Hyogo Prefecture

Hyogo Prefecture is located on Honshu island, Japan. The capital is Kobe, one of the largest ports in Japan.

For a list of places here, see Category:Settlements in Hyogo.

Hyogo is home to the Orix Buffaloes in Kobe, and the Hanshin Tigers in Nishinomiya, both of the Nippon Professional Baseball league.

People born here, unspecified city or town

• Naoto Adacchi, Japanese national team pitcher
• Shunzo Arakawa, NPB outfielder
• Katsusaburo Asano, NPB pitcher
• Kazufumi Deguchi, NPB infielder
• Takao Dodo, NPB outfielder
• Masami Fujimura, Japanese national team outfielder
• Mitsumasa Funawatari, NPB outfielder
• Takeo Furuya, NPB infielder
• Tadashi Goto, NPB infielder
• Takeshi Hamaguchi, NPB pitcher
• Masamitsu Hamano, Japanese national team pitcher
• Toshitada Hara, NPB pitcher
• Koji Hirose, Japanese national team catcher
• Yukihiro Ikeda, NPB infielder
• Katsumi Inoue, NPB pitcher
• Hirobumi Ioki, NPB outfielder
• Takuya Ishiguro, Japanese national team pitcher
• Takeo Ishii, NPB catcher
• Jinkichi Itoh, NPB infielder
• Toshio Iwasaki, NPB catcher
• Kenichi Izutsu, NPB pitcher
• Hideo Kadoguchi, NPB outfielder
• Soichiro Kaneda, minor league outfielder
• Hidenori Kanemitsu, NPB outfielder
• Kuniyoshi Kawabe, Japanese national team pitcher
• Tokuhisa Kawamura, NPB infielder
• Yoshihiro Kawaratani, NPB catcher
• Masaaki Kise, NPB infielder
• Tsutomu Kitano, NPB pitcher
• Fumio Kiyoshi, NPB infielder
• Yoshihiko Kodama, NPB infielder
• Otoo Kojima, NPB catcher
• Hirofumi Komae, NPB outfielder
• Satoru Komoto, Japanese national team coach
• Hiroshi Kono, NPB outfielder
• Nobuo Kura, NPB catcher
• Hachiro Maekawa, NPB pitcher
• Shigemasa Masu, NPB infielder
• Misao Matsumoto, NPB pitcher
• Tadashige Matsumoto, NPB pitcher
• Ichiro Matsuoka, NPB infielder
• Koji Matsuoka, NPB infielder
• Akifumi Misumi, NPB pitcher
• Noboru Miyake, NPB outfielder
• Tadanori Murakami, Japanese national team catcher and manager
• Susumu Nagai, NPB infielder
• Yasuo Nagai, NPB pitcher
• Kazuo Nakamura, NPB infielder
• Toshiyuki Nakamura, NPB infielder
• Susumu Nakane, NPB outfielder and umpire
• Masafumi Nishi, Japanese national team infielder
• Toshiro Nishibata, NPB infielder
• Michinori Nishimoto, NPB pitcher
• Eizo Nishina, NPB infielder and pitcher
• Seizo Noda, NPB owner; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Yoshiteru Nogusa, NPB outfielder
• Yoshio Nomoto, NPB infielder
• Yutaka Okada, NPB catcher and umpire
• Takaaki Okumura, NPB infielder
• Shinichi Onishi, NPB infielder
• Yoshizou Oribe, NPB catcher-infielder
• Reizo Oshida, NPB pitcher
• Masahiro Saito, NPB catcher
• Hidekazu Sakano, NPB infielder
• Masao Santa, NPB catcher
• Haruo Sato, Japanese national team infielder
• Ryozo Shibata, NPB infielder
• Yukio Shimada, NPB infielder
• Masanobu Shimano, NPB catcher
• Kazuji Shiraki, NPB infielder
• Kazuo Sugitani, NPB outfielder
• Keiichiro Suzuki, NPB catcher
• Mirei Suzuki, author; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Yoshio Tabata, NPB infielder
• Tsuneharu Takayanagi, NPB infielder
• Sukeichi Takeda, NPB infielder
• Motoaki Takeshita, NPB catcher
• Naritaka Tanaka, NPB infielder
• Tetsuo Tani, NPB pitcher
• Hiromi Tanida, NPB catcher
• Tsutomu Tanigawa, NPB catcher
• Itsuro Tanimura, Japanese national team pitcher
• Shoji Tokai, NPB outfielder
• Hiroshi Tomiyama, NPB catcher
• Tsuneo Tsuri, NPB pitcher
• Tairiku Watanabe, NPB manager
• Toshio Watanabe, NPB infielder
• Susumu Yagi, NPB catcher
• Seisaburo Yamada, NPB catcher
• Shizuo Yamamoto, NPB infielder
• Noboru Yamashita, NPB pitcher
• Nagateru Yasuda, NPB infielder
• Iwao Yoshimura, NPB catcher
• Yoshiaki Yuasa, NPB pitcher

People who died here, unspecified municipality

• Shigeru Fujio, NPB catcher
• Yoshinori Okoso, owner; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Toshizo Sakamoto, NPB infielder