List of Famous people born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Nanako Matsushima is a Japanese actress and model. She is known outside Japan for her role in the horror film Ring. She was also a main character in A Story of Love, along with Ring co-star Hiroyuki Sanada. In 2011 her drama Kaseifu no Mita reached a viewer rating of 40%, making it one of the highest rated Japanese dramas of all time.

Maho Kuwako is a news presenter at NHK, Japan's public broadcaster. She is currently an anchor of NHK's morning news show NHK News Ohayō Nippon. She served as the assistant to Tamori in NHK's Bura Tamori, a geographic television series, between April 2015 and April 2016.

Takefusa Kubo is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a winger for Spanish club Getafe, on loan from Real Madrid, and the Japan national team.

Naoya Inoue is a Japanese professional boxer. He is a three-weight world champion and currently a unified bantamweight world champion, having held the WBA (Super), IBF, and Ring magazine titles since 2019. He previously held the WBO junior-bantamweight title from 2014 to 2018, and the WBC light-flyweight title in 2014.

Shinjirō Koizumi is a Japanese poet, politician who has been Minister of the Environment since 2019 and a Member of the House of Representatives for the Liberal Democratic Party. He is the second son of former Prime Minister Junichirō Koizumi and the younger brother of actor Kotaro Koizumi.

Mako Komuro , formerly Princess Mako of Akishino , is the first child and elder daughter of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Japan, and a former member of the Japanese imperial family. She is a niece of Emperor Naruhito, and is the eldest grandchild of Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko. She married Kei Komuro, a paralegal, on 26 October 2021. As a result of her marriage to a commoner, she gave up her imperial title and left the imperial family, as required by the Imperial Household Law.

Ryusei Yokohama is a Japanese actor and model. He is affiliated with Stardust Promotion. He is best known for playing the role of Hikari Nonomura in the 2014 Super Sentai TV series Ressha Sentai ToQger, and for the joint role of Hajime Hinata / Izuru Kamakura in the 2015 theatrical play Super Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Academy of Despair: The Stage.

Tori Matsuzaka is a Japanese actor and model. He debuted as Takeru Shiba/Shinken Red in Samurai Sentai Shinkenger. Since then, he has appeared in several television shows and films.

Mirai Shida is a Japanese actress. She became recognized after her breakthrough role as Kazumi Kanda in "Joō no Kyōshitsu" leading her to more prominent roles, such as Miki Ichinose in 14-year-old Mother.

Tomomi Itano is a Japanese recording artist, songwriter, dancer, model, and actress. She is a former member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. Her talent agent is Horipro. In 2011 she debuted solo with a single titled "Dear J", which was followed the same year by "Fui ni", and later by "10nen Go no Kimi e" (2012) and "1%" (2013).