Dumas (surname)

Dumas is a Southern French topographic surname, with fused preposition and definite article du, for someone who lived in an isolated dwelling in the country rather than in a village, from Occitan mas 'farmstead' (Late Latin mansum, mansus).

People surnamed Dumas include:


 * Adolphe Dumas (1805–1861), French poet.
 * Alexandre Dumas, père (1802–1870), French novelist and author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo
 * Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824–1895), son of the above and also a novelist, author of The Lady of the Camellias
 * Amy Dumas (born 1975), former professional wrestler better known as "Lita"
 * Bullet Dumas (born 1986), Filipino musician
 * Caroline Dumas (born 1935), French soprano
 * Charles Dumas (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Daniel Dumas (born 1983), Australian rugby player
 * Dumas (musician) (born 1979), Canadian musician born Steve Dumas
 * Franck Dumas (born 1968), French football player and manager
 * Frédéric Dumas (1913–1991), one of the first two diving companions of Jacques-Yves Cousteau
 * Georges Dumas (1866–1946), French physician and psychologist
 * Gilles Dumas, French rugby league footballer and coach
 * Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas, comte Dumas (1753–1837), French general
 * Gustave Dumas (1872–1955), Swiss mathematician
 * Henry Dumas (1934–1968), African-American poet and author
 * Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800–1884), French chemist
 * Joseph Dumas (1875–1950), Canadian politician
 * Marlene Dumas (born 1953), South African artist
 * Maurice Dumas (1927–2015), Canadian professor and politician
 * Mireille Dumas (born 1953), French journalist
 * Pierre Benoît Dumas (1668–1745), French Governor General of Pondicherry and Réunion
 * René-François Dumas (1753-1794) a French revolutionary lawyer
 * Richard Dumas (born 1969), American basketball player
 * Roger Dumas, multiple people
 * Roland Dumas (1922–2024), French politician and lawyer
 * Romain Dumas (born 1977), French racing driver
 * Russell Dumas (1887–1975), Australian engineer and public servant
 * Stephanie Summerow Dumas, the first African-American woman elected as a county commissioner in the history of Ohio
 * Tancrède Dumas (1830–1905), Italian photographer
 * Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (1762–1806), general of the French Revolution and father of the novelist Alexandre Dumas, père
 * Tony Dumas (born 1972), American basketball player
 * Vito Dumas (1900–1965), Argentine single-handed sailor