List of Famous people with last name Nakagawa

Taishi Nakagawa is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays infielder for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars. Between 2009 and 2017 he played for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.

Keita Nakagawa is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Orix Buffaloes in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Masaharu Nakagawa is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan. A native of Matsusaka, Mie and graduate of Georgetown University in the United States he was elected for the first time in 1996 after serving in the local assembly of Mie Prefecture. In September 2011 he was appointed as Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in the cabinet of newly appointed prime minister Yoshihiko Noda.

Gen Nakagawa, of his full name Motonobu Nakagawa (仲川元庸) is the mayor of Nara in Kansai, Japan. On 10 July 2017, he was elected to his third term as mayor. He is politically independent. Nakagawa supports investing more in child care.

Kazaki Nakagawa is a Japanese football player. He plays for Kyoto Sanga FC in J2 League.

Hiroto Nakagawa is a Japanese footballer who plays as a midfielder for Japanese club Shonan Bellmare on loan from Kashiwa Reysol.

Kunio Nakagawa was the commander of Japanese forces which defended the island of Peleliu in the Battle of Peleliu which took place from 15 September to 27 November 1944. He inflicted heavy losses on attacking U.S. Marines and held Peleliu Island for almost three months. On the evening of 24 November, after the battle was lost, he performed seppuku in the tradition of Japanese samurai warriors. He was posthumously promoted to lieutenant general.

Koji Nakagawa is a Japanese semi-retired professional wrestler best known for his work in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) between 1992 and 2002. He is perhaps best known for his “Hitman” character, heavily inspired by Canadian professional wrestler Bret Hart. Nakagawa also wrestled as Goemon between 2000 and 2002, a dark thief character that was eventually killed and turned into a ghost in storyline.

Seiya Nakagawa is a Japanese baseball player. He previously played pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons on a developmental contract in the Western League.

Akiko Nakagawa is a Japanese voice actress who was born in Sapporo. She is married to InuYasha music composer Kaoru Wada. She is one of the voice actresses for Miyuki Nanase in Kindaichi Case Files series.