Kurihara (surname)

Kurihara (written: 栗原) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Akihiro Kurihara (born 1985), Japanese football player
• Ayane Kurihara (born 1989), Japanese badminton player
• Ayumi Kurihara (born 1984), joshi puroresu wrestler.
• Harumi Kurihara (born 1947), Japanese celebrity homemaker and television personality
• Hiroko Kurihara, American designer and activist
• Hitomi Kurihara (born 1981), Japanese actress
• Joseph Kurihara (1895–1965), Japanese American internee who renounced U.S. citizenship under the Renunciation Act of 1944 in protest of the internment
• Katsushi Kurihara (born 1977), Japanese football player
• Kazuaki Kurihara (born 1979), Japanese instructor of Shotokan karate
• Keisuke Kurihara (born 1973), Japanese football player and manager
• Keisuke Kurihara (motorcyclist) (born 1997), Japanese motorcycle racer
• Kenneth K. Kurihara, Japanese-American professor of economic theory
• Kenta Kurihara (born 1982), Japanese batting coach
• Koji Kurihara (born 1964), Japanese sprinter
• Komaki Kurihara (born 1945), Japanese stage and film actress
• Louis Kurihara (born 1994), Japanese fashion model, TV personality and actor
• Masaki Kurihara, Japanese composer and arranger
• Megumi Kurihara (born 1984), Japanese volleyball player
• Michio Kurihara (born 1961), Japanese guitarist
• Mika Kurihara (born 1989), Japanese basketball player
• Ryoya Kurihara (born 1996), Japanese baseball player
• Sadako Kurihara (1913–2005), Japanese poet
• Shigeru Kurihara (born 1970), Japanese gymnast
• Takashi Kurihara (born 1947) Japanese golfer
• Thomas Kurihara (1885–1926), Japanese actor and film director
• Toru Kurihara (born 1978), Japanese rugby union player
• Yasuhide Kurihara (1908–1936), Imperial Japanese Army officer who was a conspirator in the February 26 Incident in 1936
• Yuzo Kurihara (born 1983), Japanese football player