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Gunma Prefecture (jpn)

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Gunma Prefecture ranks 344th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Bamako, Nantes, and Leuven. Memorable people born in Gunma Prefecture include Kenkichi Iwasawa, Jiro Sato, and Shunichi Ikenoue. Gunma Prefecture has been the birth place of many soccer players, and mathematicians. Gunma Prefecture is located in Japan.

Gunma Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Gunma Prefecture has a population of 1,937,626 and has a geographic area of 6,362 km2. Gunma Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture and Fukushima Prefecture to the north, Nagano Prefecture to the southwest, Saitama Prefecture to the south, and Tochigi Prefecture to the east. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1908 and 2002, Gunma Prefecture was the birth place of 39 globally memorable people, including Kenkichi Iwasawa, Jiro Sato, and Shunichi Ikenoue.

People Born in Gunma Prefecture

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Gunma Prefecture were soccer players (36), mathematicians (1), tennis players (1), and actors (1),  while most who died were .

Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Gunma Prefecture, including Shunichi Ikenoue, Satoru Kobayashi, and Makoto Yonekura. Whereas, throughout history, soccer players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Gunma Prefecture, including Shunichi Ikenoue, Satoru Kobayashi, and Makoto Yonekura.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 2 globally memorable people born in Gunma Prefecture since 1700.