List of Famous people born in Gunma Prefecture, Japan
Masato Matsui
Masato Matsui is a Japanese professional baseball catcher for the Orix Buffaloes in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He previously played for the Chunichi Dragons.
Fujio Masuoka
Fujio Masuoka is a Japanese engineer, who has worked for Toshiba and Tohoku University, and is currently chief technical officer (CTO) of Unisantis Electronics. He is best known as the inventor of flash memory, including the development of both the NOR flash and NAND flash types in the 1980s. He also invented the first gate-all-around (GAA) MOSFET (GAAFET) transistor, an early non-planar 3D transistor, in 1988.
Yoshiaki Yatsu
Yoshiaki Yatsu is a Japanese professional wrestler, amateur wrestler and mixed martial artist. He is known for being one-half of the first-ever World Tag Team Champions with Jumbo Tsuruta, having won the NWA International Tag Team Championship and the PWF Tag Team Championship, and unifying the two titles.
Akira Kuroiwa
Akira Kuroiwa is a former speed skater from Japan, who represented his native country at two consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. In 1988, he won the bronze medal in the men's 500 metres, after having captured two world titles at the Sprints Championships. At the 1984 Winter Olympics, Kuroiwa placed 10th in the men's 500 m.
Akitarō Daichi
Akitaro Daichi is an anime director, producer and photography director.
Shiho
Shiho is an actress and model. Her agency is Stardust Promotion.
Suguru Ino
Suguru Ino is aJapanese former professional baseball catcher. He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, Yomiuri Giants and Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
Takeshi Fujii
Takeshi Fujii is a Japanese professional shogi player, ranked 9-dan. He is a former Ryūō title holder, and a former non-executive director of the Japan Shogi Association.
Hisashi Imai
Hisashi Imai is a Japanese musician and songwriter. He is known as lead guitarist of the rock band Buck-Tick since 1983. He has also performed in musical side-projects such as Schaft (1991–1994), Schwein (2001), and more recently Lucy (2004).
Keiichi Hara
Keiichi Hara is a Japanese director of animated films.