List of Famous people born in Japan

Yuta Kimura is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He played with the Chiba Lotte Marines from 2011 to 2012 and from 2014 to 2016.

Kazuhiro Soda is a Japanese documentary filmmaker and author based in New York City, USA. He is known for his observational method of documentary filmmaking.

Sena Miyake is a Japanese figure skater. He is the 2019 Coupe du Printemps champion, 2017–2018 Japanese national junior silver medalist and competed in the final segment at the 2018 World Junior Championships.

Keiichi Sigsawa is a Japanese light novel author. In 2000, his work Kino's Journey was a finalist for the 6th Dengeki Novel Prize, and was subsequently serialized in Dengeki hp magazine in March of the same year, marking his debut. Kino's Journey proved popular, and has continued in serialization since that time.

Akira Hiramoto is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the creator of Prison School, which won the General Manga Category award at the 2013 Kodansha Awards, and Me and the Devil Blues, which has won the 2009 Glyph Comics Awards for the Best Reprint Publication.

Sachi Tainaka is a Japanese singer who is best known for her vocals in the opening songs of the anime version of Fate/stay night. She has a 3½-octave vocal range.

Kaori Shimizu is a Japanese actress and voice actress who was affiliated with Three Tree productions, and with Max Mix. Some of her major roles are the title characters in Serial Experiments Lain, Boogiepop Phantom, and A.LI.CE. She voices Shizuka Doi in Stratos 4, Noriko Nijō in Maria-sama ga Miteru, Hiyori Tamura in Lucky Star Akira Takano in School Rumble and Signum in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha.

Ken Mizorogi is a Japanese actor.

Yuka Harada is a Japanese basketball player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

George Morikawa is a Japanese manga author known for the long-running series Hajime no Ippo. Born in Tokyo, Morikawa was inspired to become a manga artist upon reading Tetsuya Chiba's Harris no Kaze in elementary school.