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
- 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, Japanese actor and film director
- Masao Inoue, Japanese professional wrestler
- Masao Ito, Japanese neuroscientist
- Lee Teng-hui, former President of the Republic of China
- Masao Kanamitsu, 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 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, 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
- Park Chung-hee, former President of South Korea
- Masao Takahashi, Canadian judoka
- Masao Takemoto, Japanese artistic gymnast
- Masao Takenaka, 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, multiple people
