Yamagata Prefecture
Yamagata Prefecture ranks 1,384th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Veliky Novgorod, Nandi County, and Willesden. Memorable people born in Yamagata Prefecture include Choei Sato, Yuriko Mizuma, and Junji Goto. Yamagata Prefecture has been the birth place of many soccer players. Yamagata Prefecture is located in Japan.
Yamagata Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Yamagata Prefecture has a population of 1,028,055 and has a geographic area of 9,325 km2. Yamagata Prefecture borders Akita Prefecture to the north, Miyagi Prefecture to the east, Fukushima Prefecture to the south, and Niigata Prefecture to the southwest. Read more on Wikipedia
Between 1951 and 2002, Yamagata Prefecture was the birth place of 10 globally memorable people, including Choei Sato, Yuriko Mizuma, and Junji Goto.
People Born in Yamagata Prefecture
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Choei Sato
1951 - Present
HPI: 44.78
Rank: 1
Yuriko Mizuma
1970 - Present
HPI: 32.56
Rank: 2
Junji Goto
1971 - Present
HPI: 29.14
Rank: 3
Junji Sato
1975 - Present
HPI: 26.79
Rank: 4
Katsumi Suzuki
1969 - Present
HPI: 26.47
Rank: 5
Kenji Takahashi
1970 - Present
HPI: 26.31
Rank: 6
Takeshi Saito
1979 - Present
HPI: 25.84
Rank: 7
Issei Yoshimi
1982 - Present
HPI: 18.22
Rank: 8
Riku Handa
2002 - Present
HPI: 12.89
Rank: 9
Kota Saito
1997 - Present
HPI: 8.57
Rank: 10
Newly Added People Born in Yamagata Prefecture
Go to all RankingsMost individuals born in present day Yamagata Prefecture were soccer players (10), while most who died were .
