List of Famous people born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Haruki Fukushima is a Japanese footballer who plays for Urawa Red Diamonds.

Kenjiro Tanaka is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.

Teramoto Asuka is a Japanese gymnast.

Tsuneko Okazaki is a Japanese pioneer of molecular biology known for her work on DNA replication and specifically for discovering Okazaki fragments, along with her husband Reiji. Dr. Tsuneko Okazaki has continued to be involved in academia, contributing to more advancements in DNA research.

Masahiko Shibayama is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. Extreme right. A member of the Anti free-speech working group.

Toshihide Maskawa is a Japanese theoretical physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one quarter of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature."

Ayumi Tanimoto born August 4, 1981 in Anjo, Aichi, is a Japanese female judoka. She was coached by Toshihiko Koga, who is a gold medalist at the Barcelona Olympics and a silver medalist at the Atlanta Olympics Men's Judo. Tanimoto won the Women's -63 kg category gold medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004 and at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

Hikaru Ito is a Japanese professional baseball catcher for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Taisuke Maruyama is a professional Japanese baseball player. He is currently a free agent having previously played pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons.

Tetsuo Nakanishi is a former Japanese football player. He currently works on television as a football commentator.