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Nagano Prefecture ranks 736th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, Brașov, and Klaipėda. Memorable people born in Nagano Prefecture include Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Otozō Yamada, and Hiroyoshi Nishizawa. Nagano Prefecture has been the birth place of many soccer players, and military personnels. Nagano Prefecture is located in .

Nagano Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Nagano Prefecture has a population of 2,007,682 and has a geographic area of 13,561.56 square kilometres (5,236.15 sq mi). Nagano Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture to the north, Gunma Prefecture to the northeast, Saitama Prefecture to the east, Yamanashi Prefecture to the southeast, Shizuoka Prefecture and Aichi Prefecture to the south, and Gifu Prefecture and Toyama Prefecture to the west. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1811 and 1993, Nagano Prefecture was the birth place of 19 globally memorable people, including Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Otozō Yamada, and Hiroyoshi Nishizawa.

People Born in Nagano Prefecture

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Nagano Prefecture were soccer players (10), military personnels (3), actors (3), politicians (1), and game designers (1),  while most who died were .

Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Nagano Prefecture, including Yoshiaki Shimojo, Shohei Kamada, and Kenji Kageyama. Whereas, throughout history, soccer players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Nagano Prefecture, including Yoshiaki Shimojo, Shohei Kamada, and Kenji Kageyama.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 4 globally memorable people born in Nagano Prefecture since 1700.