is a generally masculine Japanese given name.

Written forms

  • , "intelligent, philosophy, clear"
  • , "bodhi, enlightenment, apprehension"
  • , "quick, sharp"
  • , "knowledge, wisdom"
  • , "intelligent, clever, bright"
  • , "bright, intelligent"
  • , "teach, instruct"
  • , "teach, to lead"
  • , "hometown, birthplace, one's origins, one's upbringing, one's past"
  • , "market, city, town"

People with the name

  • Satoshi (born 1998), Moldovan singer
  • , Japanese politician
  • , Japanese politician
  • , Japanese musician, composer, producer and record store owner
  • , Japanese anime director, producer and screenwriter
  • , Japanese civil engineer, economist and social critic
  • , Japanese politician
  • , Japanese Paralympic judoka
  • , Japanese mixed martial artist
  • , Japanese horticulturalist and professor
  • , Japanese former professional baseball pitcher
  • , Japanese mixed martial artist
  • , Japanese researcher and advocate
  • , Japanese surgeon and astronaut
  • , Japanese freestyle skier
  • , Japanese voice actor
  • , Japanese politician
  • , Japanese actor and voice actor
  • , Japanese journalist
  • , Japanese former football player
  • , Japanese professional golfer
  • , Japanese voice actor
  • , American baseball player
  • , Japanese former cyclist
  • , Japanese professor
  • , Japanese former mixed martial artist
  • , Japanese former football player
  • , Japanese professional boxer
  • , Japanese professional baseball player
  • , Japanese jazz guitarist
  • , Japanese politician
  • , Japanese long-distance runner
  • , Japanese baseball player
  • , Japanese judoka and mixed martial artist
  • , Japanese retired professional tennis player
  • , Japanese composer, arranger, producer and keyboardist
  • , Japanese former football player
  • , Japanese author and illustrator
  • , Japanese origami master
  • , American-British evolutionary psychologist
  • , Japanese civil engineer
  • , Japanese professional Go player
  • , Japanese scientist
  • , Japanese handball player
  • , Japanese linguist
  • , Japanese communist revolutionary
  • , Japanese Illustrator
  • , Japanese Muay Thai fighter and kickboxer
  • , Japanese professional golfer
  • , Japanese former football player
  • , Japanese curler
  • , Japanese professional wrestler
  • , Japanese baseball player
  • , film director, animator, screenwriter and manga artist
  • Satoshi Kondo (born 1984), Japanese artistic
  • , Japanese retired football player
  • , Japanese photographer
  • , Japanese former professional baseball infielder and current coach
  • Satoshi Kuwata (born 1983), Japanese fashion designer
  • , Japanese male athlete
  • , Japanese swimmer
  • , Japanese former football player
  • , Japanese actor
  • , Japanese basketball player
  • , Japanese computer scientist
  • , Japanese actor and voice actor
  • , Japanese film director and screenwriter
  • , Japanese journalist and the governor of Kagoshima Prefecture
  • , Japanese former football player
  • , Japanese theatre director
  • , Japanese former football player and manager
  • , Japanese manga artist
  • , Japanese basketball player
  • , Japanese Nordic combined skier
  • , Japanese scholar
  • , Japanese race car driver
  • , Japanese professional shogi player
  • , Japanese former professional baseball pitcher
  • , Japanese football player
  • , Japanese former professional baseball catcher
  • Satoshi Nakamoto ( 2008–2011), a presumed pseudonym of the creator of bitcoin, a digital currency
  • , Japanese computer scientist
  • , Japanese politician
  • , Japanese international rugby union player
  • , Japanese former football player
  • , Japanese politician
  • , Japanese sabre fencer
  • , Japanese actor and musician
  • , Japanese politician
  • , Japanese former football player
  • , biochemist, a winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • , Japanese long-distance runner
  • , Japanese footballer
  • , Japanese former footballer
  • , Japanese pioneering wheelchair tennis player
  • , Japanese male short track speed skater
  • , Japanese cross-country skier
  • , Japanese manga artist
  • , Japanese boxer
  • , Japanese professional boxer
  • , Japanese speed skater
  • Satoshi Sugawara| (born 1959), Japanese bobsledder
  • , Japanese swimmer
  • , Japanese businessman, banker, and the 25th Governor of the Bank of Japan
  • , Japanese screenwriter
  • , Japanese mathematician
  • , Japanese former football player
  • , creator of Pokémon
  • , Japanese instructor
  • , Japanese artist, creative director, photographer and private astronaut
  • , Japanese shogi player
  • Japanese politician
  • Japanese politician
  • , Japanese long jumper
  • , Japanese musician, keyboard player, arranger, music director and producer
  • , Japanese swimmer
  • , Japanese footballer
  • , Japanese former football player and manager
  • , Japanese former footballer
  • , Japanese football player
  • , Japanese DJ and electronic music producer
  • , Japanese actor
  • , Japanese actor and singer
  • , Japanese football player
  • , perpetrator of the Sagamihara stabbings
  • , Japanese politician
  • , manga artist and artist
  • , Japanese fossil collector and science writer
  • , Japanese theoretical physicist
  • , Japanese beach volleyball player
  • , Japanese composer
  • , Japanese author
  • , Japanese former football player
  • , Japanese professional football manager and former player
  • , illustrator of Pokémon Adventures starting in volume 10
  • , Japanese professional Nippon Professional Baseball player
  • , Japanese race walker
  • , Japanese former football player
  • , Japanese former football player
  • , Japanese professional Go player
  • , 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