Misaka is a

surname In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...

. Notable people and fictional characters with the name include:

People

Wat Misaka Wataru Misaka (December 21, 1923 – November 20, 2019) was an American professional basketball player. A point guard of Japanese descent, he broke a color barrier in professional basketball by being the first non-white player and the first ...

(1923–2019), American basketball player

Fictional characters

* Kaori Misaka, a character in the ''Kanon'' series *

Mikoto Misaka is a fictional character created by Kazuma Kamachi and first illustrated by Kiyotaka Haimura. She is a major character in the ''A Certain Magical Index'' light novel series and the main protagonist of its manga spin-off series ''A Certain Scie ...

, one of the main characters in the ''A Certain Magical Index'' series *

Shiori Misaka This is a list of characters from the Japanese visual novel, manga, and anime series '' Kanon''. The protagonist of the story is Yuichi Aizawa, a seventeen-year-old man who has forgotten much of his past as a child. There are five heroines in th ...

, a character in the ''Kanon'' series {{Surname Japanese-language surnames