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.
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- Filtered to 1870s Clear ×
Emperor Taishō
1879 - 1926
Shigeru Yoshida
1878 - 1967
Ichiyō Higuchi
1872 - 1896
Kafū Nagai
1879 - 1959
Takeo Arishima
1878 - 1923
Sada Yacco
1871 - 1946
Kido Okamoto
1872 - 1939
Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu
1875 - 1946
Mitsuko Aoyama
1874 - 1941
Rentarō Taki
1879 - 1903
Shinobu Ishihara
1879 - 1963
Yuzuru Hiraga
1878 - 1943
Torahiko Terada
1878 - 1935
Bin Ueda
1874 - 1916
Hon'inbō Shūsai
1874 - 1940
Kiyokata Kaburagi
1878 - 1972
Ariake Kambara
1876 - 1952
Hasegawa Nyozekan
1875 - 1969
Tokuzō Fukuda
1874 - 1930
Hasegawa Shigure
1879 - 1941
Masabumi Hosono
1870 - 1939
Masatoshi Ōkōchi
1878 - 1952
Nobu Kōda
1870 - 1946
Takahashi Shōtei
1871 - 1945
Yoshiaki Hatta
1879 - 1964
Karigane Junichi
1879 - 1959
Tokuboku Hirata
1873 - 1943
Katayama Hiroko
1878 - 1958
Shōzō Murata
1878 - 1957
Takuo Godō
1877 - 1956
Jōji Matsumoto
1877 - 1954
Eiichi Baba
1879 - 1937
Matsumoto Kōshirō VII
1870 - 1949
Oshita Tojiro
1870 - 1911
Morio Matsudaira
1878 - 1944
Koyata Iwasaki
1879 - 1945
Takaoki Sasaki
1878 - 1966
Enkichi Ōki
1871 - 1926
Yabe Hisakatsu
1878 - 1969
Sano Tsuneha
1871 - 1956
Ginzo Uchida
1872 - 1919
Keita Shibata
1877 - 1949
Andō Kō
1878 - 1963
Hisaakira Hijikata
1870 - 1942
Maeda Toshisada
1874 - 1944
Sakutaro Tachi
1874 - 1943
Toyosuke Hata
1872 - 1933
Murata Tanryō
1872 - 1940
Hideo Fujino
1878 - 1956
Samuel McLaren
1876 - 1916
Prince Kachō Hiroatsu
1875 - 1883
Uehara Konen
1877 - 1940
Frank Gillingham
1875 - 1953
Yuasa Takejirō
1871 - 1904
Tatsusaburo Nakayama
1870 - 1933
Keijirō Asō
1875 - 1953
Koto Ishiwatari
1874 - 1947
Akatsuka Jitoku
1871 - 1936
Tsujimoto Mitsumaru
1877 - 1940