Satoru

Satoru(さとる, サトル) is a Japanese verb meaning "to know" or "understand". It is a common masculine Japanese given name. Satoru is the root of the Zen Buddhist word Satori(悟り, enlightenment).

Written forms

Satoru can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

• 悟る, "be spiritually awakened" or "attain higher perception"

as a given name

• 悟, "enlightenment"
• 聡, "smart"
• 智, "wisdom"
• 知, "knowledge"
• 了, "understanding"
• 哲, "philosophy"
• 聖, "virtuous"
• 暁, "daybreak"

The name can also be written in hiragana

People with the name

• Satoru Abe (1926–2025), American painter and sculptor
• Satoru Akahori(あかほり さとる; born 1965), Japanese scriptwriter, novelist and manga author
• Satoru Asako(浅子 覚; born 1971) Japanese professional wrestler
• Satoru Higashi(東 悟; born 1963), Japanese boxer
• Satoru Ienishi(家西 悟; born 1960), Japanese politician
• Satoru Inoue(井上 悟; born 1971), Japanese sprinter
• Satoru Iwata(岩田 聡; 1959-2015), fourth president and CEO of Nintendo
• Satoru Kawahara(河原 智), Japanese table tennis player
• Satoru Kobayashi (disambiguation), multiple people
• Satoru Komiyama(小宮山 悟; born 1965), Japanese professional baseball player
• Satoru Kōsaki(神前 暁; born 1974), Japanese music composer
• Satoru Matsuhashi(松橋 暁; born 1961), Japanese ski jumper
• Satoru Misawa(三沢 悟; born 1943), Japanese ice hockey player
• Satoru Miyano(宮野 悟; born 1954), Japanese bioinformatician
• Satoru Miyoshi(三好 悟; born 1963), Japanese rower
• Satoru Mizushima(水島 総; born 1949), Japanese film maker
• Satoru Nakajima(中嶋 悟; born 1953), Japanese racing driver
• Satoru Nakano(中野 悟; born 1947), Japanese swimmer
• Satoru Noda (artist)(野田 サトル), Japanese manga artist
• Satoru Noda (footballer)(野田 知; born 1969), Japanese footballer
• Satoru Nomura(野村 悟; born 1946), Japanese Yakuza leader
• Satoru Okada(岡田 智), general manager of Nintendo Research & Engineering
• Satoru Otomo(大友 哲; born 1957), a Japanese astronomer
• Satoru Sakaguchi(阪口 悟; born 1978), Japanese shogi player
• Satoru Sasaki(佐々木 悟; born 1985), Japanese long-distance runner
• Satoru Sayama(佐山 聡; born 1957), Japanese professional wrestler
• Satoru Shibata(柴田 聡; born 1962), president of Nintendo of Europe
• Satoru Tanigawa(谷川 聡; born 1972), Japanese hurdler
• Satoru Terao(寺尾 悟; born 1975), Japanese speed skater
• Satoru Yamagishi(山岸 智; born 1983), Japanese football player
• Satoru Yamamoto(山本 悟; 1925–2006), Grand Chamberlain of Japan
• Satoru Yoshida(吉田 悟; born 1970), Japanese footballer

Fictional characters

• Satoru Gojo (五条 悟), one of the protagonists in Jujutsu Kaisen
• Satoru (サトル), a side character in the manga and anime series One Punch Man
• Satoru Akefu (明負 悟), a major antagonist in the eighth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series JoJolion
• Satoru Akashi(明石 暁), the main hero of the tokusatsu series GoGo Sentai Boukenger
• Satoru Arihara (在原 暁), the main character in the visual novel RIDDLE JOKER
• Satoru Fujinuma(藤沼 悟), the main character in the manga, anime, and film Boku Dake ga Inai Machi
• Satoru Furuya(降谷 暁), a character in the manga and anime series Ace of Diamond
• Satoru Hani(羽仁 悟), a character in the manga and anime series Shion no Ō
• Satoru Ikaruga (悟), the main character in the manga series D-Live!!
• Satoru Kakuta(角田 悟), the main character in the manga, anime, and film Slam Dunk
• Satoru Kamio(神尾 悟), a character in the manga and anime series Gingitsune
• Satoru Kanzaki (悟), a character in the manga and anime series Area 88
• Satoru Mikami (三上 悟), a character and Rimuru Tempest's previous self in That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
• Satoru Ohkura(大蔵 智), a character in the Japanese drama Atashinchi no Danshi
• Satoru Shido(獅堂 覚), a character in the anime series Magic Knight Rayearth
• Satoru Tojo(東條 悟), a character in the tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Ryuki
• Satoru Toyama(兎山悟), a character in the anime series Wonderful PreCure!
• Satoru Tsukada (悟る 塚田), a character in the web comics Randal's Friends
• Satoru Yotsumura (四ツ村 暁), a character in the manga series Sakamoto Days

See also

• 8485 Satoru, a main-belt asteroid