With the surname edit

• Daisuke Obara (born 1981), Japanese ice hockey player
• Hitomi Obara (born 1981), Japanese sport wrestler
• Joji Obara, Korean-Japanese serial rapist
• Keita Obara, (born 1986), Japanese professional boxer
• Kuniyoshi Obara (1887–1977), Japanese educational theorist and publisher
• Maciej Obara (born 1981), Polish jazz musician, composer and bandleader
• Masakazu Obara, Japanese anime director
• Tadashi Obara (born 1983), Japanese speed skater
• Takumi Obara (born 1967), Japanese triathlete
• Yuri Obara (born 1980), Japanese speed skater
• Yuria Obara (born 1990), Japanese women's footballer

Fictional edit

• Obara Sand, a character in A Song of Ice and Fire
• Nne Obara, a character in Hitman (2016 video game)

• Obara, Aichi, Japan, a former village
• Obara Station, a train station in Misaki, Okayama, Japan
• Ōbara Station, a HRT station in Hiroshima, Japan

• Obara (stew), a Slovene national dish

• Obaro (disambiguation)