List of Famous people born in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan

Kazunari Tsuruoka is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays catcher for the Hanshin Tigers.

Akira Shimada was the last governor of Okinawa Prefecture before Japan's defeat in 1945. He died during the Battle of Okinawa.

Ai Maeda is a Japanese voice actress born in Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan, employed by the talent management firm Aoni Production. She is also a singer under the name AiM and a songwriter under the name ai. She is best known in the English-speaking world for her work as both a voice actress and a singer in the original Japanese version of the Digimon anime series.

Naruatsu Baba is a Japanese smartphone game developer and businessman, founder and majority owner of the smartphone-game maker, Colopl.

Daisuke Hosokawa is a Japanese freestyle swimmer.

Fusao Sekiguchi (関口房朗) is a businessman and Thoroughbred horse racing enthusiast. He is the Chairman of the Board and majority shareholder of Venture Safe Net, Inc of Tokyo.

Hidenobu Kiuchi is a Japanese voice actor. Some of his major roles include Hol Horse in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, Yūshi Oshitari in The Prince of Tennis, Kenzo Tenma in Monster, Ren Honjo in Nana, Hei in Darker than Black, Shisui Uchiha in Naruto Shippuden, and Dad in Chi's Sweet Home. He began as a stage actor when one of his seniors got him to do voice acting. He has taken lead roles such as Jose in Gunslinger Girl and Ramsbeckite Hematite in Cluster Edge. In 2008, he was the first Japanese voice actor to guest at an anime convention in Australia.

Keita Inoue is a Japanese professional shogi player, ranked 9-dan. He is currently serving as an executive director of the Japan Shogi Association.

Ryōji Noyori is a Japanese chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001, Noyori shared a half of the prize with William S. Knowles for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations; the second half of the prize went to K. Barry Sharpless for his study in chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions.

Tomokazu Myojin is a Japanese former football player. He played for the Japan national team.