Saitama Prefecture
Saitama Prefecture ranks 70th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Shizuoka Prefecture, Dallas, and Pittsburgh. Memorable people born in Saitama Prefecture include Masafumi Hara, Junko Takeuchi, and Eiji Kawashima. 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
Between 1943 and 2000, Saitama Prefecture was the birth place of 127 globally memorable people, including Masafumi Hara, Junko Takeuchi, and Eiji Kawashima.
People Born in Saitama Prefecture
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Masafumi Hara
1943 - Present
HPI: 57.19
Rank: 1
Junko Takeuchi
1972 - Present
HPI: 46.49
Rank: 2
Eiji Kawashima
1983 - Present
HPI: 44.37
Rank: 3
Mamoru Miyano
1983 - Present
HPI: 44.02
Rank: 4
Toshiaki Imai
1954 - Present
HPI: 41.86
Rank: 5
Rika Fukami
1963 - Present
HPI: 37.92
Rank: 6
Rie Takahashi
1994 - Present
HPI: 37.67
Rank: 7
Ayana Taketatsu
1989 - Present
HPI: 37.66
Rank: 8
Hiroshi Mori
1958 - Present
HPI: 37.53
Rank: 9
Naoto Satō
1953 - Present
HPI: 36.79
Rank: 10
Chiwa Saitō
1981 - Present
HPI: 35.96
Rank: 11
Mayu Watanabe
1994 - Present
HPI: 32.10
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Born in Saitama Prefecture
Go to all RankingsRika Fukami
1963 - Present
HPI: 37.92
Rank: 6
Chiwa Saitō
1981 - Present
HPI: 35.96
Rank: 11
Chisato Okai
1994 - Present
HPI: 22.18
Rank: 49
Saki Nakajima
1994 - Present
HPI: 22.09
Rank: 50
Hiroto Sakai
1989 - Present
HPI: 14.78
Rank: 105
Shun Yoshida
1996 - Present
HPI: 12.93
Rank: 116
Shota Kikuchi
1993 - Present
HPI: 12.46
Rank: 122
Toshiya Omi
1995 - Present
HPI: 12.00
Rank: 123
Masaya Yoshida
1996 - Present
HPI: 10.49
Rank: 125
Most individuals born in present day Saitama Prefecture were soccer players (113), actors (8), singers (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.
