List of Famous people born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Shigefumi Mori
Shigefumi Mori is a Japanese mathematician, known for his work in algebraic geometry, particularly in relation to the classification of three-folds.
Junko Yagami
Junko Yagami , is a Japanese singer and songwriter from the Aichi Prefecture. She has released 25 albums, including 6 live concert albums, and is a notable figure in Japanese music of the 1970s and 1980s.
Keiichiro Hirano
Keiichirō Hirano is a Japanese novelist.
Erena Mizusawa
Erena Mizusawa is a Japanese fashion model and an actress. She was once a model for the teen magazine Candy and later moved to model for another fashion magazine, Seventeen. She left Seventeen in 2011. She became an actress in spring 2007, appearing and starring in several TV dramas. She is now currently a model for Japanese magazine Non-no. She is half Korean on her mother's side.
Kumiko Takeda
Kumiko Takeda is a Japanese actress.
Yūji Mitsuya
Yūji Mitsuya is a Japanese actor, voice actor, director of audiography, voice director and sound supervisor from Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture who is affiliated with Combination. He graduated from Meiji University.
Taro Yoko
Yoko Taro is a Japanese video game director and scenario writer. Starting his career at the now-defunct game company Cavia, his best-known work was on the action role-playing video game series Drakengard, and its spin-offs, Nier and Nier: Automata. Yoko was born in Nagoya, Aichi, and studied at the Kobe Design University in the 1990s. While he did not initially intend to pursue a career in video games, after working at Namco and Sony, he joined Cavia and became the director and scenario writer for the first Drakengard game. He has since worked extensively on every game in the series, and on mobile titles, after becoming a freelancer after Cavia's absorption into AQ Interactive.
Rino Matsuike
Rino Matsuike is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2020 NHK Trophy bronze medalist. On the junior level, she is the 2020–21 Japanese junior national champion and the 2019 JGP Latvia bronze medalist.
Akihiro Yamaguchi
Akihiro Yamauchi is a Japanese male volleyball player. He was part of the Japan men's national volleyball team. On a college club level he plays for Aichi Gakuin University. He is currently on the Panasonic Panthers team, with the jersey number 10.
Yukari Nakano
Yukari Nakano is a Japanese former competitive figure skater. She is the 2006 Four Continents silver medalist, the 2003 Four Continents bronze medalist, the 2005–06 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, the 2007 Asian Winter Games champion, and a three-time Japanese national bronze medalist. Nakano is one of twelve female skaters to perform a triple Axel in international competition.