List of Famous people born in Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Kunihiko Mitamura is a Japanese actor/singer. He is well known for his role in Taiyō ni Hoero! and Hide in the Hissatsu series.

Maki Miyamae is a Japanese pop singer, and the oldest member of the group Coco. She was born in Tōkamachi, Niigata, but grew up in Tokyo. Miyamae was a member of Coco from September 1989 until the group's dissolution in 1994. She worked as a solo singer for a while but she left the entertainment world in 2004 to attend Le Cordon Bleu. She is now a professional chef and food education instructor, running her own restaurant, "CAFE RESTAURANT M.NATURE", in Aoyama, Tokyo.

Seiya Sanada , better known by his ring name Sanada, is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), and is a member of Los Ingobernables de Japon.

Fumiya Hayakawa is a Japanese football player.

Hitomi Saito , born October 31, 1981 in Niigata, Japan, is a former singer and current radio personality. She was the leader of Melon Kinenbi, an all-girl J-pop group formerly within Hello! Project, until its disbandment in 2010. She is also a former member of Hello! Project's futsal club, Gatas Brilhantes H.P.

Daisuke Sakaguchi is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Aoni Production. He is best known for his roles in Mobile Suit Victory Gundam as Üso Ewin, Gintama as Shinpachi Shimura, Clannad as Youhei Sunohara, Blood Blockade Battlefront as Leonardo Watch, Paprika as Kei Himuro, Atashinchi as Yuzuhiko Tachibana, Hyouka as Satoshi Fukube, Guilty Crown as Souta Tamadate, Persona 5 as Yuki Mishima, Paranoia Agent as Lil' Slugger, Ragnarok The Animation as Roan, God Eater as Kōta Fujiki, and Fire Force as Viktor Licht.

Yutakayama Ryota is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Kita-ku, Niigata. He made his professional debut at sandanme tsukedashi, which allowed him to skip the lower divisions, in March 2016, and his first makuuchi division honbasho was the Natsu tournament in May 2017. His highest rank has been maegashira 1.

Kazuya Tsurumaki is a Japanese anime director. He was born on February 2, 1966 in the city of Gosen, located in the Niigata Prefecture.

Makoto Ogawa is a Japanese singer and actress, best known as a former member of Japanese female idol group Morning Musume. She joined the group in August 2001 along with fellow fifth generation members Ai Takahashi, Risa Niigaki, and Asami Konno. On March 31, 2009, she graduated from Hello! Project with the rest of the Elder Club. Ogawa is currently a member of idol band Dream Morning Musume.

Kyosuke Mikami is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working under the ring name El Desperado . He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is the current IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion in his first reign. Mikami was trained by the NJPW dojo and worked for NJPW for two years as a Young Lion. In 2012 he traveled to Mexico for a learning excursion, working for NJPW's Mexican affiliate Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) as the masked character Namajague, a Spanish translation of Namahage, a Japanese folk demon. While in CMLL he won his first professional wrestling title alongside Okumura, the CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship, in March 2013. After being unmasked due to losing a match and briefly working without one, Mikami returned to NJPW in January 2014 and was repackaged under another mask as El Desperado.