Sasaki (surname) explained

Sasaki (Japanese: 佐々木) is the 13th most common Japanese surname.^[1] Less common variants are 佐咲, 佐佐木 and 笹木.

Notable people with the surname

• , Japanese figure skater
• , Japanese alpine skier
• , Japanese idol and singer
• , Japanese motorcycle racer
• , Japanese baseball player
• , Japanese shogi player
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese race car driver
• , Japanese professional wrestler
• Daizo Sasaki (born 1990), Japanese kickboxer
• , Japanese businessman
• , Japanese musician
• , Japanese Zen Buddhist
• , Imperial Japanese Navy admiral
• , Japanese handball player
• , Japanese footballer
• Hideo Sasaki (1919–2000), American landscape architect
• , Japanese samurai
• Hiro Sasaki, Japanese professional wrestler
• , Japanese film director and screenwriter
• , Japanese footballer and manager
• , Japanese footballer
• Hiroko Sasaki, Japanese pianist
• , Japanese mime
• , Japanese geneticist
• , Japanese golfer
• , Japanese footballer and manager
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese voice actor, actor and singer
• , Japanese swimmer
• , Japanese writer and journalist
• , Japanese singer-songwriter and journalist
• , Japanese swimmer
• , Japanese actor and voice actor
• , Japanese cyclist
• , Japanese baseball player
• , Japanese ice hockey player
• , Japanese cross-country skier
• , Japanese handball player
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese professional wrestler
• , Japanese sprinter
• , Japanese folklorist
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese swordsman
• , Japanese actress, singer-songwriter, television personality and gravure idol
• , Japanese photographer
• , Japanese racing driver
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese idol
• , Japanese musician
• , Japanese actor
• Kyozan Joshu Sasaki (1907–2014), Japanese Zen Buddhist
• Lisa Sasaki (born 1975), American museum director
• , Japanese zoologist
• , Japanese manga artist
• , Japanese baseball player
• , Japanese shogi player
• , Japanese screenwriter
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese women's footballer
• , Japanese filmmaker and writer
• , Japanese volleyball player
• , Japanese chief executive
• , Japanese poet and writer
• , Japanese voice actress and singer
• , Japanese general
• , Japanese idol and model
• , Japanese writer
• , Japanese actress and striptease performer
• , Japanese illustrator
• , Japanese long-distance runner
• , Japanese daimyō
• , Japanese handball player
• , Japanese poet and literature academic
• , Japanese manga artist
• , Japanese footballer and manager
• , Japanese model
• , Japanese voice actress
• , Japanese voice actor
• , Japanese Anglican bishop
• Ray Sasaki (born 1948), American trumpeter
• , Japanese actress
• , Japanese baseball pitcher
• , Japanese swordswoman
• Rui Sasaki (born 1984), glass artist from Japan
• , Japanese voice actress
• Ruth Fuller Sasaki (1892–1967), American Zen Buddhist
• , Japanese manga artist and illustrator
• , Japanese handball player
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese politician
• , child victim of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima
• , Japanese long-distance runner
• , Japanese musician
• , Japanese long-distance runner
• , Japanese voice actor
• Sérgio Sasaki (born 1992), Brazilian artistic gymnast
• , Japanese volleyball player
• , Japanese mathematician
• Shigetaka Sasaki, Canadian judoka
• , Japanese film producer
• , Japanese badminton player
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese drummer
• , Japanese slalom canoeist
• , Japanese biathlete
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese Zen Buddhist
• , Japanese swimmer
• , Japanese boxer
• , Japanese banker
• , Japanese engineer
• , Japanese footballer
• Tadashi Sasaki (musician), Japanese classical guitarist
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese biochemist and oncologist
• , Japanese samurai
• , Japanese samurai
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese musician
• , Japanese sport wrestler
• , Japanese surgeon
• , Japanese soldier
• , Japanese sculptor
• , Japanese alpine skier
• , Japanese lawyer, politician and writer
• , Japanese sailor
• , Japanese journalist
• , Japanese writer
• Tsubasa Sasaki (born 1995), Japanese slalom canoeist
• , Japanese actor and voice actor
• , Japanese footballer
• Yasuji Sasaki (born 1967), Japanese chef
• , Japanese film director
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese voice actress and actress
• , Japanese actor
• , Japanese professional wrestler known as Mammoth Sasaki
• , Japanese samurai
• , Japanese ten-pin bowler
• , Japanese mixed martial artist
• , Japanese shogi player
• , Japanese cricketer
• , better known as Ulka Sasaki, Japanese mixed martial artist

Fictional characters

• , a character in the light novel series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
• , acharacter in manga series Haikyū!!, the position is Wing Spiker
• , an alias of Ken Kaneki, protagonist of the manga series Tokyo Ghoul
• , a character in the video game Metal Gear Solid
• "Overflowing" Sasaki, an antagonistic character of the manga series One Piece
• , a character in the manga series GinTama
• Sasaki Hina, a Japanese racer from Bang Bang Racing and Yandere Simulator OC character
• , a character in the manga series Laughing Under the Clouds
• , a character in the manga series Negima
• , a character in the manga series My Hero Academia
• , a character in the manga series Cardcaptor Sakura
• , a character in the anime series Samurai Champloo
• , a character in the manga series Kodomo no Omocha
• Miyo Sasaki (佐々木美代), a character in the movie A Whisker Away
• Marurin Sasaki (ささき まるりん), one of the students in Challenge Kindergarten in the Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirou series.
• Maguro Sasaki (佐々木まぐろ), a character in the video game series Puyo Puyo
• Sasaki Shuumei (佐々木 秀鳴), one of the two main characters in the manga series Sasaki and Miyano

See also

• Sasaki clan, a samurai clan

Notes and References

1. 明治安田生命 全国同姓調査 [''Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company - National same family name investigation'']]. Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company. 2008-09-24. 2019-08-31.