List of Famous people born in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

Manabu Mima is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Chiba Lotte Marines of the Nippon Professional Baseball(NPB). He played for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.

Hiroyuki Watanabe is a Japanese actor who was born in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture. He graduated from Takushoku University and is married to actress Hideko Hara . He primarily acts in dramas, of which a handful are tokusatsu series. One of his most recent roles was as Taiga Saejima in the tokusatsu series GARO. He also played Kamen Rider Gaoh in the Kamen Rider Den-O movie, Kamen Rider Den-O: I'm Born!.

Tsuyoshi Ishizaki is a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher for the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan's Central League.

Kei Igawa is a Japanese left-handed pitcher. He played for the Hanshin Tigers and Orix Buffaloes of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He led all pitchers in the Central League for strikeouts in 2002, 2004 and 2006. He also played in the 2006 Major League Baseball Japan All-Star Series.

Hiroshi Kajiyama is a Japanese politician who has represented the Ibaraki 4th District in the House of Representatives since 2000. He has served as Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry since October 2019. He is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.

Kakeru Ayabe is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.

Hiromoto Okubo is a former Nippon Professional Baseball catcher. After playing, he turned to managing and coaching. In 2015, Hiromoto was promoted from Rakuten's farm team manager to Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles full-time manager. He only lasted one season, however, as he resigned after the team again finished in last place.

Inio Asano is a Japanese manga author. Asano created the acclaimed manga Solanin, which was released as a feature film in Japan in April 2010, starring Aoi Miyazaki. He is also famous for the series Goodnight Punpun.

Keiji Suzuki is a Japanese judoka.

Megumi Nakajima is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Mito, Ibaraki, who is affiliated with E-Stone Music. Her involvement in the entertainment industry began in 2003 when she participated in an audition held by the talent agency Stardust Promotion, becoming affiliated with them after passing the audition. Her debut came in 2007 when she passed an audition held by the music company Victor Entertainment; she was then cast as the character Ranka Lee in the 2008 anime series Macross Frontier. Her first solo single "Tenshi ni Naritai" was released in 2009, which was followed by her first solo album I Love You in 2010.