List of Famous people born in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

Hitomi Takahashi is a Japanese pop rock singer from Shiogama, Miyagi. She is best known through her songs Bokutachi no Yukue and Aozora no Namida, which were theme songs to animation programs Gundam Seed Destiny and Blood+, respectively. With the former, she became the third artist in to top the Oricon charts with a debut single.

Mikio Igarashi is a Japanese manga artist born 13 January 1955 in the town of Nakaniida, Kami District, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, though he lives in the city of Sendai. He is best known for his manga series Bonobono and Ninpen Manmaru. In 1988, he won the Kodansha Manga Award for general manga for Bonobono and the Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga for Ninpen Manmaru.

Katsuhiko Umehara is the mayor of Sendai, Miyagi in Japan. Upon graduation from the University of Tokyo in 1978, he joined the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. After leaving the ministry in 2005, he was elected mayor of Sendai in the same year.

Masayoshi Kato is a Japanese professional baseball infielder. He was born on April 28, 1987 in Sendai. Miyagi. He is currently playing for Yokohama DeNA BayStars of the NPB.

Gojōrō Katsuhiro is a former sumo wrestler from Aoba-ku, Sendai, Japan. Making his professional debut in 1989, he spent a total of 53 tournaments as an elite sekitori ranked wrestler, reaching a highest rank of maegashira 3 in 1998. After a number of injury problems he retired in 2005 at the age of 32. He is now a sumo coach under the name Hamakaze-oyakata.

Shinya Makabe is a Japanese rugby union player. He was named in Japan's squad for the 2015 Rugby World Cup.

Mimori Yusa ,, is a Japanese singer-songwriter. She made her nationwide debut at the age of 6 on the TV program Chibikko Nodojiman, which she recited the Takibi nursery rhyme. Shortly after graduating college, she recorded a demo, and signed to Epic/Sony Records in 1987, which officially began her music career. Although she has since had a very prolific career, Yusa became popular for her song "Kuro", which was featured on the NHK television program Minna no Uta from December 2005 until January 2006. She was also in the mid-1990s supergroup Love, Peace & Trance, which also featured Mishio Ogawa, Miyako Koda from Dip in the Pool and Haruomi Hosono as the producer, composer and songwriter.

Keiji Oyama is a Japanese former professional baseball catcher in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He played for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters in 2008, the Chunichi Dragons from 2009 to 2011, and for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles from 2012 to 2015.

Naoko Fujioka is a Japanese professional boxer. She is Japan's first ever five-division world champion, having held the WBA female flyweight title since 2018 and previously the WBC female minimumweight; WBO female junior-flyweight; WBA female super-flyweight; and WBO female bantamweight titles between 2012 and 2017. As of September 2020, she is ranked as the world's best active female flyweight by The Ring and BoxRec.

Keiko Suzuka is a Japanese actress. She starred in the 1976–1977 NHK daytime television series (asadora) Hi no Kuni ni, and has had multiple guest-star roles in prime-time jidaigeki such as Mito Kōmon and Abarenbō Shōgun. She has also appeared as a voice actor in a 1982 production of Aladdin and the Magic Lamp. Keiko has also appeared in film.