35.6855° N, 139.7239° E
TOKYO
Most Famous People Born in Tokyo, Japan
- Notable people
- 5,034
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1957
- Most distinctive
- Seiyū 131.4×
An ecosystem of fame that barely exists outside Japan. Tokyo's two most distinctive professions — seiyū (voice actor) at more than 130 times the global rate and manga artist at over 60 times — are job titles that simply don't have English equivalents, and they sit alongside one of the world's biggest novelist, photographer, and model benches. The list also runs from Tokugawa shoguns through the woodblock masters of Edo to the directors and animators who exported postwar Japanese cinema to the world.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Tokyo during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Tokyo Is Known For
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Actor is Tokyo's biggest profession — 17% of all notables (840).
Tokyo over-indexes on seiyū — 131.4× the global rate.
Tokyo under-produces politician — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Tokyo's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Film & TV
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- Music
- Art & Design
- Writing
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- Filtered to 1860s Clear ×
Natsume Sōseki
1867 - 1916
Futabatei Shimei
1864 - 1909
Kōda Rohan
1867 - 1947
Uchimura Kanzō
1861 - 1930
Ozaki Kōyō
1868 - 1903
Tsuda Umeko
1864 - 1929
Tokugawa Iesato
1863 - 1940
Yamada Bimyō
1868 - 1910
Kiyohara Tama
1861 - 1939
Tanaka Chigaku
1861 - 1939
Kōgyo Tsukioka
1869 - 1927
Harada Naojirō
1863 - 1899
Nakamura Fusetsu
1866 - 1943
Mizuno Rentarō
1868 - 1949
Ogawa Mokichi
1868 - 1938
Roan Uchida
1868 - 1929
Uchida Kakichi
1866 - 1933
Murakami Kijo
1865 - 1938
Toshikata Mizuno
1866 - 1908
Nakamura Utaemon V
1865 - 1940
Yokoyama Sakujiro
1864 - 1912
Yamada Torajirō
1866 - 1957
Ishikawa Chiyomatsu
1861 - 1935
Kintarô Okamura
1867 - 1935
Mitsutaro Shirai
1863 - 1932
Kintarō Hattori
1860 - 1934
Tameyuki Amano
1861 - 1938
Hoshino Tenchi
1862 - 1950
Shin Hirayama
1867 - 1945
Ueda Kazutoshi
1867 - 1937
Kingo Miyabe
1860 - 1951
Uryū Shigeko
1862 - 1928
John Toshimichi Imai
1863 - 1919
Katō Sadakichi
1861 - 1927
Hiruma Kenpachi
1867 - 1936
Gōda Kiyoshi
1862 - 1938
Mito Umeta
1863 - 1975
Matsumoto Kazu
1860 - 1940
Yasujiro Nagata
1867 - 1923