List of Famous people named Satoshi

Satoshi Nakajima is a Japanese professional baseball player. He was born on March 27, 1969. He debuted in 1987. 2013 was his twenty-seventh year in professional baseball. He has not played much for the past four seasons, due to his becoming a coach as well.

Satoshi Hino is a Japanese voice actor and narrator. He has collaborated with well-known voice actress, Rie Kugimiya, most notably in anime Shakugan no Shana, Zero no Tsukaima, Gintama, and Nabari no Ou.

Satoshi Tsumabuki is a Japanese actor. His breakthrough film was Waterboys for which he was nominated for the 'Best Actor' award at the Japanese Academy Awards, and won the 'Newcomer of the Year' prize. He is also the bassist and lead singer of the Japanese band Basking Lite.

Satoshi Ohno is a Japanese idol, singer, actor, radio host, dancer and choreographer. He is the lead vocalist and leader of the boy band Arashi, hence his nickname Leader .

Satoshi Tajiri is a Japanese video game designer and director best known as the creator of Nintendo's Pokémon franchise and one of the founders, and President of video game developer Game Freak. A fan of arcade games, Tajiri wrote for and edited his own video gaming fanzine Game Freak with Ken Sugimori, before evolving it into a development company of the same name. Tajiri claims that the joining of two Game Boys via a link cable inspired him to create a game which embodied the collection and companionship of his childhood hobby, insect collecting. The game, which became Pokémon Red and Pokémon Green, took six years to complete and went on to spark a multibillion-dollar franchise which reinvigorated Nintendo's handheld gaming. Tajiri continued to work as director for the Pokémon series until the development of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, when he changed his role to executive producer.

Satoshi Hirayama was an American baseball player who played for the Hiroshima Carp in Japan's Central League. Hirayama was an All-Star twice in Japan.

Satoshi Mitazono is a Japanese politician and journalist who was the former governor of Kagoshima Prefecture. He defeated the incumbent Yūichirō Itō at an election held on 10 July 2016.

Satoshi Ishii is a Japanese-Croatian judoka, mixed martial artist and submission grappler.

Satoshi Ninoyu is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A native of Kyoto, Kyoto and graduate of Keio University, he was elected for the first time in 2004 after serving in the assembly of Kyoto Prefecture for five terms since 1987.

Satoshi Murayama was a Japanese professional shogi player who achieved the rank of 9-dan.