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), 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), 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), 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), Japanese footballer
 * Takeshi Kodama (児玉 剛始), 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