List of Japanese people
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This is a list of Japanese people that are famous.
All names are in Japanese order, with the surname before the given name.
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Actors
- Kawashima Azumi
- Kimiko Ikegami
- Hajime Iwatani
- Saburo Ishikura
- Kaga Takeshi
- Bunko Kanazawa
- Takeshi Kaneshiro
- Kitano (Beat) Takeshi
- Ken Matsudaira
- Toshiro Mifune
- Kichiemon Nakamura
- Kotaro Satomi
- Hideki Takahashi
- Reiko Takashima
- Ken Watanabe
See also: List of Japanese actors, List of Japanese actresses, List of Seiyu (Japanese voice actors), List of Japanese Comedians
Artists
- Rumiko Takahashi
- Hiroshige
- Hokusai
- Kano Eitoku
- Kano Masanobu
- Matahei Iwasa
- Murayama Kaita
- Sesshu Toyo
- Sharaku
- Takeuchi Naoko
- Takamura Koun
- Tezuka Osamu
See also: List of Manga-ka, Kano school
Athletes
- Akebono
- Yoshiro Asai
- Date Kimiko
- Sho Funaki
- Inamoto Junichi
- Ito Midori
- Konishiki
- Maruyama Shigeki
- Miura Kazuyoshi
- Musashimaru
- Nakata Hidetoshi
- Chuhei Nambu
- Sugiyama Ai
- Masato (kickboxer)
- Rumina Sato
- Takayuki Kohiruimaki
- Kazushi Sakuraba
- Takanori Gomi
- Kozo Takeda
- Genki Sudo
See also: List of Japanese baseball players, List of Yokozuna
Authors
Educators
Emperors
See: List of Japanese Emperors
Entrepreneurs
- Joi Ito
- Yataro Iwasaki
- Soichiro Honda
- Genichi Kawakami
- Konosuke Matsushita
- Takatoshi Mitsui
- Akio Morita
- Kokichi Mikimoto
- Eiji Toyoda
- Torakusu Yamaha
- Zenjiro Yasuda
Filmmakers
See also: List of Japanese Directors
Historians
Military leaders
Pre-modern
See List of samurai for all leaders with samurai status. See Kamakura shogunate, Ashikaga shogunate, and Tokugawa shogunate for list of those who became shogun.
Modern
- Anami Korechika
- Doihara Kenji
- Enomoto Takeaki
- uroki Itei
- Matsui Iwane
- Minoru Ota
- Suzuki Kantaro
- Togo Heihachiro
- Tojo Hideki
- Yamamoto Isoroku
- Kanji Ishihara
Musicians
- Amuro Namie
- Akino Arai
- Taro Hakase
- Hamasaki Ayumi
- Hisaishi Joe
- Camui Gackt
- 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
See also List of Japanese rock bands, List of J-Pop artists
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
- Masayoshi Ito
- Kajiyama Seiroku
- Kan Naoto
- Kanemaru Shin
- Kuranari Tadashi
- Michio Watanabe
- Katsuo Okazaki
- Ota Fusae
- Ozawa Ichiro
- Shiokawa Masajuro
- Takenaka Heizo
- Takemaru Masayoshi
- Tanaka Makiko
- Tanaka Yasuo
- Tsurunen Marutei
- Yasuya Uchida
- Tatsuo Yamamoto
- 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
- Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Scientists
- Leo Esaki
- Kotaro Honda
- Kikunae Ikeda
- Shibasaburo Kitasato
- Kokichi Mikimoto
- Tokuhichi Mishima
- Yasujiro Niwa
- Kyota Sugimoto
- Akihiko Tago
- Jokichi Takamine
- Susumu Tonegawa
- Shinichiro Tomonaga (Sin-Itiro Tomonaga)
- Sakichi Toyoda
- Hidetsugu Yagi
- Hideki Yukawa
Mathematicians
- Kodaira Kunihiko
- Kunihiko Kodaira
- Kenkichi Iwasawa
- Mikio Sato
- Yoneda Nobuo
- Kowa Seki
- Teiji Takagi
- Mori Shigefumi
- Goro Shimura
- Hironaka Heisuke
- Yutaka Taniyama
Other Notables
- Nitobe Inazo
- Osugi Sakae
- Sakai Toshihiko
- Sanyutei Encho
- Soeda Azenbo
- Sugihara Chiune
- Tanaka Shozo
- Terada Torahiko
- Uchimura Kanzo
- Ken Sakamura
- Tamiya Maya
- Takeo Yoshikawa
- Kawakami Kiyoshi
- Onoda Hiroo
- Yoko Matsugane