34.6910° N, 135.1826° E
KOBE
Most Famous People Born in Kobe, Japan
- Notable people
- 742
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1963
- Most distinctive
- Rikishi 71.1×
Kobe was Japan's most foreign-facing port long before the 1995 earthquake, and the old Kitano settlements still show in an unusual density of bilingual Novelists. The real surprises are the voice-acting studios and manga houses that clustered here postwar — Seiyū and Manga counts running at seventy and sixty-plus times their global baselines — and a Judo bench that traces back to Kanō Jigorō founding the sport down the road.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Kobe during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Kobe Is Known For
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Football is Kobe's biggest profession — 17% of all notables (129).
Kobe over-indexes on rikishi — 71.1× the global rate.
Kobe under-produces writer — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Kobe's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Field: Baseball Clear ×
Takehiko Bessho
1922 - 1999
Mac Suzuki
Born 1975
Atsushi Nomi
Born 1979
Hiroshi Ohshita
1922 - 1979
Hiroshi Moriwaki
Born 1960
Tomotaka Sakaguchi
Born 1984
Masafumi Nishi
Born 1960
Shinichi Murata
Born 1963
Tomohisa Otani
Born 1985
Shogo Nakamura
Born 1992
Seishirō Sakamoto
Born 1993
Shinji Shimoyama
Born 1975
Shozo Doi
1942 - 2009
Hiroto Fuku
Born 1992
Takayoshi Nakao
Born 1956
Takayoshi Noma
Born 1993
Takaya Toda
Born 1993
Takahiro Matsuba
Born 1990
Yuya Iida
Born 1990
Ryota Ishioka
Born 1992
Takeo Akuta
1903 - 1987
Satoshi Kuroda
Born 1975
Takumi Otomo
1925 - 2013
Takeaki Tokuyama
Born 1989
Nobuyuki Ebisu
Born 1972
Takashi Eda
1923 - 1978
Hachiro Maekawa
1912 - 2010
Kazuaki Minami
Born 1981