Kobayashi 462565 225772823 2008-07-15T09:45:57Z Jitse Niesen 14515 add [[Koichi Kobayashi]] (go player) '''Kobayashi''' (小林 "small forest") is the 9th most common [[Japanese surname]]. ===People=== * [[Daniel Kobayashi]] (baseball writer) * [[Forrest Kobayashi]] (swim coach) * [[Hideaki Kobayashi]] (video game music composer) * [[Hideo Kobayashi]] (literary critic) * [[Kamui Kobayashi]] (professional racing driver) * [[Kaoru Kobayashi]] (murderer) * [[Katsuya Kobayashi]] (actor) * [[Katsuyo Kobayashi]] (chef) * [[Kei Kobayashi]] (male Jazz singer and seiyu) * [[Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi]] (conductor) * [[Kenta Kobayashi]] (professional wrestler) * [[Kobayashi Issa]] (poet) * [[Kobayashi Kiyochika]] ([[ukiyo-e]] artist) * [[Kobayashi Takiji]] (author) * [[Koichi Kobayashi]] (go player) * [[Jin Kobayashi]] (manga artist) * [[Makoto Kobayashi]] (manga artist) * [[Makoto Kobayashi (physicist)|Makoto Kobayashi]] (physicist) * [[Masahide Kobayashi]] ([[baseball]] pitcher for the [[Cleveland Indians]]) * [[Masaki Kobayashi]] (film director) * [[Rod Kobayashi]] (martial artist) - Founder of [[Seidokan]] Aikido * [[Sanae Kobayashi]] ([[seiyū]]) * [[Shinji Kobayashi]] ([[Waste collector|garbage man]] and competitor on ''[[Sasuke (TV series)|Sasuke]]'') * [[Shoshichi Kobayashi]] (mathematician) * [[Takao Kobayashi]] (astronomer) * [[Takeru Kobayashi]] ([[competitive eating|competitive eater]]) * [[Tetsuko Kobayashi]] (actress) * [[Toru Kobayashi]] (astronomer) * [[Toshiyuki Kobayashi]] (mathematician) * [[Yasuo Kobayashi]] (aikido teacher) * [[Yoshinori Kobayashi]] ([[manga]] author) * [[Yuko Kobayashi]] (seiyū) * [[Yumi Kobayashi]] (fashion model) * [[Yumiko Kobayashi]] (seiyū) * [[Nobuaki Kobayashi]] (billiards player) ===Places=== * [[Kobayashi, Miyazaki|Kobayashi]], city in [[Miyazaki Prefecture]] * [[Kobayashi, Inzai shi]], [[Chiba Prefecture]] A small town on the Narita line between Abiko city and Narita. ===Fictional characters=== * Kobayashi, [[Keyser Soze]]'s lawyer in the film ''[[The Usual Suspects]]'', played by [[Pete Postlethwaite]] * Kobayashi, Eumatsu, character in ''[[Pita- ten]]'' * 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]]'' * [[Amiko Kobayashi]], the adopted daughter of [[Wolverine (comics)]] Other Kobayashis: * [[Kobayashi Maru]], fictional space vessel in [[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan]] * [[Kobayashi Shorin-ryu]], also called Kobayashi-ryu, a style of Okinawan karate descended from [[Chosin Chibana]] ==See also== * [[Japanese name]] {{disambig}} [[Category:Japanese surnames]] [[ja:小林]] [[de:Kobayashi]] [[pl:Kobayashi]] [[pt:Kobayashi]]