Iwate Prefecture
Iwate Prefecture ranks 989th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Rochdale, Tønsberg, and Anyang, Gyeonggi. The most famous people from Iwate Prefecture are Mitsumasa Yonai, Hirokazu Kanazawa, and Takuboku Ishikawa. Iwate Prefecture has been the birth place of many soccer players, and writers. Iwate Prefecture is located in Japan.
People
Between 1880 and 1998, Iwate Prefecture was the birth place of 17 globally memorable people, including Mitsumasa Yonai, Hirokazu Kanazawa, and Takuboku Ishikawa.
People Born in Iwate Prefecture
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Mitsumasa Yonai
POLITICIAN
1880 - 1948
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 1
Hirokazu Kanazawa
WRITER
1931 - 2019
HPI: 63.19
Rank: 2
Takuboku Ishikawa
WRITER
1886 - 1912
HPI: 60.28
Rank: 3
Mitsuru Komaeda
SOCCER PLAYER
1950 - Present
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 4
Okuro Oikawa
ASTRONOMER
1896 - 1970
HPI: 55.09
Rank: 5
Gege Akutami
COMIC ARTIST
1992 - Present
HPI: 49.22
Rank: 6
Kazuya Igarashi
SOCCER PLAYER
1965 - Present
HPI: 48.19
Rank: 7
Kinoto Saito
SOCCER PLAYER
1976 - Present
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 8
Hikaru Fujishima
SOCCER PLAYER
1989 - Present
HPI: 47.23
Rank: 9
Hajime Tabata
GAME DESIGNER
1971 - Present
HPI: 44.78
Rank: 10
Manabu Nakamura
SOCCER PLAYER
1977 - Present
HPI: 41.61
Rank: 11
Ichiro Suzuki
SOCCER PLAYER
1995 - Present
HPI: 39.49
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Born in Iwate Prefecture
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Most individuals born in present day Iwate Prefecturewere soccer players (9), writers (2), athletes (2), politicians (1), and astronomers (1), while most who died were .
Places
Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 4 globally memorable people born in Iwate Prefecture since 1700.
