List of Famous people born in Tokyo, Japan

Nanami Shiono is a Japanese author and novelist known for her works on the history of Italy, especially those dealing with ancient Rome and the Renaissance period.

Shin Dong-bin is a Korean-Japanese businessman. He also has a Japanese name Akio Shigemitsu. As of 2012, he was CEO of the South Korean conglomerate Lotte Corporation and the Japanese Chiba Lotte Marines baseball team. He is the second son of Shin Kyuk-ho, founder and first CEO of Lotte and his Japanese wife. He is the younger brother of Hiroyuki Shigemitsu, CEO of the Japanese Lotte Group. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University with a B.A. in economics in 1977 and from Columbia University with an MBA.

Ai Kobayashi is a Japanese actress and voice actress from Adachi, Tokyo. She is affiliated with HeaT.

Yuta Watanabe is a badminton player from Japan. He was a member of the Nihon Unisys team, and national team A representative. Watanabe has collected three bronze medals at the World Junior Championships, and also four bronze at the Asian Junior Championships. Watanabe was selected to join the Japanese mixed team compete at the 2017 Sudirman Cup in Gold Coast, Australia, winning a gold medal in the qualification to Gold Coast at the 2017 Asia Mixed Team Championships in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and the team finished in the semi-final round, took the bronze medal. The left-handed Watanabe won the maiden Super 1000 tournament at the 2018 All England Open in the mixed doubles event partnered with Arisa Higashino.

Eleanor Matsuura is a Japanese-born British actress, who is best known for her roles as Yumiko in The Walking Dead, Hannah Santo in Spooks: The Greater Good, Bev in Utopia and as PC Donna Prager in Cuffs.

Sakura Noshitani is a Japanese female rhythmic gymnast.

Motoko Obayashi is a volleyball player from Japan, who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics. She competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988. She was considered the most valuable player at the Barcelona Games. She released a single under the solo project named Deka Moni in 2001. Since her retirement from professional volleyball she has been working as an actress, predominantly appearing in stage plays.

Tomoko Nakayama , better known as Tomoko Ikuta , is a Japanese actress who is represented by the talent agency, Toho Entertainment. Her skills are dancing and horseback riding. She is currently a regular model for Mart. Her husband is footballer Masashi Nakayama.

Masataka Gōda is a Japanese professional shogi player, ranked 9-dan. He is a former major title holder, having won the Ōi, Kisei, Kiō and Ōshō titles throughout his career.

Oriza Hirata is a Japanese playwright, director, and academic. For the majority of his life, he has been best known for his work in theater and creating what he has coined, “contemporary colloquial theater,” or as theater critics call it, “quiet drama.”