Kaoru Kobayashi (小林 薫, ''Kobayashi Kaoru'') is a Japanese personal name:
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Kaoru Kobayashi (actor) (born 1951), a Japanese actor born in Kyoto
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Kaoru Kobayashi (murderer) (19682013), a pedophile who murdered Kaede Ariyama in Nara in 2004
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