List of Famous people born in Kyōto Prefecture, Japan

Aya Sugimoto is a Japanese TV personality, actress, dancer, author, gravure idol and singer born in Kyoto. She also had a J-pop career in the late 1980s to the early 1990s.

Daisuke Miyagawa is a Japanese comedian and actor.

Harumi Miyako is a Japanese singer of enka.

Yūdai Ōno is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Tomohito Ito is a Japanese former professional baseball player from Kyoto, Japan. He played for the Yakult Swallows from 1993–2003 before retiring. He currently works as a pitching coach for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.

Mie Hamada is a Japanese figure skating coach and former competitor.

Kenshiro Teraji , known professionally by his ring name Ken Shiro, is a Japanese professional boxer who has held the WBC light-flyweight title since 2017, and held the OPBF light-flyweight title in 2016.

Fumiaki Tanaka is a Japanese rugby union footballer. He plays as a scrum-half for Japan on international level and for the Panasonic Wild Knights and the Sunwolves at domestic level.

Kaoru Kobayashi is a Japanese actor born in Kyoto. He won the award for best actor at the 30th Yokohama Film Festival and the award for the best-supporting actor at the 8th Yokohama Film Festival for Sorobanzuku.

Kim Sung-keun is a retired South Korean left-handed baseball pitcher and KBO League manager. Over the course of his managerial career, Kim managed seven different KBO League teams, and is only the second manager in the history of the league to record 1,000 victories. He is a four-time KBO Manager of the Year, and as manager of the SK Wyverns led the team to victory in the Korean Series three times. His nickname is the "Baseball God."