List of Famous people born in Kagoshima Prefecture

Tomoyuki Hirase is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.

Makoto Fuchigami is a Japanese professional boxer. He has 23 wins, 12 losses, with 14 of those wins coming by way of knockout. He fights in the middleweight division. Fuchigami became the Japanese middleweight champion in 2010. On May 12, 2012, Fuchigami fought Gennady Golovkin for the WBA and IBO Middleweight championship of the world in Kyiv, Ukraine. Fuchigami was defeated by TKO in the third round.

Keisuke Iwashita is a Japanese football defender who plays for J1 League team Sagan Tosu.

Sanpo Toku was a Japanese judoka.

Yoshiro Yokomine is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A native of Kagoshima Prefecture and high school graduate, he was elected for the first time in 2007. He is the father of professional golfer Sakura Yokomine.

Yuji Rokutan is a Japanese football player. He currently plays for Yokohama FC.

Akitsune Imamura was a Japanese seismologist. Born in a poor family, he nonetheless managed to study at the Imperial University of Tokyo. In 1899, in anticipation of the later theory of plate tectonics, he argued that the tsunami that struck the Sanriku coast of Honshū island in 1896 had been triggered by movements of the earth's crust under the sea. In a paper written in 1905, he predicted that a major earthquake would hit the Kantō region around Tokyo within 50 years and kill over 100,000 people, and advocated that measures be taken. His worries materialized when the Great Kantō earthquake devastated Tokyo in 1923, claiming more than 100,000 victims. In 1939, while working for the Seismological Observatory of Tokyo University, Imamura made a reconstruction of Zhang Heng's seismoscope, considered to have been the first such device ever made.

Shinobu Kaitani is a manga artist from Kagoshima Prefecture and a recipient of the 1991 Tezuka Award. His most notable works are One Outs and Liar Game.

Rena Takeshita is a Japanese fashion model and occasional actress. Since the late 1990s she has appeared in numerous magazines, catalogs, television commercials, TV shows and films.