Yamanashi Prefecture
Yamanashi Prefecture ranks 485th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Saratov, Šibenik, and Singapore. Memorable people born in Yamanashi Prefecture include Masayuki Nakagomi, Kenji Yamamoto, and Masakazu Suzuki. 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
People
Between 1955 and 1999, Yamanashi Prefecture was the birth place of 28 globally memorable people, including Masayuki Nakagomi, Kenji Yamamoto, and Masakazu Suzuki.
People Born in Yamanashi Prefecture
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Masayuki Nakagomi
SOCCER PLAYER
1967 - Present
HPI: 42.34
Rank: 1
Kenji Yamamoto
SOCCER PLAYER
1965 - Present
HPI: 37.45
Rank: 2
Masakazu Suzuki
SOCCER PLAYER
1955 - Present
HPI: 37.40
Rank: 3
Yoshinobu Akao
SOCCER PLAYER
1975 - Present
HPI: 31.75
Rank: 4
Izumi Yokokawa
SOCCER PLAYER
1963 - Present
HPI: 30.79
Rank: 5
Takuto Otoguro
WRESTLER
1998 - Present
HPI: 30.67
Rank: 6
Kenichiro Fumita
WRESTLER
1995 - Present
HPI: 30.36
Rank: 7
Kazuto Saiki
SOCCER PLAYER
1970 - Present
HPI: 29.60
Rank: 8
Eiichi Uemura
SOCCER PLAYER
1975 - Present
HPI: 28.50
Rank: 9
Yuki Imamura
SOCCER PLAYER
1976 - Present
HPI: 27.54
Rank: 10
Katsutomo Oshiba
SOCCER PLAYER
1973 - Present
HPI: 27.31
Rank: 11
Takehisa Sakamoto
SOCCER PLAYER
1971 - Present
HPI: 27.01
Rank: 12
Occupations
Most individuals born in present day Yamanashi Prefecture were soccer players (25), wrestlers (2), and swimmers (1), while most who died were .
Occupational Trends
Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Yamanashi Prefecture, including Masayuki Nakagomi, Kenji Yamamoto, and Masakazu Suzuki. Whereas, throughout history, soccer players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Yamanashi Prefecture, including Masayuki Nakagomi, Kenji Yamamoto, and Masakazu Suzuki.
Places
Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 0 globally memorable people born in Yamanashi Prefecture since 1700.
