List of Famous people born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Taiki Ono is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher who currently plays for the Hanshin Tigers of Nippon Professional Baseball.

Kōki Hirota was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1936 to 1937. Originally his name was Jōtarō (丈太郎). He was executed for war crimes committed during the Second Sino-Japanese War at the Tokyo Trials.

Yasufumi Fujino is a member of the Japanese Communist Party serving in the House of Representatives. He was criticized for his remarks calling the budget for the Japan Self-Defense Forces money to "kill people".

Ken Tanaka is a Japanese actor. He has appeared in more than 40 films since 1974.

Junpei Morita is a Japanese actor and voice actor affiliated with Mausu Promotion. Some of his major roles include Ryuzo in Cybuster, Dr. White in Black Jack 21, Nagato in Naruto: Shippuden, and BUER in Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn.

Akira Niho is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.

Yuichi Honda is a Japanese baseball player. He has been with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks since 2006, and plays as second baseman, wearing number 46. In 2008, he batted .291.　From 2006 to 2009 he was .670 on-base plus slugging.

Sayaka Shionoya is a former female singer. She was represented with LDH. Her label was King Records.

Ichiya "Ichy" Kumagae was a Japanese tennis player and the first Japanese Olympic medalist.

Ashihei Hino was a Japanese author, who wrote about military life during World War II. He was born in Wakamatsu and in 1937 he received the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for one of his novels, Fun'nyōtan . At that moment he was a soldier for the Japanese army in China. He then got promoted to the information corps and published numerous works about the daily lives of Japanese soldiers. It is for his war novels that he became famous during the war. His book Mugi to Heitai sold over a million copies.