Kobayashi

Arts

Film, television, theater and music

• Ai Kobayashi, Japanese actress and voice actress
• Akiji Kobayashi, Japanese actor
• Akira Kobayashi, Japanese actor
• Chiaki Kobayashi, Japanese voice actor
• Chikahiro Kobayashi, Japanese voice actor
• Haru Kobayashi, Japanese musician
• Katsuya Kobayashi, Japanese actor
• Kei Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress
• Keiju Kobayashi, Japanese actor
• Kendo Kobayashi, Japanese comedian and actor
• Kentarō Kobayashi, Japanese comedian, actor, dramaturge, theatre director and manga artist
• Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator
• Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese film director
• Michitaka Kobayashi, Japanese voice actor
• Naoki Kobayashi, Japanese dancer and actor
• Nenji Kobayashi, Japanese actor
• Ryoko Kobayashi, Japanese actress
• Satomi Kobayashi, Japanese actress
• Sayaka Kobayashi, Japanese actress and voice actress
• Seidō Kobayashi, Japanese musician
• Seiran Kobayashi, Japanese actress
• Shigeo Kobayashi, Japanese actor
• Yasuhiro Kobayashi, Japanese musician
• Yui Kobayashi, Japanese singer and model
• Yukiko Kobayashi, Japanese actress
• Yuko Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress
• Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress
• Yūsuke Kobayashi, Japanese voice actor

  Literature

• Audrey Kobayashi, Canadian geographer and writer
• Hideo Kobayashi, Japanese writer and literary critic
• Katsuyo Kobayashi, Japanese chef and food writer
• Kobayashi Issa, Japanese poet
• Takiji Kobayashi, Japanese writer and communist
• Tamai Kobayashi, Canadian writer
• Yasuko Kobayashi, Japanese screenwriter
• Yasumi Kobayashi, Japanese writer

  Music

• Aika Kobayashi, Japanese singer and voice actress
• Aimi Kobayashi, Japanese classical pianist
• Chie Kobayashi, Japanese actress and singer
• Hana Kobayashi, Venezuelan singer
• Kaori Kobayashi, Japanese jazz saxophonist and flautist
• Key Kobayashi, Japanese music producer, better known as Kobametal
• Megumi Kobayashi, Japanese model, actress and singer
• Ron Kobayashi, American jazz pianist
• Sachiko Kobayashi, Japanese enka singer and voice actress
• Sanae Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress and singer
• Saori Kobayashi, Japanese video game composer and pianist
• Satoru Kobayashi, multiple people
• Sumio Kobayashi, Japanese classical composer
• Takeshi Kobayashi, Japanese keyboardist, lyricist, composer, arranger and record producer
• Yo Kobayashi, Japanese roboticist
• Yū Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress and singer

  Other artists

• Kobayashi Eitaku, Japanese artist
• Kobayashi Kiyochika, Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker
• Kokei Kobayashi, Japanese painter
• Jin Kobayashi, Japanese manga artist
• Kobayashi Keisei, Japanese artist
• Kunio Kobayashi , Japanese bonsai artist
• Meison Kobayashi, Japanese photographer
• Motofumi Kobayashi, Japanese manga artist
• Naomi Kobayashi, Japanese artist
• Norio Kobayashi, Japanese photographer
• Shinichiro Kobayashi, Japanese photographer
• Robert Kobayashi, American artist
• Tomoki Kobayashi, Japanese anime director
• Toshihiko Kobayashi, Japanese manga artist
• Tsuneo Kobayashi, Japanese anime director
• Yoshinori Kobayashi, Japanese manga artist
• Yūshi Kobayashi, Japanese photographer

  Military

• Kobayashi Torasaburō, Japanese samurai
• Masami Kobayashi, Imperial Japanese Navy admiral
• Seizō Kobayashi, Imperial Japanese Navy admiral and Governor-General of Taiwan

  Politics and law

• Ann Kobayashi, American politician and businesswoman
• Bert T. Kobayashi, Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii
• Bertrand Kobayashi, American politician
• Leslie E. Kobayashi, American judge
• Kazumi Kobayashi, Japanese politician, 6th Mayor of Niitsu, Niigata
• Masao Kobayashi, Japanese politician
• Mieko Kobayashi, Japanese politician

  Scientists and engineers

• Albert S. Kobayashi, American engineer and scientist
• Hisashi Kobayashi, Japanese electrical engineer and computer scientist
• Kevin Wesley Kobayashi, American engineer
• Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Japanese academic
• Makoto Kobayashi, Japanese physicist
• Riki Kobayashi, American chemical engineer
• Shoshichi Kobayashi, Japanese-American mathematician
• Takao Kobayashi, Japanese amateur astronomer
• Tatsuo Kobayashi, Japanese computer scientist
• Toru Kobayashi, Japanese astronomer
• Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Japanese mathematician

  Sports

Baseball

• Masahide Kobayashi, Japanese baseball player
• Ryokan Kobayashi, Japanese baseball player
• Seiji Kobayashi, Japanese baseball player
• Shigeru Kobayashi, Japanese baseball player

  Football (soccer)

• Daigo Kobayashi, Japanese footballer
• George Kobayashi, Japanese footballer
• Hiroki Kobayashi, Japanese footballer
• Hiroki Kobayashi, Japanese footballer
• Jun Kobayashi, Japanese footballer
• Kan Kobayashi, Japanese footballer
• Masamitsu Kobayashi, Japanese footballer
• Minoru Kobayashi, Japanese footballer
• Paulinho Kobayashi, Brazilian footballer
• Rikako Kobayashi, Japanese women's footballer
• Riku Kobayashi, Japanese footballer
• Ryo Kobayashi, Japanese footballer
• Ryota Kobayashi, Japanese footballer
• Seigo Kobayashi, Japanese footballer
• Shinji Kobayashi, Japanese footballer and manager
• Shota Kobayashi, Japanese footballer
• Tadao Kobayashi, Japanese footballer and manager
• Tatsuki Kobayashi, Japanese footballer
• Teruaki Kobayashi, Japanese footballer
• Yasutaka Kobayashi, Japanese footballer
• Yayoi Kobayashi, Japanese women's footballer
• Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Japanese footballer
• Yōsuke Kobayashi, Japanese footballer
• Yu Kobayashi, Japanese footballer
• Yugo Kobayashi , Japanese footballer
• Yuki Kobayashi, Japanese footballer
• Yuzo Kobayashi, Japanese footballer

  Mind sports

• Izumi Kobayashi, Japanese Go player
• Kenji Kobayashi, Japanese shogi player
• Koichi Kobayashi, Japanese Go player
• Reiko Kobayashi, Japanese Go player

  Winter sports

• Junshirō Kobayashi, Japanese ski jumper
• Miki Kobayashi, Japanese biathlete
• Norihito Kobayashi, Japanese Nordic combined skier
• Reiko Kobayashi, Japanese figure skater and coach
• Ryōyū Kobayashi, Japanese ski jumper
• Ryuichi Kobayashi, Japanese bobsledder

  Wrestling

• Abdullah Kobayashi, or Yosuke Kobayashi, Japanese professional wrestler
• Eita Kobayashi, Japanese professional wrestler
• Kaho Kobayashi, Japanese professional wrestler
• Kenta Kobayashi, also known as Hideo Itami, Japanese professional wrestler
• Kuniaki Kobayashi, Japanese professional wrestler
• Takeshi Kobayashi, Japanese sport wrestler

  Other athletes

• Chisa Kobayashi, Japanese synchronized swimmer
• Celes Kobayashi, Japanese boxer
• Daisuke Kobayashi, Japanese basketball player
• Dawn Kobayashi, Jamaican sport shooter
• Etsuko Kobayashi, Japanese cricketer
• Fujio Kobayashi, Japanese golfer
• Fumikazu Kobayashi, Japanese middle-distance runner
• Hideo Kobayashi, Japanese sprint canoeist
• Hiroko Kobayashi, Japanese slalom canoeist
• Kai Kobayashi, Japanese racewalker
• Kamui Kobayashi, racing driver
• Kazuo Kobayashi, Japanese diver
• Kenya Kobayashi, Japanese gymnast
• Kunio Kobayashi , Japanese karateka
• Maki Kobayashi, Japanese rower
• Marino Kobayashi, Japanese cyclist
• Masanori Kobayashi, Japanese golfer
• Misaki Kobayashi, Japanese squash player
• Miwako Kobayashi, Japanese swimmer
• Nobuaki Kobayashi, Japanese three-cushion billiards player
• Royal Kobayashi, Japanese boxer
• Ryosei Kobayashi, Japanese squash player
• Susumu Kobayashi, Japanese sport shooter
• Takako Kobayashi, Japanese judoka
• Takeru Kobayashi, Japanese competitive eater
• Yasuo Kobayashi, Japanese aikidoka
• Yoshimi Kobayashi, Japanese softball player
• Yugo Kobayashi, Japanese badminton player
• Yuka Kobayashi, Japanese cyclist
• Yuriko Kobayashi, Japanese middle- and long-distance runner
• Yuta Kobayashi, Japanese basketball player

  Others

• Emi Kobayashi, Japanese gravure idol
• Hannah Kobayashi, American missing person
• Hitomi Kobayashi, Japanese AV idol
• Ichizō Kobayashi, Japanese industrialist
• Kana Kobayashi, Japanese idol
• Keiichiro Kobayashi, Japanese economist
• Ken Kobayashi, Japanese businessman
• Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi, Japanese conductor and composer
• Sanzaburo Kobayashi, Japanese surgeon
• Maya Kobayashi, Japanese journalist
• Yotaro Kobayashi, Japanese businessman
• Yumi Kobayashi, Japanese fashion model

  Fictional characters

• List of The Law of Ueki characters#Kobayashi, a character in the manga series The Law of Ueki
• Kobayashi, the protagonist in the manga series Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
• Kobayashi, a character in the film The Usual Suspects
• Akane Kobayashi, a character in the manga series Doki Doki School Hours
• Amiko Kobayashi, a character in Marvel Comics
• Atari Kobayashi, a character in the film Isle of Dogs
• Daigo Kobayashi, a character in the film Departures
• List of Mobile Suit Gundam characters#Hayato Kobayashi, a character in the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam
• Hitomonji Kobayashi, a character in the manga series Cheeky Angel
• Hatoko Kobayashi and Kotaro Kobayashi, characters in the manga series Angelic Layer
• Koji Kobayashi, a character in the film Godzilla Raids Again
• Masafumi Kobayashi, a character in the film Noroi: The Curse
• Matcha Kobayashi, a character in the media franchise Project 575
• List of Please Save My Earth characters#Rin Kobayashi, a character in the manga series Please Save My Earth
• Sanpeita Kobayashi, protagonist of the manga series Kemeko Deluxe!
• Sashi Kobayashi, a character in the Disney XD animated series Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
• Sumiko Kobayashi, a character in the manga series Case Closed
• Tamami Kobayashi a side character in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable
• Washu Kobayashi, also known as Washu Hakubi, a character in Tenchi Muyō! media