This is a list of Japanese people who are notable.
If a sub-list is indicated, names should be placed in the sub-list instead of this list.
All names are in Japanese order, with the surname before the given name.
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Artists
See also: List of Japanese artists, Mangaka, List of manga artists, Kano school
Athletes
See Category:Lists of Japanese sportspeople
Authors
Educators
Emperors
See: List of Japanese Emperors
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.
- Emperor Go-Toba
- Kusunoki Masashige
- Taira no Kiyomori
- Taira no Masakado
- Fujiwara no Hidesato (Tawara no Tōda)
Modern
- Anami Korechika
- Doihara Kenji
- Enomoto Takeaki
- Kuroki Itei (Kuroki Tamemoto)
- Matsui Iwane
- Ota Minoru
- Suzuki Kantaro
- Togo Heihachiro
- Tojo Hideki
- Yamamoto Isoroku
- Ishiwara Kanji
Musicians
See Category:Lists of Japanese musicians
Personalities
See also List of Japanese celebrities, List of Japanese comedians
Politicians
See List of Prime Ministers of Japan, List of Japanese politicians
Religious leaders
- Dogen
- Eisai
- Kūkai
- Nichiren
- Nikkō
- Ryōkan
- Saigyo
- Shinran
- Asahara Shōko
- Takuan Sōhō
- Teshima Ikurō
- Uchimura Kanzo
- Yoshihiko Kikuchi
- Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
- Kikuchi Yoshihiko
Scientists
- Esaki Leo
- Honda Kotarō
- Ikeda Kikunae
- Kitasato Shibasaburō
- Mikimoto Kokichi
- Mishima Tokuhichi
- Nakaya Ukichiro
- Niwa Yasujirō
- Sugimoto Kyōta
- Tago Akihiko
- Takamine Jokichi
- Tanaka Kōichi
- Tonegawa Susumu
- Fujita Tetsuya
- Tomonaga Shinichiro
- Toyoda Sakichi
- Yagi Hidetsugu
- Yai Senzo
- Yukawa Hideki
- Shinchi Masaru
Mathematicians
- Hironaka Heisuke
- Iwasawa Kenkichi
- Kodaira Kunihiko
- Mori Shigefumi
- Sato Mikio
- Seki Kōwa
- Shimura Gorō
- Takagi Teiji
- Taniyama Yutaka
- Yoneda Nobuo
Economists
See List of Japanese Economists
Other Notables
- Masao Miyamoto
- Motoki Hiromatsu
- Gordon Hirabayashi
- Kenneth Nakazawa
- Aneha Hidetsugu
- Hiramatsu Takashi
- Horie Kenichi
- Jake Kajiyama
- Kawakami Kiyoshi
- Fred Korematsu
- Matsugane Yōko
- Nitobe Inazo
- Onoda Hirō
- Takabori Yoshiya
- Sakae Osugi
- Sakai Toshihiko
- Sakamura Ken
- Sanyutei Encho
- Satoshi Tajiri
- Shigeru Miyamoto
- Gunpei Yokoi (deceased)
- Soeda Azenbo
- Sonoda Tenkoko
- Sugihara Chiune
- Tamiya Maya
- Tanaka Shozo
- Terada Torahiko
- Uchimura Kanzo
- Yoshikawa Takeo
- Yuasa Takashi
- Daiki Ishikawa
- Masumi Watanabe
- Hirofumi Yamashita
- Hatta Yoichi
- Sakae Menda
Hafus (biracial Japanese)
- Reika Hashimoto
- Anna Tsuchiya
- Anna Umemiya
- Linda Yamamoto
- Beni Arashiro
- Tadanobu Asano
- Meisa Kuroki
- Angela Aki
- Chieko Kawabe
- Megumi Nakajima
- Emi Watanabe
- Keisuke Ogihara
- Masayoshi "Mabo" Kabe
- Minami Hinase
- Sowelu
- Marcus Tulio Tanaka
- Lisa (musician)
- Koji Murofushi
- Yuka Murofushi
- Masumi Okada
- Takeshi Kaneshiro
- Yuu Shirota
- Koji Ota
- Hiromi Hayakawa
See also
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