List of Famous people born in Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan

Shingo Murakami is a Japanese singer, presenter, variety tarento and actor. He is the keyboardist of the Japanese male idol group Kanjani Eight.

Naoko Kawai (河合奈保子), is a 1980s era Japanese pop idol, singer-songwriter, composer, and actress.

Takeshi Okada is a former Japanese football player and manager. He played for Japan national team. He also managed Japan national team.

Ryosuke Morioka is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays infielder for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.

Chiyo Okumura is a popular Japanese pop singer, and former fashion model who debuted in the 1960s.

Reona Esaki, also known as Leo Esaki, is a Japanese physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever and Brian David Josephson for his work in electron tunneling in semiconductor materials which finally led to his invention of the Esaki diode, which exploited that phenomenon. This research was done when he was with Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo. He has also contributed in being a pioneer of the semiconductor superlattices.

Toru Araiba is a former Japanese football player.

Yōko Akino is a Japanese actress.

Yoshihiro Murai is a Japanese politician and current governor of Miyagi Prefecture. A native of Toyonaka, Osaka and former serviceman of Japan Self-Defense Forces, he was first elected governor in 2005 after serving in the assembly of the prefecture since 1995.

Naokazu Takemoto is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.