List of Famous people born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Toshihiro Noguchi
Toshihiro Noguchi is a Japanese professional baseball catcher and coach. He played in Nippon Professional Baseball from 1991 to 2010. He was a catching coach for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
Akihiro Hyodo
Akihiro Hyodo is a former Japanese football player who lastly played for J1 League team Shimizu S-Pulse.
Sister MAYO
Masayo Sawada , better known by her stagename Sister MAYO, is a Japanese singer. She is a member of the Columbia Music Entertainment duo Cyber Nation Network, and a vocalist in Project.R which performs many theme songs for the Super Sentai series, some have reached the top ten in Oricon's charts. Her best-known songs as a soloist have been the opening theme of Haré+Guu and the ending theme of Mahou Sentai Magiranger. She is the younger sister of heavy metal musician Taiji, with whom she was in the rock band Otokaze.
Katsuya Nagato
Katsuya Nagato is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a defender for Kashima Antlers in the J1 League.
Hidemi Ishikawa
Kōki Hayashi
Hiroshi Motomiya
Takaaki Nakagami
Takaaki Nakagami is a Grand Prix motorcycle racer from Japan, who currenty rides for LCR Honda Idemitsu. He won the Japanese Road Race Championship 125cc class in 2006 and J-GP2 class in 2011.
Naotake Hanyu
Naotake Hanyu is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.
Meiko Nakahara
Meiko Nakahara , real name Meiko Obara , is a Japanese singer and composer.