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"
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