# 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