The following voice actors, or seiyuu in Japanese, are either extremely significant presences in anime, or have had a major influence in the history and development of the medium.
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General list
The following voice actors, or seiyuu in Japanese are mostly active and largely significant presences in anime, or have had a major influence in the history and development of media.
- Ai Kayano
- Ai Orikasa
- Akari Kitou
- Aki Toyosaki
- Akiko Hiramatsu
- Akiko Yajima
- Akira Ishida
- Akira Kamiya
- Akio Ōtsuka
- Ami Koshimizu
- Aoi Yūki
- Ari Ozawa
- Asami Imai
- Asami Seto
- Asami Tano
- Atsushi Imaruoka
- Atsuko Tanaka
- Aya Endo
- Aya Hirano
- Aya Hisakawa
- Ayako Kawasumi
- Ayana Taketatsu
- Ayane Sakura
- Ayumu Murase
- Azumi Waki
- Banjo Ginga
- Bin Shimada
- Chiaki Kobayashi
- Chiaki Takahashi
- Chinami Nishimura
- Chisa Yokoyama
- Chiwa Saito
- Cho
- Daiki Yamashita
- Daisuke Kishio
- Daisuke Namikawa
- Daisuke Ono
- Daisuke Sakaguchi
- Emi Shinohara
- Emiri Katou
- Eri Kitamura
- Fumihiko Tachiki
- Fumiko Orikasa
- Haruka Tomatsu
- Hekiru Shiina
- Hibiku Yamamura
- Hidekatsu Shibata
- Hidenari Ugaki
- Hideo Ishikawa
- Hideyuki Hori
- Hideyuki Tanaka
- Hikaru Midorikawa
- Hiro Shimono
- Hiro Yuki
- Hiroaki Hirata
- Hiroki Takahashi
- Hiroki Yasumoto
- Hiroko Kasahara
- Hiroko Konishi
- Hiroshi Kamiya
- Hiroya Ishimaru
- Hiroyuki Yoshino
- Hisako Kyoda
- Hitomi Nabatame
- Hitomi Ohwada
- Hōchū Ōtsuka
- Houko Kuwashima
- Ikue Otani
- Inori Minase
- Isshin Chiba
- Jin Yamanoi
- Joji Nakata
- Jun Fukuyama
- Junichi Kanemaru
- Junichi Suwabe
- Junko Iwao
- Junko Minagawa
- Junko Noda
- Junko Takeuchi
- Jun'ya Enoki
- Jurota Kosugi
- Kae Araki
- Kaede Hondo
- Kaito Ishikawa
- Kana Hanazawa
- Kana Ichinose
- Kana Ueda
- Kanichi Kurita
- Kappei Yamaguchi
- Katsuji Mori
- Katsuyuki Konishi
- Kazuhiko Inoue
- Kazuki Yao
- Kazuya Nakai
- Keaton Yamada
- Keiichi Nanba
- Keiichi Noda
- Keiko Han
- Kenichi Ogata
- Kenichi Suzumura
- KENN
- Ken Narita
- Kengo Kawanishi
- Kenjiro Tsuda
- Kensho Ono
- Kent Itou
- Kenta Miyake
- Kenyuu Horiuchi
- Kikuko Inoue
- Kiyoyuki Yanada
- Kōichi Yamadera
- Konami Yoshida
- Kosuke Toriumi
- Kotono Mitsuishi
- Kouji Ishii
- Kōki Uchiyama
- Kunihiko Yasui
- Kyoko Hikami
- Maaya Sakamoto
- Maaya Uchida
- Madoka Yonezawa
- Makoto Furukawa
- Mai Nakahara
- Mamiko Noto
- Mamoru Miyano
- Mao Ichimichi
- Mari Iijima
- Mari Shimizu
- Marika Kouno
- Mariko Kouda
- Marina Inoue
- Mariya Ise
- Masakazu Morita
- Masako Nozawa
- Masaya Matsukaze
- Masaya Onosaka
- Masashi Hirose
- Masashi Sugawara
- Masami Kikuchi
- Masayo Kurata
- Mayumi Tanaka
- Megumi Han
- Megumi Hayashibara
- Megumi Ogata
- Megumi Toyoguchi
- Michie Tomizawa
- Michiko Neya
- Minami Takayama
- Minami Tanaka
- Minori Matsushima
- Mika Kanai
- Mikako Komatsu
- Miki Ito
- Miku Itou
- Misaki Kuno
- Mitsuaki Madono
- Mitsuki Saiga
- Mitsuo Iwata
- Mitsuru Miyamoto
- Miyuki Sawashiro
- Motoko Kumai
- Nana Mizuki
- Nao Tōyama
- Narumi Hidaka
- Natsuki Hanae
- Nobuhiko Okamoto
- Nobunaga Shimazaki
- Nobuo Tobita
- Nobutoshi Canna
- Nobuyuki Hiyama
- Noriaki Sugiyama
- Noriko Hidaka
- Norio Wakamoto
- Nozomu Sasaki
- Omi Minami
- Rei Sakuma
- Reina Ueda
- Rica Matsumoto
- Rie Kugimiya
- Rie Takahashi
- Rie Tanaka
- Rika Fukami
- Rikiya Koyama
- Rina Sato
- Romi Park
- Ryohei Kimura
- Ryotaro Okiayu
- Ryo Horikawa
- Ryusei Nakao
- Sakura Tange
- Saori Hayami
- Satoshi Hino
- Satsuki Yukino
- Sayaka Ohara
- Sayaka Senbongi
- Shigeru Chiba
- Shigeru Nakahara
- Shin-ichiro Miki
- Shino Shimoji
- Shizuka Itō
- Show Hayami
- Showtaro Morikubo
- Shōzō Iizuka
- Shuichi Ikeda
- Soichiro Hoshi
- Soma Saito
- Sora Amamiya
- Sumire Uesaka
- Takahiro Sakurai
- Takashi Matsuyama
- Takaya Hashi
- Takehito Koyasu
- Takeshi Kusao
- Takumi Yamazaki
- Takuya Eguchi
- Takuya Kirimoto
- Tatsuhisa Suzuki
- Tetsu Inada
- Tetsuya Kakihara
- Tessho Genda
- Toa Yukinari
- Tomoe Hanba
- Tomokazu Seki
- Tomokazu Sugita
- Tomomichi Nishimura
- Tomo Sakurai
- Toru Furuya
- Toru Okawa
- Toshio Furukawa
- Toshihiko Seki
- Toshiki Masuda
- Toshiyuki Morikawa
- Tsubasa Yonaga
- Tsutomu Isobe
- Wataru Takagi
- Yasunori Matsumoto
- Yōko Hikasa
- Yoshiko Sakakibara
- Yoshimasa Hosoya
- Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
- Yui Horie
- Yui Ogura
- Yuichiro Umehara
- Yūji Mitsuya
- Yuji Ueda
- Yuka Iguchi
- Yuka Imai
- Yukana
- Yukari Fukui
- Yukari Tamura
- Yūki Kaji
- Yuki Matsuoka
- Yuki Ono
- Yuko Kaida
- Yuko Minaguchi
- Yuko Miyamura
- Yumi Touma
- Yuri Amano
- Yuriko Yamamoto
- Yuri Shiratori
- Yuu Asakawa
- Yuu Kobayashi
- Yūichi Nakamura
- Yūma Uchida
- Yuusuke Kobayashi
Unsorted
The seiyuus had a major influence in the history and development of media, but their roles in anime are occasional and appeared in anime rarely.
- Ai Kobayashi
- Ai Maeda
- Akemi Okamura
- Akiko Kimura
- Akio Nojima
- Asako Dodo
- Atsuko Enomoto
- Atsuko Yuya
- Atsushi Ono
- Chafurin
- Chieko Higuchi
- Chiemi Chiba
- Chie Sawaguchi
- Chiharu Tezuka
- Chika Sakamoto
- Chiyoko Kawashima
- Daiki Nakamura
- Eiji Takemoto
- Eiko Masuyama
- Emi Motoi
- Eriko Hara
- Eri Miyajima
- Etsuko Kozakura
- Fujiko Takimoto
- Fumi Hirano
- Fuminori Komatsu
- Gara Takashima
- Haruhi Terada
- Harumi Ikoma
- Haruna Ikezawa
- Hirohiko Kakegawa
- Hiroki Tochi
- Hiroko Emori
- Hiroko Suzuki
- Hiroshi Ito
- Hiroshi Tsuchida
- Hiroyuki Tsuru
- Hisao Egawa
- Hozumi Gouda
- Hyo-sei
- Kaori Asoh
- Katsuhisa Houki
- Katsumi Suzuki
- Katsumi Toriumi
- Kaya Matsutani
- Kazue Ikura
- Kazuhiro Yamaji
- Kazuko Sugiyama
- Kazuya Ichijo
- Keiko Toda
- Keiko Yokozawa
- Kenichi Ono
- Kentaro Ito
- Kiyoshi Kobayashi
- Kiyomi Asai
- Koichi Hashimoto
- Koichi Tochika
- Kōzō Shioya
- Kozue Yoshizumi
- Kujira
- Kumiko Nishihara
- Kumiko Watanabe
- Mami Kingetsu
- Mami Koyama
- Maria Kawamura
- Masaharu Sato
- Masahiko Tanaka
- Masami Suzuki
- Masaki Terasoma
- Masashi Ebara
- Masako Katsuki
- Maya Okamoto
- Mayumi Asano
- Mayumi Iizuka
- Mayumi Shintani
- Megumi Matsumoto
- Michiyo Yanagisawa
- Minami Hokuto
- Minami Kuribayashi
- Mina Tominaga
- Minoru Inaba
- Mika Doi
- Miki Nagasawa
- Misa Watanabe
- Mitsuki Yayoi
- Mitsuru Ogata
- Miyoko Aso
- Miyuki Ueda
- Motomu Kiyokawa
- Mugihito
- Nami Miyahara
- Nanaho Katsuragi
- Nanako Mori
- Nao Takamori
- Naoki Tatsuta
- Naoko Matsui
- Naoko Takano
- Naoko Watanabe
- Naoya Uchida
- Naozumi Takahashi
- Natsumi Yanase
- Noriko Ohara
- Noriko Rikimaru
- Rei Igarashi
- Reiko Takagi
- Reiko Yasuhara
- Reina Kondo
- Rihoko Yoshida
- Rikako Aikawa
- Rio Natsuki
- Rumi Shishido
- Ryo Naitou
- Ryuzou Ishino
- Ryuzaburo Otomo
- Sachiko Kojima
- Sachiko Sugawara
- Saeko Chiba
- Saeko Shimazu
- Sayaka Kinoshita
- Sayaka Narita
- Sakiko Tamagawa
- Satomi Koorogi
- Satoshi Mikami
- Shiho Kikuchi
- Shinobu Adachi
- Shinji Kawada
- Shino Kakinuma
- Shinpachi Tsuji
- Shoko Nakagawa
- Sumi Shimamoto
- Susumu Chiba
- Taeko Kawata
- Taiki Matsuno
- Taiten Kusunoki
- Takako Honda
- Takashi Nagasako
- Takaya Kuroda
- Takayuki Sugo
- Tarako
- Tetsu Shiratori
- Tetsuya Iwanaga
- Toru Furusawa
- Tomo Saeki
- Tomoko Ishimura
- Tsutomu Kashiwakura
- Urara Takano
- Waka Kanda
- Wakana Yamazaki
- Yasuhiro Takato
- Yasunori Masutani
- Yōko Asada
- Yoko Honna
- Yōko Ogai
- Yoko Soumi
- Yoku Shioya
- Yoshino Takamori
- Yoshinori Fujita
- Yoshitaka Yamaya
- Yoshito Yasuhara
- Yosuke Akimoto
- Yui Sakakibara
- Yuji Kishi
- Yuki Masuda
- Yukimasa Kishino
- Yukitoshi Hori
- Yuko Kobayashi
- Yuko Nagashima
- Yuko Sasaki
- Yuko Sasamoto
- Yumi Kakazu
- Yumiko Kobayashi
- Yumi Takada
- Yuriko Fuchizaki
- Yuriko Yamaguchi
- Yusaku Yara
- Yuu Mizushima
- Yuu Sugimoto
- Yuuka Nanri
- Yuuto Kazama
- Yūya Uchida
Recent
A sub-group of unsorted seiyuu that are beginning to rise in popularity in recent years.
- Ai Furihata
- Ai Kakuma
- Aina Suzuki
- Ai Nonaka
- Ai Shimizu
- Ai Uchikawa
- Aimi Tanaka
- Aimi Terakawa
- Akane Fujita
- Akemi Kanda
- Akeno Watanabe
- Akiko Hasegawa
- Akira Sasanuma
- Akira Sekine
- Anri Katsu
- Aoi Ichikawa
- Aoi Koga
- Arisa Ogasawara
- Arthur Lounsbery
- Asami Sanada
- Asami Shimoda
- Asuka Oogame
- Asuka Tanii
- Atsumi Tanezaki
- Atsushi Abe
- Atsushi Kisaichi
- Atsushi Miyauchi
- Atsushi Tamaru
- Aya Suzaki
- Aya Uchida
- Ayahi Takagaki
- Ayaka Asai
- Ayaka Fukuhara
- Ayaka Ohashi
- Ayaka Saitou
- Ayaka Suwa
- Ayasa Itō
- Ayumi Fujimura
- Ayumi Tsunematsu
- Ayumi Tsuji
- Ayuru Ohashi
- Azumi Asakura
- Azusa Tadokoro
- Chiaki Omigawa
- Chikahiro Kobayashi
- Chie Nakamura
- Chiharu Sawashiro
- Chihiro Suzuki
- Chika Anzai
- Chinami Hashimoto
- Chinatsu Akasaki
- Chitose Morinaga
- Daiki Hamano
- Daisuke Hirakawa
- Emi Nitta
- Eri Sendai
- Eri Suzuki
- Eriko Matsui
- Eriko Nakamura
- Fairouz Ai
- Fumie Mizusawa
- Fuyuka Oura
- Gakuto Kajiwara
- Go Inoue
- Go Shinomiya
- Halko Momoi
- Hana Takeda
- Haruka Shiraishi
- Haruka Terui
- Haruka Yamazaki
- Haruka Yoshimura
- Haruki Ishiya
- Harumi Sakurai
- Hidenobu Kiuchi
- Himika Akaneya
- Hina Kino
- Hinata Sato
- Hiroaki Iwanaga
- Hiroaki Miura
- Hirofumi Nojima
- Hiroko Emori
- Hiroko Taguchi
- Hiromi Hirata
- Hiromi Igarashi
- Hiromi Konno
- Hiroshi Okamoto
- Hiroshi Shimozaki
- Hisako Kanemoto
- Hisayo Mochizuki
- Hisayoshi Suganuma
- Hitomi Harada
- Ibuki Kido
- Ikumi Hasegawa
- Iori Nomizu
- Izumi Kitta
- Jun Fukushima
- Junji Majima
- Juri Kimura
- Juri Nagatsuma
- Juri Takita
- Kanako Kondo
- Kanako Mitsuhashi
- Kanako Sakai
- Kana Akutsu
- Kana Asumi
- Kana Yuuki
- Kanae Ito
- Kanon Takao
- Kaori Fukuhara
- Kaori Ishihara
- Kaori Mizuhashi
- Kaori Nazuka
- Kaori Shimizu
- Kaoru Mizuhara
- Kazusa Murai
- Kazutomi Yamamoto
- Kazuyuki Okitsu
- Keikou Sakai
- Kei Mizusawa
- Kei Shindō
- Kenji Akabane
- Kenji Hamada
- Kenji Nojima
- Kenji Nomura
- Kento Hama
- Kimiko Koyama
- Kimiko Saito
- Kishow Taniyama
- Kiyono Yasuno
- Kohei Kiyasu
- Koji Yusa
- Kokoro Kikuchi
- Konomi Kohara
- Kōtarō Nishiyama
- Kotori Koiwai
- Koudai Sakai
- Kōhei Amasaki
- Kouki Miyata
- Kumi Sakuma
- Lynn
- Machico
- Machiko Toyoshima
- Madoka Asahina
- Mai Aizawa
- Mai Fuchigami
- Mai Goto
- Mai Kadowaki
- Maki Kawase
- Makiko Ohmoto
- Makoto Ishii
- Makoto Koichi
- Manaka Iwami
- Manami Numakura
- Maria Naganawa
- Maria Yamamoto
- Marika Matsumoto
- Mariko Honda
- Mariko Nakatsu
- Masaaki Mizunaka
- Masahiro Yamanaka
- Masami Iwasaki
- Masatomo Nakazawa
- Masaya Takatsuka
- Masumi Asano
- Maxwell Powers (Also does roles in English)
- Mayako Nigo
- Mayu Mineda
- Mayuki Makiguchi
- Mayumi Yamaguchi
- Megumi Nakajima
- Megumi Takamoto
- Megumi Toda
- Megu Sakuragawa
- Mie Sonozaki
- Miho Arakawa
- Miho Okasaki
- Mika Kikuchi
- Mikako Takahashi
- Minako Kotobuki
- Minami Takahashi
- Minami Tsuda
- Minori Chihara
- Minori Suzuki
- Minoru Shiraishi
- Misato Fukuen
- Misuzu Togashi
- Mitsuhiro Ichiki
- Miyu Irino
- Miyuri Shimabukuro
- Miyu Tomita
- Momo Asakura
- Momoko Saito
- Motoki Takagi
- Motoyuki Kawahara
- Mutsumi Tamura
- Nao Tamura
- Naomi Ozora
- Naomi Shindo
- Naomi Wakabayashi
- Natsuko Kuwatani
- Natsumi Fujiwara
- Natsumi Takamori
- Noriko Shitaya
- Nozomi Yamamoto
- Rei Matsuzaki
- Reiko Kiuchi
- Rena Maeda
- Rie Murakawa
- Rie Saitou
- Rie Suegara
- Rikako Aida
- Rika Morinaga
- Rika Tachibana
- Rina Hidaka
- Rina Honnizumi
- Risa Hayamizu
- Risa Mizuno
- Risa Shimizu
- Risa Taneda
- Rui Tanabe
- Rumi Ookubo
- Ruriko Aoki
- Ryo Hirohashi
- Ryohei Arai
- Ryoka Yuzuki
- Ryoko Ono
- Ryoko Shintani
- Ryoko Shiraishi
- Ryouko Tanaka
- Ryousuke Kanemoto
- Ryota Ohsaka
- Ryota Takeuchi
- Ryōta Suzuki
- Sachika Misawa
- Saki Fujita
- Saki Nakajima
- Sakura Nogawa
- Sanae Kobayashi
- Saori Goto
- Saori Onishi
- Sarah Emi Bridcutt
- Sarara Yashima
- Satomi Akesaka
- Satomi Arai
- Satomi Sato
- Satoshi Tsuruoka
- Sawa Ishige
- Sayaka Aoki
- Sayaka Harada
- Sayumi Suzushiro
- Sayuri Hara
- Sayuri Yahagi
- Seiichirō Yamashita
- Seiko Yoshida
- Shigenori Yamazaki
- Shiho Kawaragi
- Shiina Natsukawa
- Shiki Aoki
- Shimba Tsuchiya
- Shinobu Matsumoto
- Shinnosuke Tachibana
- Shinshu Fuji
- Shintarō Asanuma
- Shiori Izawa
- Shiori Mikami
- Shizuka Hasegawa
- Shizuka Ishigami
- Shou Karino
- Shouma Yamamoto
- Shouta Aoi
- Shoya Chiba
- Shun Horie
- Shun'ichi Toki
- Shunsuke Takeuchi
- Shuu Uchida
- Sora Tokui
- Subaru Kimura
- Sumire Morohoshi
- Suzuko Mimori
- Takahiro Mizushima
- Takanori Hoshino
- Takashi Kondo
- Takayuki Kondo
- Taku Yashiro
- Takuma Nagatsuka
- Takuma Takewaka
- Takuma Terashima
- Takuya Sato
- Tarusuke Shingaki
- Tasuku Hatanaka
- Tokuyoshi Kawashima
- Tomo Muranaka
- Tomoaki Maeno
- Tomohisa Hashizume
- Tomoko Kaneda
- Tomomi Mineuchi
- Tomori Kusunoki
- Tomoyo Kurosawa
- Toshiyuki Kusuda
- Toshiyuki Toyonaga
- Tae Okajima
- Tsuyoshi Koyama
- Umeka Shoji
- Wataru Hatano
- Yasuhiro Mamiya
- Yasuyuki Kase
- Yo Taichi
- Yohei Azakami
- Yoji Ueda
- Yoshihisa Kawahara
- Yoshiki Nakajima
- Yoshino Nanjo
- Yu Hayashi
- Yui Ishikawa
- Yui Itsuki
- Yui Kano
- Yui Kondo
- Yui Makino
- Yuichi Iguchi
- Yuiko Tatsumi
- Yuka Inokuchi
- Yuka Komatsu
- Yuka Ootsubo
- Yuka Saitou
- Yuka Terasaki
- Yūki Inoue
- Yuki Kaida
- Yuki Nakashima
- Yukiyo Fujii
- Yuko Sato
- Yuko Sanpei
- Yuko Gibu
- Yūko Gotō
- Yumi Hara
- Yumi Sudo
- Yumiri Hanamori
- Yumi Uchiyama
- Yurika Kubo
- Yurika Ochiai
- Yuri Yamaoka
- Yu Shimamura
- Yusei Oda
- Yuto Nakano
- Yuu Serizawa
- Yuuki Kuwahara
- Yuuki Shin
- Yuuki Tai
- Yūki Takada
- Yuuko Oono
- Yuuna Inamura
- Yusuke Numata
- Yusuke Shirai
- Yūto Suzuki
- Yūto Uemura
Deceased
Unfortunately, voice actors are also humans. Some gained fame, and then died. Here's some famous Japanese voice actors that have passed away, but have contributed a lot in the anime business.
- Chieko Honda
- Chikao Ohtsuka
- Daisuke Gōri
- Eri Kawai
- Ginzo Matsuo
- Ichirō Nagai
- Genzō Wakayama
- Gorō Naya
- Hiromi Tsuru
- Hirotaka Suzuoki
- Iemasa Kayumi
- Joji Yanami
- Junpei Takiguchi
- Kaneta Kimotsuki
- Kaneto Shiozawa
- Kazunari Tanaka
- Kazuyuki Sogabe
- Kei Tomiyama
- Keiji Fujiwara
- Kenji Utsumi
- Kinryu Arimoto
- Kohei Miyauchi
- Koji Totani
- Koji Yada
- Kouji Tsujitani
- Machiko Soga
- Makio Inoue
- Masaaki Tsukada
- Miyu Matsuki
- Nachi Nozawa
- Osamu Ichikawa
- Reiko Kondo
- Rokuro Naya
- Sayuri Yamauchi
- Saori Sugimoto
- Seizo Kato
- Shiho Niiyama
- Shun Yashiro
- Sumiko Shirakawa
- Takashi Yanase
- Takeshi Aono
- Takeshi Watabe
- Takko Ishimori
- Tetsuo Goto
- Tomoko Kawakami
- Tomoyuki Dan
- Toshiko Fujita
- Toru Ohira
- Toshihiko Nakajima
- Unshō Ishizuka
- Yasuo Yamada
- You Inoue
- Yuko Mizutani
