Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Prefectura de Yamagata

Hiroshi Saitō is a former governor of Yamagata Prefecture. He was first elected in 2005. A native of Yamagata, Yamagata, he joined the Bank of Japan upon graduation from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in 1981. He also received MIPP in 1989 and MA in 1990 from Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University.He was defeated for reelection in an upset by Mieko Yoshimura an Education Committee member for Yamagata Prefecture.

Tetsuro Nariyama was born in Yamadera, Yamagata Prefecture and is a Japanese aikido teacher, the technical director of the Shodokan Aikido Federation and chief instructor (Shihan) of the Shodokan Hombu Dojo in Osaka, Japan.

Yukihiro Doi es un ciclista japonés. Su debut lo hizo en el 2004 con el Shimano Racing y posteriormente en el Skil/Argos-Shimano hasta la temporada 2012. Se retiró en 2018 tras 15 años como profesional.