List of Famous people born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Mitsuyoshi Yoshino
Mickie Yoshino is a Japanese keyboard player, composer, producer, and arranger. Yoshino is known for leading the rock band Godiego. In 2005, he won a Japan Academy Prize for his music. Yoshino's compositions were used in the film Swing Girls. Yoshino still produces music with groups such as Godiego and EnTRANS.
Kazuki Kondoh
Kazuki Kondoh is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Kagawa Olive Guyners of the Shikoku Island League Plus. He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes, Orix Buffaloes and Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
Anri
Anri (杏里), real name Eiko Kawashima , is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter, born in Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Toshihiko Kuramoto
Toshihiko Kuramoto is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays infielder for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.
Megwin
Ken Sekine , better known by his alias Megwin, is a Japanese YouTuber and comedian. Megwin is one of YouTube Japan's most prolific YouTube bloggers, having 969,962 subscribers as of 14 June 2019. Sekine started out doing live comedy before switching to YouTube in 2005, where he has been releasing a video every day for 10 years with his various friends and workers. In 2011 he registered his own company Megwin TV Co., Ltd. . He has also partnered with the company Tanita and has held lectures on the new "Digital Hollywood". In 2013, Sekine released his first book Earning a Little on YouTube: The Master of 200 Million Views Teaches You How to Change Videos Into Money . His channel previously consisted of four core members: Bandy, Falcon, Meteo and Megwin.
Shinya Yamada
Shinya Yamada , better known exclusively by his stage name Shinya (真矢), is a Japanese musician, media personality and entrepreneur. He is best known as drummer of the rock band Luna Sea. Although he released one solo album in 1997, since then he has supported other bands and musicians instead.
Koki Ogawa
Koki Ogawa is a Japanese football player. He plays for Júbilo Iwata.
TiA
TiA (ティア) is a Japanese pop singer famous for her songs "Ryuusei" and "Every Time". Her August 2005 single "Promise", is used as Yakitate!! Japan's second opening song. She released her first American debut song "I'm On My Way" in 2015.
Akira Kuramochi
Akira Kuramochi is a former Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher.
Asuka Kurosawa
Asuka Kurosawa is a Japanese actress and gravure model. She has appeared in more than twenty films since 1988.