Gotō (surname)

Gotō (後藤, 五藤, 五島), also spelled Gotou or Gotoh, is a Japanese surname. People with the name include:

Artists

 * Jin Goto (born 1968), Japanese nihonga painter
 * John Goto (born 1949), British artist known for his montage color photography
 * Joseph Goto (1920–1994), American sculptor
 * Keiichirō Gotō (1918–2004), Japanese photographer
 * Goto Yujo (1440–1512), Japanese artisan and sword fitting maker

Film, television, and video games

 * Hirohito Gotō (born 1969), Japanese television and stage director
 * Hiroki Gotō (born 1985), Japanese voice actor
 * Hiroyuki Goto (born 1973), Japanese game designer and pi reciter
 * Keiji Gotoh (born 1968), Japanese anime director
 * Kenji Goto (1967–2015), Japanese freelance video journalist
 * Mai Goto (voice actress) (born 1982), Japanese voice actress
 * Risa Goto (born 1983), Japanese actress and gravure idol
 * Saori Gotō (born 1987), Japanese voice actress
 * Satoshi Goto (born 1971), Japanese voice actor
 * Tetsuo Gotō (1950–2018), Japanese voice actor
 * Yūko Gotō (born 1975), Japanese voice actress
 * Terumoto Gotō (born 1974), Japanese comedian, member of the duo Football Hour
 * Toshio Gotō (born 1938), Japanese film director

Musicians

 * Kumiko Goto (born 1971), Japanese singer
 * Maki Goto (born 1985), Japanese singer in Hello!Project
 * Mariko Gotō, 21st-century Japanese singer
 * Masafumi Gotoh (born 1976), member of the Japanese rock band Asian Kung-Fu Generation
 * Midori Gotō (born 1971), Japanese-born American violinist
 * Ryu Gotō (born 1988), Japanese-American violinist
 * Suguru Goto, 21st-century Japanese composer and new media artist
 * Tsugutoshi Gotō (後藤 次利), Japanese musician
 * Yukari Goto (後藤 友香里), Japanese singer and voice actress

Government

 * Fumio Gotō (1884–1980), Japanese politician and theoretician
 * Hitoshi Goto (born 1957), Japanese politician, governor of Yamanashi Prefecture
 * Gotō Morinori (1840–1875), Japanese daimyō of Fukue Domain in what is now Nagasaki Prefecture
 * Gotō Shinpei (1857–1929), Japanese statesman and cabinet member
 * Gotō Shōjirō (1838–1897), Japanese politician and leader of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement
 * Shigeyuki Goto (born 1955), Japanese politician, Liberal Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives

Military and samurai

 * Aritomo Gotō (1888–1942), Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II
 * Eiji Gotō (1887–1967), Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II
 * Jūrō Gotō (1887–1984), Imperial Japanese Army major general during the Second Sino-Japanese War
 * Fusanosuke Gotō (1879–1924), Imperial Japanese Army soldier
 * Gotō Mototsugu (1565–1615), Japanese samurai who served the Kuroda and Toyotomi clans
 * Goto Nobuyasu (1556–1612), Japanese samurai who served the Uesugi clan

Sportspeople

 * Ai Goto (born 1983), Japanese badminton player
 * Ayumi Goto (born 1993), Japanese figure skater
 * Daiki Goto (後藤 大輝), Japanese footballer
 * Hideko Goto (後藤 英子), Japanese table tennis player
 * Hirooki Goto (born 1979), Japanese professional wrestler
 * Kanoko Goto (後藤 鹿子), Japanese cross-country skier
 * Keita Goto (footballer) (born 1986), Japanese footballer
 * Michi Goto (born 1990), Japanese football forward
 * Mitsutaka Goto (born 1978), Japanese baseball infielder
 * Ryo Goto (born 1986), Japanese football forward
 * Shunta Gotoh (born 1993), Japanese baseball outfielder
 * Tadaharu Goto (born 1941), Japanese swimmer
 * Takasuke Goto (後藤 崇介), Japanese footballer
 * Tarzan Goto (born Seiji Gotō, 1963), Japanese professional wrestler
 * Tatsutoshi Goto (born 1956), Japanese professional wrestler
 * Teruya Goto (born 1991), Japanese rugby sevens player
 * Toru Goto (born 1934), Japanese freestyle swimmer
 * Yoshikazu Goto (born 1964), Japanese football midfielder
 * Yuji Goto (born 1985), Japanese football midfielder
 * Yukio Goto (died 1976), Japanese football defender
 * Yusuke Goto (born 1993), Japanese football forward

Writers

 * Ben Goto (born 1929), Japanese documentarist and novelist
 * Cassern "Multilaser" Goto (born 1970), American science fiction writer
 * Gotō Chūgai (1866–1938), Japanese essayist, novelist and literary critic
 * Hiromi Goto (born 1966), Japanese-born Canadian fantasy novelist
 * Meisei Goto (1932–1999), Japanese novelist

Other

 * Eiichi Goto (1931–2005), Japanese computer scientist
 * Gotō Zuigan (1879–1965), Japanese Buddhist Rinzai Zen master
 * Katsu Goto (1862–1889), Japanese merchant, interpreter, and lynching victim
 * Kazushige Goto, Japanese software engineer known for hand-optimized assembly routines
 * Keita Gotō (industrialist) (1882–1959), Japanese businessman, founder of the Tokyu Group
 * Kumiko Goto-Azuma, Japanese Antarctic palaeoclimatologist and glaciologist
 * Seitarō Gotō (1867–1935), Japanese zoologist and parasitologist
 * Tadamasa Goto (born 1942), yakuza boss

In fiction

 * Goto Dengo, a character in the novel Cryptonomicon
 * Gabriel Goto, a minor character in the Baroque cycle
 * Kasumi Goto (Voiced by Kym Hoy), a character from the video game franchise Mass Effect
 * The Goto Family, a powerful yakuza family from The Raid 2
 * Hideaki Goto (Kenichi Endō), yakuza boss, father of Keiichi Goto and head of Goto Family
 * Keiichi Goto (Ryuhei Matsuda), son of Hideaki Goto and heir of Goto Family
 * Tojiro Goto (Ryousuke Kawamura), a character from the Kamen Rider Fourze
 * Gotō Matabei (Voiced by Shinichirō Miki), a character of vídeo game Sengoku Basara 4
 * Gotou (Voiced by Kazuhiko Inoue in Japanese and Jason Douglas in English for Anime and played by Tadanobu Asano in the Live-action), the main antagonist of Parasyte franchise.
 * Shinichi Goto, the main protagonist from Old Boy.
 * Jun Gotō (Voiced by Yuko Ono), one of main protagonists from Angel's 3Piece!
 * Moka Gotō (Voiced by Anzu Haruno), one of main characters from Clean Freak! Aoyama kun.
 * Hidenori Gotō (Voiced by Tomokazu Sugita), one of main characters from Samurai Flamenco.
 * Ren Goto (Voiced by Kazuki Shimizu in Japanese and Chris Smith in English), a character from K Project.
 * Kosei Goto (Voiced by Tokuyoshi Kawashima), a character from Giant Killing.
 * Takuya Gotou (Voiced by Kenjiro Tsuda), a character from Sound! Euphonium.
 * Shintaro Goto (Asaya Kimijima), one of main characters from Kamen Rider OOO.
 * Hitori Gotō (Voiced by Yoshino Aoyama), one of main characters from Bocchi the Rock!