List of Famous people born in Nagano Prefecture, Japan
Tsunehiko Kamijō
Tsunehiko Kamijō is a Japanese singer, actor and voice actor.
Anri Kumaki
Anri Kumaki is a Japanese pop female singer-songwriter currently signed on unBORDE Records, a division of Warner Music Group Japan.
Tatsumi Yoda
Tatsumi Yoda is a Japanese businessman.
Hiro Mashima
Hiro Mashima is a Japanese manga artist. He gained success with his first serial Rave Master, published in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1999 to 2005. His best selling work, Fairy Tail, published in the same magazine from 2006 to 2017, has become one of the best-selling manga series with over 72 million copies in print. Fairy Tail won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen manga in 2009, and Mashima was given the Harvey Awards International Spotlight award in 2017 and the Fauve Special Award at the 2018 Angoulême International Comics Festival.
Naoki Tsukahara
Naoki Tsukahara is a Japanese track and field sprinter who specialises in the 100 metres.
Kei Kobayashi
Kei Kobayashi is a French chef and owner of the restaurant Kei in Paris 1e. His restaurant has earned three Michelin stars in 2020. He is the first Japanese chef earned three Michelin stars in France.
Yoshito Watabe
Yoshito Watabe is a Japanese nordic combined skier who has competed since 2007. He skis with the Waseda University club. He has one FIS Nordic Combined World Cup podium from Oslo in season 2012–13 FIS Nordic Combined World Cup. His older brother Akito is one of the most successful athletes in nordic combined history.
Kazue Ikura
Kazue Ikura is a Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator who works for Aoni Production. She was previously affiliated with theater groups/production companies 劇舎燐, 俳協, Production Baobab and NABEYA.
Takashi Shinohara
Takashi Shinohara is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet.
Akane Haga
This page consists of all current and former members of the Japanese girl group Morning Musume. The group is known for their ever-fluctuating line-up, with "graduations" and auditions held nearly every year.