Kinoshita (written: 木下 or 木之下) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

, Japanese murder victim , Japanese photographer Alicia Kinoshita (born 1967), Japanese sailor , Japanese actress Cherry Kinoshita (1923–2008), Japanese American activist , Japanese voice actor and actor , Japanese actor , Japanese samurai , Japanese Neo-Confucian philosopher , Japanese playwright , Japanese film director , Japanese shogi player , Japanese footballer , Japanese ice hockey player chairman of Acom, son of Masao , Japanese composer , founder of Acom, a major consumer loan company in Japan Masao Kinoshita (architect) (1925–2003) was an American landscape architect , pen-name of a Japanese author, Dramaturge, poet, art historian and literary critic , Japanese actress and voice actress , Japanese Christian socialist activist and author , Japanese art historian Noriaki Kinoshita (born 1982), Japanese American football player , pen-name of Japanese author Viscount Kinoshita Toshiharu, noted for his tanka poetry , one of the names of Japanese daimyō Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537–1598) Robert Kinoshita (1914–2014), American artist, art director and set and production designer Ryosuke Kinoshita (born 1991), Japanese professional golfer , Japanese manga artist , Japanese voice actress , Japanese artist , Japanese theoretical physicist , Japanese professional eater , Japanese poet

See also 7250 Kinoshita, asteroid Kinoshita Station