Hayashi

Hayashi (林, literally "woods"), is a common Japanese surname.

People

• Asuca Hayashi, singer
• Chushiro Hayashi, astrophysicist
• Fubō Hayashi, author
• Fumiko Hayashi (author), poet
• Fumio Hayashi, economist
• Ikuo Hayashi, one of the perpetrators of the 1995 Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
• Isao Hayashi, singer
• Joe Hayashi, Japanese-American World War II soldier
• Kaz Hayashi, professional wrestler
• Keizō Hayashi, civil servant and general officer
• Kiralee Hayashi, American stunt woman, actress and gymnast
• Masumi Hayashi (photographer) (1945–2006), an American photographer and artist
• Masumi Hayashi (poisoner)
• Patrick Hayashi, the defendant in the property law case Popov v. Hayashi
• Senjūrō Hayashi, former Prime Minister of Japan
• Shizuya Hayashi, Japanese-American World War II soldier
• Tadahiko Hayashi, photographer
• Takanobu Hayashi, photographer
• Tsuruichi Hayashi (1873–1935), mathematician
• Yasuo Hayashi, one of the perpetrators of the 1995 Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
• Yasunori Hayashi, Japanese neuroscientist
• Yoshihide Hayashi, general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II
• Yoshiki (musician), Yoshiki Hayashi

Other

• The name of a former samurai clan, the Hayashi clan (disambiguation), several members of which served hereditarily as foreign policy advisors in the Tokugawa shogunate
• The daimyō family of Jōzai Domain (Jōzai han)
• The name of one of the four go houses in the Edo period
• A dish consisting of stewed beef and onions in gravy: Hayashi rice
• Hayashi (music) (囃子), the term for a musical accompanist section, usually consisting primarily of percussion, in traditional Japanese theatre and dance.
• 4771 Hayashi, an asteroid discovered in 1989

References

1. ↑ 1990 Census Name Files