List of Famous people born in Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Maimi Yajima is a Japanese singer and actress. She was a member and the leader of Cute, a girl idol group within Hello! Project.

Yōko Honna is a Japanese actress and singer from Sōka, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. She works at Re-Max, although she formerly worked at 81 Produce.

Naoki Maeda is a Japanese football player. He plays for Nagoya Grampus.

Masaki Saito is a Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher. He played for the Yomiuri Giants from 1984 to 2001. He won the Eiji Sawamura Award three times, 1989, 1995, and 1996, and he won the Nippon Professional Baseball Most Valuable Player Award in 1990.

Kenichi Tago is a badminton player from Japan, the son of badminton player Yoshiko Yonekura. In 2010, he reached the final of the All England Open Badminton Championships. En route to the final he beat three seeded players including Nguyen Tien Minh, Chen Jin and Bao Chunlai. In the final, Tago lost to the first seed and reigning World No. 1 Lee Chong Wei from Malaysia with a score of 21–19 and 21–19, following an incorrect line call in Lee Chong Wei's favour at matchpoint. In 2012, he competed at the London 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's singles event, but did not advance to the knock-out stage after being defeated by Niluka Karunaratne of Sri Lanka with a score of 18–21, 16–21. In 2014, he reached the Indonesia Open final after a shocking win over Lee Chong Wei in the semifinal but could not keep up his good form and went on to lose by straight games in the final to Jan O. Jorgensen of Denmark. He competed at the 2010 and 2014 Asian Games.

Momoko Nakamura is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 1-dan.

Hiroshi Kume is a Japanese television and radio presenter, journalist, author, and goodwill ambassador for Germany. He is the host of the TBS radio talk show Kume Hiroshi Radio Nandesukedo.

Hisako "Chako" Higuchi is a Japanese professional golfer.

Eriko Nakamura is a Japanese actress, singer and voice artist from Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. In 2014, at the 4th Newtype Anime awards, she won a voice actor award (female).

Yuji Nakazawa is a former Japanese football player.