Kiyoshi Kitagawa (北川 潔) (born December 5, 1958, in Osaka) is a Japanese-American jazz double-bassist.

Kitagawa first played bass guitar, and was in a rock band as a high school student.

He switched to double bass while a student at Kansei Gakuin Daigaku, and played in the 1980s with Sadayasu Fuji and Takashi Furuya.

In October 1988, he immigrated to the United States, where he lived in New York City.

[1] Kitagawa joined to Winard Harper's the Harper Brothers, and played with Kenny Barron, Andy Bey, Jon Faddis, Kenny Garrett, Jimmy Heath, Susannah McCorkle, Makoto Ozone, Ben Riley, and Terrell Stafford in the late 1980s and 1990s.