List of Famous people born in Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan

Miki Nishimura is a Japanese female professional ten-pin bowler. She is a member of the Japan Professional Bowling Association, license no. 408.

Takeru Kitazono is a Japanese male artistic gymnast. At the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he won five gold medals in the all-around, floor, rings, parallel bars, and horizontal bar competitions. He was the first artistic gymnast ever to achieve such a feat in a single Youth Olympic Games.

Katsuhiko Miyaji is a former Nippon Professional Baseball outfielder.

Ren Nakata is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.

Takahisa Maeyama is a Japanese actor affiliated with Watanabe Entertainment.

Koji Yamasaki is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Taro Nakayama is a Japanese doctor and politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. A native of Osaka he received a Ph.D in medicine from Osaka Medical College in 1960 for the study of infantile paralysis. After serving in the assembly of Osaka Prefecture he was elected to the Diet for the first time in 1968 as a member of the House of Councilors and to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1986. From 1989 to 1990 he served as Minister for Foreign Affairs in Toshiki Kaifu's cabinet (1989–1991).

Yuki Matsuoka is a Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator. She graduated from Otemae Women's University in Nishinomiya. She is affiliated with Production Baobab.

Kazunari Okayama or Kang Il-Sung is a former Japanese football player of Korean descent.

Ryuya Yamanaka is a Japanese former professional boxer who held the WBO minimumweight title from 2017 to 2018.