List of Famous people born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Naohiro Takahara
Naohiro Takahara is a Japanese football player and manager. He played for Japan national team. Currently, he is player for Okinawa SV.
Suguru Iwazaki
Suguru Iwazaki is a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher for the Hanshin Tigers in Japan's Central League.
Kento Sugiyama
Kento Sugiyama is a retired Japanese professional baseball player from Numazu, Shizuoka, Japan. He played for the Seibu Lions, Hanshin Tigers, Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes, and Yokohama BayStars during his 10-year career in the Japanese professional leagues.
Daisuke Ichikawa
Daisuke Ichikawa is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.
Koya Kitagawa
Koya Kitagawa is a Japanese footballer who plays for SK Rapid Wien as a forward.
Hiroshi Kamiya
Hiroshi Kamiya is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 8-dan.
Yūki Hideyasu
Yūki Hideyasu was a Japanese samurai who lived during the Azuchi–Momoyama and early Edo periods. He was the daimyō of Fukui Domain in Echizen.
Ryota Oshima
Ryota Oshima is a Japanese football player for Kawasaki Frontale.
Yoji Totsuka
Yoji Totsuka was a Japanese physicist and Special University Professor, Emeritus, University of Tokyo. Totsuka died on July 10, 2008 from colorectal cancer.
Yui Shōsetsu
Yui Shōsetsu was a military strategist, and leader of the unsuccessful 1651 Keian Uprising. Though a commoner, and thus not officially of the samurai class, Yui was known as one of the "Three Great Rōnin" along with Kumazawa Banzan and Yamaga Sokō.