Kolbe

Kolbe is a surname.

Those bearing it include:
 * Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe (1818–1884), German chemist
 * Andreas Kolbe (fl. 1557), German printer, prominent in Marburg in the 1540s and 1550s
 * Caroline Ridderstolpe, née Kolbe (1793–1878), Swedish composer and singer
 * Cheslin Kolbe (born 1993), South African rugby union player
 * Clive Kolbe (1944–2016), South African cricketer
 * Daniela Kolbe (born 1980), German politician
 * Emma Coe Kolbe (1850–1913), business woman and plantation owner of mixed American/Samoan descent
 * Fritz Kolbe (1900–1971), German diplomat and World War II Allied spy
 * Georg Kolbe (1877–1947), German sculptor
 * Heinrich Christoph Kolbe (1771–1836), German painter
 * Helga Kolbe, retired German rower
 * Hellmuth Kolbe (1926–2002), Swiss musician, audio recording and acoustics pioneer
 * Hermann Julius Kolbe (1855–1939), German entomologist
 * Ino Kolbe (1914–2010), born Ino Voigt, German Esperantist
 * Jim Kolbe (1942-2022), American politician
 * Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg (1643–1712), the first ever Minister-President of the kingdom of Prussia
 * Josefine 'Pepa' Kolbe, a female Austrian international table tennis player.
 * Laura Kolbe (born 1957), Finnish professor of European history
 * Maximilian Kolbe (1894–1941), Polish Conventual Franciscan friar and saint
 * Parke Kolbe (1881–1942), American author, teacher, administrator and university president
 * Peter Kolbe (1675–1726), German astronomer and explorer of South Africa
 * Peter-Michael Kolbe (1953-2023), German rower and five time world champion
 * Steve Kolbe (born 1967), American sportscaster
 * Tanja Kolbe (born 1990), German ice dancer
 * Winrich Kolbe (1940–2012), German-born American television director and producer