# Dobson (surname)

Dobson is an English and Scottish surname.
Notable people with this surname include:

## People
### Acting

* Anita Dobson (born 1949), English actress
* The Dobson brothers, Michael, Paul, and Brian, English-Canadian voice actors
* Kevin Dobson (1943–2020), American television actor
* Peter Dobson (born 1964), American actor
* Tamara Dobson (1947–2006), American actress

### Art

* Cowan Dobson born David Cowan (1894–1980), brother of Henry Raeburn, (1894–1980), Scottish portrait painter
* Frank Dobson (1886–1963), British artist
* Henry Raeburn Dobson (1901–1985), Scottish portrait and genre painter
* Margaret Dobson, American artist
* Mary Dobson, British artist
* William Dobson (1610–1646), English painter

### Military

* Claude Congreve Dobson VC (1885–1940), British Royal Naval officer
* David Dobson (born 1938), British vice admiral in the Royal Navy
* Frederick William Dobson (1886–1935), British soldier

### Music

* Bonnie Dobson (born 1940), Canadian folk musician
* Dobby Dobson (1942–2020), Jamaican reggae singer and record producer
* Fefe Dobson (born 1985), Canadian singer and entertainer
* Richard Dobson (1942–2017), American singer-songwriter
* Simon Dobson (born 1981), English composer

### Politics

* Benjamin Alfred Dobson (1847–1898), English industrialist and mayor of Bolton
* Frank Dobson (1940–2019), British politician
* Henry Dobson (1841–1918), Australian politician
* Jo-Anne Dobson (born 1966), Northern Irish politician
* John Dobson (Canadian politician) (1824–1907) Canadian senator
* John Dobson (Northern Ireland politician) (1929–2009) Northern Irish politician
* Ruth Dobson (1918–1989), Australian diplomat

### Science

* Brian Dobson (1931–2012), English archaeologist
* Chris Dobson (1949–2019), British chemist
* David Clark Dobson (born 1962), American applied mathematician
* Gordon Dobson (1889–1975), British meteorologist
* John Dobson (amateur astronomer) (1915–2014), American popularizer of amateur astronomy

### Sports

* Aaron Dobson (born 1991), American football player
* Austin Dobson (1912–1963), English racing driver
* Chuck Dobson (1944–2021), American baseball player
* Denys Dobson (1880–1916), England international rugby player
* Dominic Dobson (born 1957), German racing driver
* Frank Dobson (1885–1959), American college sports coach
* Joe Dobson (1917–1994), American baseball player
* Kenneth Dobson (1900–1960), English cricketer
* Mark Dobson (born 1962), English cricketer
* Noah Dobson (born 2000) Canadian ice hockey player
* Pat Dobson (1942–2006), American baseball player
* Tom Dobson (rugby union) (1871–1937), Scottish-born Wales international rugby player
* Tony Dobson (boxer) (1980), British profesional boxer

### Writing

* Austin Dobson (1840–1921), English poet
* Barrie Dobson (1931–2013), British historian
* Bridget and Jerome Dobson, American writers of the Santa Barbara soap opera
* Dennis Dobson (1919–1978), British book publisher
* Ed Dobson (1949–2015), American author and pastor
* Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921), English poet and essayist
* Joanne Dobson, (born 1942), American novelist
* Rosemary Dobson (1920–2012), Australian poet

### Other

* Arthur Dudley Dobson (1841–1934), New Zealand engineer and explorer
* Bryan Dobson (born 1960), Irish broadcaster
* Caroline Matilda Dodson (1845–1898), American physician
* Emily Dobson (1842–1934), Australian philanthropist
* George Dobson (disambiguation)
* Harmon Dobson (1913–1967), American entrepreneur and co-founder of Whataburger
* James Dobson (born 1936), conservative Christian psychologist and radio host
* John Dobson (1787–1865), English architect
* Michael Dobson (disambiguation)
* Naomi Pollard Dobson (1883–1971), American librarian and educator
* Paul Dobson (disambiguation)
* Vernon Dobson (1923–2013), American Baptist minister
* John Dobson (born 1950), English entrepreneur and co-founder of CallCredit

## Fictional characters

* Lawrence Dobson, a fictional character in the TV series Firefly
* Zuleika Dobson, title character of a 1911 novel by Max Beerbohm