Kobayashi
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'''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]]
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