List of Famous people born in Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Chiai Fujikawa is a Japanese pop singer and idol.

Kenichiro Sasae is a retired Japanese diplomat who served as Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2010 - 2012 and Japan's ambassador to the United States from 2012 - 2018. He is currently President of the Japan Institute of International Affairs.

Eiji Mitooka is a Japanese industrial designer, illustrator, and managing director of the industrial design company Don Design Associates (ドーンデザイン研究所). He also works as a design consultant for Kyushu Railway Company.

Takashi Umino is a Japanese professional baseball Catcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball.

Hiroki Kosai is a Japanese astronomer with the Kiso Observatory. He is best known for helping to popularize astronomy in Japan and for his observations of comets and asteroids, most notably with his co-discovery the comet 1976 XVI. He is credited by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) with the discovery of nearly 100 asteroids.