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
• Katsusaburo Asano, NPB pitcher
• Masami Fujimura, Japanese national team outfielder
• Tadashi Goto, NPB infielder
• Masamitsu Hamano, Japanese national team pitcher
• Koji Hirose, Japanese national team catcher
• Takuya Ishiguro, Japanese national team pitcher
• Jinkichi Itoh, NPB infielder
• Soichi Kamimura, minor league pitcher
• Kuniyoshi Kawabe, Japanese national team pitcher
• Tokuhisa Kawamura, NPB infielder
• Soichiro Kaneda, minor league outfielder
• Yoshihiko Kodama, NPB infielder
• Satoru Komoto, Japanese national team coach
• Nobuo Kura, NPB catcher
• Hachiro Maekawa, NPB pitcher
• Tadanori Murakami, Japanese national team catcher and manager
• Susumu Nakane, NPB outfielder and umpire
• Masafumi Nishi, Japanese national team infielder
• Seizo Noda, NPB owner; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Yoshizou Oribe, NPB catcher-infielder
• Masao Santa, NPB catcher
• Haruo Sato, Japanese national team infielder
• Kazuji Shiraki, NPB infielder
• Mirei Suzuki, author; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Sukeichi Takeda, NPB infielder
• So Taguchi, outfielder
• Itsuro Tanimura, Japanese national team pitcher
• Shoji Tokai, NPB outfielder
• Tairiku Watanabe, NPB manager
• Susumu Yagi, NPB catcher
• Noboru Yamashita, NPB pitcher

People who died here, unspecified municipality

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