Sato

Satō ( _ja. , 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 ""
*Toshiko Sato, one of the protagonists in the television series "Torchwood", who also briefly appeared in the television series "Doctor Who"

ee also

* Japanese name