List of Famous people born in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Chieko Tsukahara
Chieko Oda is a Japanese gymnast. She competed in six events at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. Her husband is gymnast Mitsuo Tsukahara and son Naoya Tsukahara.
Daiki Tanaka
Daiki Tanaka is a Japanese professional basketball player. He currently plays for the Alvark Tokyo club of the B.League in Japan.
Mitsurō Kubo
Mitsurou Kubo is a Japanese manga artist, writer, and radio personality born in Sasebo in 1975. She is known for writing on Yuri!!! on Ice, an anime series co-created with Sayo Yamamoto. Two of her manga have been released in English: Moteki by Vertical and Again!! by Kodansha USA. She and Mineko Nomachi have a radio program called Mitsurou Kubo and Mineko Nomachi's All Night Nippon.
Tokitsuumi Masahiro
Tokitsuumi Masahiro is a former professional sumo wrestler from Fukue, Nagasaki, Japan. A former amateur sumo champion, he turned professional in 1996. His highest rank was maegashira 3. He became the head coach of Tokitsukaze stable in 2007 following the dismissal of the previous stablemaster.
Shungicu Uchida
Shigeko Uchida , known by the pen name Shungicu Uchida , is a Japanese manga artist, novelist, essayist, actress, and singer.
Hiroaki Iwanaga
Hiroaki Iwanaga is a Japanese model and actor who is affiliated with G-Star.Pro.
Chigusa Nagayo
Chigusa Nagayo is a Japanese professional wrestler best known for her mainstream popularity in the 1980s as a member of the tag team The Crush Gals with long-time partner Lioness Asuka. She was the founder of the GAEA Women's Professional Wrestling organization. She briefly competed as alter-ego Lady Zero in GAEA. Nagayo appears in the 2000 documentary Gaea Girls made for the BBC by Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams. Nagayo has been called "the most popular woman wrestler of all-time".
Takanori Nagase
Takanori Nagase is a Japanese judoka.
Atsushi Onita
Atsushi Onita is a Japanese actor, politician, and semi-retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his work in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) and is credited with introducing Japan to the deathmatch style of professional wrestling.
Gō Wakabayashi
Gō Wakabayashi is a Japanese film and television actor from Nagasaki.