List of Famous people born in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan

Takami Itō is a Japanese author who won an Akutagawa Prize in 2006.

Kenji Miyamoto is a Japanese figure skating choreographer, coach, and former competitive ice dancer. He skated with Rie Arikawa, winning two Japanese national titles, and then with Nakako Tsuzuki. During his career, he competed at a total of ten ISU Championships.

Takuya Kuroda is a Japanese jazz trumpeter and arranger.

Michelle Ferre is a former French–Japanese actress and journalist. She is a former CNN correspondent in Japan, as well as being a former game show host.

Atsushi Hiwasa is a Japanese rugby union player. Hiwasa has played 28 international matches for the Japan national rugby union team.

Kensuke Takezawa is a Japanese long-distance runner. He attended Waseda University in Tokyo.

Ryota Fujii is a Japanese baseball player for the CITYLIGHT OKAYAMA. He has played for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Emi Inui is a Japanese softball player who won the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Masaya Takatsuka is a Japanese voice actor. He is married to voice actress Keiko Nemoto.

Motoyuki Ōtsuka , known mononymously as Morrie, is a Japanese singer-songwriter. He is best known as the vocalist and co-founder of the influential heavy metal band Dead End, active from 1984 to 1990. When they disbanded, he began a solo career for five years, before moving to New York City and going into hiatus. He reemerged in 2005 with the solo project Creature Creature, which utilizes several well-known Japanese musicians, reunited with Dead End four years later, and released his first solo album in twenty years in 2015.