List of Famous people born in Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan

Noriko Sasaki is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known for her Dōbutsu no Oisha-san series.

DJ Honda, is a Japanese Hip Hop DJ / producer. DJ Honda is best known for his 1995 self-titled debut.

Makoto Tsuruga is a Japanese curler. He represented Japan at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, where the Japanese team placed 5th. He was the skip for the Japanese team at the 2010 World Men's Curling Championship.

Kazuhiko Chiba is a Japanese footballer. He currently plays for the J2 League club Albirex Niigata.

Shōtarō Tashiro is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder who is currently a free agent. He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Saitama Seibu Lions and Tokyo Yakult Swallows.

Kazuya Nakayama (中山一也) is a Japanese actor and producer known for films such as Izo and Agitator directed by Takashi Miike.

Yasuhiro Suzuki is a Japanese boxer who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the welterweight division. He is an alumnus of the Takushoku University, and is Second lieutenant in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force.

Alissa Yagi , also known as Arisa Yagi, is a Japanese actress and model associated with Amuse, Inc.. From 2008 to 2012, Yagi was an exclusive model for the pre-teen fashion magazine Nicola. Since 2012, she modeled exclusively for the magazine Vivi, and in 2014, she made her acting debut as Megumi Kitagawa in the live-action film adaptation of Say I Love You .

Yasuharu Konishi is a Japanese musician, composer and DJ. He was a founding member of Pizzicato Five and the only such to stay with the group until its breakup in 2001. Konishi's current activities are through his company readymade entertainment and his record label 524 records.

Naoki Sano is a retired Japanese professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist most notable for being the generational rival of legendary Japanese pro wrestler Jushin Liger. During the last years of his career he went by the name Takuma Sano .