Rabe (surname)

Rabe is a German surname meaning "raven" and may refer to:


 * David Rabe (born 1940), American playwright and screenwriter
 * Eckard Rabe (born 1948), South African actor
 * Eugene Rabe (1911–1974), German-American astronomer
 * Folke Rabe (1935–2017), Swedish composer
 * Florence Bates (born Rabe, 1888–1954) American actress
 * Hugo Rabe (1867–1932), German classical philologist
 * Jean Rabe (born 1957), fantasy and science fiction author and editor
 * John Rabe (1882–1950), German businessman who rescued more than 200,000 Chinese during the World War II Nanjing Massacre
 * Josh Rabe (born 1978), former Major League Baseball player
 * Jutta Rabe (born 1955), German journalist
 * Karin Rabe, Swedish orienteering competitor
 * Karin M. Rabe, American physicist
 * Karl Rabe (1895–1968), automobile designer and Chief Designer at Porsche
 * Laurentius Corvinus (Laurentius Rabe in German) (1465–1527), Silesian scholar and poet
 * Lily Rabe (born 1982), American actress
 * Margarete Rabe (born 1923), German World War II concentration camp guard
 * Pamela Rabe (born 1959), Canadian/Australian actor and theatre director
 * Peter Rabe (1921–1990), German-American writer, mostly of crime fiction
 * Sascha Rabe (born 1985), German ice dancer
 * Stephen G. Rabe, American historian and professor
 * Thomas Rabe (born 1951), German professor of gynaecology and obstetrics
 * Wilhelm F. Rabe (1893–1958), German astronomer