Kagoshima Prefecture
Kagoshima Prefecture ranks 228th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Omaha, Nebraska, Leeds, and Busan. Memorable people born in Kagoshima Prefecture include Isamu Akasaki, Kuroki Tamemoto, and Makino Nobuaki. Kagoshima Prefecture has been the birth place of many soccer players, and physicists. Kagoshima Prefecture is located in Japan.
Kagoshima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands. Kagoshima Prefecture has a population of 1,564,175 and has a geographic area of 9,187 km2. Kagoshima Prefecture borders Kumamoto Prefecture to the north and Miyazaki Prefecture to the northeast. Read more on Wikipedia
People
Between 1844 and 2001, Kagoshima Prefecture was the birth place of 55 globally memorable people, including Isamu Akasaki, Kuroki Tamemoto, and Makino Nobuaki.
People Born in Kagoshima Prefecture
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Isamu Akasaki
PHYSICIST
1929 - 2021
HPI: 67.68
Rank: 1
Kuroki Tamemoto
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1844 - 1923
HPI: 53.51
Rank: 2
Makino Nobuaki
POLITICIAN
1861 - 1949
HPI: 51.54
Rank: 3
Junichi Inamoto
SOCCER PLAYER
1979 - Present
HPI: 44.89
Rank: 4
Atsuji Miyahara
WRESTLER
1958 - Present
HPI: 44.61
Rank: 5
Tomoyuki Hirase
SOCCER PLAYER
1977 - Present
HPI: 34.82
Rank: 6
Asako Ideue
SOCCER PLAYER
1987 - Present
HPI: 33.81
Rank: 7
Takahiro Futagawa
SOCCER PLAYER
1980 - Present
HPI: 33.28
Rank: 8
Hideki Nagai
SOCCER PLAYER
1971 - Present
HPI: 32.19
Rank: 9
Koji Maeda
SOCCER PLAYER
1969 - Present
HPI: 31.96
Rank: 10
Yuji Keigoshi
SOCCER PLAYER
1963 - Present
HPI: 30.45
Rank: 11
Tatsuya Morishige
SOCCER PLAYER
1971 - Present
HPI: 30.17
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Born in Kagoshima Prefecture
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Most individuals born in present day Kagoshima Prefecture were soccer players (51), physicists (1), military personnels (1), politicians (1), and wrestlers (1), while most who died were .
Occupational Trends
Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Kagoshima Prefecture, including Junichi Inamoto, Tomoyuki Hirase, and Asako Ideue. Whereas, throughout history, soccer players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Kagoshima Prefecture, including Junichi Inamoto, Tomoyuki Hirase, and Asako Ideue.
Places
Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 3 globally memorable people born in Kagoshima Prefecture since 1700.
