Yumiko Kawahara

 is a Japanese "shōjo" manga artist. She made her professional debut in 1978 with "Kotchi muite Marie!!" in the weekly "Shōjo Comic", for which she won a Shogakukan New Artist Award. In 1985, she received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo for . She is best known in the United States as the author of "Dolls", which was licensed by Viz Media.