List of Famous people born in Kagoshima Prefecture

Miyuki Maeda is a Japanese international badminton player from the Renesas badminton club and later affiliated with Saishunkan team. She participated at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games, and also in three Asian Games editions from 2006 to 2014.

Keisaburo Tanoue is a former Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher.

Shunichi Ikenoue is a former Japanese football player.

Yuya Wakamatsu is a Japanese martial artist from Satsumasendai City, Japan. His nickname "Little Piranha" came from his coach and mentor, Ryo "Piranha" Chonan. He has competed for promotions such as Pancrase, ZST, Vale Tudo Japan, and currently ONE Championship.

Kohei Hattanda is a Japanese football player who currently plays for Kagoshima United FC.

Teruaki Masumoto is the secretary general of the Japanese Association of the Families of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea, which advocates for the return of Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korea and calls for the Japanese government to impose sanctions on the country. His older sister Rumiko is one of the victims. On February 1, 2007, he married actress Yuuko Wakamiya. in May 2012 he testified at North Korean human rights in European Parliament about his sister and other abductees including Megumi Yokota and Yaeko Taguchi

Yutaka Tahara is a former Japanese football player.

Kyokudōzan Kazuyasu is a former sumo wrestler and politician from Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. He began his sumo career in 1980, reaching the top division in 1989. He was one of the lightest men in makuuchi. but he nevertheless reached the fourth highest rank of komusubi and won four special prizes. After retiring in 1996 he was elected to the Japanese Diet, serving until 2000. He is now a businessman.

Kanaye Nagasawa was a prominent California winemaker, the first Japanese national to live permanently in the United States, a recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun, and a disciple of Thomas Lake Harris, the self-proclaimed "Father and Pivot and Primate and King of the Brotherhood of the New Life." Nagasawa followed Harris from New York out to Santa Rosa, California, where he eventually took over Harris' Fountaingrove estate, producing wines that earned him international renown. Nagasawa died in 1934, but the round barn he constructed at Fountaingrove was a landmark in Sonoma County.