Yoshihiko Kikuchi (菊地良彦, Kikuchi Yoshihiko, born 25 July 1941 in Japan) has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 1977, and was the first native Asian to be called as a general authority of the Church. Kikuchi was born on the island of Hokkaido. His father served in the military during the Second World War and was killed by an American torpedo while at sea. Kikuchi was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when he was taught the gospel as a teenager by American missionaries in the 1950s.