Dunbar (surname)

Dunbar is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Earls of Dunbar

 * Patrick I, Earl of Dunbar (5th Earl of Dunbar) (died 1232)
 * Patrick II, Earl of Dunbar (6th Earl of Dunbar) (died 1248)
 * Patrick III, Earl of Dunbar (7th Earl of Dunbar) (1213–1289)
 * Patrick IV, Earl of March (8th Earl of Dunbar) (1242–1308)
 * Patrick V, Earl of March (9th Earl of Dunbar) (1284–1368)
 * Agnes Dunbar, 4th Countess of Moray, wife of the above
 * George de Dunbar, 10th Earl of March (10th Earl of Dunbar) (1340–1420)
 * George de Dunbar, 11th Earl of March (11th Earl of Dunbar) (c. 1370–1457)

Other

 * Adrian Dunbar (born 1958), Northern Irish actor
 * Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875–1935), American poet, journalist, and political activist
 * Aynsley Dunbar (born 1946), English musician
 * Bobby Dunbar, child who disappeared in 1912
 * Bonnie J. Dunbar (born 1949), American astronaut
 * Bonnie S. Dunbar(born 1948), vaccine developer
 * Carl Owen Dunbar (1891–1979), American paleontologist
 * Charles Davidson Dunbar (1870–1939), pipe major
 * Charles Franklin Dunbar (1830–1900), American economist
 * Council Julian Dunbar Jr. (1922–2020), American politician
 * Cyrus Dunbar (1856–1920), Washington state pioneer and businessman
 * David Dunbar (disambiguation)
 * Donald Dunbar, American poet
 * Donald P. Dunbar
 * Dorothy Dunbar
 * Emmons Dunbar
 * Erica Armstrong Dunbar, American historian
 * Evelyn Dunbar (1906-1960), British artist
 * Forrest Dunbar (born 1984), American politician and attorney
 * Gavin Dunbar (disambiguation)
 * Gavin Dunbar (archbishop)
 * George Dunbar (disambiguation)
 * Helen Flanders Dunbar (1902–1959), psychiatrist and psychobiologist
 * Jackie Dunbar, Scottish politician
 * James Dunbar (disambiguation)
 * James Dunbar-Nasmith
 * Jennifer Dunbar Dorn
 * Jesse Dunbar
 * Jim Dunbar
 * John Dunbar (disambiguation)
 * Jubilee Dunbar (born 1949), American football player
 * Karen Dunbar, Scottish comedian
 * Lance Dunbar, American football player
 * Michael Dunbar, Scottish footballer
 * Mike Dunbar, American football coach
 * Moira Dunbar (1918–1999), Scottish-Canadian glaciologist
 * Nan Dunbar (1928-2005), Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Somerville College, Oxford
 * Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906), American poet
 * Robin Dunbar, anthropologist and evolutionary biologist
 * Roberta Dunbar (d. 1956), American club woman and peace activist
 * Rockmond Dunbar
 * Ron Dunbar, songwriter and record producer
 * Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
 * R. Scott Dunbar
 * Rudolph Dunbar (1907–1988), Guyanese conductor, clarinetist and composer
 * Sly Dunbar (born 1952), Jamaican musician
 * Steven Dunbar Jr. (born 1995), American football player
 * Susan Ames Dunbar
 * Tom Dunbar
 * Vaughn Dunbar
 * Vicki Nelson-Dunbar
 * William Dunbar, medieval Scottish poet
 * William Dunbar, 7th Baronet
 * William Dunbar (Louisiana), congressman from Louisiana
 * William F. Dunbar first Minnesota State Auditor
 * William P. Dunbar (1863–1922), American physician in Germany
 * William Dunbar (explorer) (1750–1810), American merchant, naturalist, astronomer and explorer

Fictional characters

 * Dunbar, a character in the novel Catch-22
 * First Lieutenant John J. Dunbar, the protagonist/narrator of Dances with Wolves
 * Heather Dunbar, erstwhile Solicitor General and 2016 Democratic Primary challenger to President Frank Underwood.
 * Russell Dunbar, a character in Rules of Engagement (TV series)
 * Zeke Jedediah Dunbar, the protagonist's sidekick in the 2009 PlayStation 3 video game Infamous
 * William Dunbar, a recurring character in Code Lyoko who becomes a main character in Code Lyoko: Evolution.
 * Daniel Dunbar, also known as Dan the Dyna-Mite, from The Young All-Stars