List of Famous people born in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan

Taizō Nishimuro ; 19 December 1935 – 18 October 2017) was a Japanese businessman, the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Japan Post Holdings, a Japanese state-owned conglomerate, the 26th largest company in the world, and a Fortune Global 500 company.

Shuji Kashiwabara is a Japanese actor.

Kazuhito Iwaike , known exclusively by his stage name K.A.Z, is a Japanese musician and songwriter. He is known for his work with Oblivion Dust, hide with Spread Beaver and Vamps.

Masahide "Masa" Kobayashi is a former professional baseball pitcher and pitching coach.

Shin Nakagomi is a retired Japanese professional baseball player and the former manager of Brother Elephants.

Yoshio Tsuchiya was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Toshio Matsumoto's surreal Bara No Soretsu and Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Red Beard, and Kihachi Okamoto's Kill!. He had a long-standing interest in UFOs and wrote several books on the subject. He preferred starring in science fiction films, usually as aliens, or people possessed by them, in such films as Battle in Outer Space, Monster Zero, and Destroy All Monsters.

Masaaki Akaike is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet.

Kanako Naito was a Japanese female volleyball player, who played as a middle blocker.

Tetsuya Matsumoto is a Nippon Professional Baseball player for the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Central League. He was named the 2009 Central League Rookie of the Year.

Mika Yamamoto was an award-winning Japanese video and photo journalist for the news agency Japan Press. Yamamoto was killed on 20 August 2012 while covering the ongoing Syrian Civil War in Aleppo, Syria. She was the first Japanese and fourth foreign journalist killed in the Syrian Civil War that began in March 2011. She was also the fifteenth journalist killed in Syria in 2012. Yamamoto was a recipient of the Vaughn-Uyeda Memorial Prize of the Japanese Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association for her reporting of international affairs in 2004.