List of Japanese sportspeople

This is a list of Japanese sportspeople not otherwise included in more specific Japanese sportspeople lists.

• Mao Asada – figure skater, Olympic silver medalist, multiple world champion
• Ando Miki – figure skater, multiple world champion
• Antonio Inoki
• Arakawa Shizuka – figure skater, Olympic champion, world champion
• Yuzuru Hanyu – figure skater, double Olympic champion, double world champion, multiple Grand Prix Final champion, Four Continents champion (Super Slam)
• Asahi Kokaji – professional footballer
• Asai Yoshirō
• Chiyonofuji
• Chuhei Nambu
• Date Kimiko
• Funaki Shōichi
• Sawamatsu Naoko – retired tennis player
• Gomi Takanori
• Hiro matsushita
• Hiroyuki Tomita – Beijing Olympic gymnast
• Iguchi Tadahito
• Inamoto Junichi
• Itō Midori – figure skater, Olympic silver medalist, world champion
• Kohiruimaki Takayuki
• Konishiki
• Yuki Kyotani (born 1988) – kickboxer
• Maruyama Shigeki
• Masato
• Matsui Hideki
• Miura Kazuyoshi
• Keiichi Tsuchiya – retired racing driver, D1 Grand Prix judge
• Ken Nomura – D1 Grand Prix driver
• Kōhei Uchimura – gymnast, double Olympic champion and multiple world champion
• Mai Murakami – Rio Olympic gymnast, world champion
• Koji Murofushi
• Musashimaru
• Nakata Hidetoshi – football (soccer) player
• Nao Kodaira – speed skater, Olympic champion
• Nobuteru Taniguchi – racing driver
• Ōta Yukina – figure skater
• Sakuraba Kazushi
• Sato Rumina
• Satō Takuma (born 1977) – Formula 1 driver, 2017 Indianapolis 500 winner
• Sato Yuka – figure skater, world champion
• Avi Schafer (born 1998) – professional basketball player
• Kenzō Shirai – Rio Olympic gymnast, multiple world champion
• Sudō Genki
• Sugayama Kaoru
• Sugiyama Ai (born 1975) – Tennis player
• Suguri Fumie – figure skater
• Suzuki Ichirō
• Takeda Kōzō (born 1972) – kickboxer
• Takahashi Daisuke – figure skater, Olympic bronze medalist, world champion
• Taira Uematsu (born 1983) – coach for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball
• Tsunoda Yuki (born 2000) – Formula 1 driver
• Uno Shoma – figure skater, Olympic silver medalist, multiple world medalist
• Yasuyuki Kazama – D1 Grand Prix driver
• Saori Kimura – volleyball player
• Yuichiro Ota (born 2009) – professional footballer