List of Famous people born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Reiko Nakamura is a Japanese Olympic and Asian record-holding swimmer. She swam in the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games, winning the bronze medals in the 200m backstroke at both editions. In doing so, she became the first Japanese woman in 72 years to win medals at consecutive Olympic games. She retired shortly after achieving this, in October 2008.

Daria Kawashima , known before as Miki Kawashima, is a Japanese musical composer, singer-songwriter, lyricist under Being Inc. records.

Aoi Enomoto is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder. He played in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles from 2012 to 2015 and the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in 2017. Enomoto then played for the Toyama GRN Thunderbirds in the BC League in 2018 and 2019.

Andrew Kumagai is a Japanese football player of Sri Lankan Tamils descent.

Kota Watanabe is a Japanese football player. He plays for Yokohama F. Marinos

Masahito Kohiyama is a former professional baseball player from Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.

Shizuka Okazaki is a Japanese motorcycle racer. In 2016, she became the first Japanese female rider to compete in a Grand Prix in 21 years. She currently competes aboard a TSR3 Honda in the MFJ All-Japan Road Race J-GP3 Championship.

Akihito Tokunaga is a Japanese musical composer and arranger under Giza Studio label since 2000.

Yasuhiro Kido is a Japanese welterweight kickboxer competing in K-1 MAX. He is 2008 K-1 World MAX Japan tournament champion.

Ganari Takahashi is an entrepreneur in the field of Japanese adult video (AV). He founded Soft On Demand (SOD), one of the largest porn conglomerates in Japan.