Toru Kobayashi

{{Short description|Japanese astronomer}}

{{BLP sources|date=January 2011}}

{{Nihongo|Tōru Kobayashi|小林 徹|Kobayashi Tōru}} is/was a Japanese astronomer.

He was active in the 1970s, working at Imadate in Fukui Prefecture, Japan.

He co-discovered Comet C/1975 N1 (Kobayashi-Berger-Milon).{{cite journal|last=Hendrie|first=Michael J.|title=Comet Kobayashi-Berger-Milon 1975h|journal=Journal of the British Astronomical Association|date=August 2002|volume=112|issue=4|pages=187–195|bibcode=2002JBAA..112..187H}}

He should not be confused with another Japanese astronomer, Takao Kobayashi, who discovered the periodic comet P/1997 B1 (Kobayashi), as well as more than 2000 asteroids.