List of Famous people born in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan

Natsuo Kirino is the pen name of Mariko Hashioka, a Japanese novelist and a leading figure in the recent boom of female writers of Japanese detective fiction.

Kagayaki Taishi is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He made his professional debut in May 2010. He reached the top division for the first time in 2016. His highest rank is maegashira 3. He wrestles for Takadagawa stable.

Eiji Kanamori is a former Nippon Professional Baseball outfielder and the current coach of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.

Yuhki Nakayama in Kanazawa is a Japanese racing driver. He currently drives in the Super GT series in the GT300 category for Team Mugen and in Super Formula for Real Racing.

Keisuke Izumi is a Japanese Professional baseball pitcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball.

Kenji Matsudaira is a Japanese table tennis player.

Yasuhiro Tanaka is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He formally played for the Saitama Seibu Lions.

Dr. Yoshihisa Okumura is a Japanese engineer, known for development of cellular telephone networks. His radio survey of signal strength as a function of distance as measured in drive tests in automobiles was critical to the system planning of mobile radio telephone systems.

Hikaru Kitagawa is a Japanese football player. She plays for Albirex Niigata. She played for Japan national team.

Ukichiro Nakaya was a Japanese physicist and science essayist known for his work in glaciology and low-temperature sciences. He is credited with making the first artificial snowflakes.