List of Japanese people

Actors

• Kaga Takeshi
• Kitano (Beat) Takeshi
• Hajime Iwatani
• Saburo Ishikura
• Bunko Kanazawa
• Mifune Toshiro
• Watanabe Ken

See also: Seiyuu (Japanese voice actors)

Artists

• Hiroshige
• Hokusai
• Murayama Kaita
• Sharaku
• Takeuchi Naoko
• Takamura Koun
• Tezuka Osamu

See also: List of Manga-ka

Athletes

• Akebono
• Date Kimiko
• Hasegawa Shigetoshi
• Irabu Hideki
• Inamoto Junichi
• Ishii Kazuhisa
• Ito Midori
• Konishiki
• Matsui Hideki
• Musashimaru
• Nagashima Shigeo
• Nakata Hidetoshi
• Chuhei Nambu
• Nomo Hideo
• Ohka Tomokazu
• Oh Sadaharu
• Komiyama Satoru
• Sasaki Kazuhiro
• Shinjo Tsuyoshi
• Sugiyama Ai
• Suzuki Ichiro
• Suzuki Makoto
• Taguchi So
• Yoshii Masato

See also: List of Yokozuna

Authors

See: List of Japanese authors

Educators

• Fukuzawa Yukichi
• Yukio Tsuda

Emperors

See: List of Japanese Emperors

Entrepreneurs

• Yataro Iwasaki
• Soichiro Honda
• Genichi Kawakami
• Konosuke Matsushita
• Takatoshi Mitsui
• Akio Morita
• Kokichi Mikimoto
• Eiji Toyoda
• Torakusu Yamaha

Filmmakers

• Kurosawa Akira
• Honda Ishiro
• Miyazaki Hayao
• Kitano Takeshi
• Tsuburaya Eiji
• Ozu Yasujiro

Historians

• Maruyama Masao
• Naito Torajiro

Military leaders

Pre-modern

• Yoshisada Nitta
• Masashige Kusunoki
• Tawarano Hidesato
• Kansuke Yamamoto
• William Adams (Miura Anjin)
• Bokuden Tsukahara
• Munenori Yagyu
• Miyamoto Musashi
• Oda Nobunaga
• Saigo Takamori
• Sakamoto Ryoma
• Taira Kiyomori
• Toyotomi Hideyoshi

See also: Kamakura shogunate, Ashikaga shogunate, Tokugawa shogunate

Modern

• Anami Korechika
• Doihara Kenji
• Enomoto Takeaki
• Matsui Iwane
• Suzuki Kantaro
• Togo Heihachiro
• Tojo Hideki
• Yamamoto Isoroku
• Kanji Ishihara

Musicians

• Amuro Namie
• Akino Arai
• Hamasaki Ayumi
• Hisaishi Joe
• Ifukube Akira
• Kuraki Mai
• Misora Hibari
• Mochida Kaori
• Ono Yoko
• Ozawa Seiji
• Sakamoto Kyu
• Sakamoto Ryuichi
• Taki Rentaro
• Tomita Isao
• Uematsu Nobuo
• Utada Hikaru
• Tetsuya Komuro
• Yuri Kasahara

Politicians

This is a list of Japanese politicians who have not served as Prime Minister of Japan.

• Abe Shintaro
• Arai Hakuseki
• Doi Takako
• Enomoto Takeaki
• Fukuda Yasuo (current Head of LDP Cabinet)
• Fujio Masayuki
• Ishihara Shintaro
• Kajima Seiroku
• Kan Naoto
• Kanemaru Shin
• Kuranari Tadashi
• Michio Watanabe
• Ota Fusae
• Ozawa Ichiro
• Shiokawa Masajuro
• Takenaka Heizo
• Takemaru Masayoshi
• Tanaka Makiko
• Tsurunen Marutei
• Yokoyama Nokku

See also: List of Prime Ministers of Japan

Religious leaders

• Dogen Zenji
• Eisai
• Kukai
• Nichiren
• Nikko
• Ryokan
• Saigyo
• Shinran
• Shoko Asahara
• Takuan Soho
• Teshima Ikuro
• Uchimura Kanzo

Scientists

• Leo Esaki
• Hideki Yukawa
• Kikunae Ikeda
• Sakichi Toyoda
• Kokichi Mikimoto
• Jokichi Takamine
• Umetaro Suzuki
• Kyota Sugimoto
• Kotaro Honda
• Hidetsugu Yagi
• Yasujiro Niwa
• Tokuhichi Mishima

Other Notables

• Sugihara Chiune
• Nitobe Inazo
• Miyatake Gaikotsu
• Osugi Sakae
• Sakai Toshihiko
• Sakamoto Ryoma
• San'yutei Encho
• Soeda Azenbo
• Tanaka Shozo
• Terada Torahiko
• Uchimura Kanzo
• Ueda Bin
• Yamagata Hiroo
• Ken Sakamura
• Tamiya Maya
• Takeo Yoshikawa
• Kiyoshi Kawakami
• Onoda Hiroo

See also

• List of people by nationality