List of Famous people born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
Yumi Yoshino
Yumi Yoshino is a Japanese actress. She is represented with Production Harmony.
Yuka Kinoshita
Yuka Kinoshita is a Japanese YouTuber and competitive eater.
Moto Hagio
Moto Hagio is a Japanese manga artist who is considered a "founding mother" of modern shōjo manga, especially shōnen-ai. Hagio rose to prominence in the 1970s as a member of the influential Year 24 Group, and has been described as "the most beloved shōjo manga artist of all time." In addition to being an "industry pioneer", her body of work "shows a maturity, depth and personal vision found only in the finest of creative artists".
Yoshinori Kobayashi
Yoshinori Kobayashi is a Japanese manga artist noted for his controversial political commentary manga Gōmanism Sengen.
Ikki Kajiwara
Asaki Takamori , known by the pen names Ikki Kajiwara and Asao Takamori , was a Japanese author, manga writer, and film producer. He is known for the work about sports and martial arts, with images of heroic young men with the occasional fine details as he moves from one topic to another. He considered Tiger Mask and Star of the Giants to be his life's work.
Masao Koga
Koga Masao was a Japanese composer, mandolinist, and guitarist of the Shōwa era who was dubbed "Japan's Irving Berlin" by Universal Press Syndicate. His melancholy style, based upon Nakayama Shimpei's yonanuki scale, was popularly known in Japan as "Koga melody" . He was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure and the People's Honor Award for his contributions to Japanese music.
Takahiro Fujimoto
Takahiro Fujimoto is an actor and a retired male medley swimmer from Japan, who represented his native country in two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988. His best Olympic result was the 8th place (4:23.86) in the Men's 400m Individual Medley event at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Naoko Hayashiba
Naoko Hayashiba , who is also known by the pen name Masaru Katori , is a Japanese writer and manga author from Fukuoka. She had a successful career as professional shogi player but quit during a sex scandal with another professional player, Makoto Nakahara, in 1995. Since then, she has focused on writing and TV work. She has written two novel series, Tondemo Police and Kiss Dakeja Iya, and the manga Shion no Ō. In 2010, after a 15-year absence, she returned to shogi.
Akira Sone
Akira Sone is a female Japanese judoka. Sone's favorite techniques are Tai Otoshi, Ouchi Gari
Sumiteru Taniguchi
Sumiteru Taniguchi was a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, a prominent activist for a treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons, and chairman of the Nagasaki Council of A-Bomb Sufferers.