List of Famous people born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Ryuji Ichioka is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.

Ai Kawashima is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter and pianist. Overcoming her tragic childhood, she released her debut single Asueno tobira as the duo I Wish in 2003. She is well known for her numerous street performances. She is also known for her devotion to help children under circumstances similar to hers in Japan and all over the world.

Maki Itoh is a Japanese female professional wrestler, actress, model, and idol, who wrestles for Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, where she is a former International Princess Champion. She is currently a member of the idol group Tokiwoikiru (トキヲイキル).

Keita Tachibana , also known monomously as Keita, is a Japanese singer and actor. Since 2000, he rose to fame as the lead vocalist from the boy band W-inds. During that time, he launched a solo career, and in 2012, has revitalized it again under a reinvented image.

Chage is a Japanese musician and radio personality. His real name is Shuji Shibata . He dropped out from Japan University of Economics. He changes his name from Chage , CHAGE, and Chage. He is also a singer-songwriter, and he is the main vocalist and lyricist-composer of Chage and Aska.

Masato Sakai is a Japanese swimmer who specializes in the men's 200 metre butterfly. He won the silver medal in the men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Sakai was in 6th position at the 150 mark, and finished 0.04 seconds behind Michael Phelps.

Noriko Watanabe is a Japanese actress and singer. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 8th Yokohama Film Festival for His Motorbike, Her Island.

Etsuro Sotoo is a Japanese sculptor strongly influenced by Antoni Gaudí. His interest in Gaudí led him to convert to the Roman Catholic Church. His most noted work are sculptures located in the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.

Tetsuya Theodore Fujita was a Japanese-American meteorologist whose research primarily focused on severe weather. His research at the University of Chicago on severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, and typhoons revolutionized the knowledge of each. Although he is best known for creating the Fujita scale of tornado intensity and damage, he also discovered downbursts and microbursts, and was an instrumental figure in advancing modern understanding of many severe weather phenomena and how they affect people and communities, especially through his work exploring the relationship between wind speed and damage.

Hiromi Matsunaga is a former Nippon Professional Baseball player.