List of Famous people born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

Viscount Inoue Masaru was the first Director of Railways in Japan and is known as the "father of the Japanese railways".

Yuka Harada is a Japanese basketball player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Count Yamada Akiyoshi , was a Japanese statesman, a samurai of Chōshū Domain, and one of the early leaders of the Meiji Restoration. In his youth he was commonly known as Yamada Ichinojō; however, he changed his name frequently during the Bakumatsu period.

Michio Mado was a Japanese poet. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1994 for his "lasting contribution to children's literature".

Heisuke Hironaka is a Japanese mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1970 for his contributions to algebraic geometry.

Viscount Yasushi Nomura was a Japanese bureaucrat, statesman and cabinet minister, active in Meiji period Japan

Tsugumasa Muraoka is a Japanese politician and the current governor of Yamaguchi Prefecture in Japan. He was first elected in 2014, and re-elected in 2018.

Ikki Shimamura is a former professional Japanese baseball player.

Tatsuyuki Uemoto is a Japanese professional baseball catcher for the Saitama Seibu Lions in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.