List of Famous people born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Yasuhiro Ogawa
Yasuhiro Ogawa is a professional Japanese baseball player. He is a pitcher for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
Masayuki Toyoshima
Masayuki Toyoshima is a Japanese professional shogi player, ranked 9-dan. He is the current holder of Ryūō and Eiō titles, and a former holder of the Meijin, Ōi and Kisei titles.
Rie Kitahara
Rie Kitahara is a Japanese singer and actress formerly associated with the Japanese idol girl group NGT48 and former member of AKB48 and SKE48. She debuted in 2008 in Team A and was later co-captain of Team K (2014). In March 2015, it was announced Kitahara would be transferred to NGT48 as captain of the group. She has sung on many of the groups' main singles, having been voted number 13, 16, 13, 13, 21, 19, 11 and 12 in AKB48's General Elections. In 2017, for her final participation, she was voted number 10 which is her best rank ever. Since 2011, Kitahara is also a member of the AKB48 subgroup Not Yet.
Karina Nose
Karina is a Japanese model and actress. Her birth name is Karina Nose . She was born in Shōwa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture. She played the lead role in the 2008 TBS drama Daisuki!!
Akira Toriyama
Akira Toriyama is a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He first achieved mainstream recognition for his highly successful manga series Dr. Slump, before going on to create Dragon Ball—his best-known work—and acting as a character designer for several popular video games such as the Dragon Quest series, Chrono Trigger and Blue Dragon. Toriyama is regarded as one of the artists that changed the history of manga, as his works are highly influential and popular, particularly Dragon Ball, which many manga artists cite as a source of inspiration.
Keiko Toda
Keiko Toda is a Japanese actress, voice actress, singer and narrator from Nagoya, Aichi. Her most famous role is the voice of the children's hero Anpanman on the long running anime Soreike! Anpanman. She was also the voice of Thomas the Tank Engine in the Japanese dub of Thomas & Friends from Season 1 to Season 8. She was once married to Shuichi Ikeda and Junichi Inoue.
Maiko Itō
Maiko Itō is a Japanese actress.
Haruka Tomatsu
Haruka Tomatsu is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer, employed by Music Ray'n. She plays Asuna in Sword Art Online, Mileina Vashti in Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Second Season, Aoba Tsukishima in Cross Game, Saki Rukino in Valvrave the Liberator, Lala Satalin Deviluke in To Love Ru, Minamoto no Raikou in Fate/Grand Order, Iona Hikawa/Cure Fortune in HappinessCharge PreCure!, Zero Two in Darling in the Franxx and Haru Okumura in Persona 5. She received the Rookie of the Year award at the 3rd Seiyu Awards and the Synergy Award at the 9th Seiyu Awards.
Ryuichi Kihara
Ryuichi Kihara is a Japanese figure skater, who presently competes in pairs with partner Riku Miura. He previously competed with Narumi Takahashi and Miu Suzaki, representing Japan at the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics, respectively.
Shota Dobayashi
Shota Dobayashi is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays infielder for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.