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Masaru
	Masaru Hayami,; the 28th Governor of the Bank of Japan
Pronunciation	Má-sá-rú
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Meaning	It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used.
Region of origin	Japanese
Other names
Related names	Suguru

Masaru (まさる, マサル) is a masculine Japanese given name.

Written forms

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.

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, born 1969), 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, born 1938), 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, born 1991), 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, born 1950), Japanese sport wrestler
Masaru Edward Fulenwider-Musashi, a Wushu martial artist, stuntman, and an actor
Masaru Nagai, Japanese actor known for Mirai Sentai Timeranger
Masaru Nagaoka (長岡勝, born 1962), Japanese ski jumper
Masaru Nakamura (中村勝, born 1991), Japanese baseball player
Masaru Ogawa (勝), a Japanese figure skater
Masaru Saito (齊藤勝, born 1988), 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, born 1956), 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