Kobayashi
Kobayashi (小林 "small forest") is the 9th most common Japanese surname. People with the name Kobayashi include:
- Aimi Kobayashi (pianist)
- Akira Kobayashi (actor)
- Ann Kobayashi (politician in Hawaii)
- Daigo Kobayashi (footballer)
- Hideaki Kobayashi (video game composer)
- Hideo Kobayashi (literary critic)
- Kobayashi Issa (poet)
- Izumi Kobayashi (go player)
- Jin Kobayashi (manga artist)
- Kamui Kobayashi (professional racing driver)
- Kaori Kobayashi (musician)
- Kaoru Kobayashi (murderer)
- Katsuya Kobayashi (actor)
- Kei Kobayashi (male jazz singer and seiyu)
- Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi (conductor)
- Kenta Kobayashi (professional wrestler)
- Kobayashi Kiyochika (ukiyo-e artist)
- Kiyoshi Kobayashi (Professor) (Professor)
- Koichi Kobayashi (go player)
- Makoto Kobayashi (artist) (manga artist)
- Makoto Kobayashi (physicist) (physicist)
- Masahide Kobayashi (baseball pitcher for the Cleveland Indians)
- Masaki Kobayashi (film director)
- Masato Kobayashi (kickboxer)
- Mao Kobayashi (actress and TV talent)
- Maya Kobayashi (freelance announcer, elder sister of Mao Kobayashi)
- Nobuaki Kobayashi (billiards player)
- Ryokan Kobayashi (baseball player)
- Sanae Kobayashi (seiyū)
- Satoru Kobayashi (go player)
- Shoshichi Kobayashi (mathematician)
- Takao Kobayashi (astronomer)
- Takeru Kobayashi (competitive eater)
- Takeshi Kobayashi (music writer)
- Kobayashi Takiji (author)
- Tomomi Kobayashi (illustrator)
- Toru Kobayashi (astronomer)
- Toshiyuki Kobayashi (mathematician)
- Yasuo Kobayashi (aikido teacher)
- Yoshinori Kobayashi (manga author)
- Yuko Kobayashi (seiyū)
- Yumi Kobayashi (fashion model)
- Yumiko Kobayashi (seiyū)
Fictional characters
There are also many fictional characters with the surname Kobayashi. They include:
- Kobayashi, Keyser Soze's lawyer in the film The Usual Suspects, played by Pete Postlethwaite
- Kobasen (Kobayashi-sensei), in Law of Ueki
- Kobayashi Maru, fictional space vessel in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and in Star Trek (2009 film)
- Akane Kobayashi, in Doki Doki School Hours (Sensei no Ojikan)
- Amiko Kobayashi, the adopted daughter of Wolverine (comics)
- Daigo Kobayashi, in the film Departures (おくりびと, Okuribito)
- Kobayashi Hatoko and her brother Kotaro in Angelic Layer
- Hayato Kobayashi, in Mobile Suit Gundam
- Rin Kobayashi, in Please Save My Earth
- Washu Kobayashi, in Pretty Sammy OVAs (with the middle name Fitzgerald, in Magical Project S TV spinoff)
See also
This page lists people with the surname Kobayashi.
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