Osaka Prefecture

Osaka Prefecture is located in the western half of Honshu, Japan's largest island, on the eastern shore of Osaka Bay, some 300 miles west of Tokyo. Its capital and largest city is also called Osaka.

For other settlements, see Category:Settlements in Osaka.

People born here (unknown settlement)

• Takuma Achira, NPB pitcher
• Tatsuro Enami, NPB outfielder
• Kiyoshi Fujie, NPB pitcher
• Itsuro Fujito, NPB infielder
• Fumihiko Fukao, NPB pitcher and outfielder
• Toshiaki Fukita, NPB pitcher
• Yuki Futaba, Japanese national team catcher
• Kazuo Hamada, NPB infielder
• Minoru Handa, NPB pitcher
• Matsuru Harada, NPB infielder
• Koji Hatate, Japanese national team infielder
• Yasuo Hayakawa, NPB outfielder
• Shotaro Hirano, NPB pitcher
• Akira Hirata, NPB player
• Akira Hotta, NPB outfielder
• Kei Ichihara, NPB infielder
• Yoshinori Igawa, NPB outfielder
• Rentaro Imanishi, NPB pitcher
• Yoshio Ishida, NPB infielder
• Kenichi Ito, NPB infielder
• Kohei Iwamoto, Japanese national team infielder
• Kenzaburo Kaji, NPB infielder
• Ryuzo Kaoku, NPB outfielder
• Masamoto Katsuura, NPB outfielder
• Kameji Kawagoshi, NPB catcher
• Keinosuke Kawasaki, NPB infielder
• Noriaki Kawashima, NPB infielder
• Minoru Kayahara, NPB outfielder
• Yoshio Kikuya, NPB pitcher
• Kohei Kimura, NPB infielder
• Shunichi Kimura, NPB pitcher
• Tamotsu Kimura, NPB pitcher
• Akiyo Kinjoh, NPB outfielder
• Chiaki Kishimoto, NPB pitcher
• Mitsuo Kitaura, NPB pitcher
• Heitaro Kobayashi, NPB catcher
• Sensuke Kobayashi, NPB infielder
• Takashi Kodama, Japanese national team infielder
• Tetsuo Komai, NPB pitcher
• Mitsuro Kondo, NPB pitcher
• Shoichi Kunihisa, NPB infielder
• Yoshio Kureyama, NPB outfielder
• Toshio Kurosawa, NPB outfielder
• Katsuya Maeda, Japanese national team pitcher
• Satoji Maeda, NPB infielder
• Mutsuo Manda, NPB catcher
• Fumio Maruyama, NPB pitcher
• Hiroji Matsukawa, NPB pitcher
• Mitsuru Matsukubo, NPB infielder
• Akira Matsumoto, Japanese national team outfielder
• Isamu Matsumoto, NPB catcher
• Hisakazu Miki, NPB infielder
• Takeji Mimoto, NPB pitcher
• Yuko Minamimura, NPB outfielder
• Yoshikichi Miyaguchi, NPB pitcher
• Chotaro Muramatsu, NPB outfielder
• Yutaka Muroi, NPB catcher
• Shiro Muto, NPB infielder
• Tetsuya Nagano, Japanese national team pitcher
• Etsuo Nakai, NPB pitcher
• Seiji Nakamine, NPB catcher
• Hiroshi Nakamoto, Japanese national team outfielder
• Kinji Nakamura, NPB infielder and umpire
• Shinichi Nakamura, NPB infielder
• Taisei Nakamura, NPB pitcher
• Kinichi Nakata, NPB outfielder and umpire
• Shozo Nakatsu, NPB outfielder and pitcher
• Shojiro Namba, NPB infielder
• Yoshiyasu Nanamori, NPB pitcher
• Yoshiteru Naruse, NPB infielder
• Yasushi Niki, NPB outfielder
• Katsuhiro Nishikawa, NPB pitcher
• Shigekazu Nishimura, NPB pitcher
• Shuji Nishioka, NPB catcher
• Koji Nishiwaki, NPB outfielder
• Hiroshi Nonomura, NPB infielder
• Yoshiaki Norose, NPB pitcher
• Yasushi Ohashi, NPB infielder
• Masaaki Oishi, NPB outfielder
• Kazuo Okamoto, NPB catcher
• Toshizo Okamoto, NPB infielder
• Yoshitaka Okamoto, NPB catcher
• Takashi Okegawa, NPB infielder
• Naoya Okuda, NPB pitcher
• Kiyoshi Onosaka, NPB pitcher
• Kiyoshi Osawa, NPB infielder
• Tatsuo Saeki, high school official; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Osamu Saida, NPB infielder
• Suetoshi Saito, NPB infielder
• Etsuo Sakaeya, NPB pitcher
• Isao Sakamoto, NPB outfielder
• Masakazu Sakamoto, NPB catcher
• Yoshikazu Sakamoto, NPB outfielder
• Masayoshi Sakata, NPB infielder
• Yoshihide Sakata, NPB catcher
• Seizo Sano, NPB catcher
• Kiyoshi Sasaki, NPB pitcher
• Yoshiro Shimada, NPB infielder
• Yuzo Shimada, NPB infielder
• Kiyomi Shirano, NPB infielder
• Masataka Suezaki, NPB infielder
• Ryuzaburo Tahara, Japanese national team infielder
• Shigeo Takaoka, Japanese national team coach
• Minoru Tanaka, NPB pitcher
• Nobuo Togawa, NPB infielder
• Takao Toyama, NPB infielder
• Shinsaburo Tsuboi, NPB infielder
• Yasunao Tsujimoto, NPB infielder
• Hisataro Wada, NPB infielder
• Toshihiko Yamada, NPB outfielder
• Kosuke Yamaguchi, NPB pitcher
• Masanobu Yamaguchi, NPB outfielder
• Yasushi Yamamoto, scout
• Yoshiji Yamamoto, NPB pitcher
• Morihiko Yamana, NPB outfielder
• Toshikazu Yamao, NPB outfielder
• Yukiya Yano, Japanese national team infielder
• Masahiro Yasuoka, NPB pitcher
• Sadataka Yoshida, NPB pitcher
• Hisakazu Yoshikawa, NPB pitcher