Sato
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "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
• Garret T. Sato, an American Actor
• 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)
• O. K. Sato, juggler
• Rumina Sato (professional mixed martial artist)
• Sabrina Sato, a Brazilian model)
• Shigeki Sato (professional wrestler), or Shigeki Sato (politician)
• 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
• Tomiko Satō, a mother
• 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 (music), a rhythmic music from Benin played on a huge vertical drum
• 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
• SATO Office Systems Company. Hellas. a furniture company

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

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.