List of personalities from Nagoya
This list includes people who were born in the Japanese city of Nagoya or who worked there for a long time.
A.
- Yutaka Akita (* 1970), soccer player
- Miki Andō (* 1987), figure skater
- Hirotaka Akamatsu (* 1948), politician
- Sayaka Aoki (* 1986), track and field athlete
- Shūsaku Arakawa (1936–2010), painter, graphic artist and architect
- Mao Asada (* 1990), figure skater
- Yoshihiro Asai (born 1966), wrestler
E.
- Tatsuya Egawa (* 1961), Mangaka
F.
- Motohisa Furukawa (* 1965), politician
- Ibuki Fujita (* 1991), soccer player
G
- Gessen (1741–1809), painter
H
- Noriyuki Haga (* 1975), motorcycle racer
- Kazushi Hano (born 1991), rugby player
I.
- Satoshi Iida (* 1969), boxer
- Masao Itō (1928-2018), neuroscientist
- Midori Itō (* 1969), figure skater
- Itō Ren (1898–1983), painter
- Yui Itsuki (* 1984), rock singer and voice actress
J
- Jong Tae-se (* 1984), soccer player
K
- Toshiki Kaifu (* 1931), politician
- Satoshi Kamiya (* 1981), origami master
- Kato Hideki (* 1962), musician
- Masaaki Katō (born 1958), football player
- Takashi Kawamura (* 1948), politician
- Maeda Keiji (1543-1612), samurai
- Moa Kikuchi (* 1999), metal singer
- Katō Kiyomasa (1561-1611), Daimyō
- Yoshito Kishi (* 1937), chemist
- Kitō Nabesaburō (1899–1982), painter
- Makoto Kobayashi (* 1944), physicist
- Kensuke Koike (* 1980), artist
- Kōji Kondō (born 1961), composer
- Shōichi Kondō (* 1958), politician
- Takahiko Kozuka (* 1989), figure skater
- Kishō Kurokawa (1934–2007), architect
- Shōzō Kusakawa (1928–2019), politician
- Wadachi Kiyoo (1902-1995), seismologist
M.
- Maeda Toshiie (1538-1599), Samurai
- Toshihide Masukawa (* 1940), physicist
- Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147-1199), Shogun
- Masumi Miyazaki (* 1968), actress and photo model
- Naoko Mori (* 1975), actress
- Shigefumi Mori (* 1951), mathematician
- Shigeharu Mukai (* 1949), jazz musician
- Kanako Murakami (* 1994), figure skater
N
- Nakabayashi Chikutō (1776-1853), painter
- Niwa Nagahide (1535–1585), samurai
- Akihiko Nakamura (* 1990), track and field athlete
- Ryōta Nakamura (born 1991), football player
- Takuma Nishimura (* 1996), soccer player
- Sakuma Nobumori (1528–1582), samurai
- Issei Nomura (* 1940), diplomat
- Karina Nose (* 1984), actress and model
- Hisashi Nozawa (1960-2004), writer
O
- Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582), daimyo
- Akane Ogura (?), Mangaka
- Yoshie Onda (* 1982), figure skater
- Eri Ōno (* 1955), pop and jazz singer
- Arimasa Ōsawa (* 1956), writer
- Kōhei Ōtsuka (* 1959), political scientist
S.
- Sakuma Morimasa (1554-1583), samurai
- Sassa Narimasa (1536-1588), samurai
- Kazuki Satō (born 1993), football player
- Takayuki Seto (* 1986), soccer player
- Shibata Katsuie (1522–1583), daimyo
- Kazuko Sugiyama (* 1947), voice actress
- Tonegawa Susumu (* 1939), molecular biologist
- Tetsushi Suwa (* 1969), writer
- Jun Suzuki (born 1993), football player
- Shin'ichi Suzuki (1898-1998), violinist
- Toshio Suzuki (* 1948), film producer
- Hirotaka Suzuoki (1950-2006), voice actor
T
- Tachibana Zuichō (1890–1968), explorer and officer
- Junto Taguchi (* 1996), soccer player
- Naoshi Takahashi (* 1973), conductor
- Hiroshi Tamaki (* 1980), singer and actor
- Naomi Tamura (* 1954), pop singer and songwriter
- Shōmei Tōmatsu (1930–2012), photographer
- Akio Toyoda (* 1956), manager
- Toyoda Eiji (1913-2013), manager
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598), Daimyō
U
- Shōma Uno (* 1997), figure skater
W.
- Yōichi Wada (* 1959), manager
Y
- Chitose Yagami (* 1969), Mangaka
- Kazuki Yamaguchi (born 1995), football player
- Yamamoto Baiitsu (1783-1856), painter
- Kōji Yamamura (born 1964), anime director
- Yokoi Yayū (1702–1783), samurai and poet
- Aya Yoshida (* 1971), organist and church musician