List of Famous people born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Yayoi Matsumoto

First Name Yayoi
Last Name Matsumoto
Born on March 8, 1990 (age 36)

Yayoi Matsumoto is a Japanese swimmer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed for the national team in the Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay, finishing in 7th place in the final. She also competed in the women's 50m freestyle, finishing with a time of 25.73 seconds in 35th place in the heats, and the 4 x 200 m freestyle relay. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she competed in the 50 m freestyle, finishing in 43rd, and was part of the Japanese women's 4 x 100 m freestyle team.

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Reizo Koike

First Name Reizo
Born on December 12, 1915
Died on August 3, 1998 (aged 82)

Reizo Koike was a Japanese swimmer who specialized in the 200 m breaststroke. In this event he won a silver medal at the 1932 Olympics and a bronze medal at the 1936 Olympics, and set an unofficial world record in 100 m between these Olympics. During his career Koike won eight national titles.

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Yasuji Miyazaki

First Name Yasuji
Last Name Miyazaki
Born on October 15, 1916
Died on December 30, 1989 (aged 73)

Yasuji Miyazaki was a Japanese swimmer who competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

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Kenjiro Takayanagi

First Name Kenjiro
Last Name Takayanagi
Born on January 20, 1899
Died on July 23, 1990 (aged 91)

Kenjiro Takayanagi was a Japanese engineer and a pioneer in the development of television. Although he failed to gain much recognition in the West, he built the world's first all-electronic television receiver, and is referred to as "the father of Japanese television".

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Kōjō Tanaka

First Name Kōjō
Last Name Tanaka
Born on May 11, 1924
Died on May 6, 2016 (aged 91)

Kōjō Tanaka was a renowned Japanese photographer.

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Coco Hayashi

First Name Coco
Last Name Hayashi
Born on May 15, 2002 (age 23)

Coco Hayashi is a Japanese actress and voice actress associated with 81 Produce and Avex Pictures. She is best known for voicing Ayumi Hayashi in Wake Up, Girls! New Chapter! and Mirai Momoyama in Kiratto Pri Chan.

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Daichi Sugimoto

First Name Daichi
Last Name Sugimoto
Born on July 15, 1993 (age 32)
Height 187 cm | 6'2

Daichi Sugimoto is a Japanese football player for Júbilo Iwata.

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Daniel Missaki

First Name Daniel
Last Name Missaki
Born on April 9, 1996 (age 30)

Daniel Missaki is a Brazilian professional baseball pitcher for the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has previously played in the Baseball Challenge League for the Tochigi Golden Braves.

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Mitsuru Sugaya

First Name Mitsuru
Last Name Sugaya
Born on September 20, 1950 (age 75)

Mitsuru Sugaya , is a Japanese manga artist, novelist, an author of instructional comics, and a racing writer. Sugaya wrote and illustrated Game Center Arashi, a manga series based on video games. He also drew a manga tied to the Japanese Spider-Man television series from the 1970s and also drew the manga adaptations of all Kamen Rider series from Ichigo to Stronger.

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Kanae Katsuno

First Name Kanae
Last Name Katsuno
Born on January 11, 1982 (age 44)
Height 163 cm | 5'4
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