Makoto Shinohara (篠原 眞, Shinohara Makoto, born December 10, 1931 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese composer.
Shinohara studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts from 1952 to 1954, studying composition with Tomojiro Ikenouchi, piano with Kazuko Yasukawa, and conducting with Akeo Watanabe and Kurt Woess. From 1954 to 1960, he studied in Paris with Tony Aubin, Olivier Messiaen, Simone Plé-Caussade, Pierre Revel and Louis Fourrestier. From 1962 to 1964 he studied in Munich at the Hochschule für Musik and at the Siemens electronic studio; following this he studied with Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Gottfried Michael Koenig at the Rheinischen Musikhochschule in Cologne and then with Karlheinz Stockhausen from 1964–65. He held a scholarship at the Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes in 1966 and 1967 and won a scholarship from the Italian government in 1969. In 1971, he was awarded the Rockefeller Prize from the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center and in 1978 won a scholarship from the Dutch government.