Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en prefectura de Kagoshima

Shinya Tsuruoka is a Japanese professional baseball catcher for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Kazuhito Sakae is a Japanese wrestling coach and retired wrestler who won several medals in the 62 kg category at the Asian and world level between 1983 and 1989. Remarkably, at the 1983 Asian Wrestling Championships, he won a gold medal in the freestyle wrestling and a silver in the Greco-Roman wrestling. After retiring from competitions he worked as a national coach, training Saori Yoshida, Kaori Icho, Hitomi Obara, Chiharu Icho and Eri Tosaka, among others.

Sayuri Kokusho. Nació el 22 de diciembre de 1966 en Kanoya, Prefectura de Kagoshima, Japón. Es una actriz, cantante y ex idol japonesa. Formó parte del grupo idol Onyanko Club, como la miembro número 8. Al haber contraído nupcias adoptó el nombre de Sayuri Koda, pero ella sigue trabajando con su nombre de soltera.

Kousuke Atari is a Japanese pop singer. He is a self-trained musician, and performs in the shimauta (island-song) style of his hometown.

Keiko Utoku is a Japanese singer and songwriter under UK Sweet label.

Chitose Hajime es una cantante japonesa nacida en Amami Oshima. Hajime canta utilizando los particulares sonidos de falsete que caracterizan al estilo de la región. Es reconocida por muchos debido a que algunas de sus canciones aparecen en las aperturas y finales de ciertos capítulos de anime como, por ejemplo, la banda sonora de Blood+ llamado «Kataritsugu Koto».

Minami Katsu is a Japanese professional golfer. She is the youngest winner in the history of the LPGA of Japan Tour when she won the KKT Cup Vantelin Ladies Open as an amateur on 20 April 2014 at age 15.

El príncipe Ōyama Iwao fue un mariscal de campo y político japonés, fue uno de los fundadores del Ejército Imperial de Japón.

Yamato Maeda is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He has been registered as "Yamato" since 2007.

Mutsumi Fujisaki , better known as Miyu Uehara , was a Japanese gravure idol and TV personality who gained popularity as a "poverty idol". She was represented by Platinum Production.