Masaru
# Masaru

Masaru (まさる, マサル) is a masculine Japanese given name.

## Possible writings

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 (勝), a Japanese football player
* Masaru Emoto (勝), a Japanese author
* Masaru Furukawa (勝), a Japanese swimmer and olympic champion
* Masaru Fuse (布施 勝, born 1969), Japanese equestrian
* Gagamaru Masaru (勝), a Georgian sumo wrestler
* Masaru Hamaguchi (優), Japanese comedian
* Masaru Hayami (優), the 28th Governor of the Bank of Japan
* Masaru Ibuka (大), a Japanese electronics industrialist
* Masaru Ikeda (勝), a Japanese actor and voice actor
* Grant Masaru Imahara, an American electronics and radio control expert
* Masaru Inada (勝), a Japanese skeleton racer
* Inoue Masaru (勝), a Japanese samurai known as the "father of the Japanese railways"
* Masaru Kanbe (神戸 勝, born 1938), Japanese field hockey player
* Masaru Katori (まさる), a female Japanese writer and manga author
* Masaru Kageura (將), a Japanese baseball player
* Masaru Kato (加藤 大, born 1991), Japanese footballer
* Masaru Kitao (勝), a Japanese animator
* Masaru Konuma (勝), a Japanese director
* Masaru Kurotsu (勝), a Japanese football player
* Kyokutenhō Masaru (勝), a Mongolian sumo wrestler
* Masaru Matsuhashi (優), a Japanese football player
* Masaru Motegi (茂木 優, born 1950), Japanese sport wrestler
* Masaru Edward Fulenwider-Musashi, a Wushu martial artist, stuntman, and an actor
* Masaru Nagaoka (長岡 勝, born 1962), Japanese ski jumper
* Masaru Nakamura (中村 勝, born 1991), Japanese baseball player
* Masaru Ogawa (勝), a Japanese figure skater
* Masaru Saito (齊藤 勝, born 1988), Japanese baseball player
* Masaru Sakurai (賢), a member of the Japanese musical group The Alfee
* Masaru Sato (勝), a Japanese composer
* Masaru Shimabukuro (優), a member of the Okinawan music band Begin
* Masaru Shintani, a Japanese-Canadian Karate master
* Masaru Takumi (勝), a Japanese yakuza
* Masaru Tobita (将), known as Survival Tobita, a Japanese professional wrestler
* Wakanohana Masaru (勝), a Japanese sumo wrestler
* Masaru Wakasa (若狭 勝, born 1956), Japanese lawyer and politician

## Fictional characters

* Masaru (マサル), a character in the manga and animated film Akira
* Masaru Daimon (Marcus Damon in the English dub), a character from the anime series Digimon Savers
* Masaru Kato (勝), 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 (爆豪 勝), Katsuki Bakugo's father and the husband of Mitsuki Bakugo in the manga and anime My Hero Academia
* Konaka Masaru (Japanese name for Redd White), a character in Ace Attorney
