Iwate Prefecture
Iwate Prefecture ranks 1,130th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Bayreuth, Nagpur, and Boulogne-sur-Mer. Memorable people born in Iwate Prefecture include Hirokazu Kanazawa, Takuboku Ishikawa, and Mitsuru Komaeda. Iwate Prefecture has been the birth place of many soccer players and writers. Iwate Prefecture is located in Japan.
Iwate Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. It is the second-largest Japanese prefecture at 15,275 square kilometres (5,898 sq mi), with a population of 1,165,886. Iwate Prefecture borders Aomori Prefecture to the north, Akita Prefecture to the west, and Miyagi Prefecture to the south. Read more on Wikipedia
Between 1886 and 1998, Iwate Prefecture was the birth place of 12 globally memorable people, including Hirokazu Kanazawa, Takuboku Ishikawa, and Mitsuru Komaeda.
People Born in Iwate Prefecture
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Hirokazu Kanazawa
1931 - 2019
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 1
Takuboku Ishikawa
1886 - 1912
HPI: 52.84
Rank: 2
Mitsuru Komaeda
1950 - Present
HPI: 43.06
Rank: 3
Okuro Oikawa
1896 - 1970
HPI: 41.99
Rank: 4
Kazuya Igarashi
1965 - Present
HPI: 28.92
Rank: 5
Manabu Nakamura
1977 - Present
HPI: 22.95
Rank: 6
Kaede Nakamura
1991 - Present
HPI: 21.91
Rank: 7
Kinoto Saito
1976 - Present
HPI: 19.15
Rank: 8
Hikaru Fujishima
1989 - Present
HPI: 17.51
Rank: 9
Ichiro Suzuki
1995 - Present
HPI: 14.82
Rank: 10
Naoto Misawa
1995 - Present
HPI: 13.71
Rank: 11
Gaku Harada
1998 - Present
HPI: 11.17
Rank: 12
Most individuals born in present day Iwate Prefecture were soccer players (9), writers (2), and astronomers (1), while most who died were .
Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Iwate Prefecture, including Mitsuru Komaeda, Kazuya Igarashi, and Manabu Nakamura. Whereas, throughout history, soccer players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Iwate Prefecture, including Mitsuru Komaeda, Kazuya Igarashi, and Manabu Nakamura.
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 3 globally memorable people born in Iwate Prefecture since 1700.
