Sayaka Ando
former Japanese gravure idol and Race queen
Sayaka Ando (安藤 沙耶香, Andō Sayaka; born 24 May 1981 in Takasaki, Gunma and raised in Sendai, Japan) is a Japanese gravure idol and fashion model. She made her debut in Eternal in 2004.
She is a graduate of Miyagi Gakuin Women's University.
Personal life
She delivered her first child in September 2012, and her second in November 2014.
“Sayaka Ando” enters the record as former Japanese gravure idol and Race queen. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sayaka, Ando and former can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7429095. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1981, 2004, 2012 and 2014.
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