List of Famous people born in Japan

Yozo Hirano born in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese spaceflight participant. He flew on Soyuz MS-20.

Masaki Okada is a Japanese actor. He is best known for his roles as Sekime Kyogo in the drama Hanazakari no Kimitachi e and as Takuma Kakinouchi in the 2009 film I Give My First Love to You.

Sota Fukushi is a Japanese actor. He rose to prominence portraying Gentaro Kisaragi in the Kamen Rider franchise, and has since starred in television series Koinaka (2016) and My Lover's Secret (2017), as well as films Strobe Edge (2015), My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday (2016) and Bleach (2018).

Sonoya Mizuno is an English actress, model, and ballet dancer who has collaborated with director Alex Garland in works such as Ex Machina, Annihilation, and Devs. She had minor roles in the films La La Land, Beauty and the Beast, and Crazy Rich Asians. Mizuno also played a lead character in the Netflix miniseries Maniac.

Hajime Syacho is a Japanese YouTuber who, as of March 2019, had the largest number of YouTube channel subscribers in Japan. He is part of the multi-channel network UUUM. He is nicknamed Hajimen (はじめん) and Moyashi (もやし).

Shizuka Ishigami is a Japanese voice actress. She was formerly affiliated with 81 Produce, but is now affiliated with Pro-Fit, She also uses the alias Mei Hanazono for adult visual novel game roles. She is best known for her voice role as Ch’en in Arknights and Ikuno in Darling in the Franxx.

Shinobu Terajima is a Japanese actress. Her feature films include Akame 48 Waterfalls (2003) and Vibrator (2003). For her role in Caterpillar (2010), Terajima won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 60th Berlin Film Festival while her performance in Oh Lucy! (2017) earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actress.

Shoma Uno is a Japanese figure skater. He is the 2018 Olympic silver medalist, a two-time World silver medalist, the 2019 Four Continents Champion, a four-time Grand Prix Final medalist (2015–2018), the 2017 Asian Winter Games champion, and a four-time Japanese national champion (2016–2019).

Hiroshi Nagano is a Japanese singer, rapper, actor, and television host. He is a member of V6, a dance-vocal group formed in 1995 by Johnny & Associates, and its subunit 20th Century. He is best-known for his role in the popular tokusatsu series Ultraman Tiga, as the lead character, Daigo Madoka/Ultraman Tiga.

Makoto Niitsu , also known as Makoto Shinkai , is a Japanese animator, filmmaker and manga artist best known for directing Your Name, the third highest-grossing anime film of all time and 2019's Weathering With You, among other works such as The Garden of Words, Children Who Chase Lost Voices and 5 Centimeters per Second. He was listed by Variety as one of 10 animators to watch in 2016.