List of Famous people born in Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Yuri Kawamura is a former Japanese football player. She has played for Japan national team.

Közi is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter and DJ. He is best known as one of the guitarists for the 1990s visual kei rock band Malice Mizer. After they went on indefinite hiatus in 2001, he formed the industrial rock duo Eve of Destiny and also started a solo career. Közi is currently in the bands Dalle, XA-VAT, ZIZ and Vamquet, while occasionally performing solo shows.

Katsuhito Ishii is a Japanese film director best known for directing The Taste of Tea (2004), Funky Forest (2005), and Smuggler (2011).

Yasumi Matsuno is a Japanese video game designer. Matsuno was first introduced to video games in arcades while waiting for the train, and first played Space Invaders and Xevious there. He attended Hosei University for foreign policy but dropped out, and after working for a time as an economic reporter, he joined Quest Corporation.

Meiko Satomura is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to WWE performing under their NXT UK brand and Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling.

Taiyo Koga is a Japanese football player. He plays for Kashiwa Reysol.