Satoshi

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title: "Satoshi" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["japanese-masculine-given-names", "masculine-given-names"] topic_path: "geography/japan" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
name	Satoshi
pronunciation	Satoshi
gender	Male
region	Japanese
origin	Japanese
related names	Japanese
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Satoshi is a generally masculine Japanese given name.

Written forms

• 哲, "intelligent, philosophy, clear"
• 悟, "bodhi, enlightenment, apprehension"
• 敏, "quick, sharp"
• 智, "knowledge, wisdom"
• 聡, "intelligent, clever, bright"
• 慧, "bright, intelligent"
• 訓, "teach, instruct"
• 諭, "teach, to lead"
• 里, "hometown, birthplace, one's origins, one's upbringing, one's past"
• 市, "market, city, town"

People with the name

• Satoshi (born 1998), Moldovan singer
• Satoshi Arai, Japanese politician
• Satoshi Furukawa, Japanese surgeon and astronaut
• Satoshi Hamada, Japanese politician
• Satoshi Hashimoto, Japanese actor and voice actor
• Satoshi Hatakeyama, Japanese journalist
• Satoshi Hino, Japanese voice actor
• Satoshi Ishii, Japanese judoka and mixed martial artist
• Satoshi Inoue (musician), Japanese jazz guitarist
• Satoshi Inoue (politician), Japanese politician
• Satoshi Kamiya, Japanese origami master
• Satoshi Kanazawa (born 1962), American-British evolutionary psychologist
• Satoshi Kawata, Japanese scientist
• Satoshi Kinsui, Japanese linguist
• Satoshi Kirishima, Japanese communist revolutionary
• Satoshi Kitamura, Illustrator
• Satoshi Kojima, Japanese professional wrestler
• Satoshi Komatsu, Japanese baseball player
• Satoshi Kon, film director, animator, screenwriter and manga artist
• Satoshi Kuribayashi, Japanese photographer
• Satoshi Maruya, Japanese swimmer
• Satoshi Matsuda, Japanese actor
• Satoshi Matsuoka, Japanese computer scientist
• Satoshi Mikami, Japanese actor and voice actor
• Satoshi Mitazono, Japanese journalist and the governor of Kagoshima Prefecture
• Satoshi Miyagi, Japanese theatre director
• Satoshi Mizukami, Japanese manga artist
• Satoshi Mori (basketball), Japanese basketball player
• Satoshi Mori (skier) (born 1971), Japanese Nordic combined skier
• Satoshi Morimoto, Japanese scholar
• Satoshi Motoyama, Japanese race car driver
• Satoshi Nakamoto ( 2008–2011), a presumed pseudonym of the creator of bitcoin, a digital currency
• Satoshi Nakamura, Japanese computer scientist
• Satoshi Ohno, Japanese actor and musician
• Satoshi Ōmura, biochemist, a winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Satoshi Sato (skier), Japanese cross-country skier
• Satoshi Shiki, Japanese manga artist
• Satoshi Shimizu, Japanese boxer
• Satoshi Shingaki, Japanese professional boxer
• Satoshi Sumida, Japanese swimmer
• Satoshi Sumita, Japanese businessman, banker, and the 25th Governor of the Bank of Japan
• Satoshi Suzuki, Japanese screenwriter
• Satoshi Tajiri, creator of Pokémon
• Satoshi Takayanagi, Japanese long jumper
• Satoshi Takano, Japanese shogi player
• Satoshi Takeda, Japanese swimmer
• Satoshi Tanaka, Japanese footballer
• Satoshi Tomiie, Japanese DJ and electronic music producer
• Satoshi Tomiura, Japanese actor
• Satoshi Tsumabuki, Japanese actor and singer
• Satoshi Tsunami, Japanese football player
• Satoshi Uematsu, perpetrator of the Sagamihara stabbings
• Satoshi Urushihara, manga artist and artist
• Satosi Watanabe, Japanese theoretical physicist
• Satoshi Watanabe (beach volleyball), Japanese beach volleyball player
• Satoshi Yagisawa, Japanese composer
• Satoshi Yamamoto, illustrator of Pokémon Adventures starting in volume 10
• Satoshi Yanagisawa, Japanese race walker
• Satoshi Yuki, Japanese professional Go player
• Satoshi Yūki, a pseudonym of Kouji Miura (b. 1995), a Japanese manga artist

Fictional characters

• Ash Ketchum (known as Satoshi (サトシ) in Japan), the main character in the Pokémon television series
• Satoshi Himuro, in the Red River universe
• Satoshi Hiwatari or Satoshi Hikari (氷狩 怜), in D.N.Angel media
• Satoshi (Urusei Yatsura) (サトシ), also known as Megane, a member of Lum's Stormtroopers
• Satoshi Hojo, in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni media
• Satoshi Omiya, a racer in Initial D series
• Satoshi Fukube, in Hyōka
• Satoshi Mochida, in the Corpse Party series
• Satoshi Isshiki, in the Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma
• Satoshi Tsuchida, in the Kuroko's Basketball

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