# Satoshi

Satoshi (さとし, サトシ) is a generally masculine Japanese given name.

## Written forms

* 哲, "intelligent, philosophy, clear"
* 悟, "bodhi, enlightenment, apprehension"
* 敏, "quick, sharp"
* 智, "knowledge, wisdom"
* 聡, "intelligent, clever, bright"
* 慧, "bright, intelligent"
* 訓, "teach, instruct"
* 諭, "teach, to lead"
* 里, "hometown, birthplace, one's origins, one's upbringing, one's past"
* 市, "market, city, town"

## People with the name

* Satoshi Arai (荒井 聰, born 1946), Japanese politician
* Satoshi Furukawa (古川 聡, born 1964), Japanese surgeon and astronaut
* Satoshi Hamada (浜田 聡, born 1977), Japanese politician
* Satoshi Hashimoto (橋本 さとし, born 1966), Japanese actor and voice actor
* Satoshi Hatakeyama (畠山 智之, born 1958), Japanese journalist
* Satoshi Hino (日野 聡, born 1978), Japanese voice actor
* Satoshi Ishii (石井 慧, born 1986), Japanese judoka and mixed martial artist
* Satoshi Inoue (musician) (井上 智, born 1959), Japanese jazz guitarist
* Satoshi Inoue (politician) (井上 哲士, born 1958), Japanese politician
* Satoshi Kamiya (神谷 哲史, born 1981), Japanese origami master
* Satoshi Kanazawa (born 1962), American-British evolutionary psychologist
* Satoshi Kawata (河田 聡, born 1951), Japanese scientist
* Satoshi Kinsui (金水 敏, born 1956), Japanese linguist
* Satoshi Kitamura (きたむら さとし, born 1956), Illustrator
* Satoshi Kojima (小島 聡, born 1970), Japanese professional wrestler
* Satoshi Komatsu (小松 聖, born 1981), Japanese baseball player
* Satoshi Kon (今 敏, 1963–2010), film director, animator, screenwriter and manga artist
* Satoshi Kuribayashi (栗林 慧, born 1939), Japanese photographer
* Satoshi Maruya (丸谷 里志, born 1947), Japanese swimmer
* Satoshi Matsuda (松田 悟志, born 1978), Japanese actor
* Satoshi Matsuoka (松岡 聡), Japanese computer scientist
* Satoshi Mikami (三上 哲, born 1968), Japanese actor and voice actor
* Satoshi Mitazono (三反園 訓, born 1958), Japanese journalist and the governor of Kagoshima Prefecture
* Satoshi Miyagi (宮城 聰, born 1959), Japanese theatre director
* Satoshi Mizukami (水上 悟志, born 1980), Japanese manga artist
* Satoshi Mori (basketball) (森 哲, born 1949), Japanese basketball player
* Satoshi Mori (skier) (born 1971), Japanese Nordic combined skier
* Satoshi Morimoto (森本 敏, born 1941), Japanese scholar
* Satoshi Motoyama (本山 哲, born 1971), Japanese race car driver
* Satoshi Nakamoto (born 1975), a presumed pseudonym of the creator of bitcoin, a digital currency; written in Japanese as サトシ・ナカモト
* Satoshi Nakamura (中村 哲, born 1958), Japanese computer scientist
* Satoshi Ohno (大野 智, born 1980), Japanese actor and musician
* Satoshi Ōmura (大村 智, born 1935), biochemist, a winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* Satoshi Sato (skier) (佐藤 智, born 1962), Japanese cross-country skier
* Satoshi Shiki (士貴 智志, born 1970), Japanese manga artist
* Satoshi Shimizu (清水 聡, born 1986), Japanese boxer
* Satoshi Shingaki (新垣 諭, born 1964), Japanese professional boxer
* Satoshi Sumida (隅田 敏司, born 1962), Japanese swimmer
* Satoshi Sumita (澄田 智, 1916–2008), Japanese businessman, banker, and the 25th Governor of the Bank of Japan
* Satoshi Suzuki (鈴木 智), Japanese screenwriter
* Satoshi Tajiri (田尻 智, born 1965), creator of Pokémon
* Satoshi Takayanagi (高柳 慧, born 1938), Japanese long jumper
* Satoshi Takano (高野 智史, born 1993), Japanese shogi player
* Satoshi Takeda (武田 聡, born 1968), Japanese swimmer
* Satoshi Tanaka (田中 聡, born 2002), Japanese footballer
* Satoshi Tomiie (富家 哲, born 1966), Japanese DJ and electronic music producer
* Satoshi Tomiura (冨浦 智嗣, born 1991), Japanese actor
* Satoshi Tsumabuki (妻夫木 聡, born 1980), Japanese actor and singer
* Satoshi Tsunami (都並 敏史, born 1961), Japanese football player
* Satoshi Uematsu (植松 聖, born c. 1990), perpetrator of the Sagamihara stabbings
* Satoshi Urushihara (漆原 智志, born 1966), manga artist and artist
* Satosi Watanabe (渡辺 慧, 1910–1993), Japanese theoretical physicist
* Satoshi Watanabe (beach volleyball) (渡辺 聡, born 1975), Japanese beach volleyball player
* Satoshi Yagisawa (八木澤 教司, born 1975), Japanese composer
* Satoshi Yamamoto (山本 サトシ, born 1965), illustrator of Pokémon Adventures starting in volume 10
* Satoshi Yanagisawa (柳澤 哲, born 1971), Japanese race walker
* Satoshi Yoshida (吉田 智志, born 1990), Japanese footballer
* Satoshi Yuki (結城 聡, born 1972), Japanese professional Go player
* Satoshi Yūki (結城 智史), a pseudonym of Kouji Miura (b. 1995), a Japanese manga artist

## Fictional characters

* Ash Ketchum (known as Satoshi (サトシ) in Japan), the main character in the Pokémon television series
* Satoshi Himuro (氷室 聡), in the Red River universe
* Satoshi Hiwatari (日渡 怜) or Satoshi Hikari (氷狩 怜), in D.N.Angel media
* Satoshi (Urusei Yatsura) (サトシ), also known as Megane, a member of Lum's Stormtroopers
* Satoshi Hojo (北条 悟史), in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni media
* Satoshi Omiya (大宮 智史), a racer in Initial D series
* Satoshi Fukube (福部 里志), in Hyōka
* Satoshi Mochida (持田 哲志), in the Corpse Party series
* Satoshi Isshiki (一色 慧), in the Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma
* Satoshi Tsuchida (土田 聡史), in the Kuroko's Basketball