Masako
Masako is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Empress Masako of Japan
- Princess Masako Takeda,, 6th daughter of Emperor Meiji
- Masako Chiba, Japanese long-distance runner
- Masako Hachisuka, Japanese linguist
- Masako Hayashi, Japanese architect
- Hōjō Masako, later known as the "Nun Shogun"
- Masako Hozumi, Japanese speed skater
- Masako Ikeda, Japanese voice actress
- Masako Ishida, Japanese cross-country skier
- Masako Jō, Japanese voice actor
- Masako Katsura, Japanese carom billiards player
- Masako Kato, Japanese figure skater
- Masako Katsuki, Japanese voice actress
- Masako Kisaki, Japanese middle-distance runner
- Minamoto Masako,, posthumous name of Lady Saigō, first consort of Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Masako Miura, a voice actress
- Masako Mori, Japanese enka singer
- Masako Mori, Japanese politician
- Masako Nakata, Japanese lawyer
- Yi Bangja, later Crown Princess Bangja of Korea
- Masako Natsume, Japanese actress
- Masako Nozawa, Japanese voice actress
- Masako Okawara, Japanese politician
- Masako Sato, Japanese field hockey player
- Masako Sato, Japanese ice hockey player
- Masako Seki, Japanese table tennis player
- Masako Sen, former princess of Japan and daughter of Prince Mikasa
- Masako Sugaya, Japanese voice actor
- Tokugawa Masako, 5th daughter of Tokugawa Hidetada, the 2nd Tokugawa Shogun
- Masako Usui, Japanese announcer
- Masako Watanabe, Japanese manga artist
- Masako Yoshida, Japanese women's footballer
Fictional characters
- Masako Kaneko
- Colonel Masako, main antagonist in the video-game Red Faction
- Lady Masako, a character in the video-game Ghost of Tsushima
