Notable Internees
- Richard Aoki (1938–2009), Black Panther Party, as a child at Topaz
- Violet Kazue de Cristoforo (1917–2007), poet (Tule Lake and Jerome)
- Takayo Fischer, actress (Jerome and Rohwer)
- Bill Hosokawa (1915–2007), journalist (Heart Mountain)
- Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, author (Manzanar)
- Lawson Fusao Inada, poet (multiple camps)
- Robert Ito, actor (Japanese-Canadian Internee)
- Hiroshi Kashiwagi, actor, poet, playwright (Tule Lake)
- Bill Kasuga, co-founder of Kenwood Corporation
- Kichimatsu Kishi (?-1956), founder of an agricultural colony and a small oil company
- Yuri Kochiyama, activist (Jerome)
- Ralph Lazo (Manzanar)
- Bob Matsui (1941–2005), U.S. Congressman (Tule Lake)
- Doris Matsui (1944– ), U.S. Congresswoman (born in Poston)
- Pat Morita (1932–2005), actor, comedian (Gila River)
- Norman Mineta (1931– ), former Mayor of San Jose, California, U.S. Congressman, Sec. of Commerce, Sec. of Transportation (Heart Mountain)
- Tōyō Miyatake (1896–1979), photographer (Manzanar)
- Robert A. Nakamura (1937– ), Filmmaker, Founder of Visual Communications (VC) (Manzanar)
- George Nakashima (1905–1990), woodworker, furniture designer, architect (Minidoka)
- Arthur Okamura (1932–2009), screen print artist (Granada)
- Miné Okubo (1912–2001), artist, author Citizen 13660 (Tanforan and Topaz)
- Tura Satana (1938–2011), actress, burlesque star (Manzanar)
- Yuki Shimoda (1921–1981), actor (Tule Lake)
- Larry Shinoda (1930–1997), automotive designer
- Monica Sone (1919–2011) autobiographer (Nisei Daughter, 1953) (Camp Harmony and Minidoka)
- Jack Soo (1917–1979), actor, comedian (Topaz)
- Pat Suzuki, singer, actress, entertainer
- Shinkichi Tajiri (1923–2009), soldier, 442nd. Documenta artist, sculptor, photographer, lived in the Netherlands. With the family at Poston.
- Iwao Takamoto (1925–2007), animator, TV producer (Manzanar)
- George Takei, (1937– ), actor (Rohwer and Tule Lake)
- A. Wallace Tashima, Ninth Circuit judge (Poston)
- Dave Tatsuno (1913–2006), (Topaz), who filmed scenes of the camp with an illegal camera, later compiled as Topaz, and placed in the National Film Registry
- Yoshiko Uchida (1921–1992), author ("Journey to Topaz" for children and "Desert Exile" for adults) (Tanforan and Topaz)
- Michi Nishiura Weglyn (1926–1999), author of Years Of Infamy
- Hisaye Yamamoto (1921–2011), author (Poston)
- Wakako Yamauchi, author, playwright (Poston)
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