List of Famous people born in Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Yūta Yoneyama
Yuta Yoneyama is a Japanese male volleyball player. He was part of the Japan men's national volleyball team at the 2010 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship in Italy. He plays for Toray Arrows.
Sho Kimura
Sho Kimura is a Japanese professional boxer who held the WBO flyweight title from 2017 to 2018.
Junya Koga
Junya Koga is a Japanese backstroke swimmer. He is a Waseda University student in Tokyo.
Shigeru Kaga
Shigeru Kaga is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.
Taimei Yamaguchi
Taimei Yamaguchi is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Hiki District, Saitama and graduate of Nihon University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996.
Go Matsumoto
Go Matsumoto is a Japanese professional baseball player. He was born on August 11, 1993. He debuted in 2013 for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. Of the five at-bats in his rookie season, none were successful hits.
Tōru Nimura
Tōru Nimura is a Japanese former professional baseball infielder and pitcher. He played for the Chunichi Dragons and Chiba Lotte Marines.
Mariko Kouda
Mariko Kouda is a Japanese actress, voice actress, J-pop singer and radio personality. She graduated from Kasukabe Kyōei High School and went on to major in Communications at Tamagawa University in Machida City, Tokyo, graduating in 1990. Kouda has had at least one song appear on the program Minna no Uta.
Yūsei Matsui
Yūsei Matsui is a Japanese manga artist. He was an assistant of Yoshio Sawai, the manga artist of Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo. Two of his manga Neuro: Supernatural Detective and Assassination Classroom were serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump. Both were adapted into anime television series and Assassination Classroom was adapted into two live action films as well. His favorite manga series include Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, and Ultimate Muscle. In episode 25 of the Neuro anime, he has a cameo voice as a manga artist.
Kosuke Nakamachi
Kosuke Nakamachi is a Japanese football player.