Masaru (まさる, マサル) is a masculine Japanese given name.
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.
with the given name Masaru
Masaru Akiba (勝), a Japanese football player
Masaru Emoto (勝), a Japanese author
Masaru Furukawa (勝), a Japanese swimmer and olympic champion
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 Katori (まさる), a female Japanese writer and manga author
Masaru Kageura (將), a Japanese baseball player
Masaru Kitao (勝), a Japanese animator
Masaru Konuma (勝), a Japanese director
Masaru Kurotsu (勝), a Japanese football player
Masaru Matsuhashi (優), a Japanese football player
Masaru Edward Fulenwider-Musashi, a Wushu martial artist, stuntman, and an actor
Masaru Ogawa (勝), a Japanese figure skater
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
Kyokutenhō Masaru (勝), a Mongolian sumo wrestler
Wakanohana Masaru (勝), a Japanese sumo wrestler
with the given name Masaru
Masaru (マサル), a character in the manga and animated film Akira
Masaru Daimon (Marcus Damon in 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
