Gion
Gion is Kyoto's geisha district, with hostesses in colorful kimonos often sighted on the wooden Tatsumi Bridge, or amid upscale Japanese restaurants and boutiques on Hanamikoji Street. Gion Corner hosts traditional Kyomai dances, while Kennin-ji Temple is known for its Zen garden and Yasaka Shrine has seasonal festivals in a lantern-lit courtyard. Nightlife ranges from quiet sake bars to buzzing, pub-like izakayas.
People born in Gion (First 49 people) - Page 1
Asli Burkhanov
Actor
Isgender Aznaurov
Military personnel
Sigifredo Martínez
Peruvian football player
Abelardo Oquendo Cueto (Abelardo Oquendo)
Peruvian literary critic
Jonathan Acasiete Ariadela
Peruvian football player
Carolyn Dunn
Canadian actress
Fred Lavery
Singer
Philip P. Campbell
Former United States Representative
Philip Pitt Campbell
Former United States Representative
Linnéa Handberg Lund
Danish musician
Basim
Danish singer
Aydın Reis
Military personnel
Antonia Sainz
Anne Gadegaard
Danish singer
Anders Peter Nielsen
Olympic athlete
Kennedy Agyapong
Member of Parliament of Ghana
Isaac Kobina Abban
Former Chief Justice of Ghana
Paul Mensah
Ghanaian football player
Sam Kavuma
Ugandan senior officer
Achille Mbembe
Cameroonian historian
Grégoire Owona
Politician
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Minister
Hywel Teifi Edwards
Academic
Dafydd ap Gwilym
Welsh poet
Lewis Pugh Evans
British soldier
Dic Jones
Welsh poet
Ryan Andrews
Film director
Sioned James
Welsh musician
Saint Brioc
Welsh abbot
Carantoc
Christmas Evans
Welsh minister
Ernest Vaughan, 7th Earl of Lisburne
Edward Vaughan
Welsh Politician
John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne
Sir Francis Geary, 1st Baronet
Germán Borregales
Venezuelan Politician
Panos Karan
Classical pianist
George of Trebizond
Philosopher
Thanassis Skordalos
Musician
Theophanes the Cretan
Painter
Athanasius III of Constantinople
Canon
Mesomedes
Poet
Theodore Kerkezos
Saxophonist
Osman Deniz
Georgios Chortatzis
Greek dramatist
Ignatius of Moscow
Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia
Kostas Apostolakis
Greek film actor
