List of Famous people born in Oita Prefecture, Japan

Eri Fukatsu is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best actress at the 18th Yokohama Film Festival for Haru and the best actress award at the 2010 Montreal World Film Festival for her performance in Villain. She also received acclaim for her role in the Japanese TV series Bayside Shakedown and the subsequent spin-off films of the series. In 1988, she starred in "Christmas Express" commercials for the Central Japan Railway Company.

Seiichi Uchikawa is a Japanese professional baseball player for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yokohama BayStars and Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.

Rino Sashihara is a Japanese singer, producer and actress. She is best known as a former member of idol groups HKT48, concurrently acting as the HKT48 theater manager, AKB48 and STU48. She was also a member of AKB48's unit Not Yet and is the producer of the idol groups =LOVE and ≠ME.

Kenichi Shinoda , also known as Shinobu Tsukasa , is a Japanese Yakuza, the sixth and current kumicho of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest yakuza organization.

Yōsuke Hiraishi is a former Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball player.

Shun Yamaguchi is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He previously played for the Yokohama BayStars/Yokohama DeNA BayStars and the Yomiuri Giants of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), and for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB).

Yūsuke Nakayama , better known by his stage name Yūsuke Santamaria , is a Japanese actor and singer.

Takuya Kai is a Japanese professional baseball catcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Tomiichi Murayama is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1994 to 1996. He led the Japanese Socialist Party, and was responsible for changing its name to the Social Democratic Party of Japan in 1996. Upon becoming Prime Minister, he was Japan's first socialist leader in nearly fifty years. He is most remembered today for his speech "On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the War's end", in which he publicly apologised for Imperial Japanese atrocities committed during World War II. Of the eleven living former Prime Minister of Japan, he is currently the oldest living prime minister, following the death of Yasuhiro Nakasone on 29 November 2019.

Shuji Kira is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Oita, Oita and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he ran unsuccessfully for the governorship of Oita Prefecture in 2003. In the same year, he ran for the House of Representatives as an independent and was elected for the first time.