List of Famous people born in Ōsaka, Japan

Hiroki Kuroda is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for Hiroshima Toyo Carp from 1997 to 2007 before playing in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2008 to 2011 and New York Yankees from 2012 to 2014. After the 2014 season, he chose to return to the Carp to finish out his career.

Reon Yuzuki is a Japanese actress and former Top Star otokoyaku of the Japanese Takarazuka Revue's Star Troupe. She joined the revue in 1999 and became the top star in 2009. She resigned from the Takarazuka Revue in May 2015. After resigning from the Takarazuka Revue, she signed with Amuse, Inc. and continued her career on stage.

Hideto Asamura is a Japanese professional baseball player for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of the Nippon Professional Baseball(NPB). He previously played for the Saitama Seibu Lions.

Terumoto Gotō is a Japanese comedian and television presenter. He performs tsukkomi in the comedy duo Football Hour with his partner Nozomu Iwao. Gotō is represented by Yoshimoto Kogyo and is mainly active in Tokyo and Osaka.

Yoshihiro Akiyama , also known as Sung-hoon Choo (추성훈), is a Japanese mixed martial artist and judoka who won the gold medal at the 2001 Asian Championships for South Korea and for Japan at the 2002 Asian Games. A fourth-generation Japanese of Korean descent, he acquired Japanese nationality in 2001. He is the former K-1 HERO's Light Heavyweight Grand Prix Tournament Champion.

Naoki Hyakuta is a Japanese novelist and television producer. He is known for his right-wing political views and denying Japanese war crimes prior to and during World War II. He is particularly known for his 2006 novel The Eternal Zero, which became a popular 2013 film, his controversial period as a governor of government broadcaster NHK, as well as his support of Nanjing Massacre denial.

Dome Narita is a Japanese former snowboarder and subculture tarento. He competed in the half-pipe snowboarding event at the 2006 Winter Olympics. His main activities and interests are anime, manga, video games, idol MC, and wotagei. He is also an onstage actor and has appeared in short films, which makes him a multi-tarento.

LaSalle Ishii , born Akio Ishii on October 19, 1955 in Osaka Prefecture, is a Japanese TV personality, actor, voice actor, and theater director. He named himself after his high school Japanese La Salle Academy. His best-known anime role is Kankichi Ryotsu the lead character in Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo which ran from 1999 to 2004 for 373 episodes.

Masami Hisamoto , is a Japanese comedian, actress, singer and tarento from Higashisumiyoshi Ward, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, belonging to the Wahaha talent agency. She is also, as of 2007, the head of the fine arts department of Soka Gakkai which she became an adherent on September 28, 1984. She often promotes the conservative Soka Gakkai-backed political party Komeito as a public speaker. She is unmarried.

Tadao Ando is a Japanese self-taught architect whose approach to architecture and landscape was categorized by architectural historian Francesco Dal Co as "critical regionalism". He is the winner of the 1995 Pritzker Prize.