List of Famous people with last name Ogawa

Yoshizumi Ogawa is a Japanese retired footballer and current head coach of TIAMO Hirakata.

Mana Ogawa is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer. Her debut album 1 Teenage Blues was released on July 21, 2010. The album charted at No.100 on the Oricon album charts. She was previously a soloist under NICE GIRL Project! and was a member of Canary Club CAN'S division with Ayumi Takada from 2007 until its hiatus in 2012.

Tomomi Ogawa , known for both her full name or by her stage name Tomomi, is a Japanese musician, singer and songwriter. She serves as the bassist and backup vocalist of the Japanese rock band Scandal. She co-wrote most of their songs throughout the band's career.

Seiji Ogawa is a Japanese researcher known for discovering the technique that underlies Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). He is regarded as the father of modern functional brain imaging. He determined that the changes in blood oxygen levels cause its magnetic resonance imaging properties to change, allowing a map of blood, and hence, functional, activity in the brain to be created. This map reflected which neurons of the brain responded with electrochemical signals to mental processes. He was the first scientist who demonstrated that the functional brain imaging is dependent on the oxygenation status of the blood, the BOLD effect. The technique was therefore called Blood oxygenation level-dependent or BOLD contrast. Functional MRI (fMRI) has been used to map the visual, auditory and sensory regions and moving toward higher brain functions such as cognitive functions in the brain.