Kobayashi
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Kobayashi (小林 "small forest") is the 9th most common Japanese surname. It may refer to:
[edit] Arts and entertainment
- Ai Kobayashi (born 1973), voice actress
- Aimi Kobayashi (born 1995), pianist
- Akiji Kobayashi (1930–1996), actor, best remembered for his role as Captain Taishio (Toshio) Muramatsu aka Captain Mura in Ultraman
- Akiko Kobayashi (singer) (born 1958), singer, songwriter, composer and arranger, also known as Holi
- Akiko Kobayashi (voice actor) (born 1979), voice actor and singer
- Akira Kobayashi (born 1938), actor, nicknamed Maitogai ("Mighty Guy")
- Ayako Kobayashi, actress, best known by her role in the TV drama "Oshin"
- Hideaki Kobayashi (born 1973), video game composer, writer of the music in Phantasy Star Online
- Hideo Kobayashi (1902–1983), author and literary critic
- Hitomi Kobayashi (born 1965), retired AV (adult video) idol
- Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828), poet, regarded a Haiku master
- Katsuya Kobayashi (born 1981) (actor)
- Kei Kobayashi (voice actress) (born 1976), voice actress, affiliated with Mausu Promotion.
- Kei Kobayashi (actor), actor and jazz singer
- 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
- Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847–1915), Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker
- Makoto Kobayashi (artist) (born 1958), manga artist, best known for his unusual drawing style
- Masaki Kobayashi (1916–1996), film director, films include Kwaidan and The Human Condition
- Mao Kobayashi (born 1992), actress, junior idol and TV talent
- Maya Kobayashi, freelance announcer, elder sister of Mao Kobayashi
- 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, currently affiliated with 81 Produce
- Yumi Kobayashi (born 1988), fashion model
- Yumiko Kobayashi (born 1979), freelance voice actress, formerly affiliated with Arts Vision
[edit] Sports
- Daigo Kobayashi (born 1983), association footballer for the Greek club Iraklis F.C.
- Izumi Kobayashi (born 1977), professional go player
- Kamui Kobayashi (born 1986), Formula One racing driver for Sauber
- Kenta Kobayashi (born 1981) professional wrestler currently signed to Pro Wrestling Noah
- Koichi Kobayashi (born 1952), go player
- Masahide Kobayashi (born 1974), baseball pitcher for the Yomiuri Giants
- Masato (kickboxer), or Masato Kobayashi (born 1979), professional Japanese Welterweight kickboxer
- Nobuaki Kobayashi (born 1942), three-cushion billiards player
- Ryokan Kobayashi (born 1979), baseball pitcher, currently plays for the Brother Elephants, Chinese Professional Baseball League
- Satoru Kobayashi (born 1959), go player
- Yasuo Kobayashi (born 1936), aikido teacher
- Abdullah Kobayashi or Yosuke Kobayashi (born 1976), professional wrestler with BJPW and TNA
- Takeru Kobayashi (born 1978), competitive eater
[edit] Politics
[edit] Sciences
- Hayao Kobayashi, chemist and professor at Nihon University
- 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
- Kaoru Kobayashi (born 1968), convicted of the murder of a seven year old first-grade student
[edit] In fiction
- Kobayashi, Keyser Söze's lawyer in the film The Usual Suspects, played by Pete Postlethwaite
- Kobayashi-sensei, a character in the Japanese manga series The Law of Ueki
- Akane Kobayashi, a character in the manga and anime series Doki Doki School Hours
- Amiko Kobayashi, the adopted daughter of the marvel superhero Wolverine
- Daigo Kobayashi, the main character in the 2008 film Departures
- Kobayashi Hatoko and her brother Kobayashi Kotaro, characters in the manga series Angelic Layer
- Hayato Kobayashi, character in the televised anime series Mobile Suit Gundam
- Rin Kobayashi, character in the science fiction manga Please Save My Earth
- Washu Kobayashi and Washu Fitzgerald Kobayashi, name of the anime and manga character Washu Hakubi in the Pretty Sammy OVA and the Magical Project S TV spinoff
- Hitomonji Kobayashi, a character in the anime and manga Cheeky Angel
- Kobayashi No. 0012, A Fanfiction And Not In TV. And No Manga.
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