List of Famous people born in Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Kazuhiko Torishima is the representative director of the Hakusensha publishing company. He formerly worked at Shueisha, where he began as an editor before becoming a Senior Managing Director, and later a Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions director.

Rena Hasegawa is a Japanese voice actress and a former singer. Hasegawa started her career as a member of the idol girl group NGT48 in 2015, debuting as a regular member of the group's Team NⅢ. In 2018, she was transferred to Team G, which later merged with Team NⅢ to become a unified first generation in 2019. On May 18, 2019, she left the group to pursue voice acting.

Ayana Onozuka is a Japanese freestyle skier. She won a bronze medal at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and the 2013 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships.

Arata Shiino is a Japanese Professional baseball pitcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball.

Makoto Kobayashi is a Japanese manga artist who is best known for his unusual drawing style. One of his best known manga is What's Michael?, a manga about a curious orange cat and his many adventures that is often compared with Garfield. His earliest work is Grapple Three Brothers, which won the Shōnen magazine New manga artist award. He has twice won the Kodansha Manga Award, for Sanshiro of 1, 2 (ja) in 1981 and What's Michael? in 1986.

Kazuyuki Sekiguchi is a Japanese musician, best known for playing the bass guitar for Southern All Stars. As a solo artist, he has played ukulele. He is a fan of Hawaiian music, and is the founder of the annual Ukulele Picnic music festival in Hawaii. For nearly twenty years, Sekiguchi has worked with Akira Sakuma in the Momotaro Dentetsu video game series as a music producer.

Tomoko Hoshino is a Japanese actress and essayist. She graduated from Hosei University.

Shuichi Shigeno is a Japanese manga artist famous for creating Initial D. Shigeno has also created Baribari Densetsu, Dopkan, and Tunnel Nuketara Sky Blue all prior to the manga that would make him famous in 1995. In 1985, he received the Kodansha Manga Award in shōnen for Bari Bari Densetsu.

Atomu Tanaka is a Japanese football player who plays for HJK Helsinki in the Veikkausliiga.

Yoko Ishida is a Japanese singer. She is known for having performed theme songs for anime shows such as Prétear, Ai Yori Aoshi, the Ah! My Goddess TV series and the Strike Witches series, as well as for having sung for the Para Para Max CD series. She currently works under Solid Vox. Formerly she was employed by Hyper Voice Managements. Yoko Ishida and Mami Kawada are Japanese Singers with Carolwood Records and Mercury Nashville. with Strike Witches series, and A Certain Magical Index series.