List of Famous people born in Fukui Prefecture, Japan

Yuko Mitsuya is a former volleyball player from Japan, who was a member of the Japan Women's National Team that won the bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Yoshinaga Fujita was a Japanese novelist and screenwriter.

Akihiro Higashide is a Nippon Professional Baseball player for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp in Japan's Central League.

Yoshiharu Yamaguchi is a former Japanese rugby union player. He made his debut for Japan against a touring New Zealand Universities team in Osaka on 12 March 1967. He last appeared for Japan against England's under 23 team in Twickenham on 13 October 1973.

Genichiro Shimada , better known as Genichiro Tenryu is a retired Japanese professional wrestler and professional wrestling promoter. At age 13, he entered sumo wrestling and stayed there for 13 years, after which he turned to Western-style professional wrestling. "Tenryu" was his shikona. He had two stints with All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), where he spent the majority of his career while also promoting Super World of Sports (SWS), Wrestle Association R (WAR) and Tenryu Project. At the time of his retirement, professional wrestling journalist and historian Dave Meltzer wrote that "one could make a strong case [that Tenryu was] between the fourth and sixth biggest native star" in the history of Japanese professional wrestling.

Akifumi Takahashi is a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher for the Hanshin Tigers in Japan's Central League.

Keisuke Okada was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, politician and Prime Minister of Japan from 1934 to 1936.

Viscount Yuri Kimimasa was a statesman in Meiji period Japan. During the Meiji Restoration he used the alias Mitsuoka Hachirō

Hiroshi Takeshima is a Japanese enka singer. He has one major hit with "Sapporo Elegy" in 2001.

Jūkichi Uno was a Japanese actor. He formed Gekidan Mingei (劇団民藝) with Osamu Takizawa.