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: The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
 * 勝, "excel"
 * 優, "excel"
 * 大, "large"
 * 将 or 將, "commander"

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), 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), 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), 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), Japanese sport wrestler
 * Masaru Edward Fulenwider-Musashi, a Wushu martial artist, stuntman, and an actor
 * Masaru Nagaoka (長岡 勝), Japanese ski jumper
 * Masaru Nakamura (中村 勝), Japanese baseball player
 * Masaru Ogawa (勝), a Japanese figure skater
 * Masaru Saito (齊藤 勝), 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), 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