List of Famous people born in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Yoshimasa Hosoya is a Japanese voice actor and narrator. He was represented by Mausu Promotion and is now a freelancer. Hosoya won the awards at the 8th Seiyu Awards and 10th Seiyu Awards for best supporting actor.

Yuki Yanagita , nicknamed "Giita (ギータ)", is a professional Japanese baseball outfielder for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. He is a six-time All-Star and was the Pacific League MVP in 2015. Yanagita has won six Japan Series championships with the Hawks.

Taisuke Yamaoka is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Orix Buffaloes of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Miki Maya is a Japanese actress and former top star of the Takarazuka Revue. Her real name is Miki Sato . She joined the Takarazuka Revue in 1981. Her debut performance was "Takarazuka Haru no Odori" and she became the top star of the Flower Troupe for her role in East Of Eden in 1995. She retired in 1998 after her last show 'Speakeasy', based on the 17 John Gay ballad opera The Beggar's Opera, in which she sang the theme song Kaze no machi no junjō na akutō tachi(風の街の純情な男たち).

Kazuto Taguchi is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Nao Oikawa is a Japanese actress, TV Personality and was also a former AV idol who was very popular in the early 2000s.

Megumi Okina is a Japanese actress and singer. Born in Hiroshima and raised in Tokyo, she made her J-Pop debut on 19 August 1995. She starred in the Japanese original of The Grudge. She married Susumu Fujita in January 2004. They divorced on 22 July 2005. In 2007, Megumi said she was retiring from the entertainment business. However, she reversed course by acting in a remake of the 2004 Thai film, Shutter. It was released March 21, 2008. She portrayed a ghost called Megumi Tanaka.

Shizuka Kamei is a former Japanese politician and a former chairman of the Parliamentary League for the Abolition of the Death Penalty.

Megumi Kurihara is a Japanese volleyball former player who played for JT Marvelous. She also played for the All-Japan women's volleyball team and participated at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics. Her nickname is "Princess Meg" (プリンセス・メグ).

Mona Yamamoto is a Japanese TV announcer and presenter. Her father is Norwegian and she became a naturalized Japanese citizen at the age of 6.