List of Famous people born in Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan

Setsuo Itō is a Japanese voice actor from Hokkaido, Japan. He won the Best New Actor Award at the 11th Seiyu Awards. He is affiliated with Air Agency.

Yukio Kasaya is a Japanese former ski jumper. At the 1972 Olympics in Sapporo he became the first Japanese athlete to win a gold medal and the second Japanese to win any medal at the Winter Olympics. Previously he placed second at the 1970 World Championships and won the first three jumping events at the 1971/72 Four Hills Tournament. He also took part in the 1964, 1968 and 1976 Olympics and served as the Olympics flag bearer for Japan in 1976 and 1998.

Yago Takanori is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Memuro, Hokkaido. He was an amateur champion at Chuo University and won the Amateur Yokozuna title at the All-Japan Sumo Championships in December 2016. He made his professional debut in May 2017, joining Oguruma stable. He reached the jūryō division in September 2017 and the top makuuchi division in January 2019. His highest rank has been maegashira 10.

Daiki Itō is a Japanese ski jumper.

Shinya Koshika , known by his ring name Great Kojika , is a Japanese professional wrestler. He co-founded the promotion Big Japan Pro Wrestling. Kojika is the oldest active Japanese wrestler as well as the one with the longest career, having debuted in 1963.

Yasushi Watanabe is a full Professor at Keio University in Japan. He earned a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at Harvard University in 1997 with a dissertation on "Nurturing A Context: The Logic of Individualism and the Negotiation of the Familial Sphere in the United States." After post-doctoral fellowships at Cambridge and Oxford Universities, he joined Keio University's Graduate School of Media and Governance as well as Faculty of Environment and Information Studies in 1999. He attained the rank of full Professor in 2005, and is one of Japan's most prominent experts on cultural policy, public diplomacy, and American Studies.

Chūichi Date is a Japanese retired politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who previous served as a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A native of Ashibetsu, Hokkaido and high school graduate, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2001 after serving in the prefectural assembly of Hokkaidō. He was a former President of the House of Councillors.

Takatoshi Ishibashi is the Head coach of the Tokyo Hachioji Bee Trains in the Japanese B.League. He played college basketball for Hokkai Gakuen University. He was selected by the Toyama Grouses with the 14th overall pick in the 2006 bj League draft.

Takaji Muranaka was an Imperial Japanese Army officer who was a conspirator in the February 26 Incident in 1936 and was subsequently arrested by the Japanese authorities for the attempted coup.

Mikio Sakai is a Japanese singer-songwriter. His real name is Mikirō Sakai . He made his debut with the single Ima dake wa Kimi wo Hanasanai (今だけは君を離さない).