# Gotō (surname)

Gotō (後藤, 五藤, 五島), also spelled Gotou or Gotoh, is a Japanese surname. People with the name include:

## Artists

* Jin Goto (born 1968), Japanese nihonga painter
* John Goto (born 1949), British artist known for his montage color photography
* Joseph Goto (1920–1994), American sculptor
* Keiichirō Gotō (1918–2004), Japanese photographer
* Goto Yujo (1440–1512), Japanese artisan and sword fitting maker

## Film, television, and video games

* Hirohito Gotō (born 1969), Japanese television and stage director
* Hiroki Gotō (born 1985), Japanese voice actor
* Hiroyuki Goto (born 1973), Japanese game designer and pi reciter
* Keiji Gotoh (born 1968), Japanese anime director
* Kenji Goto (1967–2015), Japanese freelance video journalist
* Mai Goto (voice actress) (born 1982), Japanese voice actress
* Risa Goto (born 1983), Japanese actress and gravure idol
* Saori Gotō (born 1987), Japanese voice actress
* Satoshi Goto (born 1971), Japanese voice actor
* Tetsuo Gotō (1950–2018), Japanese voice actor
* Yūko Gotō (born 1975), Japanese voice actress
* Terumoto Gotō (born 1974), Japanese comedian, member of the duo Football Hour
* Toshio Gotō (born 1938), Japanese film director

## Musicians

* Kumiko Goto (born 1971), Japanese singer
* Maki Goto (born 1985), Japanese singer in Hello!Project
* Mariko Gotō, 21st-century Japanese singer
* Masafumi Gotoh (born 1976), member of the Japanese rock band Asian Kung-Fu Generation
* Midori Gotō (born 1971), Japanese-born American violinist
* Ryu Gotō (born 1988), Japanese-American violinist
* Suguru Goto, 21st-century Japanese composer and new media artist
* Tsugutoshi Gotō (後藤 次利, born 1952), Japanese musician
* Yukari Goto (後藤 友香里, born 1988), Japanese singer and voice actress

## Government

* Fumio Gotō (1884–1980), Japanese politician and theoretician
* Hitoshi Goto (born 1957), Japanese politician, governor of Yamanashi Prefecture
* Gotō Morinori (1840–1875), Japanese daimyō of Fukue Domain in what is now Nagasaki Prefecture
* Gotō Shinpei (1857–1929), Japanese statesman and cabinet member
* Gotō Shōjirō (1838–1897), Japanese politician and leader of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement
* Shigeyuki Goto (born 1955), Japanese politician, Liberal Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives

## Military and samurai

* Aritomo Gotō (1888–1942), Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II
* Eiji Gotō (1887–1967), Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II
* Jūrō Gotō (1887–1984), Imperial Japanese Army major general during the Second Sino-Japanese War
* Fusanosuke Gotō (1879–1924), Imperial Japanese Army soldier
* Gotō Mototsugu (1565–1615), Japanese samurai who served the Kuroda and Toyotomi clans
* Goto Nobuyasu (1556–1612), Japanese samurai who served the Uesugi clan

## Sportspeople

* Ai Goto (born 1983), Japanese badminton player
* Ayumi Goto (born 1993), Japanese figure skater
* Hideko Goto (後藤 英子), Japanese table tennis player
* Hirooki Goto (born 1979), Japanese professional wrestler
* Kanoko Goto (後藤 鹿子, born 1975), Japanese cross-country skier
* Keita Goto (footballer) (born 1986), Japanese footballer
* Michi Goto (born 1990), Japanese football forward
* Mitsutaka Goto (born 1978), Japanese baseball infielder
* Ryo Goto (born 1986), Japanese football forward
* Shunta Gotoh (born 1993), Japanese baseball outfielder
* Tadaharu Goto (born 1941), Japanese swimmer
* Takasuke Goto (後藤 崇介, born 1985), Japanese footballer
* Tarzan Goto (born Seiji Gotō, 1963), Japanese professional wrestler
* Tatsutoshi Goto (born 1956), Japanese professional wrestler
* Teruya Goto (born 1991), Japanese rugby sevens player
* Toru Goto (born 1934), Japanese freestyle swimmer
* Yoshikazu Goto (born 1964), Japanese football midfielder
* Yuji Goto (born 1985), Japanese football midfielder
* Yukio Goto (died 1976), Japanese football defender
* Yusuke Goto (born 1993), Japanese football forward

## Writers

* Ben Goto (born 1929), Japanese documentarist and novelist
* Cassern "Multilaser" Goto (born 1970), American science fiction writer
* Gotō Chūgai (1866–1938), Japanese essayist, novelist and literary critic
* Hiromi Goto (born 1966), Japanese-born Canadian fantasy novelist
* Meisei Goto (1932–1999), Japanese novelist

## Other

* Eiichi Goto (1931–2005), Japanese computer scientist
* Gotō Zuigan (1879–1965), Japanese Buddhist Rinzai Zen master
* Katsu Goto (1862–1889), Japanese merchant, interpreter, and lynching victim
* Kazushige Goto, Japanese software engineer known for hand-optimized assembly routines
* Keita Gotō (industrialist) (1882–1959), Japanese businessman, founder of the Tokyu Group
* Kumiko Goto-Azuma, Japanese Antarctic palaeoclimatologist and glaciologist
* Seitarō Gotō (1867–1935), Japanese zoologist and parasitologist
* Tadamasa Goto (born 1942), yakuza boss

## In fiction

* Goto Dengo, a character in the novel Cryptonomicon
* Goto Shinpachi, an interpreter in the novel The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
* Gabriel Goto, a minor character in the Baroque cycle
* Kasumi Goto (Voiced by Kym Hoy), a character from the video game franchise Mass Effect
* The Goto Family, a powerful yakuza family from The Raid 2
** Hideaki Goto (Kenichi Endō), yakuza boss, father of Keiichi Goto and head of Goto Family
** Keiichi Goto (Ryuhei Matsuda), son of Hideaki Goto and heir of Goto Family
* Tojiro Goto (Ryousuke Kawamura), a character from the Kamen Rider Fourze
* Gotō Matabei (Voiced by Shinichirō Miki), a character of vídeo game Sengoku Basara 4
* Gotou (Voiced by Kazuhiko Inoue in Japanese and Jason Douglas in English for Anime and played by Tadanobu Asano in the Live-action), the main antagonist of Parasyte franchise.
* Shinichi Goto, the main protagonist from Old Boy.
* Jun Gotō (Voiced by Yuko Ono), one of main protagonists from Angel's 3Piece!
* Moka Gotō (Voiced by Anzu Haruno), one of main characters from Clean Freak! Aoyama kun.
* Hidenori Gotō (Voiced by Tomokazu Sugita), one of main characters from Samurai Flamenco.
* Ren Goto (Voiced by Kazuki Shimizu in Japanese and Chris Smith in English), a character from K Project.
* Kosei Goto (Voiced by Tokuyoshi Kawashima), a character from Giant Killing.
* Takuya Gotou (Voiced by Kenjiro Tsuda), a character from Sound! Euphonium.
* Shintaro Goto (Asaya Kimijima), one of main characters from Kamen Rider OOO.
* Hitori Gotō (Voiced by Yoshino Aoyama), one of main characters from Bocchi the Rock!