Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en prefectura de Saitama

Tomoyuki Kubota is a Japanese pitcher for the Hanshin Tigers in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He was selected as a member in the 2006 World Baseball Classic.

Mari Amachi is a Japanese female singer and actress, who was famous in 1970s' Japan. On October 1, 1971, she debuted with the single "Mizuiro no Koi." She was born as Mari Saito in Omiya, Saitama Prefecture. She got five Oricon No.1 songs, a record as a female singer which was later broken by Seiko Matsuda. She started the era of Japanese idols in the 1970s and 1980s. Mari Amachi was the top female vocalist of Sony Music Entertainment in Japan.

Takashi Uchiyama es un boxeador japonés que fue campeón mundial de peso superpluma de la WBA.

Koichi Wakata es un ingeniero japonés y astronauta de la JAXA. Wakata es un veterano de cuatro misiones en transbordador espacial de la NASA y una estancia de larga duración en la Estación Espacial Internacional. Durante casi dos décadas de carrera en los vuelos espaciales ha registrado cinco meses el espacio. Wakata es asignado actualmente a la Soyuz TMA-11M/Expedición 38/Expedición 39 de larga duración de vuelo espacial programada para 2013-2014. Él será el primer comandante japonés de la Estación Espacial durante la Expedición 39.

Kazuki Kaneshiro is a Zainichi Korean novelist who was born in Kawaguchi, Saitama.

Dankan is a Japanese actor and film director. He appeared in more than thirty films since 1990.

Kaoru Matsumoto , better known by her ring name Dump Matsumoto , is a semi-retired Japanese professional wrestler. She came to prominence as one of the leading female wrestlers in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling during the 1980s. The longtime leader of the stable Gokuaku Domei — which included Crane Yu, Condor Saito and Bull Nakano — she was one of the main rivals of the popular tag team Crush Gals. Their long running feud would become extremely popular in Japan during the 1980s, with their televised matches resulting in some of the highest rated in Japanese television as well as the promotion regularly selling out arenas.

Mari Okada es una guionista, directora y artista de manga japonesa. Es una de las escritoras más prolíficas que actualmente trabajan en la industria del anime. Ganó el 16° Premio Animation Kobe por su trabajo.

Yasue Funayama is a Japanese politician and a former member of the House of Councillors (Japan) in the Diet.

Yukiko Kada , nacida el 18 de mayo de 1950, es una socióloga y mujer política japonesa, gobernadora de la prefectura de Shiga desde 2006. Diplomada de la Universidad de Kioto, es la primera presidenta del Partido del futuro del Japón, fundado en diciembre de 2012 con la perspectiva de las elecciones generales de este mismo mes. Su partido reúne unos 70 diputados y senadores, así que varios grupos ecologistas en favor del abandono de la energía nuclear.