Matsuo (name)

Matsuo (written: 松尾) is both a Japanese surname and a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname:

• Ayumu Matsuo, professional shogi player
• Ginzō Matsuo (1951–2001), a Japanese voice actor
• Hayato Matsuo (born 1965), a Japanese video game and anime composer, arranger and orchestrator
• Kayo Matsuo (born 1943), a Japanese actress
• Kazumi Matsuo (born 1974), a Japanese female marathon runner
• Kinoaki Matsuo, a Foreign Affairs Officer and Navy Admiralty Liaison, Black Dragon Society member, writer, and Japanese Navy strategizer
• Kiyonori Matsuo (born 1951), a Japanese singer
• Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694), the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan.
• Seijiro Matsuo, the second president of the Dojin-kai
• Shinji Matsuo, Japanese engineer
• Shizuka Matsuo (born 1986), a Japanese female badminton player
• Yukimi Matsuo (born 1987), a Japanese beauty pageant

Given name:

• Matsuo Fujimoto (1922–1962), a Japanese man charged for a 1952 murder and executed by hanging in 1962
• Matsuo Sugano, a Japanese astronomer
• Matsuo Yokoyama (born 1927), former president of Walt Disney Enterprises of Japan