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Saitama Prefecture (jpn)

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Saitama Prefecture ranks 78th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Dresden, Frankfurt, and Brazil. Memorable people born in Saitama Prefecture include Masafumi Hara, Yutaka Taniyama, and Junko Takeuchi. Saitama Prefecture has been the birth place of many soccer players, and actors. Saitama Prefecture is located in Japan.

Saitama Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Saitama Prefecture has a population of 7,338,536 and has a geographic area of 3,797 km2. Saitama Prefecture borders Tochigi Prefecture and Gunma Prefecture to the north, Nagano Prefecture to the west, Yamanashi Prefecture to the southwest, Tokyo to the south, Chiba Prefecture to the southeast, and Ibaraki Prefecture to the northeast. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1927 and 2002, Saitama Prefecture was the birth place of 135 globally memorable people, including Masafumi Hara, Yutaka Taniyama, and Junko Takeuchi.

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Saitama Prefecture were soccer players (110), actors (12), singers (5), athletes (4), and astronomers (2),  while most who died were .

Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Saitama Prefecture, including Masafumi Hara, Eiji Kawashima, and Toshiaki Imai. Whereas, throughout history, soccer players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Saitama Prefecture, including Masafumi Hara, Eiji Kawashima, and Toshiaki Imai.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 1 globally memorable people born in Saitama Prefecture since 1700.