List of Famous people born in Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan
Tsuneyasu Miyamoto
Tsuneyasu Miyamoto is a former Japanese association football player, who last coached Gamba Osaka. He played for Japan national team.
Daisuke Ohata
Daisuke Ohata is a former Japanese rugby union player. He usually played on the wing, and sometimes at centre, for the Japanese national team. He made his name internationally as a speedy ace in the World Rugby Sevens Series, and went on to become a regular member of the national team. He first played for Japan on November 9, 1996 and scored three tries that day. He is the leading rugby union test try scorer of all time. In November 2016, Ohata was inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame at the opening ceremony for the Hall's first physical location in Rugby, Warwickshire.
Hiroshige Yanagimoto
Hiroshige Yanagimoto is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.
Nobutaka Imamura
Nobutaka Imamura is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Yomiuri Giants.
Alice Arisugawa
Masahide Uehara , mainly known by his pseudonym Alice Arisugawa , is a Japanese mystery writer. He is one of the representative writers of the new traditionalist movement in Japanese mystery writing and was the first president of the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan from 2000 to 2005. He has also served as part of the selection committee for various literary awards, most notably the Ayukawa Tetsuya Award from 1996 to 1999 and Edogawa Rampo Prize from 2014 to 2017.
Ineko Arima
Ineko Arima is a Japanese film actress born on 3 April 1932 in Osaka. She is known for her work with director Yasujirō Ozu.
Michiyo Heike
Michiyo Heike , is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter and singer from Osaka Prefecture and raised in Nabari, Mie. She first become known after her appearance on the Japanese talent show Asayan in the late 1990s, becoming the first member of the future "Hello! Project". Heike currently goes by the simply Michiyo.
Minmi
Michiko Evwana, better known by her stage name Minmi , is a Japanese hip-hop and reggae musician, as well as a singer-songwriter and record producer. She is the first soca artist from Japan. Since 2007, she has been married to Wakadanna (若旦那), a member of Japanese reggae group Shōnan no Kaze.
Kaisei Sone
Kaisei Sone is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays infielder for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.
Fujiko Yamamoto
Fujiko Yamamoto is a Japanese film and stage actress. She appeared in over 100 films between 1953 and 1963. She won the first Grand Prix of Miss Nippon in 1950.