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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 1890s Clear ×
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
1892 - 1927
Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi
1894 - 1972
Kenji Mizoguchi
1898 - 1956
Fumimaro Konoe
1891 - 1945
Inejiro Asanuma
1898 - 1960
Yuriko Miyamoto
1899 - 1951
Shinsui Itō
1898 - 1972
Tamon Yamaguchi
1892 - 1942
Kōshirō Onchi
1891 - 1955
Hidemaro Konoye
1898 - 1973
Kunio Kishida
1890 - 1954
Tsuru Aoki
1892 - 1961
Hatazō Adachi
1890 - 1947
Keizo Shibusawa
1896 - 1963
Katō Shidzue
1897 - 2001
Ryūnosuke Kusaka
1892 - 1971
Ryūsei Kishida
1891 - 1929
Wells Coates
1895 - 1958
Yamakawa Kikue
1890 - 1980
Daigaku Horiguchi
1892 - 1981
Zenzo Shimizu
1891 - 1977
Kenji Imai (architect)
1895 - 1987
Aiichirō Fujiyama
1897 - 1985
Colin Gubbins
1896 - 1976
Jūkichi Yagi
1898 - 1927
Kazuo Hirotsu
1891 - 1968
Yasujirō Shimazu
1897 - 1945
Woo Jang-choon
1898 - 1959
Shūōshi Mizuhara
1892 - 1981
Ozaki Kihachi
1892 - 1974
Masajirō Kojima
1894 - 1994
Seiko Fujita
1898 - 1966
Fusako Kitashirakawa
1890 - 1974
Minoru Murata
1894 - 1937
Michio Itō
1892 - 1961
Suihō Tagawa
1899 - 1989
Takeru Inukai
1896 - 1960
Akiko Seki
1899 - 1973
Tokuji Hayakawa
1893 - 1980
Hitoshi Kihara
1893 - 1986
Chōko Iida
1897 - 1972
Isoya Yoshida
1894 - 1974
Tadashige Daigo
1891 - 1947
Masanosuke Fukuda
1897 - 1974
Shunichi Matsumoto
1897 - 1987
Shikanosuke Oka
1898 - 1978
Princess Nobuko Asaka
1891 - 1933
Masaji Kitano
1894 - 1986
Buntarō Futagawa
1899 - 1966
Tatsuo Hayashi
1896 - 1984
Koreshige Inuzuka
1890 - 1965
Shiro Kasamatsu
1898 - 1991
Lilian May Miller
1895 - 1943
Takako Hashimoto
1899 - 1963
Prince Fushimi Hiroyoshi
1897 - 1938
Yoshitoshi Mori
1898 - 1992
Rosō Fukuhara
1892 - 1946
Yoshi Hijikata
1898 - 1959
Michiharu Mishima
1897 - 1965
Takehiko Yamashina
1898 - 1987
Shūkichi Mitsukuri
1895 - 1971
Norimasa Kaeriyama
1893 - 1964
Yun Il-seon
1896 - 1987
Hiroya Ino
1891 - 1980
Mizushima San’ichirō
1899 - 1983
Yoshitsugu Saitō
1890 - 1944
Nakagawa Kazumasa
1893 - 1991
Shōhachi Kimura
1893 - 1958
Toshiko Higashikuni
1896 - 1978
Ryūjo Hori
1897 - 1984
Hayashi Takeshi
1896 - 1975
Kisaku Itō
1899 - 1967
Koto Ōkubo
1897 - 2013
Matsuji Ijuin
1893 - 1944
Muneyoshi Tokugawa
1897 - 1989
Kiyoshi Nishiyama
1893 - 1983
Mary Elizabeth Pruett Farrington
1898 - 1984
Eiko Miyoshi
1894 - 1963
Asō Takeharu
1899 - 1993
Tokuko Takagi
1891 - 1919
Kōgorō Uemura
1894 - 1978
Suzuki Shintarō
1895 - 1989
Michitaro Tozuka
1890 - 1966
Shin Kato
1891 - 1952
Noguchi Yatarō
1899 - 1976
Tokuro Konishi
1894 - 1977
Luke Hasegawa
1897 - 1967
Masataka Takayama (photographer)
1895 - 1981
Kerr Eby
1890 - 1946
James M. Landis
1899 - 1964
Satonari Tokugawa
1899 - 1961
Takabatake Tatsushirō
1895 - 1976
Asano Nagatake
1895 - 1969
Gorō Tsuruta
1890 - 1969
Nitta Isamu
1899 - 1984
Yamamoto Toyoichi
1899 - 1987
Sujaku Suzuki
1891 - 1972
Takaho Itagaki
1894 - 1966
Masuzo Shikata
1895 - 1964
Shun'ichi Kase
1897 - 1956
Tomoda Kyōsuke
1899 - 1937
Ishiwata Koitsu
1897 - 1987
Araki Mitsutarō
1894 - 1951
Akira Toriyama (ophthalmologist)
1898 - 1994
Hasegawa Haruko
1895 - 1967
Robert Taft (chemist and author)
1894 - 1955
Chiyotaro Onoda
1896 - 1944
Rokuzō Sugiyama
1890 - 1947
Yasushi Sakai
1892 - 1986
Masayuki Matsuda
1892 - 1976
Kawakami Santarō
1891 - 1968
Shinobu Ando
1895 - 1970
Shimizu Tatsujirō
1897 - 1992
Shinichi Yamaoka
Born 1894
Tonouchi Mishō
1891 - 1964
Yutaka Tsuchida
1898 - 1976
Shizuo Ban
1896 - 1989