List of Famous people born in Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Satoshi Shimizu is a Japanese professional boxer who has held the OPBF featherweight title since 2017. As an amateur, he won the bronze medal in the men's bantamweight division at the 2012 Olympics.

Kazutoshi Mori is a Japanese molecular biologist known for research on unfolded protein response. He is a professor of Biophysics at the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, and shared the 2014 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award with Peter Walter for discoveries concerning the unfolded protein response — an intracellular quality control system that detects harmful misfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum and signals the nucleus to carry out corrective measures.

Tatsuhiro Shibata is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays infielder for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.

Risa Shigetomo is a Japanese long-distance runner. She competed in the marathon at the 2012 Summer Olympics, placing 78th with a time of 2:40:06. She finished in 14th place in the marathon at the 2015 World Championship with a time of 2:32:37. Her personal best is 2:23:23, set in Osaka in 2012, while she was winning the 2012 Osaka marathon. She won the Osaka Marathon again in 2017, in a time of 2:24:22. Winning the Osaka Marathon earned her a place on Japan's 2017 World Championship team.

Ryuta Ibaragi is a Japanese politician and the governor of Okayama Prefecture in Japan.

Rei Ohara is a Japanese long-distance runner. She competed in the 10,000 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing placing 22nd.

Naotaka Takehara is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Saitama Seibu Lions in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Ichiro Aisawa is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Mitsu District, Okayama and graduate of Keio University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1986.

Megumi Fujii is a retired Japanese mixed martial artist.

Kenya Hara is a Japanese graphic designer, curator and writer. He is a graduate of Musashino Art University. Hara employed by Musashino Art University as professor, and teaches Communication Design and Design Theory in Science on Design Faculty since April 2003.