List of Famous people born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Sho Kamimura
Sho Kamimura is a former Japanese football player.
Tetsuya Yamaguchi
Tetsuya Yamaguchi is a former Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball player with the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Central League.
Yuki Miyazawa
Yuki Miyazawa is a Japanese basketball player. She represented Japan in the basketball competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics. and at the 2020 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal.
Ryo Tateishi
Ryo Tateishi is a Japanese swimmer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men's 100 metre breaststroke, finishing in 7th place in the first semifinal, failing to reach the final. Tateishi subsequently won a bronze medal in the 200 metre breaststroke.
Ichiro Ito
Ichiro Ito is a guitarist in the Japanese rock band Every Little Thing. Ito also works in composition and, sometimes, arrangement of some of Every Little Thing's songs.
Tomoya Yagi
Tomoya Yagi is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He won the Pacific League Rookie of the Year Award in 2006. He played for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, Orix Buffaloes, and Chunichi Dragons from 2006 to 2017.
Kimika Yoshino
Kimika Yoshino is a Japanese actress and gravure idol.
Osamu Kitajima
Osamu Kitajima, also known by the pseudonym Justin Heathcliff, is a Japanese musician, producer, composer, and multi‑instrumentalist.
Shigefumi Matsuzawa
Shigefumi Matsuzawa is a Japanese politician and a current member of the House of Councillors for the Kanagawa at-large district in the Diet of Japan. A native of Kawasaki, Kanagawa and graduate of Keio University with a bachelor's degree in Political Science, he has previously served in the assembly of Kanagawa Prefecture for two terms from 1987 to 1993, in the House of Representatives in the Diet for three terms from 1993 to 2003 and as the governor of Kanagawa Prefecture from 2003 until 2011. He was elected to the House of Councillors in 2013 as a member of Your Party. Upon the dissolution of Your Party in November 2014 he joined the Party for Future Generations. He left the party in August 2015 and sat as an independent until becoming the leader of Kibō no Tō in May 2018. He resigned as leader on May 28, 2019, and was succeeded by Nariaki Nakayama. He subsequently left the party and joined Nippon Ishin no Kai.
Bokuzō Masana
Bokuzō Masana is a Japanese actor.