Kobayashi

Kobayashi (小林 "small forest") 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, 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

Sports

• Abdullah Kobayashi or Yosuke Kobayashi (born 1976), professional wrestler with BJPW and TNA
• Daigo Kobayashi (born 1983), association footballer for the Vancouver Whitecaps
• 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, or Masato Kobayashi (born 1979), professional Japanese Welterweight 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
• Satoru Kobayashi (born 1959), go player
• Takeru Kobayashi (born 1978), competitive eater
• Yasuo Kobayashi (born 1936), aikido teacher

Politics

• Ann Kobayashi (born 1937), a member of the Honolulu City Council

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

Other

• Kaoru Kobayashi (born 1968), convicted of the murder of a seven year old first-grade student

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
• Midori Kobayashi, a character in the book Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Other uses

• Kobayashi, Miyazaki, city in Japan
• Kobayashi Maru, a fictional training exercise in the Star Trek franchise, named after a space ship
• Kobayashi, a planet in the Yakawa system of Mass Effect 2

See also

• Japanese name
• Kobayashi Maru (disambiguation), other uses of the name of the fictional Star Trek space ship