List of Famous people born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Ayumi Hamasaki is a Japanese singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, model, spokesperson and entrepreneur. Through her entire career, she has written all her lyrical content, and has sometimes composed her music.

Princess Tomohito of Mikasa is a member of the Japanese Imperial Family as the widow of Prince Tomohito of Mikasa. She is also known as Princess Nobuko.

Yutaka Matsushige is a Japanese actor.

Mizuki Yamamoto is a Japanese actress and model.

Kazuyoshi Morita , known by his stage name Tamori (タモリ), is a Japanese television celebrity. Known for his trademark dark sunglasses, Tamori is one of the "big three" television comedians in Japan along with Takeshi Kitano and Sanma Akashiya. For more than 30 years he hosted Waratte Iitomo!, a nationally televised live show broadcast every weekday at noon from October 1982 until March 2014. His likeness is the basis for the Piranha Plant in All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.

Hiromi Go is a Japanese singer, part of Sony Music Entertainment Japan. His real name is Hiromi Haratake .

Kiyoshi Yamada, whose stage name is Kiyoshi Hikawa , is a Japanese enka singer. Hikawa makes frequent appearances on NHK Kayō Concert (NHK歌謡コンサート), as well as NHK's annual Kōhaku Uta Gassen.

Tomoyo Shibata is a former announcer for Nippon TV in Japan.

Yō Yoshida is a Japanese actress who is represented by the talent agency Oranku.

Yu Aoi is a Japanese actress and model. She made her film debut as Shiori Tsuda in Shunji Iwai's 2001 film All About Lily Chou-Chou. She subsequently portrayed Tetsuko Arisugawa in Hana and Alice (2004), also directed by Iwai, Kimiko Tanigawa in the hula dancing film Hula Girls and Hagumi Hanamoto in the 2006 live-action adaptation of the Honey and Clover manga series.