List of Famous people born in Kyōto Prefecture, Japan

Kotoe Inoue is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for Denso Airybees.

Takaya Kawauchi is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.

Naoyuki Shimizu , nicknamed "Nao", is a former professional baseball player from Kyoto, Japan. He is a starting pitcher for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.

Fantastic Plastic Machine is the stage name of Tomoyuki Tanaka , a Japanese musician and DJ born in Kyoto, Japan. Tanaka was considered to be part of the Shibuya-kei movement.

Kazunori Yamanoi is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Kyoto, Kyoto, he attended the University of Kyoto as both undergraduate and graduate. He also studied in a school in Sweden for two years. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000.

Jun Miyake is a Japanese composer. His music was used in the film Pina, nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature in January 2012. He has also been awarded by the German critic’s award - Der Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik - as Best Album of the Year for his last 3 albums “Stolen from Strangers”, “Lost Memory Theatre act-1”, and “Lost Memory Theatre act-2”. He is not to be confused by the Jazz saxophone player of the same name active in New York.

Yuki Hayashi is a Japanese composer and arranger best known for his work on the soundtracks for television dramas, anime, and films. His most famous works include Triangle, Zettai Reido, Diabolik Lovers, Asa ga Kita, Haikyū!! and My Hero Academia. He was born in Kyoto, Japan, and is currently represented by Legendoor, a music recording company.

Itsurō Terada is a Japanese lawyer who served as the 18th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan.

Rikako Morita is a Japanese professional golfer.

Yusuke Masago is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball.