Sato

Satō (佐藤, characters for "assistance" and "wisteria") is the most common Japanese surname. It may be romanized as Sato or Satoh on a Japanese passport. In wāpuro rōmaji, it is spelled Satou. Sato is also Puerto Rican slang for Street/Stray Dogs and pronounced "saw-toe".

There are several other uses of the word "sato", see below.

People

People named Sato include:

• Aiko Sato (actress/model)
• Aki Sato (former Treasurer of Japan)
• Akira Satō (1930–2002), a Japanese photographer
• Eisaku Sato, Japanese Prime Minister
• Eric Sato, an American volleyball player
• Gordon H. Sato, American cell biologist
• Hisato Satō a Japanese soccer player
• Junya Sato, a Japanese film director
• Liane Sato, an American volleyball player)
• Katsuaki Sato, a Japanese founder of Odo Satojuku karate
• Kentaro Sato, a Japanese composer and conductor
• Kōji Satō (photographer), a Japanese photographer
• Koji Sato (politician), a Japanese politician
• Mamoru Sato (born 1937), an American modernist sculptor
• Megumi Sato (athlete) (born 1966), a Japanese high jumper
• Michiro Sato(avant-garde composer, singer, synthesizer player, and member of the rock band Factor)
• Mikio Sato (mathematician, known for Sato-Tate conjecture)
• born Miwa Sato, the singer Chara
• Naoki Sato, a Japanese composer)
• Naoyuki Sato (Bemani artist)
• Nobusuke Kishi, born Nobusuke Sato (former Prime Minister of Japan)
• Rumina Sato (professional mixed martial artist)
• Sabrina Sato, a Brazilian model)
• Shigeki Sato (professional wrestler)
• Shoji Sato (badminton athlete)
• Tadanobu Sato (A.K.A. Tadanobu Asano, actor)
• Tadashi Sato (1954-2005), American/Hawaiian artist
• Takeru Satoh, actor
• Takuma Sato (car racing driver)
• Satō Tetsutarō, Japanese admiral and miltary theorist
• Tomohito Sato, born Yuuki Sato, actor
• Yuka Sato (figure skater)

Places

• Sato, Kagoshima-mura (里村), a former town in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, now absorbed into the city of Satsumasendai-shi (薩摩川内市)
• Sato, Tibet

Things

• Sato (rice wine), a beverage from Thailand
• Sato, the word for a mutt, or non-purebred dog, in Puerto Rican parlance.
• Sato (instrument), a bowed tanbur, or long-necked lute of Central Asian origin
• S.A.T.O., a song from Ozzy Osbourne's 1981 album Diary of a Madman
• Sato the name of an after market motorcycle exhuast system.

Companies

• SATO America, Inc., a producer of label printers

Fictional characters

Fictional characters named Sato include:

• Ayano Sato, character from High School Girls
• Bruce Sato, from the toy franchise and cartoon M.A.S.K.
• Fumino Sato, character from High School Girls
• Hoshi Sato, character from Star Trek: Enterprise
• Katsumi Sato, a minor character from YuYu Hakusho
• Kouji Satou, a minor character from Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
• Mako Satou, character from Initial D
• Masao Sato (Max), character from Crayon Shin-chan
• Masashi Sato, character from To Heart
• Miwako Satou, character from Case Closed (Detective Conan)
• Mina Sato, character from Doubt!!
• Natsumi Sato, minor character from Jiraishin a.k.a. Ice Blade
• Shigeki Satō, character from Whistle!
• Sei Sato, character from Maria-sama ga Miteru
• Sato (Gundam character), character from Gundam SEED Destiny
• Tatsuhiro Satō, main character from Welcome to the N.H.K.
• Toru Sato (a.k.a. Bull), a character in Need For Speed: Most Wanted
• Toshiko Sato, one of the protagonists in the television series Torchwood, who also briefly appeared in the television series Doctor Who

See also

• Japanese name