List of personalities from Fukuoka
This list includes people who were born in the Japanese city of Fukuoka or who worked there for a long time.
A.
- Abe Isoo (1865-1949), politician
- Katsu Aki (* 1961), Mangaka
- Jirō Akagawa (* 1948), writer
- Akashi Motojirō (1864-1919), general
C.
- Sonny Chiba (born 1939), actor
F.
- Makoto Fukōin (* 1993), football player
- Ryō Fukuda (* 1979), racing car driver
H
- Tetsuo Hamuro (1917-2005), swimmer
- Ayumi Hamasaki (* 1978), pop singer
- Kiyoteru Hanada (1909–1974), literary critic
- Dairiki Hara (* 1959), jazz musician
- Shimetarō Hara (1882-1991), medic
- William I. Hitchcock (* 1965), historian
G
- Ayumu Goromaru (* 1986), rugby union player
I.
- Ino (kichi) Kubo; see Kubo Inokichi
- Daisuke Ishizu (* 1990), football player
- Itō Noe (1895–1923), feminist and anarchist
K
- Kaibara Ekiken (1630–1714), philosopher and naturalist
- Juzō Kagoshima (1898–1982), poet and doll maker
- Kenta Kakimoto (* 1990), soccer player
- Eita Kasagawa (* 1990), football player
- Ai Kawashima (* 1986), singer-songwriter and pianist
- Kobayakawa Kiyoshi (1899–1948), painter and woodcut artist
- Kojima Zenzaburō (1893–1962), painter
- Takashi Koshimoto (born 1971), boxer
- Kubo Inokichi (1874–1939), ear, nose and throat specialist and poet
M.
- Osamu Maeda (born 1965), football player
- Yūsuke Maeda (* 1984), football player
- Asahi Masuyama (born 1997), soccer player
- Ryū Matsumoto (1951–2018), politician
- Misia (* 1978), R&B singer
- Yūsuke Muta (* 1990), football player
N
- Yanosuke Narazaki (1920–2012), politician
O
- Hiroshi Ogawa (* 1949), politician
- Kazuo Okamatsu (1931–2012), writer and philologist
- Yoshinori Ōsumi (* 1945), cell biologist
- Seiichi Ōta (* 1945), politician
R.
- Robert Reginald (1948–2013), author and publisher
S.
- Kensuke Sasaki (born 1966), wrestler
- Jun Suzuki (born 1989), football player
T
- Takaba Osamu (1831–1891), doctor and educator
- Reina Tanaka (* 1989), pop singer and idol
- Ryōko Tani (* 1975), judoka and politician
- Mari Tanigawa (born 1962), track and field athlete
- Yūzō Tashiro (* 1982), football player
- Tōyama Mitsuru (1855-1944), politician
U
- Kiyoshi Ueda (* 1948), politician
- Umezaki Haruo (1915-1965), writer
- Kōji Uno (1891–1961), writer
W.
- Aya Wakisaka (* 1981), badminton player
- Yoko Watanabe (1953-2004), opera singer
Y
- Yamazaki Chōn (1867–1954), sculptor
- Kappei Yamaguchi (* 1965), voice actor and actor
- Yoshiteru Yamashita (* 1977), football player
- Tatsuhiko Yokoo (1928–2015), painter
- Masato Yoshihara (* 1991), football player
- Yoshihisa Yoshikawa (1936-2019), marksman