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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.