List of Famous people with last name Kawabata

Shingo Kawabata is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays infielder for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. Kawabata won the Central League batting title in 2015 after recording a .336 average.

Tomoe Kawabata is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2019–20 Japanese national bronze medalist. She has represented Japan at two World Junior Championships.

Takayoshi Kawabata is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Orix Buffaloes in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Tatsuo Kawabata is a Japanese former politician from the Democratic Party, and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet from 1986 to 2017. A native of Ōmihachiman, Shiga, he attended Kyoto University and received a master's degree from it. His elder brother is former mayor of Omihachiman Gohei Kawabata. In September 2011 he was appointed as Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications in the cabinet of newly appointed prime minister Yoshihiko Noda. He was relieved from the post on 1 October 2012. In September 2017, Kawabata announced that he would not run in the 2017 general election and would retire from politics.