List of Famous people born in Japan

Akira Terao is a Japanese musician, singer and movie actor. As of 2012, he is the only male actor to have received both the Japan Record Award and the Japan Academy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role.

Sara Takanashi is a Japanese ski jumper. She is the most successful female ski jumper to date, as well as one of the most successful athletes in the history of the sport, having won four World Cup overall titles, five World Championship medals, and a Winter Olympic medal. As of March 2020, Takanashi holds the record for the most individual World Cup wins, male or female, with 57.

Miho Ohwada is a Japanese actress who is represented by the talent agency Staff-plus.

Tomiichi Murayama is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1994 to 1996. He led the Japanese Socialist Party, and was responsible for changing its name to the Social Democratic Party of Japan in 1996. Upon becoming Prime Minister, he was Japan's first socialist leader in nearly fifty years. He is most remembered today for his speech "On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the War's end", in which he publicly apologised for Imperial Japanese atrocities committed during World War II. Of the eleven living former Prime Minister of Japan, he is currently the oldest living prime minister, following the death of Yasuhiro Nakasone on 29 November 2019.

Megumi Takayama is a Japanese entertainment personality and former professional wrestler. She wrestled under her maiden name for Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling, where she became the top star of the Women's Division. Kudo is primarily known for competing in brutal death matches, where the ring ropes were replaced with barbed wire.

Masayuki Suzuki is a Japanese singer best known as a former member of Rats & Star. He is also called Japan's King Of Love Songs. His trademarks are sunglasses and a moustache, and he is nicknamed "Martin".

Misako Tanaka , née Misako Fukazawa , is a Japanese actress. Tanaka was born in Oki District, Shimane Prefecture, Japan.

Kei Nomoto is a retired Japanese professional baseball outfielder who played for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He is now part of scouting department with the Dragons.

Go Kamamoto is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball.

Hiroshi Sekiguchi is a Japanese actor, tarento, television presenter, newscaster, businessman and manager. He is a representative of the talent agency Sankei. He lives in Setagaya, Tokyo. He is the eldest of two brothers.