List of Famous people born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Yuki Saito is a Japanese actress, singer and narrator. She attended Kanagawa Prefectural Shimizugaoka High School.

Ryōhei Kurosawa , known by the stage name Akira, is a Japanese actor and dancer. He is also a member of the all-male J-Pop groups Exile and Exile The Second.

Masato Hagiwara is a Japanese actor, voice actor, narrator and professional mahjong player.

Akiko Yada is a Japanese actress. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 6th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix for Boku no Ikiru Michi.

Junya Ito is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a Right winger player for Genk and the Japan national team.

Akira Kamiya is a Japanese actor, voice actor, singer, and narrator. He played several notable roles in Japanese manga and anime television series, including Kenshiro. In super robot anime, he voiced Ryoma Nagare in Getter Robo, Akira Hibiki in Brave Raideen, Sanshirō Tsuwabuki in Gaiking, Roy Focker in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, and Sincline in Beast King GoLion. Kamiya is also known for voicing Ryo Saeba in action detective anime City Hunter.

Minoru Suzuki is a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist, currently working for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). In NJPW, Suzuki has held the IWGP Intercontinental Championship as well as the NEVER Openweight Championship twice. He is also a former British Heavyweight Champion and co-holder of the Undisputed British Tag Team Championship alongside fellow Suzuki-gun stablemate, Zack Sabre Jr. in Revolution Pro Wrestling (RPW).

Tomoyuki Sugano is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Yomiuri Giants of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Shōsuke Tanihara is a Japanese actor probably best known outside Japan for his portrayal of Riki Fudoh in Fudoh: The New Generation.

Miwa is a Japanese singer-songwriter and actress. She debuted in 2010 with the single "Don't Cry Anymore", which was used as the theme song for the drama Nakanai to Kimeta hi.