35.4491° N, 139.6381° E
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.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Yokohama during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Yokohama Is Known For
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Football is Yokohama's biggest profession — 20% of all notables (242).
Yokohama over-indexes on seiyū — 150.8× the global rate.
Yokohama under-produces politician — only 0.2× the global rate.
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.
- Sports
- Film & TV
- Music
- Art & Design
- Writing
- Politics & Law
- Other
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Fumiko Kaneko
1903 - 1926
Keiko Chiba
Born 1948
Naoki Hoshino
1892 - 1978
Arahata Kanson
1887 - 1981
Ichio Asukata
1915 - 1990
Hiroshi Nakada
Born 1964
Katsuo Okazaki
1897 - 1965
Akihisa Nagashima
Born 1962
Tsuneo Suzuki
Born 1941
Jun Matsumoto (politician)
Born 1950
Miki Watanabe
Born 1959
Kumakichi Nakajima
1873 - 1960
Masako Ōkawara
Born 1953
Kaoru Otsuki
1888 - 1970
Mineyuki Fukuda
Born 1964
Tomoo Nishikawa
Born 1948
Isamu Ueda
Born 1958
Hachiro Okonogi
Born 1965
Tsuyoshi Saitō
Born 1945
Laurin Zilliacus
1895 - 1959
Masayoshi Nataniya
Born 1957
Saburo Hayakawa
1888 - 1973
Teruki Gotō
Born 1982
Bernhard Hoffmann (Politiker, 1871)
1871 - 1958