Dobbs (surname)

Dobbs is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Alfred Dobbs (1882–1945), British politician and trade unionist
 * Amanda Dobbs (born 1993), American figure skater
 * Arthur Dobbs (1689–1765), Anglo-Irish politician, colonial governor of North Carolina 1754–1765
 * Arthur Frederick Dobbs (1876–1955), Irish politician
 * Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs (1930–1994), American historian specializing in Isaac Newton's occult studies
 * Bobby Dobbs (1922–1986), American footballer
 * Catherine Dobbs (1908–1974), first woman mayor of a major U.S. industrial city, Barberton, Ohio
 * Demarcus Dobbs (born 1987), American footballer
 * Farrell Dobbs (1907–1983), American Trotskyist and trade unionist
 * Francis Dobbs (1750–1811), Irish barrister, politician and writer
 * Frank Q. Dobbs (1939–2006), American screenwriter, film director, film producer and cinematographer
 * Gerald Dobbs (born 1971), retired English footballer
 * Glenn Dobbs (1920–2002), American footballer
 * Greg Dobbs (born 1978), American Baseball Player
 * Greg Dobbs (journalist), American TV journalist
 * Harold Dobbs (1918–1994), civic leader and politician in San Francisco, California
 * Harriet Dobbs (1808–1887), Irish-Canadian charity worker
 * Sir Henry Dobbs (1871–1934), administrator in British India and High Commissioner in Iraq
 * Hoyt McWhorter Dobbs (1878–1954), American Methodist Bishop
 * John Dobbs (1875–1934), American baseball player
 * John Wesley Dobbs (1882–1961), African American civic and political leader
 * Joshua Dobbs (born 1995), American football player
 * Kildare Dobbs (1923–2013), Canadian short story and travel writer
 * Lem Dobbs (born 1959), British-American screenwriter
 * Linda Dobbs (born 1951), the first non-white judge in England and Wales
 * Lou Dobbs (1945-2024), American journalist, radio and TV host
 * Mattiwilda Dobbs (1925–2015), African-American coloratura soprano
 * Michael Dobbs (born 1948), British politician and author
 * Michael Dobbs (journalist) (born 1950), Anglo-American non-fiction author and journalist
 * Nigel Dobbs (born 1962), English former cricketer
 * Paul Dobbs (1970–2010), New Zealand motorcycle road racer
 * Quail Dobbs (1941–2014), American rodeo clown and performer
 * Ricky Dobbs (born 1988), United States Navy officer and former college football quarterback
 * Roland Dobbs (1924–2016), British physicist
 * Samuel Candler Dobbs (1868–1950), president and chairman of The Coca-Cola Company 1919–1922
 * Thomas Dobbs, of the court case Dobbs v. Jackson's Women's Heatlh

Fictional characters

 * Calvin Dobbs, on the TV series 227
 * Fred C. Dobbs, protagonist of the film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, played by Humphrey Bogart
 * Fred C. Dobbs, played by satirist Michael Magee
 * Hannibal Dobbs, on the TV series F Troop
 * J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, figurehead of the Church of the SubGenius
 * Jackie Dobbs, on the British soap opera Coronation Street
 * Maisie Dobbs, in novels by Jacqueline Winspear
 * Molly Dobbs, on the British soap opera Coronation Street
 * Phyllis Dobbs, in BBC One's science fiction/police procedural drama Life on Mars
 * Tyrone Dobbs, on the British soap opera Coronation Street
 * Dobbs, a pilot in the novel Catch-22