List of Famous people born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan
yukihiro
Yukihiro, stylized as yukihiro and previously stylized as YUKIHIRO, is a Japanese musician, best known as drummer of the rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel. He also sings and plays bass for his solo project, Acid Android. Before joining L'Arc-en-Ciel he was in the popular visual kei bands Zi:Kill and Die in Cries.
Noriko Aoyama
Noriko Aoyama is a former model and a Japanese actress. She has appeared in more than 20 films since 2002.
Takayuki Funayama
Takayuki Funayama is a Japanese football player. He currently plays for JEF United Chiba.
Daisuke Enomoto
Daisuke Enomoto is a Japanese businessman and former livedoor executive who hoped to become the fourth space tourist. He had trained at Star City, Moscow in Russia to fly with two members of Expedition 14 on board Soyuz TMA-9, which was launched on September 18, 2006.
Sayaka Murata
Sayaka Murata is a Japanese writer. She has won the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the Mishima Yukio Prize, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, and the Akutagawa Prize.
Yui Susaki
Yui Susaki is a Japanese freestyle wrestler. An exceptionally technical wrestler, in 2017, she won a gold medal at Paris World Wrestling Championships at 48kg, and in 2018, she won gold at the Budapest World Wrestling Championships at 50kg.Also she competed at Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin 2017 and won a gold medal.
Shingo Usami
Shingo Usami is a Japanese professional baseball catcher for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
Masanori Hayashi
Masanori Hayashi is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.
Makoto Kaneko
Makoto Kaneko is a professional baseball player from Abiko, Chiba, Japan. He is an infielder for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Japanese baseball team.
Masatoshi Akimoto
Masatoshi Akimoto is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan serving in the House of Representatives, his second time holding the position. He is opposed to nuclear power, a position that is at odds with that of his party.