List of Famous people born in Nara Prefecture, Japan

Taku Hiraoka is a Japanese snowboarder, from Gose, Nara.

Sadaaki Yoshimura is a professional Japanese baseball player.

Shintarō Saitō is a Japanese professional shogi player, ranked 8-dan. He is a former Ōza title holder.

Kodai Hamaya is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent. He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles and Yokohama DeNA BayStars.

Seigo Narazaki is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.

Mai Ito is a Japanese long-distance runner who competes in half marathon and marathon races. She represented Japan in the marathon at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics and competed at the 2012 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, taking the team bronze medal.

Tomihiko Morimi is a Japanese writer from Nara Prefecture. He graduated from Kyoto University and his works often have Kyoto as the setting.

Taichi Okazaki is a Japanese former professional baseball catcher. He has played in his entire career with the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hanshin Tigers.

Takiko Fukuda is a Japanese stage performer and tarento. She is represented with Yoshimoto Creative Agency in Osaka. Her husband is Ponta Dohi.

Banmei Takahashi is a Japanese film director. Takahashi started his career in the pink film industry, making his directorial debut in 1972 with Escaped Rapist Criminal. Due to a disagreement with his producer, Takahashi quit the film industry for a couple years. He joined pink film pioneer Kōji Wakamatsu's production studio in 1975, working as a script-writer until Wakamatsu produced Takahashi's second film, Delinquent File: Juvenile Prostitution (1976). For the next few years Takahashi averaged five films annually at Wakamatsu's studio, until Takahashi left to start his own production company in 1979.