List of Famous people born in Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan

Naomasa Yokawa is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Hanshin Tigers in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Yuji Naka is a Japanese video game programmer, designer, and producer who was the former head of Sonic Team, where he was the lead programmer of the original Sonic the Hedgehog series of games on the Sega Mega Drive. With Sonic Team, Naka also led development on games including Nights into Dreams (1996), Burning Rangers (1998), Sonic Adventure (1998), and Phantasy Star Online (2000). In 2006, he left Sega to found Prope, an independent game company. In January 2018, he joined Square Enix, where he is directing Balan Wonderworld.

Ai Yazawa is a Japanese manga author. While most of Yazawa's manga is published in Japan by Shueisha, publishers of Ribon and Cookie, series like Paradise Kiss have appeared in non-Shueisha magazines such as Zipper, published by Shodensha.

Hiromasa Arai is a Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball outfielder.

Machi Tawara is a contemporary Japanese writer, translator and poet.

Hitoshi Taneda is a former Nippon Professional Baseball infielder.

Nobuaki Kakuda is a retired karateka and kickboxer.

Yoji Yamada is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy.

Kenyu Sugimoto is a Japanese football player. He currently plays for Urawa Red Diamonds.

Michiko Koshino , born in 1943, is a fashion designer. She has high-end stores in Japan and London.