Kobayashi

Template:Otheruses Template:Wiktionary Template:TOC right Kobayashi (Japanese: Template:Nihongo2, Template:Lit 'small woods') is the 8th most common Japanese surname.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref> A less common variant is Template:Nihongo2. Notable people with the surname include:

Arts

Film, television, theater and music

• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actress and voice actress
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actor
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actor
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese voice actor
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese voice actor
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese musician
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actor
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese voice actress
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actor
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese comedian and actor
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese comedian, actor, dramaturge, theatre director and manga artist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese film director
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese voice actor
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese dancer and actor
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actor
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actress
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actress
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actress and voice actress
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese musician
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actress
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actor
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese musician
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese singer and model
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actress
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese voice actress
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese voice actress
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese voice actor

Literature

• Audrey Kobayashi (born 1951), Canadian geographer and writer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese writer and literary critic
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese chef and food writer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese poet
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese writer and communist
• Tamai Kobayashi (born 1966), Canadian writer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese screenwriter
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese writer

Music

• Template:Nihongo, Japanese singer and voice actress
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese classical pianist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese actress and singer
• Hana Kobayashi (born 1982), Venezuelan singer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese jazz saxophonist and flautist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese music producer, better known as Kobametal
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese model, actress and singer
• Ron Kobayashi, American jazz pianist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese enka singer and voice actress
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese voice actress and singer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese video game composer and pianist
• Satoru Kobayashi (disambiguation), multiple people
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese classical composer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese keyboardist, lyricist, composer, arranger and record producer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese roboticist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese voice actress and singer

Other artists

• Template:Nihongo, Japanese artist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese painter
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese manga artist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese artist
• Kunio Kobayashi (bonsai artist) (小林 國雄 born 1948), Japanese bonsai artist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese photographer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese manga artist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese artist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese photographer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese photographer
• Robert Kobayashi (1925–2015), American artist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese anime director
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese manga artist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese anime director
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese manga artist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese photographer

Military

• Template:Nihongo, Japanese samurai
• Template:Nihongo, Imperial Japanese Navy admiral
• Template:Nihongo, Imperial Japanese Navy admiral and Governor-General of Taiwan

Politics and law

• Ann Kobayashi (born 1937), American politician and businesswoman
• Bert T. Kobayashi (1916–2005), Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii
• Bertrand Kobayashi (fl. 2010s), American politician
• Leslie E. Kobayashi (born 1957), American judge
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese politician, 6th Mayor of Niitsu, Niigata
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese politician
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese politician

Scientists and engineers

• Albert S. Kobayashi (born 1924), American engineer and scientist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese electrical engineer and computer scientist
• Kevin Wesley Kobayashi, American engineer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese academic
• Makoto Kobayashi (小林 誠 born 1944), Japanese physicist
• Riki Kobayashi (1924–2013), American chemical engineer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese-American mathematician
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese amateur astronomer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese computer scientist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese astronomer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese mathematician

Sports

Baseball

• Template:Nihongo, Japanese baseball player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese baseball player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese baseball player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese baseball player

Football (soccer)

• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Hiroki Kobayashi (footballer, born 1992), Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Paulinho Kobayashi (born 1970), Brazilian footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese women's footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer and manager
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer and manager
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese women's footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer
• Yugo Kobayashi (footballer) (born 1991), Japanese footballer
• Yuki Kobayashi (football, born 2000), Japanese footballer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese footballer

Mind sports

• Template:Nihongo, Japanese Go player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese shogi player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese Go player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese Go player

Winter sports

• Template:Nihongo, Japanese ski jumper
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese biathlete
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese Nordic combined skier
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese figure skater and coach
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese ski jumper
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese bobsledder

Wrestling

• Template:Nihongo, or Yosuke Kobayashi, Japanese professional wrestler
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese professional wrestler
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese professional wrestler
• Template:Nihongo, also known as Hideo Itami, Japanese professional wrestler
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese professional wrestler
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese sport wrestler

Other athletes

• Template:Nihongo, Japanese synchronized swimmer
• Celes Kobayashi (born 1974), Japanese boxer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese basketball player
• Dawn Kobayashi (born 1971), Jamaican sport shooter
• Etsuko Kobayashi (born 1992), Japanese cricketer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese golfer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese middle-distance runner
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese sprint canoeist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese slalom canoeist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese racewalker
• Template:Nihongo, racing driver
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese diver
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese gymnast
• Kunio Kobayashi (karateka) (小林 國雄 born 1967), Japanese karateka
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese rower
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese cyclist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese golfer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese squash player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese swimmer
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese three-cushion billiards player
• Royal Kobayashi (1949–2020), Japanese boxer
• Ryosei Kobayashi (born 1994), Japanese squash player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese sport shooter
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese judoka
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese competitive eater
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese aikidoka
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese softball player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese badminton player
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese cyclist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese middle- and long-distance runner
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese basketball player

Others

• Template:Nihongo, Japanese gravure idol
• Hannah Kobayashi (born 1994), American missing person
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese AV idol
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese industrialist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese idol
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese economist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese businessman
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese conductor and composer
• Sanzaburo Kobayashi (小林 参三郎, 1863–1926), Japanese surgeon
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese journalist
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese businessman
• Template:Nihongo, Japanese fashion model

Fictional characters

• Template:Nihongo, a character in the manga series The Law of Ueki
• Template:Nihongo, the protagonist in the manga series Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
• Kobayashi, a character in the film The Usual Suspects
• Template:Nihongo, a character in the manga series Doki Doki School Hours
• Amiko Kobayashi, a character in Marvel Comics
• Atari Kobayashi, a character in the film Isle of Dogs
• Daigo Kobayashi, a character in the film Departures
• Template:Nihongo, a character in the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam
• Template:Nihongo, a character in the manga series Cheeky Angel
• Template:Nihongo and Template:Nihongo, characters in the manga series Angelic Layer
• Koji Kobayashi, a character in the film Godzilla Raids Again
• Masafumi Kobayashi, a character in the film Noroi: The Curse
• Template:Nihongo, a character in the media franchise Project 575
• Template:Nihongo, a character in the manga series Please Save My Earth
• Template:Nihongo, protagonist of the manga series Kemeko Deluxe!
• Sashi Kobayashi, a character in the Disney XD animated series Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
• Template:Nihongo, a character in the manga series Case Closed
• Tamami Kobayashi (小林 玉美) a side character in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable
• Template:Nihongo, also known as Washu Hakubi, a character in Tenchi Muyō! media

See also

• Akiko Kobayashi (disambiguation), multiple people
• Atsushi Kobayashi (disambiguation), multiple people
• Fumiaki Kobayashi (disambiguation), multiple people
• Hideaki Kobayashi (disambiguation), multiple people
• Hirokazu Kobayashi (disambiguation), multiple people
• Hiromi Kobayashi (disambiguation), multiple people
• Hiroshi Kobayashi (disambiguation), multiple people
• Hiroyuki Kobayashi (disambiguation), multiple people
• Kaoru Kobayashi (disambiguation), multiple people
• Kōji Kobayashi (disambiguation), multiple people
• Makoto Kobayashi (disambiguation), multiple people
• Mao Kobayashi (disambiguation), multiple people
• Masahiro Kobayashi (disambiguation), multiple people
• Masato Kobayashi (disambiguation), multiple people
• Miyuki Kobayashi (disambiguation), multiple people
• Osamu Kobayashi (disambiguation), multiple people
• Takashi Kobayashi (disambiguation), multiple people
• Yuki Kobayashi (disambiguation), multiple people
• Yūsuke Kobayashi (disambiguation), multiple people
• Yutaka Kobayashi (disambiguation), multiple people