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YOKOHAMA

Most Famous People Born in Yokohama, Japan

Notable people
1,187
Peak decade
1980s
Median birth year
1976
Most distinctive
Seiyū 150.8×

The 150.8× seiyū multiplier is the single biggest profession over-index of any major Japanese city — Yokohama is where most of anime's voice workforce trains and works. Add the 70.1× manga index and you have the industrial back end of Japanese pop culture, with Setsuko Hara and Antonio Inoki lingering as reminders that the city had international stars long before the otaku pipeline existed.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Yokohama during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1980s with 246 notable births.

What Yokohama Is Known For

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Football is Yokohama's biggest profession — 20% of all notables (242).

Yokohama over-indexes on seiyū150.8× the global rate.

Yokohama under-produces politician — only 0.2× the global rate.

  1. Football242
  2. Actor180
  3. Seiyū85
  4. Singer66
  5. Manga34
  6. Player34
  7. Baseball31
  8. Politician24
  1. Seiyū85150.8×
  2. Manga3470.1×
  3. Martial Art1310.7×
  4. Golf147.0×
  5. Model196.2×
  6. Wrestler205.2×
  7. Novelist183.8×
  8. Actor1802.9×
  1. Politician240.2×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Yokohama's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

187519001925195019752000
  • Sports
  • Film & TV
  • Music
  • Art & Design
  • Writing
  • Politics & Law
  • Other
Politician24
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Showing 24 of 1,187 notable people

0055 POLITICIAN

Fumiko Kaneko

1903 - 1926

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0162 POLITICIAN

Keiko Chiba

Born 1948

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0180 POLITICIAN

Naoki Hoshino

1892 - 1978

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0256 POLITICIAN

Arahata Kanson

1887 - 1981

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0275 POLITICIAN

Ichio Asukata

1915 - 1990

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0302 POLITICIAN

Hiroshi Nakada

Born 1964

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0370 POLITICIAN

Katsuo Okazaki

1897 - 1965

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0390 POLITICIAN

Akihisa Nagashima

Born 1962

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0425 POLITICIAN

Tsuneo Suzuki

Born 1941

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0504 POLITICIAN

Jun Matsumoto (politician)

Born 1950

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0535 POLITICIAN

Miki Watanabe

Born 1959

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0703 POLITICIAN

Kumakichi Nakajima

1873 - 1960

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0740 POLITICIAN

Masako Ōkawara

Born 1953

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0766 POLITICIAN

Kaoru Otsuki

1888 - 1970

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0814 POLITICIAN

Mineyuki Fukuda

Born 1964

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0878 POLITICIAN

Tomoo Nishikawa

Born 1948

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0901 POLITICIAN

Isamu Ueda

Born 1958

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0965 POLITICIAN

Hachiro Okonogi

Born 1965

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0968 POLITICIAN

Tsuyoshi Saitō

Born 1945

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1007 POLITICIAN

Laurin Zilliacus

1895 - 1959

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1010 POLITICIAN

Masayoshi Nataniya

Born 1957

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1128 POLITICIAN

Saburo Hayakawa

1888 - 1973

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1171 POLITICIAN

Teruki Gotō

Born 1982

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1186 POLITICIAN

Bernhard Hoffmann (Politiker, 1871)

1871 - 1958

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