List of Famous people born in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan

Wakana Sakai is a Japanese actress, writer, and former gravure idol. Her real and former stage name is Miyuki Sakai .

Toshio Furukawa is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator affiliated with Aoni Production. He married Shino Kakinuma and appeared at Anime Expo as a guest in July 2011.

Yoshihisa Naruse is a Japanese baseball player. He is a pitcher for the Orix Buffaloes of Nippon Professional Baseball. He made his debut in the 2006 season. In 2007, Naruse had his best season as a professional in his short career. All season long he was competing with Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters superstar Yu Darvish for the Eiji Sawamura Award, the award for best pitcher in all of Japan. In 24 starts, Naruse was 16–1 with a 1.82 ERA, with 138 strikeouts and only 27 walks in 173 and 1/3 innings. Darvish, by comparison, was 15–5 in 26 starts, also compiling a 1.82 ERA, but not only did he throw more complete games than Naruse, but Darvish also threw more innings, but he struck out more batters, with 210 punch-outs. The two ended up facing each other in the 2007 Pacific League Championship Series' deciding Game 5. Darvish triumphed over Naruse at Sapporo Dome, and the Fighters won Game 5 and the series 3–2, setting up a rematch of the 2006 Japan Series with the Chunichi Dragons. Naruse ultimately lost out to Darvish for the Sawamura Award in 2007.

Hajime Funada is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet and a former Minister of Economic Planning. A native of Utsunomiya, Tochigi he attended Keio University both as undergraduate and graduate. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1979.

Yumiko Hara is a Japanese marathon runner. She has represented Japan at two World Championships in Athletics and had won marathons in Nagoya, Osaka and Hokkaido.

Arisa Komiya is a Japanese actress and voice actress from Shimotsuke, Tochigi. Komiya is known for starring as Yoko Usami/Yellow Buster in the 2012 Super Sentai series Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters and Dia Kurosawa in the multimedia project Love Live! Sunshine!!. She is currently affiliated with Box Corporation.

Ai Kurogo is a Japanese female volleyball player.

Yumiko Ōshima is a Japanese manga artist and a member of Year 24 group.

Masao Urino is a Japanese lyricist, script writer, and film director. He has written lyrics for many musical groups and individual artists, sometimes under the pseudonym Reiji Asō .

Tomoa Narasaki is a Japanese professional sport climber and boulderer.