Masao

Masao is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:

• Masao Abe , Japanese philosopher and writer
• Masao Adachi , Japanese screenwriter and film director
• Masao Akamatsu , Japanese politician
• Masao Akashi , Japanese musical arranger
• Amatsukaze Masao , Japanese sumo wrestler
• Masao Arai , Japanese sport wrestler
• Masao Azuma , Japanese motorcycle racer
• Baba Masao , Japanese general
• Masao Doi, Japanese academic
• Masao Fujii , Japanese baseball player
• Masao Gozu , Japanese photographer and sculptor
• Inaba Masao, Japanese military officer and rebel
• Masao Haji , Japanese activist and academic
• Masao Harada , Japanese triple jumper
• Masao Horino , Japanese photographer
• Masao Ichihara , Japanese sprinter
• Masao Inoue (actor) , Japanese actor and film director
• Masao Inoue (wrestler) , Japanese professional wrestler
• Masao Ito , Japanese neuroscientist
• Masao Iwasato , former President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
• Masao Kanamitsu (1943–2011), Japanese American meteorologist
• Masao Kato , Japanese Go player
• Masao Kawai , Japanese primatologist
• Masao Kiba , Japanese footballer
• Masao Kida , Japanese baseball player
• Masao Kinoshita , Japanese businessman
• Masao Kitagawa , Japanese botanist
• Kiyonomori Masao , Japanese sumo wrestler
• Masao Kobayashi , Japanese politician
• Masao Koga , Japanese composer and guitarist
• Masao Komatsu , Japanese actor
• Masao Kotani , Japanese theoretical physicist
• Masao Kume , Japanese playwright, writer and poet
• Masao Maeda , Japanese printmaker
• Masao Maruyama , Japanese animator and film producer
• Masao Maruyama , Japanese general
• Masao Maruyama (scholar) , Japanese political scientist and historian
• Masao Mimatsu , Japanese volcanologist
• Masao Miyamoto , Japanese psychiatrist
• Masao Miyoshi , Japanese sociologist
• Masao Morinaka , Japanese baseball player
• Masao Mukai , Japanese conductor
• Masao Murano , Japanese ice hockey player
• Masao Murata , Japanese judoka
• Masao Nakabori , Japanese cinematographer
• Masao Nakamura , Japanese general
• Masao Nakayama , Japanese politician and diplomat
• Masao Nozawa , Japanese footballer
• Masao Ohba , Japanese boxer
• Masao Ono , Japanese footballer
• Masao Orihara , Japanese professional wrestler
• Masao Sasakibara , Japanese World War II flying ace
• Masao Sen , Japanese singer
• Masao Shimizu , Japanese actor
• Masao Suenaga , Japanese drifting driver
• Masao Sugimoto, Japanese footballer
• Masao Sugiuchi , Japanese Go player
• Masao Takada, Japanese footballer
• Masao Takagi , former President of South Korea
• Masao Takahashi, Canadian judoka
• Masao Takemoto , Japanese artistic gymnast
• Masao Takenaka (1925–2006), Japanese theologian
• Masao Takiyama , Japanese television producer
• Masao Tsuchida, Japanese baseball player
• Masao Tsukada , Japanese shogi player
• Masao Uchino , Japanese footballer and manager
• Masao Urino , Japanese lyricist, screenwriter and film director
• Masao Watanabe , Japanese general
• Masao Yagi , Japanese jazz musician
• Masao Yamaguchi , Japanese anthropologist
• Masao Yamamoto , Japanese photographer
• Masao Yoshida (disambiguation), multiple people