List of Famous people born in Tokyo, Japan

Hisao Niura, also known as Kim Il-young, is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher who played Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan and KBO League baseball in South Korea. Over a 22-season career, he was a five-time champion, four times with the Yomiuri Giants and once with the Samsung Lions. He was a two-time ERA champion of Japan's Central League. A workhorse during much of his career, he had success as both a starter and a reliever.

Elly Akira is a Japanese AV actress and adult model. She was formerly known as Yuka Osawa and Hitomi Nishikawa . A highly prolific performer, she had appeared in more than 900 adult videos, with 800 currently listed on the site of the major Japanese video retailer DMM.

Tetsuo Hara is a Japanese manga artist, best known for drawing the series Fist of the North Star, which he co-authored with Buronson. He is cousin to comedian Ryo Fukawa.

Yōichi Takahashi is a Japanese cartoonist and manga artist, best known for his work Captain Tsubasa. Takahashi has published art books, manga, novels, and guides, most of which are about Captain Tsubasa. He is also known for his soccer series, Hungry Heart: Wild Striker.

Daiki Sugioka is a Japanese footballer who plays as a defender, primarily as a left-back for Kashima Antlers.

Tetsu Inada is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Aoni Production.

Motoko Arai is an award winning Japanese science fiction and fantasy writer. Her writing is characterized by her use of a light conversational tone geared towards a young adult audience. She has published three series of novels and several short stories. Her works, Green Requiem and Neptune, received the Seiun Award for short story in 1981 and 1982.

Keiichirō Akagi , born Chikahiro Akatsuka was a Japanese actor. Akagi appeared in over 26 films in his short three-year career. Kenju burai-chō series and The Call of the Foghorn are Akagi's notable films.

Shion Miura is a Japanese writer. She has won the Naoki Prize, the Oda Sakunosuke Prize, and the Japan Booksellers' Award. Her work has been adapted for film and television, and her books have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, English, German and Italian.

Hiroyuki Nagahama is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A native of Tokyo and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1993 as a member of Morihiro Hosokawa's Japan New Party. After losing his seat in 1996 as a member of the New Frontier Party, he was elected again in 2000 as a member of DPJ. In 2007, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time.