List of Famous people born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Yayoi Matsumoto
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.
Reizo Koike
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.
Yasuji Miyazaki
Yasuji Miyazaki was a Japanese swimmer who competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Kenjiro Takayanagi
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".
Kōjō Tanaka
Kōjō Tanaka was a renowned Japanese photographer.
Coco Hayashi
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.
Daichi Sugimoto
Daichi Sugimoto is a Japanese football player for Júbilo Iwata.
Daniel Missaki
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.
Mitsuru Sugaya
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.