Notable people with the name include:Kotaro Azuse, Japanese baseball player Kotaro Honda and Japanese scientist and inventor Kōtarō Iizawa. The titular character of the manga anime series Kotarō or Kotarou is a character in the 2007 anime samurai film Sword of the Stranger.
See also: List of Haikyu!! characters, Ryōhei Kimura, Ian Sinclair (voice actor), Gintoki Sakata, Miyamoto Musashi in fiction, Dengeki Bunko.