List of Famous people born in Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Hiroki Konno
Hiroki Konno is a Japanese comedian and actor who was a member of the comedy duo King of Comedy.
Hironari Yamazaki
Hironari "Zakiyama" Yamazaki is a Japanese comedian. He belongs to the talent agency Production Jinrikisha.
Rei Kikukawa
Rei Kikukawa is a Japanese actress, model, and television presenter.
Masaru Nakamura
Masaru Nakamura is a Japanese professional baseball player for the Mariachis de Guadalajara of the Mexican League. He has previously played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters.
Bull Nakano
Keiko Aoki is a Japanese retired professional wrestler and professional golfer better known as Bull Nakano . She began competing in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) as a teenager under the ring name Bull Nakano. As a wrestler she was a villain, who often teamed with her mentor Dump Matsumoto. In Japan, she held several of AJW's singles and tag team championships. After being phased out by the company in the early 1990s, she traveled to North America, where she first competed in Mexico's Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), becoming its first World Women's Champion. In 1994, she made her way to the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), where she had feuded with Alundra Blayze over the WWF Women's Championship. After holding the title once, she also competed in World Championship Wrestling (WCW). In 1998, Nakano began competing as a professional golfer, and in 2006, she joined a tour with the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA).
Chara
Miwa Watabiki , better known by her stage name Chara, is a Japanese singer, actress and video jockey. She debuted in 1991 with the single Heaven. She is known for her song "Swallowtail Butterfly ", the theme song for the 1996 Shunji Iwai film Swallowtail Butterfly in which she starred, her 1997 hit single "Yasashii Kimochi", and her collaboration with Judy and Mary vocalist Yuki, "Ai no Hi Mittsu Orange". Chara later formed a band with Yuki, called Mean Machine.
Haruna Kojima
Haruna Kojima is a Japanese actress, model, and former singer. From 2005 to 2017, she was a member of idol group AKB48 under Team A.
Sakiko Matsui
Sakiko Matsui is a Japanese singer and pianist. She was a member of AKB48. Concurrently as a student specializing in piano at Tokyo College of Music, she has released a piano instrumental album Kokyū Suru Piano on October 3, 2012, which reached number 10 on Oricon's albums chart.
Tetsurō Araki
Tetsurō Araki is a Japanese animator, storyboard artist, and director. He goes by the alias Mochizuki Saburō when working as an episode director and key animator.
Gamon Kaai
Gamon Kaai is a Japanese actor and tarento represented by Kabushikigaisha Gamon and 365.