List of Famous people born in Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan

Shinbo Nomura is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the author of the yonkoma manga Tsurupika Hagemaru , which was adapted as a 58-episode anime television series and for which he received the 1988 Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga. He also later created a manga adaption of Ratchet & Clank.

Eriko Sanmiya is a Japanese speed skater. She competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics and the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Goro Miyazawa is a professional Go player.

Kazumi Yamashita is a Japanese manga artist. Although she writes primarily older shōjo manga, she is best known for The Life of Genius Professor Yanagizawa, which was published in the seinen magazine Morning, and for which she received the 2003 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga.

Yuto Horigome is a Japanese football player. He currently plays for Albirex Niigata.

Kenko Matsuki / Shizuhiro Matsuki is a Japanese politician and a former member of the House of Representatives in the Diet.

Yuka Hirata is a Japanese actress, voice actress, tarento, and gravure idol from Hokkaido. She portrayed Mere in the Super Sentai Series Juken Sentai Gekiranger. She has also appeared in Food Fight, an episode of Carlos, and several idol videos.

W-inds is a Japanese pop boy band managed by Vision Factory and signed to the Pony Canyon label since 2000. The group consists of Ryohei Chiba and Keita Tachibana; Ryuichi Ogata left the group in 2020. Tachibana is the lead singer of the group, while Chiba and Ogata provide backing vocals and rap.

Mamoru “Mark” Mohri , AM is a Japanese scientist, a former NASDA astronaut, and a veteran of two NASA space shuttle missions. He is the first Japanese astronaut who was part of an official Japanese space program. The first-ever Japanese person in space, Toyohiro Akiyama, was a journalist who was trained in the Soviet Union.

Tsutomu Mizushima is a Japanese animation and sound director.