List of Famous people born in Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Yoshinori Okihara is a former Nippon Professional Baseball infielder.

Shoji Kokami is a Japanese playwright, director, actor, and filmmaker.

Kei Nakano is a Japanese football player. He plays for FC Imabari.

Kazuya Tsutsui is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher for the Hanshin Tigers in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He played from 2004 to 2005 and from 2007 to 2016.

Sho Tanaka is a Japanese professional wrestler signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he currently performs under the ring name SHO. He has previously worked for the American Ring of Honor (ROH) and Mexican Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), where he was known under the ring name Raijin , named after the Japanese God of thunder, and was part of La Ola Amarilla alongside Okumura, Kamaitachi and Fujin.

Yukio Seki was a Japanese naval aviator of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. As a kamikaze pilot, Lieutenant Seki led one of the three fighter groups of the second official kamikaze attack in World War II. Seki's final action took place on October 25, 1944, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. He led a unit of five bomb-armed Mitsubishi Zero fighters, crash-diving his plane deliberately into the USS St. Lo's flight deck, being the first kamikazes to sink an enemy ship.

Riki Nakaya is a Japanese judoka. He is a two-time lightweight world champion and an Olympic silver medalist. He was also a finalist at the 2015 World Championships.

Ryuji Miyade is a former Nippon Professional Baseball outfielder.