List of Famous people born in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Shingo Tatsumi is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He played for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks from 2009 to 2015.

Sabu is the pseudonym of Japanese actor and director Hiroyuki Tanaka .

Midori Shintani is a female Japanese judo wrestler. Shintani won a gold medal at the women's open category of the 2005 World Judo Championships in Cairo.

Kozo Shoda is a Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball infielder.

Hitoshi Morishita is a former Japanese football player and manager.

Kisaki is a Japanese musician who has worked with several visual kei bands, including La:Sadie's, Syndrome, Kisaki Project and Phantasmagoria. Besides playing bass and keyboards and composing music, he also works as a producer, previously for the Matina label and currently for Under Code Production. In 2008, when Phantasmagoria broke up, Kisaki once announced his retirement as a musician. However, in 2010, he announced that he was ending his retirement and debuted his new band, Lin -the End of Corruption World .

Emiko Miyamoto is a retired Japanese volleyball player. She was a member of the Japanese winning teams, Oriental Witches, at the 1962 World Championships and 1964 Summer Olympics.

Hideaki Matsuyama is a Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball infielder.

Yasuhiro Oe is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A native of Tanabe, Wakayama, he graduated from Ashiya University and Western Australia Institute of Technology. Since 1979 he had served in the assembly of Wakayama Prefecture for six terms. After running unsuccessfully for governorship of Wakayama Prefecture in 2000, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2001. In May 2010, he joined the Happiness Realization Party, giving that group its first national political representative. He left the party six months later, and is currently a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.