List of Famous people born in Toyama Prefecture, Japan

Ayumu Ishikawa is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Yudai Baba is a Japanese professional basketball player for Melbourne United of the Australian National Basketball League (NBL). He represented the Japanese national team at the 2017 FIBA Asia Cup in Zouk Mikael, Lebanon, where he was Japan's best free throw shooter.

Haruka Tachimoto is a Japanese judoka ranking at 5th Dan. She competed in the -70 kg division at the 2016 Olympics in Rio; she took gold, beating the world #1 and world #2 ranked women along the way. She had previously competed in the 70 kg event at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Shigeru Muroi is a Japanese actress. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 19th Hochi Film Awards for Izakaya Yūrei.

Yōjirō Takita is a Japanese filmmaker. Takita received an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for his 2008 drama Departures. It marked the first time a Japanese film won the award after the category first became competitive in 1957.

Megumi Tachimoto is a Japanese female judoka. She won the bronze medal in the Openweight division at the 2010 World Judo Championships.

Kōtarō Nogami is a Japanese politician. As of 16 September 2020, he serves as Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the Suga Cabinet led by Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. He is affiliated with the Liberal Democratic Party.

Harumi Takahashi is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party and currently a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. She served as governor of the prefecture of Hokkaido for four terms from 2003 to 2019. She graduated from Hitotsubashi University with a Bachelor of Economics degree in 1976. She started her career as a bureaucrat in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and quit in 2003. She was elected in April 2003, becoming the first female governor of Hokkaido and the fourth female governor in Japanese history.

Atsushi Yanagisawa is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.

Mitsuhiro Miyakoshi is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet and Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs. A native of Kurobe, Toyama and dropout of Kyoto University, he was elected to the first of his four terms in the assembly of Toyama Prefecture in 1983 and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1998.