35.1167° N, 136.9333° E

NAGOYA

Most Famous People Born in Nagoya, Japan

Notable people
312
Peak decade
1960s
Median birth year
1964
Most distinctive
Manga 70.6×
Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Nagoya during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1960s with 48 notable births.

What Nagoya Is Known For

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Actor is Nagoya's biggest profession — 10% of all notables (30).

Nagoya over-indexes on manga — 70.6× the global rate.

Nagoya under-produces politician — only 0.5× the global rate.

  1. Actor30
  2. Football26
  3. Singer20
  4. Politician17
  5. Skater16
  6. Player12
  7. Seiyū10
  8. Painter10
  1. Manga970.6×
  2. Seiyū1067.5×
  3. Skater1621.3×
  4. Novelist97.3×
  5. Model56.2×
  6. Photographer74.7×
  7. Physicist53.9×
  8. Swimmer53.3×
  1. Politician170.5×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Nagoya's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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0005 MANGA

Ken Akamatsu

Born 1968

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0006 COMPOSER

Koji Kondo

Born 1961

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0024 PHYSICIST

Tsutomu Shimomura

Born 1964

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0026 SKATER

Midori Ito

Born 1969

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0032 WRESTLER

Último Dragón

Born 1966

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0033 MANGA

Mohiro Kitoh

Born 1966

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0038 FILM

Kōji Yamamura

Born 1964

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0039 FOOTBALL

Tetsuo Nakanishi

Born 1969

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0040 ACTOR

Yuriko Ishida

Born 1969

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0046 NOVELIST

Hisashi Nozawa

1960 - 2004

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0084 NOVELIST

Tetsushi Suwa

Born 1969

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0089 ACTOR

Masumi Miyazaki

Born 1968

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0090 BOXER

Satoshi Iida

Born 1969

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0111 LECTURER

Osamu Hayashi

Born 1965

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0128 SEIYŪ

Kunihiko Yasui

Born 1960

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0129 POLITICIAN

Motohisa Furukawa

Born 1965

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0132 ACTOR

Kumiko Takeda

Born 1968

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0137 ACTOR

Eri Kikuchi

Born 1965

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0139 POLITICIAN

Masahiko Shibayama

Born 1965

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0143 FOOTBALL

Ippei Watanabe

Born 1969

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0146 PHOTOGRAPHER

Yuichi Hibi

Born 1964

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0148 SCREENWRITER

Naruhisa Arakawa

Born 1964

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0155 ACTOR

Yuki Matsushita (actress)

Born 1968

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0159 PLAYER

Shigeru Aoyama

Born 1969

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0164 TEACHER

Yoshihiro Senda

Born 1963

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0170 SKATER

Toshinobu Kawai

Born 1967

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0177 SINGER

Naomi Tamura

Born 1963

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0192 GO PLAYER

Naoto Hikosaka

Born 1962

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0195 COMPOSER

Kato Hideki

Born 1962

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0200 POLITICIAN

Yuko Sato (politician)

Born 1963

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0202 SINGER

Reiko Hayama

Born 1969

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0209 POLITICIAN

Hisayasu Nagata

1969 - 2009

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0210 ACTOR

Toshihiko Nakajima

1962 - 2017

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0213 JOURNALIST

Sadaharu Tanikawa

Born 1961

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0220 WRITER

Utako Yamada

Born 1963

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0223 PLAYER

Norie Hiro

Born 1965

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0230 PIANIST

Hideki Nagano

Born 1968

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0241 PLAYER

Masataka Sugimoto

Born 1968

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0243 POLITICIAN

Kaname Tajima

Born 1961

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0246 POLITICIAN

Tadahiko Ito

Born 1964

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0247 SKATER

Miyoshi Kato

Born 1962

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0249 FILM

Osamu Fukutani

Born 1967

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0276 ARTIST

Tatzu Nishi

Born 1960

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0295 PHOTOGRAPHER

Kō Yamada

Born 1964

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0298 MARRIED TO

Mareo Kamei

Born 1967

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0302 NEUROSCIENTIST

Yasunori Hayashi

Born 1965

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0308 SPORT

Chisato Mishima

Born 1967

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0309 PLAYER

Norihiko Kawamura

Born 1964

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