34.6907° N, 135.5093° E
OSAKA
Most Famous People Born in Osaka, Japan
- Notable people
- 1,327
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1969
- Most distinctive
- Seiyū 79.4×
Japan's second commercial capital, with a comedy and entertainment bench that runs nearly as deep as Tokyo's. Osaka's distinctive professions are voice actors (seiyū) at nearly eighty times the global rate, manga artists at nearly sixty, sumo wrestlers (rikishi), martial artists, figure skaters, gymnasts, wrestlers, and novelists — the statistical footprint of Yoshimoto Kogyo, the sumo stables of the Kansai, and a publishing industry that has always argued with Tokyo's. Almost the entire list is 20th-century.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Osaka during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Osaka Is Known For
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Football is Osaka's biggest profession — 16% of all notables (214).
Osaka over-indexes on seiyū — 79.4× the global rate.
Osaka under-produces politician — only 0.2× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Osaka's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1950s Clear ×
Kōji Gushiken
Born 1956
Ryō Horikawa
Born 1958
Hiram Bullock
1955 - 2008
Suzue Miuchi
Born 1951
Yasumasa Morimura
Born 1951
Takeshi Okada
Born 1956
Kohei Tanaka (composer)
Born 1954
Toshio Maeda
Born 1953
Kazuki Ōmori
Born 1952
Akiko Wada
Born 1950
Masao Yoshida (nuclear engineer)
1955 - 2013
Akira Nishimura
Born 1953
Yusuke Kishi
Born 1959
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki
Born 1955
Takayoshi Yamano
Born 1955
Toshio Okada
Born 1958
Takashi Naitō
Born 1955
Phew (singer)
Born 1959
Akira Maeda
Born 1959
Shōfukutei Tsurube II
Born 1951
Akihiro Nishimura (footballer)
Born 1958
Screaming Mad George
Born 1956
Ko Yong-hui
1952 - 2004
Makiko Futaki
1958 - 2016
Akiko Ebi
Born 1953
Yoko Akino
Born 1957
Alice Arisugawa
Born 1959
Yasuhito Suzuki
Born 1959
Hiroko Kuniya
Born 1957
Shiro Nakamura
Born 1950
Taku Ashibe
Born 1958
Mariko Okamoto
Born 1951
Chieko Asakawa
Born 1958
Miyako Yamaguchi
Born 1952
Atsuko Tokuda
Born 1955
Hideo Sawada
Born 1951
Masahiko Tanaka
Born 1954
Shigenobu Nakamura
Born 1950
Chihiro Fujioka
Born 1959
Yasuhiro Takeda
Born 1957
Kazuo Kitagawa
Born 1953
Teiyū Ichiryūsai
Born 1958
Kazuhisa Uchihashi
Born 1959
Mariko Ōhara
Born 1959
Akinobu Okada
Born 1957
Yoshiaki Murakami
Born 1959
Hisako Manda
Born 1958
Yutaka Tsujinaka
Born 1954
Satoshi Kinsui
Born 1956
Motoyuki Shitanda
Born 1952
Ryo Okumoto
Born 1959
Satoshi Kawata
Born 1951
Jiro Watanabe
Born 1955
Masao Ogaki
Born 1958
Kuniko Tanioka
Born 1954
Joji Obara
Born 1952
Masayo Imura
Born 1950
Masaru Kitsuregawa
Born 1955
Hideshi Matsuda
Born 1954
Saki Dockrill
1952 - 2009
Takako Akasaka
Born 1955
Yu Tokui
Born 1959
Jin Urayama
Born 1956
Yukio Sawada
Born 1953
Gen Takayama
Born 1951
Kiyoshi Kitagawa
Born 1958
Mun Se-gwang
1951 - 1974
Yoshikazu Cho
Born 1953
Tōru Nakamura (golfer)
Born 1950
Shin-Ichi Fukuda
Born 1955
Yoshinobu Miyake (religionist)
Born 1958
Gania Nishimura
Born 1952
Kyoto Katsuki
Born 1954
Sonoda Yuichi
Born 1952
Toshiyuki Shiga
Born 1953
Nina Grewal
Born 1958
Jun Abe
Born 1955
Yuko Takada Keller
Born 1958
Yoshitaka Yamamoto
Born 1951
Atsuko Seta
Born 1955
Yumi Karasumaru
Born 1958
Torahiko Tanaka
Born 1957
Shinsaku Maeda
Born 1952
Masako Yanagi
Born 1959
Yoh Iwasa
Born 1952
Teru Fukui
Born 1953
Harue Tsutsumi
Born 1950
Jun Okuda
Born 1957
Rikuo Ueda
Born 1950
Hisaharu Yasui
1951 - 2015
Minoru Tatsukawa
Born 1952
Yoshihiro Shiga
Born 1956
Toru Matsuoka
Born 1951
Tochiizumi Takayuki
Born 1959
Kazufumi Matsunaga
Born 1956
Toru Yonezawa
Born 1958
Toshihiko Kankawa
Born 1954
Hideto Shigenobu
Born 1954
Kanji Kitamura
Born 1955
Yumiko Ono
Born 1954
Kiyoe Nakagawa
Born 1951
Jun Sawada
Born 1955