List of Famous people born in Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Hiroki Yagami is a Japanese manga artist. In 2007, he won the 31st Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen manga for Dear Boys Act II.

Mai Nakamura is a former backstroke swimmer from Japan. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Nakamura won the silver medal in the 100m Backstroke and a bronze medal as part of the Women's Relay Team for the 4 x 100 metre Medley.

Reruhi Shimizu is a Japanese ski jumper from Myōkō, Niigata.

Aka Akasaka is a Japanese manga artist. His series Kaguya-sama: Love Is War was serialized in Shueisha's Miracle Jump between May 2015 and January 2016, and was then transferred to Weekly Young Jump starting from March 2016. It was the 9th best selling manga in Japan in 2019, with over 4 million copies sold. In 2020, he won the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category with the manga.

Kazuki Kozuka is a Japanese footballer who plays for Kawasaki Frontale, as a midfielder.

Nana Haruta , is a Japanese manga artist. At the age of 15, she debuted with the short comic Ai no Ai Shirushi in 2000 and has been since known for her works Stardust Wink and Tsubasa to Hotaru.

Hiroyuki Utatane is a Japanese manga artist and anime director. His wife is manga artist Ryō Ramiya.

Man Arai was a Japanese writer and singer. In 1987, he won the Noma Literary New Face Prize for Vexation and Akutagawa Prize in 1988 for Tazunebito no Jikan.