List of Famous people born in Japan

Daiki Yamashita is a Japanese voice actor from Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. He is affiliated with Arts Vision. He won the Best Male Newcomer award at the 8th Seiyu Awards in 2014.

Atsushi Fujii is a Japanese professional outfielder for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He has played for the Dragons since 2006.

Shuhei Fukuda is a Japanese professional baseball player for the Chiba Lotte Marines of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He previously played for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. He played for the Brisbane Bandits of the Australian Baseball League in 2010.

Karina Maruyama is a Japanese tarento and former football player. She played for the Japanese national team. Since her retirement, Maruyama has been active as a television personality, represented by the talent agency Horipro.

Jimmy Onishi is a Japanese painter and comedian. His real name is Hideaki Onishi , in which his given name is a combination of Hide (秀) from daimyo Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Aki (明) means "bright" which relates to the New Year celebrations and he is born in New Year's Day.

Takumi Mitani is a Japanese female singer. She is the 20th Uta no Onēsan in the NHK series Okaasan to Issho. She was born in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture.

Mikiko Mizuno, known professionally as simply Mikiko or Mikikometal, is a Japanese dancer and choreographer. She is the director and principal choreographer of the high-tech dance troupe Elevenplay, and also works with performers such as Perfume, Sakura Gakuin, and Babymetal. She was a production consultant for Japan's cultural presentation at the 2016 Summer Olympics closing ceremony.

Manami Marutaka is a Japanese tarento, actress, and former gravure idol. Marutaka is represented with Avex Vanguard. Her husband is footballer Yoichiro Kakitani.

Ryosuke Nagaoka , is a Japanese musician, and singer and guitar player for the band Petrolz. Under the stage name Ukigmo , he was the second guitarist for Ringo Sheena's band Tokyo Jihen from 2005 until 2012. In 2013, Nagoka joined the band Gokumontō Ikka, a new project for Queen Bee leader Avu-chan.

Rena Kubota , better known by her ring name Rena or Reina, is a professional Japanese shoot wrestler and kickboxer. She competes mainly in shoot boxing, where she has won the 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2014 Shoot Boxing Girls S-Cup tournaments.