List of Famous people born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
Reo Hazuki
Hazuki is a Japanese retired professional wrestler known for her time in World Wonder Ring Stardom.
Katsuya Onizuka
Katsuya Onizuka is a former WBA Super Flyweight champion from Kitakyushu, Japan. Onizuka was an extremely popular boxer in Japan, creating a boxing boom in Japan during the early 1990s along with Joichiro Tatsuyoshi.
Kentarō Ogawa
Kentarō Ogawa was a Japanese professional baseball player. A right-handed submarine-style pitcher, he played in Japan for the Chunichi Dragons. Ogawa was one of the top pitchers in Nippon Professional Baseball before a scandal derailed his career. During his prime years from 1965–1969, Ogawa won 93 games, including winning 20 games or more twice.
Sei Kawahara
Sei Kawahara is a Japanese figure skater. He won one medal on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series and made his Grand Prix debut at the 2015 Skate Canada International.
Akihiro Hino
Akihiro Hino is a Japanese video game designer and businessman. Starting his career as a programmer in the 1990s, he later took on roles in writing, design, directing and producing. He founded Level-5 in 1998, where he remains its president and CEO.
Shōjirō Ishibashi
Shōjirō Ishibashi was a Japanese businessman who founded the Bridgestone Corporation, the world's largest maker of tires, in 1931 in the city of Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. the company was named after its founder: in the Japanese language, ishi means "stone" and hashi means "bridge", whence the origin of the company's name in English.
Seiichi Itō
Seiichi Itō was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and the flag officer of the task force centered around the battleship Yamato on her final mission towards the end of World War II.
Keita Yamashita
Keita Yamashita is a Japanese football player for Sagan Tosu.
Shinji Kō
Shiji Koh is a former professional Japanese baseball player.