List of Famous people born in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

Kanako Miyamoto is a Japanese actress, voice actress, and singer affiliated with Axlone. She is known for voicing Makoto Kenzaki/Cure Sword from DokiDoki! PreCure and as the singer of several Pretty Cure songs.

Shohei Tsukahara is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Orix Buffaloes in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Motoo Andoh is a former Japanese baseball player. He played for the Hanshin Tigers from 1962 to 1973.

Hitoshi Sogahata is a retired Japanese football player who played for Kashima Antlers and the Japanese national team.

Masaki Kashiwara is a Japanese mathematician. He was a student of Mikio Sato at the University of Tokyo. Kashiwara made leading contributions towards algebraic analysis, microlocal analysis, D-module theory, Hodge theory, sheaf theory and representation theory.

Shun Tono is a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball player. He is currently with the Yokohama DeNA BayStars in Japan's Pacific League. He made his Giants debut in 2007 against the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, pitching 2/3 of an inning and giving up a hit and a walk in that span.

Masaru Hashimoto is Japanese politician who was the governor of Ibaraki Prefecture from 1993 to 2017. A native of Ibaraki prefecture and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he joined the Ministry of Home Affairs in 1969.

Yuko Matsuoka , better known as Aka Plu , is a Japanese comedian who is represented by the talent agency, Ohta Production. Her old stage name was Akai Plutonium . Her husband is Shingo Matsuoka which they were a comedy duo called Aka Plu to Danna.

Norihiko Akagi is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet.

Takashi Kobayashi is a Japanese wrestler and Olympic champion in Freestyle wrestling.