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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.