and the husband of Mitsuki Bakugo in the manga and anime My Hero Academia
  • Konaka Masaru, a character in Ace Attorney