List of Famous people born in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan

Kentaro Takasaki is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.

Kenichi Matsuoka is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.

Yuko Kawakami is a retired Japanese long-distance runner.

Takashi Kashiwada is a retired Japanese professional baseball player. He played for the Yomiuri Giants and the New York Mets. He was a left-handed relief pitcher who wore #18 while with the Mets. He made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut on May 1, 1997 and pitched in his final MLB game on September 18, 1997. He batted left-handed.

Go Shiozaki is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently signed to the Pro Wrestling Noah promotion. He made his debut for the promotion in July 2004 and remained with it until the end of 2012. In January 2013, Shiozaki joined All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), where he became a one-time Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion and a two-time World Tag Team Champion, before resigning from the promotion in September 2015. Afterwards, he returned to Noah, where, in May 2016, he won the GHC Heavyweight Championship for the third time. He has also worked for American promotions Ring of Honor (ROH) and Full Impact Pro (FIP), winning the latter's World Heavyweight Championship. In August 2016, Shiozaki was appointed the chairman of Noah's wrestlers' association.

Kinoko Nasu is a Japanese author, best known for writing the light novel Kara no Kyōkai and visual novels Tsukihime and Fate/stay night. Renowned for a unique style of storytelling and prose, Nasu is amongst the most prominent visual novelists in Japan. He graduated from Hosei University with a major in human science.

Asami Kai is a Japanese actress & gravure idol.

Minoru Kihara is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Kumamoto, Kumamoto and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected for the first time in 2005 after working at Japan Airlines until 2004.

Miyako Miyazaki is a Japanese fashion model and beauty pageant winner of the Miss Universe Japan competition in 2003.

Toshimitsu Suetsugu is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder in Nippon Professional Baseball. He played for the Yomiuri Giants from 1965 to 1977.