Yamanashi Prefecture
Yamanashi Prefecture ranks 401st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Cork (city), İzmir, and South Korea. Memorable people born in Yamanashi Prefecture include Masakazu Suzuki, Kenji Yamamoto, and Takuto Otoguro. Yamanashi Prefecture has been the birth place of many soccer players and wrestlers. Yamanashi Prefecture is located in Japan.
Yamanashi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Yamanashi Prefecture has a population of 817,192 and has a geographic area of 4,465 km2. Yamanashi Prefecture borders Saitama Prefecture to the northeast, Nagano Prefecture to the northwest, Shizuoka Prefecture to the southwest, Kanagawa Prefecture to the southeast, and Tokyo to the east. Read more on Wikipedia
Between 1955 and 1999, Yamanashi Prefecture was the birth place of 29 globally memorable people, including Masakazu Suzuki, Kenji Yamamoto, and Takuto Otoguro.
People Born in Yamanashi Prefecture
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Masakazu Suzuki
1955 - Present
HPI: 38.94
Rank: 1
Kenji Yamamoto
1965 - Present
HPI: 35.80
Rank: 2
Takuto Otoguro
1998 - Present
HPI: 30.02
Rank: 3
Izumi Yokokawa
1963 - Present
HPI: 29.15
Rank: 4
Masayuki Nakagomi
1967 - Present
HPI: 28.50
Rank: 5
Kazuto Saiki
1970 - Present
HPI: 28.07
Rank: 6
Yoshinobu Akao
1975 - Present
HPI: 27.42
Rank: 7
Takeshi Shimizu
1975 - Present
HPI: 26.62
Rank: 8
Shinya Hagihara
1971 - Present
HPI: 26.31
Rank: 9
Takehisa Sakamoto
1971 - Present
HPI: 26.30
Rank: 10
Daisuke Ishihara
1971 - Present
HPI: 25.24
Rank: 11
Eiichi Uemura
1975 - Present
HPI: 25.06
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Born in Yamanashi Prefecture
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Most individuals born in present day Yamanashi Prefecture were soccer players (26), wrestlers (2), and swimmers (1), while most who died were .
Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Yamanashi Prefecture, including Masakazu Suzuki, Kenji Yamamoto, and Izumi Yokokawa. Whereas, throughout history, soccer players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Yamanashi Prefecture, including Masakazu Suzuki, Kenji Yamamoto, and Izumi Yokokawa.
