Famous People with Name Masahiro

Masahiro Abe            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masahiro Abe: a Nippon Professional Baseball player for the Orix Buffaloes in Japan's Pacific League.

Masahiro Araki            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masahiro Araki: a professional baseball player for the Chunichi Dragons in Nippon Professional Baseball. He received a Golden Glove Award for second base in 2006. He was the Dragons #1 draft pick in 1995. Although he is known to be more defensive then offensive, he hit a tie-breaking three-run home run off Yomiuri Giants reliever Yukinaga Maeda to give Chunichi a 5-2 win.

Masahiro Tanaka            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masahiro Tanaka: a starting pitcher for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.Tanaka led his team to a championship in the National High School Baseball tournament as a junior for Komazawa University Tomakomai High School in 2005 and a runner-up berth in the same tournament as a senior in 2006. The Eagles' first-round pick in the 2006 NPB high school draft, he is seen as the expansion team's future staff ace.

Masahiro Hasemi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masahiro Hasemi: a former racing driver and team owner from Japan. He started in motorcross when he was 15. In 1964 he signed to drive for Nissan. After establishing himself in saloon car and GT races in Japan, he participated in his only Formula One race at the Japanese Grand Prix for Kojima on 24 October 1976. He qualified 10th after an error which cost him his chance of a pole position and finished 11th, seven laps behind the winner. Notably, however, he also set the fastest lap of the race.

Masahiro Matsunaga            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masahiro Matsunaga: a Japanese race car driver . From 1997 until 2004 he raced in the JGTC Series B-Class, usually finishing in the midfield. He also raced in Japanese Formula 3 in 1988. In 1997, he married Jane Martin, who died during childbirth three years later.

Kongo Masahiro            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kongo Masahiro: is a former sumo wrestler from Hokkaido, Japan. His highest rank was sekiwake. He is now a sumo coach and head of the Nishonoseki stable. In 1975 Kongo's stablemaster, former ozeki Sagonohana, died and his widow asked Kongo to marry her second daughter an

Tokitsuumi Masahiro            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tokitsuumi Masahiro: is a former professional sumo wrestler from Fukue, Nagasaki, Japan. A former amateur sumo champion, he turned professional in 1996. His highest rank was maegashira 3. He became the head coach of Tokitsukaze stable in 2007 following the dismissal of the pr

Tamanoumi Masahiro            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tamanoumi Masahiro: was a sumo wrestler, born in Aichi, Japan. He was the sport's 51st yokozuna. Upon reaching yokozuna Tamanoshima changed his name to Tamanoumi, his coach's old shikona. His first tournament championship as a yokozuna came in September 1970 and he followed