Kobayashi
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Kobayashi (小林 "small forest") is the 9th most common Japanese surname.
People named Kobayashi:
- Daniel Kobayashi (baseball writer)
- Hideaki Kobayashi (video game music composer)
- Kamui Kobayashi (professional racing driver)
- Kaoru Kobayashi (murderer)
- Katsuya Kobayashi (actor)
- Katsuyo Kobayashi (chef)
- Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi (conductor)
- Kenta Kobayashi (professional wrestler)
- Kobayashi Issa (poet)
- Kobayashi Takiji (author)
- Jin Kobayashi (manga artist)
- Makoto Kobayashi (manga artist)
- Makoto Kobayashi (physicist)
- Masaki Kobayashi (film director)
- Rod Kobayashi (martial artist) - Founder of Seidokan Aikido
- Sanae Kobayashi, seiyū
- Shoshichi Kobayashi (mathematician)
- Takao Kobayashi (astronomer)
- Takeru Kobayashi (competitive eater)
- Toru Kobayashi (astronomer)
- Yasuo Kobayashi (aikido teacher)
- Yoshinori Kobayashi (manga author)
- Yuko Kobayashi (seiyū)
- Yumiko Kobayashi (seiyū)
Places named Kobayashi:
- Kobayashi, city in Miyazaki Prefecture
Fictional characters named Kobayashi:
- Kobayashi, Keyser Soze's lawyer in the film The Usual Suspects, played by Pete Postlethwaite
- Akane Kobayashi, character in Doki Doki School Hours (Sensei no Ojikan)
- Hayato Kobayashi, character in Mobile Suit Gundam
- Rin Kobayashi, character in Please Save My Earth
- Washu Kobayashi, character in Pretty Sammy
- Washu Fitzgerald-Kobayashi, character in Magical Project S
- Kobayashi-sensei, character in Law of Ueki
Other Kobayashis:
- Hip-Hop band Kobayashi
- Montreal's Acid Jazz, Electronica band Kobayashi
- Kobayashi Maru, fictional space vessel in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan