List of Famous people born in Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture

Saigō Takamori (Takanaga) was one of the most influential samurai in Japanese history and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration. Living during the late Edo and early Meiji periods, he has been dubbed the last true samurai.

Marshal-Admiral Marquis Saigō Jūdō was a Japanese politician and admiral in the Meiji period.

Prince Ōyama Iwao, OM, GCCT was a Japanese field marshal, and one of the founders of the Imperial Japanese Army.

Marshal-Admiral the Marquis Tōgō Heihachirō, served as a gensui or admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy and became one of Japan's greatest naval heroes. As Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, he successfully confined the Russian Pacific naval forces to Port Arthur before winning a decisive victory over a relieving fleet at Tsushima in May 1905. Western journalists called Tōgō "the Nelson of the East".

Shimazu Tadayoshi was a Japanese daimyō of the late Edo period, who ruled the Satsuma Domain as its 12th daimyō. He succeeded his father, Hisamitsu, in 1887. In 1897, he got sick and died, and was succeeded by his son, Shimazu Tadashige, who would be the 13th and last daimyō of Satsuma Domain.

Viscount Mori Arinori was a Meiji period Japanese statesman, diplomat, and founder of Japan's modern educational system.

Admiral Count Yamamoto Gonbee, also called Gonnohyōe , was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and twice Prime Minister of Japan from 1913 to 1914 and again from 1923 to 1924.

Count Kabayama Sukenori was a Japanese samurai military leader and statesman. He was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy. He later became the first Japanese Governor-General of Taiwan during the island's period as a Japanese colony. He is also sometimes referred to as Kabayama Motonori.