Saitama Prefecture
Saitama Prefecture ranks 78th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Dresden, Frankfurt, and Brazil. Memorable people born in Saitama Prefecture include Masafumi Hara, Yutaka Taniyama, and Dai Sato. 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
People
Between 1927 and 2002, Saitama Prefecture was the birth place of 136 globally memorable people, including Masafumi Hara, Yutaka Taniyama, and Dai Sato.
People Born in Saitama Prefecture
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Masafumi Hara
SOCCER PLAYER
1943 - Present
HPI: 65.12
Rank: 65
Yutaka Taniyama
MATHEMATICIAN
1927 - 1958
HPI: 61.32
Rank: 100
Dai Sato
SOCCER PLAYER
1971 - Present
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 36
Kenji Sakaguchi
SOCCER PLAYER
1975 - Present
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 23
Toshiaki Imai
SOCCER PLAYER
1954 - Present
HPI: 54.93
Rank: 16
Tomoya Suzuki
SOCCER PLAYER
2000 - Present
HPI: 54.89
Rank: 89
Takeshi Honda
SOCCER PLAYER
1981 - Present
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 94
Shingo Ito
SOCCER PLAYER
1979 - Present
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 85
Hiromasa Tokioka
SOCCER PLAYER
1974 - Present
HPI: 54.44
Rank: 61
Genichi Takahashi
SOCCER PLAYER
1980 - Present
HPI: 53.96
Rank: 121
Shinya Hoshido
SOCCER PLAYER
1978 - Present
HPI: 53.64
Rank: 81
Junko Takeuchi
ACTOR
1972 - Present
HPI: 53.63
Rank: 69
Newly Added People Born in Saitama Prefecture
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Occupations
Most individuals born in present day Saitama Prefecture were soccer players (110), actors (12), singers (5), athletes (4), and astronomers (2), 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 Saitama Prefecture, including Masafumi Hara, Dai Sato, and Kenji Sakaguchi. Whereas, throughout history, soccer players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Saitama Prefecture, including Masafumi Hara, Dai Sato, and Kenji Sakaguchi.
Places
Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 1 globally memorable people born in Saitama Prefecture since 1700.
