List of Famous people born in Japan

Fumika Baba is a Japanese actress and model who is represented by the talent agency Name Management.

Kazuki Kitamura is a Japanese film and television actor who won the award for best supporting actor at the 21st Yokohama Film Festival for Minazuki, Kyohansha and Kanzen-naru shiiku as well as the CUT ABOVE Award for Excellence in Film at JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film in New York in 2014.

Mao Miyaji is a Japanese actress.

Otosaka Rousselot Tomo Nicholas is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays outfielder for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.

Ichirō Kōno was a postwar Japanese politician and a member of the National Diet. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was the head of the powerful "Konō Faction" within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. Konō aspired to become prime minister, but although he held a large number of important party and cabinet positions, reflecting his power and influence, he was not able to rise to the premiership before his death in 1965.

Shinya Yamanaka is a Japanese stem cell researcher, winner of the Nobel Prize. He serves as the director of Center for iPS Cell Research and Application and a professor at the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences at Kyoto University; as a senior investigator at the UCSF-affiliated J. David Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, California; and as a professor of anatomy at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Yamanaka is also a past president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR).

Michiko Hada ,, is a Japanese actress.

Akiko Kuji is a female announcer for Fuji Television and a television actress. She is a former fashion model.

Yukari Tamura is a Japanese voice actress and singer affiliated with Amuleto. She debuted as a voice actress in 1997, releasing her debut single "Yūki o Kudasai" on March 26, 1997. Her role as Nanoha Takamachi in the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series contributed to a rise in her popularity, as several of her singles were used as the ending themes for the franchise's anime adaptations. Besides Nanoha, she voices the title characters Haruka Minazuki / Red Angel in Kaitō Tenshi Twin Angel, Ringo Kinoshita in No-Rin, Yamada in B Gata H Kei and Kaoru Tsunashi in I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying. Other major voice roles in anime include Ruru/Ruru Amour/Cure Amour in Hugtto! PreCure, Elizabeth Midford in Black Butler, Jibril in No Game No Life, Mine in Akame ga Kill!, Finis in Lost Song, Fear Kubrick in C3, Michiru in Air, Kanako Kurusu in Oreimo, Suzuha Amane in Steins;Gate, Mai Kawasumi in Kanon, Mei Sunohara in Clannad and Saku Tōyama in Tantei Opera Milky Holmes, Rika Furude in Higurashi When They Cry and Tenten in Naruto. In video games, besides the ones that were adapted into anime, she voices Talim in Soulcalibur, Bounce Man in Mega Man 11, Bernkastel in Umineko When They Cry, Nights in Nights: Journey of Dreams, Sega Superstars Tennis, and Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, Nand Myao in Marl Kingdom and M4 SOPMOD II in Girls Frontline.

Fumihiro Joyu is a former spokesperson and public relations manager of the controversial Japanese religious group Aum Shinrikyo, and served as the de facto chief of the organization from 1999 to 2007, when he split and formed a new group.