Wakayama Prefecture
Wakayama Prefecture ranks 1,250th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Alcalá de Henares, Royal Oak, Michigan, and Mechelen. Memorable people born in Wakayama Prefecture include Kohei Kato, Hiromasa Azuma, and Ryoichi Fukushige. Wakayama Prefecture has been the birth place of many soccer players. Wakayama Prefecture is located in Japan.
Wakayama Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Wakayama Prefecture has a population of 944,320 and has a geographic area of 4,724 square kilometres (1,824 sq mi). Wakayama Prefecture borders Osaka Prefecture to the north, and Mie Prefecture and Nara Prefecture to the northeast. Read more on Wikipedia
Between 1971 and 1997, Wakayama Prefecture was the birth place of 11 globally memorable people, including Kohei Kato, Hiromasa Azuma, and Ryoichi Fukushige.
People Born in Wakayama Prefecture
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Kohei Kato
1989 - Present
HPI: 25.63
Rank: 1
Hiromasa Azuma
1977 - Present
HPI: 25.61
Rank: 2
Ryoichi Fukushige
1971 - Present
HPI: 25.08
Rank: 3
Kazuya Maeda
1982 - Present
HPI: 23.48
Rank: 4
Yoshito Matsushita
1989 - Present
HPI: 19.11
Rank: 5
Yuki Kotera
1986 - Present
HPI: 17.33
Rank: 6
Yuki Matsubara
1988 - Present
HPI: 15.64
Rank: 7
Koya Okuda
1994 - Present
HPI: 13.84
Rank: 8
Tomoya Nakanishi
1994 - Present
HPI: 13.16
Rank: 9
Takuma Takeda
1995 - Present
HPI: 11.74
Rank: 10
Kotaro Tachikawa
1997 - Present
HPI: 11.33
Rank: 11
Newly Added People Born in Wakayama Prefecture
Go to all RankingsMost individuals born in present day Wakayama Prefecture were soccer players (11), while most who died were .
Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Wakayama Prefecture, including Kohei Kato, Hiromasa Azuma, and Ryoichi Fukushige. Whereas, throughout history, soccer players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Wakayama Prefecture, including Kohei Kato, Hiromasa Azuma, and Ryoichi Fukushige.
