List of Famous people born in Nara Prefecture, Japan

Masaya Kato is a Japanese actor from Nara in the Kansai region.

Norito Yashima is a Japanese actor, TV personality, narrator, voice actor and presenter. He is currently employed by ComeCome Miniki-Na Theater Company and SIS company. He landed his first hosting job on the Fuji TV series Hey! Spring of Trivia, a show he co-hosted with fellow actor Katsumi Takahashi, and has also participated in a few anime productions, voicing characters such as Iwanbo in Rurouni Kenshin and Œufcoque in Mardock Scramble.

Thelma Aoyama is a Japanese pop and R&B singer. She is part Afro-Trinidadian and Japanese.

Kazumasa Yoshida is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Orix Buffaloes in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Tetsuya Kokubo is a Japanese baseball player who is currently a free agent. He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.

Daisuke Miura is a Japanese former professional baseball player from Kashihara, Nara, Japan. He was a starting pitcher for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars from 1992 through 2016.

Yoshihide "Yoshi" Muroya is a Japanese aerobatics pilot and race pilot of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship. He started glider flight training in 1991 because it was an inexpensive way to fly. Muroya went to the United States privately to earn his airplane license at the age of twenty.

Naomi Kawase is a Japanese film director. She was also known as Naomi Sento , with her then-husband's surname. Many of her works have been documentaries, including Embracing, about her search for the father who abandoned her as a child, and Katatsumori, about the grandmother who raised her.

Tadahiro Nomura is one of the most famous judo competitors in Japan. He is the only judoka in the world who has won three Olympic gold medals in a row, all in the extra lightweight (-60 kg) division.

Ayaka Takahashi is a retired Japanese badminton player who affiliated with Unisys badminton team. She is an Olympic Games gold medalist, two times Asian Champions, two times Asian Games silver medalists, and World Championships bronze medalist.