List of Famous people born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Reo Hazuki

First Name Reo
Born on September 29, 1997 (age 28)

Hazuki is a Japanese retired professional wrestler known for her time in World Wonder Ring Stardom.

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Katsuya Onizuka

First Name Katsuya
Last Name Onizuka
Born on March 12, 1970 (age 56)

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.

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Kentarō Ogawa

First Name Kentarō
Last Name Ogawa
Born on January 12, 1934
Died on October 8, 1995 (aged 61)
Height 172 cm | 5'8

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.

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Sei Kawahara

First Name Sei
Last Name Kawahara
Born on December 17, 1995 (age 30)

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.

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Akihiro Hino

First Name Akihiro
Last Name Hino
Born on July 20, 1967 (age 58)

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.

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Shōjirō Ishibashi

First Name Shōjirō
Last Name Ishibashi
Born on February 1, 1889
Died on September 11, 1976 (aged 87)

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.

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Seiichi Itō

First Name Seiichi
Last Name Itō
Born on July 26, 1890
Died on April 7, 1945 (aged 54)

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.

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Keita Yamashita

First Name Keita
Last Name Yamashita
Born on March 13, 1996 (age 30)
Height 184 cm | 6'0

Keita Yamashita is a Japanese football player for Sagan Tosu.

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Shinji Kō

First Name Shinji
Last Name
Born on April 16, 1967 (age 59)
Height 176 cm | 5'9

Shiji Koh is a former professional Japanese baseball player.

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Yutaka Asō

First Name Yutaka
Last Name Asō
Born on January 1, 1946 (age 80)
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