List of Famous people born in Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Hiroki Momose is a Japanese former professional baseball player. He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.

Hisao Katō is a Japanese politician, and the current mayor of the city of Nagano, the capital of Nagano Prefecture, in central Japan. Katō won his first mayoral election, as an independent, on October 27, 2013, winning 56,424 votes compared to 34,656 for the second-place finisher. On October 29, 2017, Katō was reelected to a second term, winning 69,778 votes. In his second election, he was backed by the LDP, Komeito, and the DP.

Tetsuro Shimizu is a Japanese curler from Sapporo. He competed at the 2015 Ford World Men's Curling Championship in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, as vice-skip for the Japanese team, which placed sixth in the tournament.

Risa Itō , also romanized as Risa Itou, is a Japanese manga artist.

Kenji Maruyama is a Japanese author. He received the Akutagawa Prize for one of his novels, Summer’s Passage , in 1966 at the age of 23, becoming the third of an often touted group of college seniors to win the prize at age 23, following Ishihara Shintaro and Oe Kenzaburo.

Kaori Iwabuchi is a Japanese ski jumper. She has competed at World Cup level since the 2011/12 season, with her best individual result being sixth place in Lahti on 19 February 2016.

Jinya Nishikata is a Japanese former ski jumper.

Takanori Kono is a former Japanese nordic combined skier who competed during the 1990s, winning at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, the Winter Olympics, and the Holmenkollen ski festival.