Hāfu (ハーフ, "half") describes an individual who is either the child of one Japanese and one non-Japanese parent or, less commonly, two half Japanese parents. Because the term is specific to individuals of ethnic Japanese (Yamato) ancestry, individuals whose Japanese ancestry is not of ethnic Japanese origin, such as Zainichi Koreans (e.g. Crystal Kay Williams and Kiko Mizuhara) will not be listed. This list is only for notable Hāfu.
Academics, science, and technology
Kusumoto Ine (1827–1903), Japanese physician (German parent)
Edwin McClellan (1925–2009), British Japanologist (British father)
Marie Morisawa (1919–1994), American geomorphologist (American parent)
Samaya Nissanke, British astrophysicist (Sri Lankan father)
Marian Irwin Osterhout (1888–1973), American plant physiologist (American father)
Charles John "Yoshio" Pedersen (1904–1989), American organic chemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Norwegian father)
Zheng Pingru (1918–1940), Chinese socialite and inspiration for Lust, Caution
News and media
Ann Curry (born 1956), American TV journalist (English-Irish-American father)
Sadakichi Hartmann (1867–1944), American art critic (German father)
Miki Meek, American radio journalist (White American father)
Yumi Stynes (born 1975), Japanese Australian media personality (fifth generation Australian father)
Kumi Taguchi (born 1975), Australian journalist (Australian parent)
Raymond H Boone (1938–2014), Pioneer African American Journalist (Japanese father)
Politics and law
Chiang Wei-kuo (1916–1997), Kuomintang figure and adopted son of Chiang Kai-shek (Chinese father)
Richard Nikolaus Eijiro von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894–1972), naturalized French Austrian nobleman and founder of the Paneuropean Union (Austro-Hungarian father)
Shinkun Haku (born 1958), Japanese politician and member of House of Councillors (South Korean father)
Irina Mutsuovna Khakamada (born 1955), Russian politician (Armenian-Russian mother)
Ko Yong-hui (1952–2004), North Korean consort and mother of Kim Jong-un (Korean father)
Liao Liou-yi (born 1947), Taiwanese politician (Taiwanese father)
Endon Mahmood (1940–2005), Spouse of the Prime Minister of Malaysia (Malay father)
Kinjiro Matsudaira (1885–1963), American inventor and politician (American mother)
Renhō Murata (born Lien-fang Hsieh, 1967), Japanese politician (Taiwanese father)
Masa Nakayama (1891–1976), Japanese politician (American father)
Masao Nakayama (1941–2011), Micronesian politician and diplomat (Micronesian mother)
Tosiwo Nakayama (1931–2007), President of the Federated States of Micronesia (Micronesian mother)
Mariko Peters (born 1969), Dutch politician and member of the Tweede Kamer (Dutch parent)
Naomi Ichihara Røkkum (born 1987), Norwegian politician in Oslo City Council (Norwegian parent)
Dana Sabraw (born 1958), justice for the United States District Court for the Southern District of California (United States Army soldier parent)
Kartika Sari Dewi Soekarnoputri (born 1967), daughter of President of Indonesia Sukarno (Indonesian father)
Dennis “Denny” Tamaki (born 1959), Japanese politician (American father)
Bruce Harrell (born 1958), Mayor of Seattle, Washington USA (African American father, Japanese mother)
Sports
Baseball
Farid Yu Darvishsefat (born 1986), Japanese baseball player (Iranian father)
Jeremy Guthrie (born 1979), American baseball player (White American parent)
Charlton Atlee Hammaker (born 1958), American MLB pitcher (German American parent)
Keston Hiura (born 1996), American baseball player (Chinese mother)
Hideki Irabu (1969–2011), Japanese baseball player (American parent)
Kento Mark Ishida, Japanese professional baseball player (Belgian father)
Travis Ishikawa (born 1983), American baseball player (White American parent)
Shō Ishikawa (born 1999), Japanese baseball player (Filipina parent)
Sachio Kinugasa, Japanese baseball player (African American parent)
Michael "Mike" Lum (born 1946), American baseball player (American parent)
Micheal Yoshihide Nakamura (born 1976), Australian baseball player (Australian parent)
Ryuya Ogawa (born 1991), Japanese baseball player (Filipino parent)
Sadaharu Oh (born 1940), Chinese baseball player (Chinese parent)
Louis Okoye (born 1997), Japanese baseball player (Igbo parent)
Koji Ota (born 1952), Japanese baseball player (American father)
David "Dave" Roberts (born 1972), American baseball player (African American parent)
Chiaki Tone (born 1992), Japanese baseball player (Filipino mother)
Wilbur Donald "Don" Wakamatsu (born 1963), American baseball player (Irish American mother)
Yasuaki Yamasaki (born 1992), Japanese baseball player (Filipino parent)
Christian Yelich (born 1991), American baseball player (Serbian American father)
Lars Nootbaar (born 1997), American baseball player (American father)
Yuki Udagawa (born 1998), Japanese baseball player (Filipina parent)
Steven Kwan (born 1997), American baseball player (Chinese father)
Basketball
Rui Hachimura (born 1998), Japanese basketball player (Beninese parent)
Takehiko Kanagoki (1914–1992), Japanese basketball player and Olympic Games contestant
Michael Katsuhisa (born 1983), Japanese basketball player (American parent)
Mucha Mori (born 1988), Japanese basketball player (Filipina parent)
Rex Walters (born 1970), American basketball player (white father)
Avi Schafer (born 1998), is a Japanese-American professional basketball.
Footballers
Andrew Kumagai, Japanese footballer, Sri Lankan Tamils father
Ariajasuru Hasegawa, Japanese footballer, Kurdish father
Jiro Barriga Toyama (born 1995), Japanese Colombian footballer (Colombian father)
Jun Marques Davidson (born 1983), Japanese footballer (American father)
Alan Davidson (born 1960), Australian soccer player (Australian parent)
Akira Silvano Disaro (born 1996), Japanese Italian footballer (Italian father)
Mobi Fehr (born 1994), American soccer player (Swiss father)
Cy Goddard (born 1997), Japanese footballer (English father)
Hirokane Harima (born 1998), Hong Kong professional footballer (Hong Kong parent)
Dan Howbert (born 1987), Japanese footballer (Liberian father)
Stefan Daisuke Ishizaki (born 1982), Swedish footballer (Swedish parent)
Arata Izumi (also known as Neelkanth Narendra Khambholja; born 1982), Indian Japanese footballer (Gujarati parent)
Colin Killoran (born 1992), Japanese footballer (Irish parent)
Niall Killoran (born 1992), Japanese footballer (Irish parent)
Riki Kitawaki (born 1985), Japanese footballer (Venezuelan parent)
Ken Krolicki (born 1996), Japanese footballer (Polish American father)
Issey Maholo, Japanese footballer (Congolese father)
Daniel Matsuzaka (born 1997), English footballer (English parent)
KennedyEgbus Mikuni (born 2000), Japanese footballer (Nigerian parent)
Hikaru Minegishi (born 1991), Filipino footballer (Filipina parent)
Michel Miyazawa (born 1963), Japanese footballer (French parent) add source
Issey Nakajima-Farran (born 1984), Canadian soccer player (White Zimbabwean parent)
Joel Chima Fujita
Leo Kokubo
Paris Nakajima-Farran (born 1989), Canadian soccer player (English Zimbabwean father)
Mana Nakao (born 1986), Japanese footballer (Tanzanian parent)
Boniface Nduka (born 1996), Japanese footballer (Nigerian father)
Connor O'Toole (born 1987), Australian footballer (Irish father)
Ado Onaiwu, Japanese footballer (Nigerian father)
Satoshi Ōtomo (born 1981), Filipino Japanese footballer (Filipina parent)
William Popp (born 1994), Japanese footballer (American parent)
Gōtoku Sakai (born 1991), Japanese footballer (German parent)
Daisuke Sato (born 1994), Filipino Japanese professional footballer (Filipina parent)
Daniel Schmidt (born 1992), Japanese footballer (German American father)
Junnosuke Schneider (born 1977), Japanese footballer (Swiss-German father)
Ippei Shinozuka (born 1995), Japanese footballer (Russian parent)
David Jiménez Silva (born 1986), Spanish footballer (Spanish father)
Yuki Richard Stalph (born 1984), German footballer (German mother)
Musashi Suzuki (born 1994), Japanese footballer (Afro-Jamaican father)
Yuji Takahashi (born 1993), Japanese footballer (Filipino mother)
Paulo Junichi Tanaka (born 1993), Japanese footballer (Filipino parent)
Cayman Togashi (born 1993), Japanese footballer (Turkish American mother)
Tando Velaphi (born 1987), Australian soccer player (Zimbabwean parent)
Kayne Vincent (born 1988), New Zealand footballer (New Zealander parent)
Pierce Waring (born 1998), Australian professional footballer (Australian father)
Sai van Wermeskerken (born 1994), Japanese footballer (Dutch father)
Jelani Reshaun Sumiyoshi, Japanese footballer (American father)
Robert Cullen, Japanese footballer (Irish father)
Keita Buwanika, Japanese footballer (Ugandan father)
Mio Backhaus, German footballer
Talla Ndao, Japanese footballer (Senegalese father)
Ryuji Utomo, Indonesian footballer (Indonesian Mother)
Marcus Túlio Tanaka (born 1981), Brazilian footballer (Italian-Brazilian mother)
Gabriel Kazu, Brazilian footballer (Italian-Brazilian mother)
Shinta Appelkamp, German footballer (Japanese mother)
Zion Suzuki, Japanese footballer (Ghanaian father)
Golf
Pat Hurst (born 1969), American professional golfer (German-American father)
Artemio Murakami (born 1983), Filipino professional golfer (Filipina parent)
Haru Nomura (born 1992), Japanese golfer (Korean parent)
Noboru Sugai (born 1949), Japanese golfer (Russian mother)
Ice skaters
Ryuju Hino (born 1995), Japanese figure skater (Russian parent)
Rika Hongo (born 1996), Japanese figure skater (British parent)
Apolo Ohno (born 1982), American speed skater and Olympic medalist (White American parent)
Allison Reed (born 1994), American ice dancer (American parent)
Cathy Reed (born 1987), Japanese ice dancer (American parent)
Chris Reed (1989 − 2020), Japanese ice dancer (American parent)
Kai Verbij (born 1994), Dutch speed skater (Dutch parent)
Emi Watanabe (born 1959), Japanese figure skater (Filipina parent)
Judo and martial arts
Mashu "Matthew" Baker (born 1994), Japanese judoka (American parent)
Christa Deguchi (born 1995), Canadian judoka (Canadian parent)
Morgan Endicott-Davies, Australian olympic judoka (Pākehā parent)
Tomohiko Hoshina (born 1987), Filipino-Japanese judoka (Filipina parent)
Kane Kosugi (born 1974), American martial artist (Chinese parent)
Lyoto Machida (born 1978), Brazilian mixed martial artist (European Brazilian parent)
Kodo Nakano (born 1993), Filipino judoka (Filipina parent)
Ryu Shichinohe (born 1988), Japanese judoka (Belgian parent)
Ricardo Suzuki (born 2000), Japanese taekwondo practitioner (Bolivian parent)
Sergio Suzuki (born 1994), Japanese taekwondo practitioner (Bolivian parent)
Kiyoshi Uematsu (born 1978), Spanish judoka (Spanish parent)
Kiyomi Watanabe (born 1996), Japanese-Filipina judoka (Filipina mother)
Don Wilson (born 1954), American kickboxer (American father)
Aaron Wolf (born 1996), Japanese judoka (American father)
Sumo and professional wrestling
Riki Choshu (born 1951), Japanese professional wrestler (Chungbuk Korean father)
Masunoyama Tomoharu (born 1990), Japanese sumo wrestler (Filipina parent)
Kōki Naya (1940–2013), Japanese sumo wrestler, 48th yokozuna (Ukrainian parent)
Omichi Hisashi (born 1992), Japanese sumo wrestler (Filipino mother)
Sentoryū Henri (born 1969), sumo wrestler (African American father)
Erika "Aja Kong" Shishido (born 1970), Japanese wrestler (African American parent)
Ricky Steamboat (born 1953), American professional wrestler (English parent)
Vic Steamboat (born 1960), American professional wrestler (English parent)
Syuri (born 1989), Japanese professional wrestler (Filipino parent)
Takagenji Satoshi (born 1997), Japanese sumo wrestler (Filipino parent)
Akira Takayasu (born 1990), Japanese sumo wrestler (Filipino mother)
Ichiro Young (born 1998), Japanese sumo wrestler (African American father)
Giulia (wrestler), (born 1994), Japanese professional wrestler (Italian father)
Hana Kimura (1997-2020), Japanese professional wrestler (Indonesian father)
Tennis
Taro Daniel (born 1993), Japanese tennis player (White American parent)
Anastasia Malhotra (born 1989), Japanese tennis player (Greek-Indian parent)
Naomi Osaka (born 1997), Japanese tennis player (Afro-Haitian father)
Mari Osaka (born 1996), Japanese tennis player and sister of Naomi Osaka (Haitian father)
Akira Santillan (born 1997) Australian tennis player (Spanish South African parent)
Erika Sema (born 1988), Japanese tennis player (French parent)
Yurika Sema (born 1986), Japanese tennis player (French parent)
Moyuka Uchijima (born 2001), Japanese tennis player (Malaysian mother)
Maharu Yoshimura (born 1993), Japanese table tennis player (Filipina mother)
Track and field
Abdul Hakim Sani Brown (born 1999), Japanese sprinter (Ghanaian parent)
Asuka "Aska" Cambridge (born 1993), Japanese track and field sprinter (Afro-Jamaican father)
Bryan Clay (born 1980), American decathlete (African American parent)
Roderick Genki Dean (born 1991), Japanese javelin thrower (British parent)
Takeshi Fujiwara (born 1985), Salvadorian athlete (Salvadorian parent)
Koji Alexander Murofushi (born 1974), Japanese hammer thrower and Olympic medalist and child of Shigenobu Murofushi (Romanian parent)
Yuka Murofushi (born 1977), Japanese hammer and discus thrower and child of Shigenobu Murofushi (Romanian parent)
Others (athletes)
Giuliano Alesi (born 1999), French racing driver and son of Kumiko Goto (French father)
Marcos Sugiyama Esteves (born 1973), Japanese volleyball player (Afro-Brazilian parent)
Sakura Hauge (born 1987), Japanese handballer (Norwegian father)
Lynne Hutchison (born 1994), British rhythmic gymnast (British parent)
Eddie Jones (born 1960), Australian rugby union coach (Australian father)
Paul Tetsuhiko Kariya (born 1974), Canadian ice hockey player (Scottish Canadian parent)
Allam Khodair (born 1981), Brazilian racing driver (Lebanese parent)
Alicia Kinoshita (born 1967), Japanese Olympic-medalist sailor (Danish parent)
Kyle Larson (born 1992), American stock car racing driver (White American parent)
Lee Eun-ju (born 1998), South Korean artistic gymnast (Korean parent)
Scott MacKenzie (born 1972), Hong Kong darts player (Scottish father)
Stan McQuay (born 1973), professional bodybuilder (Irish father)
Leilani Münter (born 1974), American stock car racing driver and environmental activist (Japanese American mother)
Hikaru Nakamura (born 1987), chess grandmaster (American parent)
Haruki Nakamura (born 1986), American NFL player (Irish American parent)
Robbie Nishida (born 1977), American drifter (American father)
Katelyn Ohashi (born 1997), American artistic gymnast (German American parent)
Risa Sato (born 1994), Filipina volleyball player (Filipina parent)
Miki Sudo (born 1985), American competitive eater (European American parent)
Kasumi Takahashi (born 1980), Australian gymnast (Australian parent)
Jonathan Tisdall (born 1958), American chess grandmaster (Irish parent)
Peter Westbrook (born 1952), American fencer (African-American father)
Non-athletes
James Holzhauer (born 1984), American sports gambler and game show contestant (German father)
Don Nomura (born 1957), Japanese sports agent (Jewish American father)
Eddie Townsend (1914–1988), American boxing trainer (American father)
Others
Antony Dainan (1584–1597), one of the 26 Martyrs of Japan (Chinese father)
Janey Ensminger (1976 − 1985), victim of government water supply mismanagement and namesake of Janey Ensminger Act (American parent)
Jeup Gan-bu, Korean clan progenitor (Korean parent)
Koxinga (1624−1662), Ming general (Chinese father)
Jeffrey T. Johnson, perpetrator of the 2012 Empire State Building shooting (American father)
Ryō Kurusu (1919–1945), Imperial Japanese Army officer (White American mother)