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
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
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
Zoologists
Chisato Kobayashi, japanese carcinologist
Hideki Kobayashi, japanese entomologist
Hirakazu Kobayashi, japanese entomologist
Shigeki Kobayashi, Japanese entomologist
Takuya Kobayashi, Japanese entomologist
Teiichi Kobayashi, Japanese malacologist and palaeontologist
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
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