List of Famous people born in Japan

Tsuyoshi Otsuki is a former Japanese football player and manager.

Hiroto Kyoguchi is a Japanese professional boxer. He is a two-weight world champion, having held the WBA (Super) and The Ring light-flyweight titles since 2018, and the IBF mini-flyweight title from 2017 to 2018.

Tsuyoshi Kitazawa is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team. He is currently working on television as a football commentator.

Jiro Dan is a Japanese actor, singer and model best known for his role as Hideki Go (Ultraman The Return of Ultraman. His real name is Hideo Murata. He was born in Kyoto and graduated from Heian High School.

Shintaro Yamada born July 10, 1986 in Onna, Okinawa, is a Japanese fashion model, actor, and singer. He is the younger brother of Yu Yamada. His modeling credits include appearing in Men's Non-No and Popeye. He is the leader of the Quiz! Hexagon II singing group Sata Andagi.

Yasufumi Tanahashi is a Japanese politician. He was the Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy, the Minister of State for Food Safety and the Minister of State for Information Technology in Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Cabinet.

Shoji Akiyoshi is a Japanese professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Jado (邪道). He is best known for his work in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) as part of a tag team with his partner Gedo. Jado and Gedo's careers have largely paralleled each other, except for a brief period Jado spent in Universal Lucha Libre in 1993, a stint in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) in 1997 where they were on opposing sides, and Jado not having emulated Gedo's tour of North America with World Championship Wrestling. The World Class Tag team has held numerous championships in wrestling, including NJPW's IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, the Universal Wrestling Association's UWA/UWF Intercontinental Tag Team Title, and Dragon Gate's International Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, as well as having won NJPW's Super J Tag League once. Jado and Gedo are co-head bookers of NJPW.

Nobuyasu Ikeda is a former Japanese football player.

Rikako Aida , previously known with the stage name Rikako Itō , is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer from Tokyo, Japan. She is best known for her role as Riko Sakurauchi from Love Live! Sunshine!!. She is affiliated with Ken Production. In 2019, her song "Ordinary Love" was used as the ending theme to the anime series Senryu Girl. Her song "for..." is used as the opening theme to the anime series Val x Love.

Ayumi Fujimura is a Japanese voice actress from Tokyo, Japan. On April 1, 2019, it was announced that she will take an indefinite hiatus.