Satoshi

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Satoshi

Pronunciation	Satoshi
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Region of origin	Japanese
Other names
Related names	Japanese

Satoshi (さとし, サトシ) 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 Arai (荒井 聰, born 1946), Japanese politician
• Satoshi Furukawa (古川 聡, born 1964), Japanese surgeon and astronaut
• Satoshi Hamada (浜田 聡, born 1977), Japanese politician
• Satoshi Hashimoto (橋本 さとし, born 1966), Japanese actor and voice actor
• Satoshi Hatakeyama (畠山 智之, born 1958), Japanese journalist
• Satoshi Hino (日野 聡, born 1978), Japanese voice actor
• Satoshi Ishii (石井 慧, born 1986), Japanese judoka and mixed martial artist
• Satoshi Inoue (musician) (井上 智, born 1959), Japanese jazz guitarist
• Satoshi Inoue (politician) (井上 哲士, born 1958), Japanese politician
• Satoshi Kamiya (神谷 哲史, born 1981), Japanese origami master
• Satoshi Kanazawa (born 1962), American-British evolutionary psychologist
• Satoshi Kawata (河田 聡, born 1951), Japanese scientist
• Satoshi Kinsui (金水 敏, born 1956), Japanese linguist
• Satoshi Kitamura (きたむら さとし, born 1956), Illustrator
• Satoshi Kojima (小島 聡, born 1970), Japanese professional wrestler
• Satoshi Komatsu (小松 聖, born 1981), Japanese baseball player
• Satoshi Kon (今 敏, 1963–2010), film director, animator, screenwriter and manga artist
• Satoshi Kuribayashi (栗林 慧, born 1939), Japanese photographer
• Satoshi Maruya (丸谷 里志, born 1947), Japanese swimmer
• Satoshi Matsuda (松田 悟志, born 1978), Japanese actor
• Satoshi Matsuoka (松岡 聡), Japanese computer scientist
• Satoshi Mikami (三上 哲, born 1968), Japanese actor and voice actor
• Satoshi Mitazono (三反園 訓, born 1958), Japanese journalist and the governor of Kagoshima Prefecture
• Satoshi Miyagi (宮城 聰, born 1959), Japanese theatre director
• Satoshi Mizukami (水上 悟志, born 1980), Japanese manga artist
• Satoshi Mori (basketball) (森 哲, born 1949), Japanese basketball player
• Satoshi Mori (skier) (born 1971), Japanese Nordic combined skier
• Satoshi Morimoto (森本 敏, born 1941), Japanese scholar
• Satoshi Motoyama (本山 哲, born 1971), Japanese race car driver
• Satoshi Nakamoto (born 1975), a presumed pseudonym of the creator of bitcoin, a digital currency; written in Japanese as サトシ・ナカモト
• Satoshi Nakamura (中村 哲, born 1958), Japanese computer scientist
• Satoshi Ohno (大野 智, born 1980), Japanese actor and musician
• Satoshi Ōmura (大村 智, born 1935), biochemist, a winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Satoshi Sato (skier) (佐藤 智, born 1962), Japanese cross-country skier
• Satoshi Shiki (士貴 智志, born 1970), Japanese manga artist
• Satoshi Shimizu (清水 聡, born 1986), Japanese boxer
• Satoshi Shingaki (新垣 諭, born 1964), Japanese professional boxer
• Satoshi Sumida (隅田 敏司, born 1962), Japanese swimmer
• Satoshi Sumita (澄田 智, 1916–2008), Japanese businessman, banker, and the 25th Governor of the Bank of Japan
• Satoshi Suzuki (鈴木 智), Japanese screenwriter
• Satoshi Tajiri (田尻 智, born 1965), creator of Pokémon
• Satoshi Takayanagi (高柳 慧, born 1938), Japanese long jumper
• Satoshi Takano (高野 智史, born 1993), Japanese shogi player
• Satoshi Takeda (武田 聡, born 1968), Japanese swimmer
• Satoshi Tanaka (田中 聡, born 2002), Japanese footballer
• Satoshi Tomiie (富家 哲, born 1966), Japanese DJ and electronic music producer
• Satoshi Tomiura (冨浦 智嗣, born 1991), Japanese actor
• Satoshi Tsumabuki (妻夫木 聡, born 1980), Japanese actor and singer
• Satoshi Tsunami (都並 敏史, born 1961), Japanese football player
• Satoshi Uematsu (植松 聖, born c. 1990), perpetrator of the Sagamihara stabbings
• Satoshi Urushihara (漆原 智志, born 1966), manga artist and artist
• Satosi Watanabe (渡辺 慧, 1910–1993), Japanese theoretical physicist
• Satoshi Watanabe (beach volleyball) (渡辺 聡, born 1975), Japanese beach volleyball player
• Satoshi Yagisawa (八木澤 教司, born 1975), Japanese composer
• Satoshi Yamamoto (山本 サトシ, born 1965), illustrator of Pokémon Adventures starting in volume 10
• Satoshi Yanagisawa (柳澤 哲, born 1971), Japanese race walker
• Satoshi Yoshida (吉田 智志, born 1990), Japanese footballer
• Satoshi Yuki (結城 聡, born 1972), Japanese professional Go player
• Satoshi Yūki (結城 智史), 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 (氷室 聡), in the Red River universe
• Satoshi Hiwatari (日渡 怜) 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 (北条 悟史), in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni media
• Satoshi Omiya (大宮 智史), a racer in Initial D series
• Satoshi Fukube (福部 里志), in Hyōka
• Satoshi Mochida (持田 哲志), in the Corpse Party series
• Satoshi Isshiki (一色 慧), in the Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma
• Satoshi Tsuchida (土田 聡史), in the Kuroko's Basketball