Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Prefectura de Yamanashi

Shintaro Tsuji is a Japanese businessman who is the founder of Sanrio Co., Ltd.. Tsuji founded Sanrio, the Tokyo-based character-branded merchandise company, in 1960. He has also served as producer for the anime movies Sanrio made from 1977 to 1985 and is a storywriter. Some of his stories include Nutcracker Fantasy, The Sea Prince and the Fire Child, and A Journey Through Fairyland, all of which have been made into animated movies by Sanrio.

Masahiko Kobe was a celebrity chef specializing in Italian cuisine, most notable as the "Iron Chef Italian" on the television series Iron Chef, where he appeared wearing a chef's uniform decorated like the Italian Flag and holding a tomato.

Ayu Nakada is a Japanese football player. She currently plays as a midfielder for Japanese L. League club INAC Kobe Leonessa. She played for Japan at the 2010 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup and the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, winning silver at the former and bronze at the latter.

Masae Kasai fue una jugadora de voleibol de Japón, miembro de la Selección Nacional de Mujeres de Japón que ganó la medalla de oro en los Juegos Olímpicos de 1964.

Shobushi Kanji was a Japanese sumo wrestler from Kōfu, Yamanashi. He was the first sumo wrestler to die from the coronavirus, and is also thought to be the first person in their 20s to die from the virus in Japan.

Satomu Shimizu , better known by the pen name of Shūgorō Yamamoto , was a Japanese novelist and short-story writer active during the Shōwa period of Japan. He was noted for his popular literature, and is known to have published works under at least fourteen different pen names.

Yoshifumi Kashiwa es un futbolista japonés. Juega de centrocampista y su equipo actual es el Sanfrecce Hiroshima de la J1 League de Japón.

Sakihito Ozawa is a Japanese politician and former banker. He is a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan and previously served as leader of the Vision of Reform party, which he formed in December 2015. A native of Kofu, Yamanashi, he graduated from the University of Tokyo and received a master's degree in political science from Saitama University. Shortly after graduating, he studied economics and policy under Eisuke Sakakibara. Before joining the House of Representatives, he worked at Tokyo Bank and served as an advisor to several lawmakers. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1993 as a member of Morihiro Hosokawa's Japan New Party. He was the Minister of the Environment during Yukio Hatoyama's prime ministership in 2009–2010.

Naito Ehara es un nadador japonés especializado en la prueba de 4x200 metros estilo libre, en la que consiguió ser medallista de bronce olímpico en 2016.

Hitoshi Goto is a Japanese politician and former governor of Yamanashi Prefecture. He was formerly a Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. He resigned from the Democratic Party and the Diet in November 2014 so that he could contest the January 2015 Yamanashi Gubernatorial election as an independent. A native of Kōfu and graduate of Tohoku University with a Bachelor of Economics, he worked at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries from 1980 to 1995.