Kobayashi
This article is about people bearing the surname. For other uses, including fictional characters, see Kobayashi (disambiguation).
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Kobayashi (小林 "small forest") is the 9th most common Japanese surname. It may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
- Ai Kobayashi (born 1973), voice actress
- Aimi Kobayashi (born 1995), pianist
- Akiji Kobayashi (1930–1996), actor
- Akiko Kobayashi (chemist) (born 1943)
- Akiko Kobayashi (singer) (aka Holi, born 1958), singer, songwriter, composer and arranger
- Akiko Kobayashi (voice actor) (born 1979), voice actor and singer
- Akira Kobayashi (aka Maitogai, born 1938), actor
- Ayako Kobayashi, actress, esp. "Oshin" on TV
- Hideaki Kobayashi (born 1973), video game composer
- Hideo Kobayashi (1902–1983), author and literary critic
- Hitomi Kobayashi (born 1965), retired adult-video actress
- Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828), haiku poet
- Katsuya Kobayashi (born 1981) (actor)
- Kei Kobayashi (voice actress) (born 1976), voice actress
- Keiju Kobayashi, actor
- Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi (born 1940), conductor and composer
- Jin Kobayashi (born 1977), manga artist, writer of School Rumble
- Kaori Kobayashi (born 1981), jazz saxophonist and flautist
- Kaoru Kobayashi (actor) (born 1951), actor
- Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847–1915), Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker
- Kobayashi Kokei (1883–1957), Japanese Nihonga painter
- Makoto Kobayashi (artist) (born 1958), in manga
- Makoto Kobayashi (physicist) (born 1944), Nobelist
- Masaki Kobayashi (1916–1996), film director
- Mao Kobayashi (born 1992), actress, junior idol and TV talent
- Sachiko Kobayashi, Enka singer and voice actress
- Sanae Kobayashi (born 1980), voice actress
- Takeshi Kobayashi, music writer
- Kobayashi Takiji (1903–1933), Japanese author of proletarian literature
- Tomomi Kobayashi, character designer for the SaGa series role playing games
- Yoshinori Kobayashi (born 1953), conservative author and manga artist
- Yū Kobayashi (born 1982), voice actress
- Yūko Kobayashi (born 1961), voice actress
- Yumi Kobayashi (born 1988), fashion model
- Yumiko Kobayashi (born 1979), freelance voice actress
Sports
- Abdullah Kobayashi or Yosuke Kobayashi (born 1976), professional wrestler with BJPW and TNA
- Daigo Kobayashi (born 1983), association footballer for the Vancouver Whitecaps
- Izumi Kobayashi (born 1977), professional go player
- Kamui Kobayashi (born 1986), racing driver
- Kenta Kobayashi (born 1981) professional wrestler currently signed to WWE
- Koichi Kobayashi (born 1952), go player
- Masahide Kobayashi (born 1974), baseball pitcher for the Yomiuri Giants
- Masato Kobayashi (born 1979), Japanese kickboxer
- Nobuaki Kobayashi (born 1942), three-cushion billiards player
- Paulinho Kobayashi (born 1970), former Brazilian footballer
- Ryokan Kobayashi (born 1979), baseball pitcher, currently plays for the Brother Elephants, Chinese Professional Baseball League
- Seiji Kobayashi (born 1989), baseball catcher
- Satoru Kobayashi (born 1959), go player
- Takeru Kobayashi (born 1978), competitive eater
- Yasuo Kobayashi (born 1936), aikido teacher
Sciences
- Kiyoshi Kobayashi (professor), professor at Kyoto University
- Makoto Kobayashi (physicist) (born 1944), physicist, Nobel laureate, known for his work on CP-violation
- Shoshichi Kobayashi (born 1932), mathematician, worked on Riemannian and complex manifolds, infinite Lie groups
- Takao Kobayashi (born 1961), amateur astronomer, asteroid hunter
- Toru Kobayashi, astronomer, discoverer of comet C/1975 N1 (Kobayashi-Berger-Milon
- Toshiyuki Kobayashi (born 1962), mathematician, worked in the field of Lie theory, and on the theory of discontinuous groups
Other
- Ann Kobayashi (born 1937), a member of the Honolulu City Council
- Kaoru Kobayashi (born 1968), convicted of the murder of a seven-year-old first-grade student