List of Famous people born in Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Nao Kodaira is a Japanese long track speed skater who specialises in the sprint distances.

Kenichi Mikawa is a Japanese singer and TV personality, known for his outspoken views and onē style.

Ryuichi Sakamoto is a Japanese composer, singer, songwriter, record producer, activist, and actor who has pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres.

Yuma Kagiyama is a Japanese figure skater. He is the 2021 World silver medalist, the 2020 Four Continents bronze medalist, the 2020 Youth Olympic champion, the 2020 World Junior silver medalist, the 2019–20 Japanese junior national champion, and the 2019–20 and 2020-21 Japanese national bronze medalist.

Tomoko Tamura is a member of the Japanese Communist Party serving in the House of Councillors. She has been elected twice to this position—once in 2010, and again in 2016. She criticized Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe's cabinet picks, saying that they were just trying to appeal to minorities such as women without choosing people who are actually supportive of the women's movement.

Yuta Matsumura is a Japanese curler from Kitami.

Emi Shinohara is a Japanese voice actress and singer employed by 81 Produce who is most known for voicing Sailor Jupiter in the original Japanese anime of Sailor Moon and Kushina Uzumaki in Naruto: Shippuden. She was born in Fukushima Prefecture and raised in Nagano. She is married to tokusatsu actor Hiroshi Watari. She shares a birthday with fellow Sailor Moon star Rica Fukami, who voiced Sailor Venus.

Yoko Aki is a Japanese songwriter, actress, novelist and essayist. With her husband, Ryudo Uzaki, she has written many songs for other singers, with Aki as lyricist and Uzaki as composer. They are especially famous for a series of hit songs of Momoe Yamaguchi's.

Yoshiki Takahashi is a Japanese football player who currently plays for Sagan Tosu.

Naoki Inose is a Japanese politician, journalist, historian, social critic and biographer of literary figures such as Yukio Mishima and Osamu Dazai. He served as Vice Governor of Tokyo from June 2007 until becoming Acting Governor on 1 November 2012 following the resignation of Shintaro Ishihara. He was elected Governor in a historical landslide victory in December 2012, but announced his resignation on December 19, 2013, following a political funds-related scandal; his resignation was approved and became effective December 24, 2013.