List of Famous people born in Miyazaki Prefecture

Katsuyuki Minami is a former volleyball player from Japan, who played as a center for the Men's National Team in the 1990s. Playing at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain he ended up in 10th place at the 1998 World Championship.

Ito Ōgure , known professionally as Oh! great, is a Japanese manga artist best known for his manga series Tenjho Tenge (1997–2010) and Air Gear (2002–2012). In 2006, Air Gear earned him the Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category.

Akihisa Mera , better known as The Great Kabuki , is a Japanese retired professional wrestler. He is famous as the first to blow Asian mist in his opponents' faces.

Tomohiro Hamada is a professional Japanese baseball player. He most recently played pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons. He is currently a free agent.

Gille , stylized GILLE, is a Japanese singer originally from Saito, Miyazaki. She made her major debut in 2012, but had previously performed under the name TASHA gee. Gille made a name for herself by releasing videos of herself singing English language covers of Japanese pop songs on her YouTube channel appearing only in silhouette, including some English songs such as "Rolling in the Deep", featured on her debut EP Lead the Way. In June 2012, she released an English cover of AKB48's "Flying Get", and the group's creator Yasushi Akimoto remarked that Gille had a "diamond voice" and fully approved the cover. Gille made her debut with the album I AM GILLE. in July 2012, which eventually became certified as gold. Her debut single "Girls / Winter Dream" was released that October, and was noted to sample O-Zone's "Dragostea Din Tei". This was followed up by the single "Try Again" in January 2013 and the album GILLEsound Vol. 1.

Chikashi Masuda is a Japanese former professional football player. He was capped by the Japan national team.

Ryūma Tonari is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 7-dan.

Yukio Tanaka is a Japanese former baseball player for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball. He played for the Fighters during all 22 years of his professional career, earning the nickname "Mr. Fighters".

Tomoya Warabino is a Japanese actor who is represented by the talent agency, A-Team.

Katsuki Akagawa is a professional Japanese baseball player.