Hirofumi Hirano
平野 博文
Official portrait, 2012
Chief Cabinet Secretary
In office 16 September 2009 – 8 June 2010
Prime Minister	Yukio Hatoyama
Preceded by	Takeo Kawamura
Succeeded by	Yoshito Sengoku
Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
In office 13 January 2012 – 1 October 2012
Prime Minister	Yoshihiko Noda
Preceded by	Masaharu Nakagawa
Succeeded by	Makiko Tanaka
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 19 December 2014 – 14 October 2021
Preceded by	Multi-member district
Succeeded by	Hiroshi Nakatsuka
Constituency	Kinki PR (2014–2017) Osaka 11th (2017–2021)
In office 21 October 1996 – 16 November 2012
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Nobuhisa Ito
Constituency	Osaka 11th
Personal details
Born	(1949-03-19) 19 March 1949 (age 75) Katsuragi, Wakayama, Japan
Political party	CDP (since 2020)
Other political affiliations	Independent (1996–1998) DPJ (1998–2016) DP (2016–2018) DPP (2018–2020)
Alma mater	Chuo University
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Hirofumi Hirano (平野 博文, Hirano Hirofumi, born March 19, 1949) is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and a former member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). He is a native of Katsuragi, Wakayama and he started working for Panasonic Corporation in 1971 after graduating from Chuo University. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996 as an independent. He was the Chief Cabinet Secretary in the Yukio Hatoyama administration. He represented the 11th District of Osaka Prefecture from 1996 until 2012, and again from 2014 to 2021.

• 政治家情報 〜平野 博文〜. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2007-10-12.

• Official website in Japanese.