List of Famous people born in Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan

Ryo Okui is a Japanese football player for Shimizu S-Pulse.

Satoshi Kinsui is a Japanese Linguist, and he is currently a professor at Osaka University.

Naoki Matoba , nicknamed "Matton", is a Japanese former professional baseball catcher in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He played for the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks/Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in 2000, and from 2003 to 2008 and with the Chiba Lotte Marines in 2010 and 2011.

Takayuki Kanamori is a former Japanese professional baseball pitcher. He formally played for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters from 2007 to 2010 and the Chiba Lotte Marines from 2013 to 2016.

Chieko Hosokawa is a Japanese manga artist. She made her professional debut in 1958 with Crimson Rose . Her series Crest of the Royal Family, which received the 1991 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo, has been continuously serialized in Princess since 1976.

Kiyotaka Ishimaru is a former Japanese football player and manager.

Shinya Wada is a visually impaired Japanese long-distance runner. Competing in the T11 classification, Shinya has represented his country at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where he took the bronze medal in the men's 5000m T11 race. He is also a multiple World and Asian Para Games medalist, taking six medals over four tournaments.

Momo Kodama is a Japanese classical pianist. She was born in Osaka but grew up in Europe, attending the Conservatoire de Paris with older sister Mari. She made her debut in 1991 with the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra and was the youngest winner of the International Piano Competition in Munich at age 19. Since then she has performed with various symphonic orchestras and at cultural festivals in Europe and Latin America and has released a number of recordings.