Kobayashi
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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