Saburō

Saburō or Saburo (さぶろう, サブロウ) is a masculine Japanese given name.

Possible writings

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

• 三郎, "third son"
• 三朗, "three, bright"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People with the name

• Saburo Aizawa, Japanese soldier
• Saburo Fujiki, Japanese golfer
• Saburo Hasegawa (1906–1957), Japanese calligrapher and painter
• Saburō Hayashi, Japanese soldier
• Saburo Ienaga, controversial Japanese historian
• Saburo Ishikura, Japanese actor
• Saburo Ito (伊藤 三郎, 1915–?), Japanese swimmer
• Saburo Kamei, Japanese voice actor
• Saburō Kitajima, Japanese Enka singer
• Saburō Kurusu, Japanese diplomat
• Saburō Matsukata (松方 三郎, 1899–1973), Japanese Scout leader
• Saburo Okita, Japanese economist
• Saburō Sakai, Japanese World War II fighter pilot
• Saburo Yokomizo (横溝 三郎, born 1939), Japanese middle-distance runner

When the name is used as a suffix, it often turns to "-zaburō".

• Bandō Tamasaburō V, kabuki actor
• Tsumasaburō Bandō, film actor
• Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII, kabuki actor
• Kenzaburō Ōe, Nobel prize laureate in literature

Fictional characters

• Mutsumi Saburo from Sgt. Frog
• Saburo Kato from Space Battleship Yamato
• Saburou Aoyama (aka Goggle Blue) from Dai Sentai Goggle V
• Saburo (aka Hakaider) from Kikaider
• Saburo Ookuchi from Elite Yankee Saburo
• Saburo Ichimonji, the protagonist's third son, from Ran