Sakata may refer to:

People

* Jeanne Sakata, American actress and playwright *

Lenn Sakata Lenn Haruki Sakata (born June 8, 1954) is an American former professional baseball player who played in the Major Leagues primarily as a utility player from 1977 to 1987 and was a member of the Baltimore Orioles 1983 World Series Championship tea ...

(Lenn Haruki Sakata) (born 1954), former American professional baseball player *

Harold Sakata , better known as Harold Sakata, was an American Olympic weightlifter, professional wrestler, and film actor of Japanese descent. He won a silver medal for the United States at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London in weightlifting, and later ...

(Toshiyuki "Harold" Sakata) (1920–1982), American Olympic medalist and professional wrestler *

Sakata Eio was a 9- dan Japanese professional Go player. Biography Sakata became a professional Go player in 1935. His first title match was the Hon'inbō in 1951 when he challenged Hashimoto Utaro. More than usual was at stake in the match because H ...

(1920–2010), Japanese professional Go player * Sakata Minoru (1902–1974), Japanese photographer * Sakata no Kintoki, the Japanese folk hero Kintarō * Sakata Tōjūrō, stage name taken on by a number of Kabuki actors * Takefumi Sakata (born 1980), Japanese flyweight boxer *

Shoichi Sakata was a Japanese physicist and Marxist who was internationally known for theoretical work on the subatomic particles.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Sakata Shōichi''" in ; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, ' ...

(Sakata Shōichi) (1911–1970), Japanese physicist *

Akira Sakata Akira Sakata (born 21 February 1945) is a Japanese free jazz saxophonist. Early life Sakata was born in Hiroshima on 21 February 1945. He first heard jazz on short-wave radio and Voice of America, then became more interested in it from listening ...

(born 1945), Japanese saxophonist

Places

Sakata, Yamagata is a city located in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 106,244 in 39,320 households, and a population density of 180 people per km2. The total area of the city is . History The area of present-day Sakata was ...

, a city in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan * Sakata District, Shiga, a district located in Shiga, Japan * Sakata people, a tribe in the Black Water Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Other

Sakata language Sakata is a Bantu dialect cluster of DR Congo. The dialects are rather divergent: Sakata proper, Djia (Wadia), Bai (Kibay), Tuku (Ketu, Batow). According to ''Glottolog'', it may be one of the Teke languages The Teke languages are a group of B ...

, a language in the Black Water Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo {{disambiguation, surname, geo Japanese-language surnames