List of Famous people born in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan

Fumihiko Sueki is a Japanese academic and historian, and one of Japan's leading scholars of Japanese Buddhism. He is a professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto. A member of the advisory board of Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture's Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, he is also a contributor to the journal itself.

Shōmei Yokouchi was a Japanese politician. He represented the Yamanashi Prefecture electoral district and later Yamanashi District No. 3 in the House of Representatives in the national Diet from 1993 until 2002 and was governor of Yamanashi Prefecture from 2007 until 2015. He was a graduate of the University of Tokyo Law Department.

Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu is a Japanese wrestler. He won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by beating Sushil Kumar of India in the finals of the 66 kg Men's Freestyle Wrestling.

Shichirō Fukazawa was a Japanese author and guitarist whose 1960 short story Fūryū mutan caused a nationwide uproar and led to an attempt by an ultranationalist to assassinate the president of the magazine that published it.