Dalby (surname)

Dalby is a Scandinavian place name meaning "valley settlement", during the Viking Age, the name was brought to England and it later also became an English surname. It can be a locational surname for those from Dalby, Lincolnshire, near Spilsby; in Dalby, Leicestershire near Melton Mowbray, and in Dalby, North Yorkshire, near Terrington. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Amy Dalby, British actress
 * Andrew Dalby, linguist and culinary writer
 * Andy Dalby, guitarist
 * Claire Dalby, British artist
 * Christie Dalby, American Performer
 * C. Reginald Dalby, British illustrator
 * Dave Dalby, former NFL football player
 * David Dalby, British linguist, founder of Linguasphere Observatory
 * Gina Dalby, American Performer
 * Greg Dalby, American soccer player
 * Håkan Dahlby, Swedish double trap shooter
 * May Kathleen Dalby, Educator and Philanthropist
 * Irene Dalby, Norwegian swimmer
 * Isaac Dalby (1744–1824), English mathematician and surveyor
 * John Dalby (1929–2017), English singer and composer
 * John Dalby (painter) (1810–1865), English painter
 * Liza Dalby (born 1950), American anthropologist and writer
 * Matthew Dalby, British scientist
 * Mark Dalby (1938–2013), British Anglican Archdeacon
 * Martin Dalby (1942–2018), Scottish composer
 * Nicolas Dalby, Danish mixed martial artist
 * Richard Dalby (disambiguation)
 * Robert Dalby, English martyr
 * William Bartlett Dalby (1840–1918), British aural surgeon and otologisthe