Kodama (surname)

Kodama (written: 兒玉, 児玉 or 小玉) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Akira Kodama (小玉 晃, born 1944), Japanese basketball player
• Arata Kodama (born 1982), Japanese football defender
• Fusako Kodama (born 1945), Japanese photographer
• Kodama Gentarō (1852–1906), Japanese general of the Russo-Japanese War
• Haruka Kodama (born 1996), Japanese idol singer, member of HKT48 and AKB48
• Hideo Kodama (1876–1947), pre-World War II Japanese politician and cabinet minister
• Hideo Kodama (designer) (born 1944), Japanese General Motors Europe automobile designer
• Katsuya Kodama (児玉 克哉, born 1959), Japanese sociologist
• Kazuoki Kodama (born 1965), Japanese Nordic combined skier
• Kenji Kodama (born 1949), Japanese anime director, and storyboard artist best known for directing the anime Case Closed and working with the anime Lupin III
• Kiyoshi Kodama (1934–2011), Japanese actor and TV personality
• Mari Kodama, international pianist born in Osaka, Japan and raised in Paris
• María Kodama (1937-2023), personal assistant and later wife of Jorge Luis Borges
• Momo Kodama (児玉 桃, born 1972), Japanese classical pianist
• Rieko Kodama (born 1963), video game designer involved with some of Sega's high-profile projects
• Shunto Kodama (児玉 駿斗, born 1999), Japanese footballer
• Takeshi Kodama (児玉 剛始, born 1971), Japanese rower
• Yoshio Kodama (1911–1984), prominent figure in the rise of organized crime in Japan
• Yuichi Kodama, Japanese video director
• Yuki Kodama (小玉 ユキ), Japanese manga artist