Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Naha

Rina Chinen is a Japanese entertainer, former singer, and TV actress. She is affiliated with Rising Production.

Mabuni Kenei was a Japanese martial arts expert, holder of the 10th Dan.

Shō Tai, fue el último Rey de Ryukyu antes de su anexión a Japón. Pertenecía a la 2ª Dinastía Shō.

Shō Ten was the last crown prince of the Ryukyu Kingdom . He lost that title upon the abolition of the kingdom and the forced abdication of the king, his father, Shō Tai, in 1879, and later succeeded to the title of Marquess in the kazoku peerage following his father's death in 1901.

Gichin Funakoshi fue un maestro okinawense de Karate. Conocido como el "padre del karate moderno" o karate-Do por su labor de difusión del mismo en las islas principales de Japón y por ser el fundador del Karate-Do estilo Shotokan, junto a su hijo Yoshitaka (Gigo) Funakoshi.

Shō Shō , was the head of the Shō family, the former Ryukyuan royal family, and upon his father's death in 1920, he became head of the family and inherited the title of Marquess. Like most members of the kazoku system of peerage, and all heads of the Shō family since the abolition of the Ryukyu Kingdom, he lived in Tokyo for his whole life. He died in June 1923, and was succeeded by his son, Hiroshi Shō.

Shō Shin (1465–1526; r. 1477-1526) fue un rey del reino Ryūkyū, el tercero de la línea de la Segunda Dinastía. El prolongado reinado de Shō Shin ha sido denominado "los grandes días de Chūzan", un periodo caracterizado por una gran paz y prosperidad. Era hijo de Shō En, el fundador de la dinastía, por parte de Yosoidon, la segunda esposa de Sho En, a menudo denominada la reina madre. Sucedió a su tío, Shō Sen'i, quien fue obligado a abdicar en su favor.

Shō Sei was king of the Ryukyu Kingdom from 1526 to 1555. He was the fifth son of King Shō Shin, who he succeeded.

Shūgorō Nakazato was an Okinawan martial artist. Described as a "one punch artist" by some of his American students, Nakazato developed his karate sparring into "a fine fighting art". He gave many demonstrations in Japan as well as abroad and had "many well-known students in the USA", Nakazato was designated as an "intangible cultural asset holder" by Okinawa Prefecture in 2000. He was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, 5th Class with Gold and Silver Rays on November 4, 2007.

Fusako Kushi was a female writer from Okinawa. Her most notable work is Memoirs of a Declining Ryukyuan Woman, which was received with hostility and outrage.