Kobayashi

Kobayashi (小林 "small woods") is the 9th most common Japanese surname. It may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Ai Kobayashi (born 1973), voice actress
• Aimi Kobayashi (born 1995), pianist
• Akiji Kobayashi (1930–1996), actor
• Akiko Kobayashi (chemist) (born 1943)
• Akiko Kobayashi (singer) (aka Holi, born 1958), singer, songwriter, composer and arranger
• Akiko Kobayashi (voice actor) (born 1979), voice actor and singer
• Akira Kobayashi (aka Maitogai, born 1938), actor
• Hideaki Kobayashi (born 1973), video game composer
• Hideo Kobayashi (1902–1983), author and literary critic
• Hitomi Kobayashi (born 1965), retired adult-video actress
• Jin Kobayashi (born 1977), manga artist, writer of School Rumble
• Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828), haiku poet
• Katsuya Kobayashi (born 1981) (actor)
• Kei Kobayashi (voice actress) (born 1976), voice actress
• Keiju Kobayashi, actor
• Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi (born 1940), conductor and composer
• Kaori Kobayashi (born 1981), jazz saxophonist and flautist
• Kaoru Kobayashi (actor) (born 1951), actor
• Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847–1915), ukiyo-e painter and printmaker
• Kobayashi Kokei (1883–1957), Nihonga painter
• Makoto Kobayashi (physicist) (born 1944), Nobelist
• Makoto Kobayashi (artist) (born 1958), in manga
• Masaki Kobayashi (1916–1996), film director
• Mao Kobayashi (born 1992), actress, junior idol and TV talent
• Sachiko Kobayashi, Enka singer and voice actress
• Sanae Kobayashi (born 1980), voice actress
• Takeshi Kobayashi, music writer
• Takiji Kobayashi (1903–1933), author of proletarian literature
• Yoshinori Kobayashi (born 1953), conservative author and manga artist
• Yū Kobayashi (born 1982), voice actress
• Yūko Kobayashi (born 1961), voice actress
• Yumi Kobayashi (born 1988), fashion model
• Yumiko Kobayashi (born 1979), freelance voice actress

Sports

• Abdullah Kobayashi or Yosuke Kobayashi (born 1976), professional wrestler with BJPW and TNA
• Atsushi Kobayashi (born 1974), volleyball player
• Daigo Kobayashi (born 1983), association footballer for the Vancouver Whitecaps
• Izumi Kobayashi (born 1977), professional go player
• Kamui Kobayashi (born 1986), racing driver
• Kenta Kobayashi (born 1981) professional wrestler currently signed to WWE
• Koichi Kobayashi (born 1952), go player
• Masahide Kobayashi (born 1974), baseball pitcher for the Yomiuri Giants
• Masato Kobayashi (born 1979), Japanese kickboxer
• Nobuaki Kobayashi (born 1942), three-cushion billiards player
• Paulinho Kobayashi (born 1970), former Brazilian footballer
• Ryokan Kobayashi (born 1979), baseball pitcher, currently plays for the Brother Elephants, Chinese Professional Baseball League
• Seiji Kobayashi (born 1989), baseball catcher
• Satoru Kobayashi (born 1959), go player
• Takeru Kobayashi (born 1978), competitive eater
• Yasuo Kobayashi (born 1936), aikido teacher
• Yuka Kobayashi (born 1994), keirin cyclist

Sciences, Economics and Politics

• Hiroshi Kobayashi, developer of Kobayashi's anion
• 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
• Keiichiro Kobayashi (professor), Economist, professor at Keio University

Other

• Ann Kobayashi (born 1937), a member of the Honolulu City Council
• Kaoru Kobayashi (born 1968), convicted of the murder of a seven-year-old first-grade student
• Yotaro Kobayashi (1933-2015), former chairman of Fuji Xerox