List of Famous people with last name Watanabe

Taeko Watanabe is a Japanese manga artist. She made her professional debut in 1979 with the short story Waka-chan no Netsuai Jidai . In 1987, she won the Excellence Award at the 16th Japan Cartoonists Association Awards for her comedy series St. 14 Graffiti. She has twice received the Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōjo (girls') manga category: in 1991 for Hajime-chan ga Ichiban! and in 2003 for Kaze Hikaru.

Ryo Watanabe is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Nippon Ham Fighters in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball

Naoko Watanabe is a Japanese actress and model from Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

Ryoma Watanabe is a Japanese football player who plays for Montedio Yamagata.

Risa Watanabe is a member of the female Japanese idol group Sakurazaka46. She also serves as an exclusive model for the female fashion magazine non-no since March 2017. Like other members, Watanabe is represented by Sony Music Labels.

Kazuma Watanabe is a Japanese footballer who plays for Gamba Osaka in the J1 League. He plays as a centre-forward and has previously had spells with Yokohama F. Marinos, FC Tokyo and Vissel Kobe.

Masako Watanabe is a Japanese manga artist. She began her professional career as an illustrator of books in 1949. She switched to creating manga after reading Osamu Tezuka's works, debuting in 1952 with Namida no Sanbika. She quickly became the most popular female manga artist of her time.

Gary "Gedde" Watanabe is an American actor and comedian. He is perhaps best known for voicing the character of Ling in the 1998 animated film Mulan and its 2004 sequel, Mulan II as well as playing Long Duk Dong in the 1984 film Sixteen Candles.

Yasushi Watanabe is a full Professor at Keio University in Japan. He earned a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at Harvard University in 1997 with a dissertation on "Nurturing A Context: The Logic of Individualism and the Negotiation of the Familial Sphere in the United States." After post-doctoral fellowships at Cambridge and Oxford Universities, he joined Keio University's Graduate School of Media and Governance as well as Faculty of Environment and Information Studies in 1999. He attained the rank of full Professor in 2005, and is one of Japan's most prominent experts on cultural policy, public diplomacy, and American Studies.

Kota Watanabe is a Japanese football player. He plays for Yokohama F. Marinos