List of Famous people born in Japan

Akira Ito is a former Japanese football player and manager.

Kimiko Yo is a Japanese actress. She was given Best Supporting Actress awards at the 2004 and the 2009 Yokohama Film Festival ceremonies. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 32nd and at the 33rd Japan Academy Prize for Departures and Dear Doctor respectively.

Genki Haraguchi is a Japanese footballer. He currently plays for Hannover 96.

Misa Etō is a Japanese gravure idol, singer, actress, tarento and former member of the idol groups Nogizaka46 and Chimo. On February 14, 2019, Etō announced that she would be graduating from Nogizaka46, that her graduation concert would be held at Ryōgoku Kokugikan the following month, and that her official group activities would conclude at the end of March. In April 2019, she became a regular co-host for the CS Fuji TV ONE Professional Baseball News 2019 program. In October 2019, she married professional baseball player Sōsuke Genda.

Aya Sugimoto is a Japanese TV personality, actress, dancer, author, gravure idol and singer born in Kyoto. She also had a J-pop career in the late 1980s to the early 1990s.

Yuki Matsushita is a Japanese actress. Her real name is Yukie Matsushita .

Kousei Miura is a Japanese jockey who is represented by the Japan Racing Association. He won the 2008 JRA Award for Newcomer Jockey with the Most Victories and the 2014 Hokkaido Horse Racing Press Club Award.

Fūka Haruna is a Japanese Actress, voice actress, model, Internet personality. She is represented by the Smile Monkey company.

Vicki Ree Principal, later known as Victoria Principal, is an American actress, producer, entrepreneur, and author, best known for her role as Pamela Barnes Ewing on the American primetime television soap opera series Dallas. She spent nine years on the long-running series, leaving in 1987. Afterwards, she began her own production company, Victoria Principal Productions, focusing mostly on television films. In the mid-1980s, she became interested in natural beauty therapies, and in 1989, she created a self-named line of skincare products, Principal Secret.

Junji Takada , also known by the nicknames "Jun chan" (純ちゃん), "Uncle Jun" and "TJ", is a Japanese actor and comedian.