What is "masao"

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 professional wrestler

• , Japanese actor and film director

• , 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 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 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 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 footballer and manager

• , Japanese lyricist, screenwriter and film director

• , Japanese general

• , Japanese anthropologist

• , Japanese photographer

• , Japanese baseball player

• , Japanese nuclear engineer