List of Famous people born in Kyōto Prefecture, Japan

Shirō Kishibe was a Japanese actor from Kyoto.

Gal Sone is a female Japanese competitive eater and singer. Her popularity has helped produce a resurgence in Japanese competitive eating, or ōgui, after the outcry following the death of a Japanese schoolboy imitating an eating stunt in 2002 resulted in a three-year hiatus for major Japanese eating contests.

Satoshi Hamada is a Japanese politician and radiologist. He is serving as a member of the House of Councillors since 2019.

Misono Kōda , publicly known mononymously as Misono, is a Japanese singer-songwriter and TV personality. She was born in Kyoto, Japan, and is the younger sister of singer Koda Kumi.

Bunmei Ibuki is a Japanese politician.

Shinjiro Atae is a Japanese singer-songwriter, actor, and model associated with Avex Entertainment. He debuted as a member of the co-ed group AAA in 2005. Early on in his career, Atae starred in television and film projects including the live-action adaptations of Psychic Detective Yakumo, Delicious Gakuin, Teiō, Guardian Angel, and Ramune.

Cho Kwi-jae is a former South Korean football player and manager.

Amii Ozaki , real name Misuzu Ohara , is a Japanese singer songwriter born on 19 March 1957 in Kita-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. She has written music such as Oribia o Kikinagara by Anri and Tenshi no Uinku by Seiko Matsuda, as well as many other songs. Ozaki makes irregular appearances on her friend Akira Kamiya's internet radio show Kamiya Akira Hot Beat Party. Her husband is musician Ray Ohara. Her mother is Akemi Ozaki, a maker of popular handbags and purses made from vintage obi.

Ichikawa Raizō VIII was a Japanese film and kabuki actor. His birth name was Akio Kamezaki , and his name was legally changed several times, first to Yoshio Takeuchi , and later to Yoshiya Ōta , separate from his performing name.

Joichi "Joi" Ito is a Japanese entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a former director of the MIT Media Lab, former professor of the practice of media arts and sciences at MIT, and a former visiting professor of practice at the Harvard Law School. Following the exposure of his personal and professional financial ties to sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein, Ito resigned from his roles at MIT, Harvard, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Knight Foundation, PureTech Health, and The New York Times Company on September 7, 2019.