List of Famous people born in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Nanoka
Nanoka Her real name was not published.
Koji Morisaki
Koji Morisaki is a former Japanese football player. His twin brother Kazuyuki Morisaki is also footballer.
Issey Miyake
Issey Miyake is a Japanese fashion designer. He is known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances, such as L'eau d'Issey, which became his most well-known product.
Hiroki Kondo
Hiroki Kondo is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has played in NPB for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.
Kentaro Nishimura
Kentaro Nishimura is a former Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball player. He played with the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Central League.
Tomoe Tamiyasu
Tomoe Tamiyasu is a Japanese voice actress and singer, generally performing for adult games, and is from Hiroshima. She debuted in 2005 as a voice actress and started her singing career in 2006. Tomoe has been the host of three Internet radio shows, and has been a guest on a fourth. She is also known under the name Tomoe Tamiya, such as when she voiced Rin Natsume from Key's visual novel Little Busters!. She also sang songs on an image vocal album released for Little Busters! for Rin. She attended Anime Expo in 2012 with the industry guest MangaGamer. She married voice actor Keisuke Nakamura in 2015.
Yūrei Yanagi
Yūrei Yanagi is a Japanese actor and tarento. He was born in Fuchū, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Yanagi was originally a member of Takeshi Kitano's gundan. In 1990 he continued to work with Takeshi for the film Boiling Point. Afterwards, he appeared in over eight more films before meeting up with Takeshi again for the 1997 film Hana-bi. His most recent roles have been in horror films such as Ring, Ju-on and Ju-on 2.
Danshoku Dino
Akiru Miyashita , better known by his ring name Danshoku Dino , is a Japanese professional wrestler. Dino has spent most of his career competing for Dramatic Dream Team (DDT), where he plays an overly exaggerated homosexual character. His ring name comes from the Japanese name for the character Baron Dino from the manga series Sakigake!! Otokojuku.
Kazuyuki Morisaki
Kazuyuki Morisaki is a former Japanese football player. He is the twin brother of Koji Morisaki.
Tetsuya Yoroizaka
Tetsuya Yoroizaka is a Japanese long-distance runner. He competed in the 10,000 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing.