Dobbs (surname)

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Dobbs is an English surname.[1] 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
  • Dame Linda Dobbs (born 1951), the first non-white judge in England and Wales
  • Lou Dobbs (born 1945), American journalist, radio and TV host
  • Mattiwilda Dobbs (1925–2015), African-American coloratura soprano
  • Michael Dobbs (born 1948), British politician and author
  • Michael Dobbs (US author) (born 1950), Anglo-American non-fiction author
  • Nigel Dobbs (born 1962), former English 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

Fictional characters[]

  • Dobbs, pilot in Catch-22
  • Elizabeth Gail Dobbs, character in Christian children's books by Hilda Stahl
  • Hannibal Dobbs, character played by James Hampton (actor) in the TV Series F Troop
  • J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, figurehead of the Church of the SubGenius
  • Jackie Dobbs, character in British TV soap opera Coronation Street
  • Maisie Dobbs, character in novels by Jacqueline Winspear
  • Molly Dobbs, character in British TV soap opera Coronation Street
  • Phyllis Dobbs, character in BBC One's science fiction/police procedural drama Life on Mars
  • Tyrone Dobbs, character in British TV soap opera Coronation Street
  • Fred C. Dobbs, character played by Humphrey Bogart in the film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • Fred C. Dobbs, character played by satirist Michael Magee

References[]

  1. ^ Browne, W.A.F.; Reaney, P.H.; Wilson, R.M.; Scull, A. (1991). A Dictionary of English Surnames. Tavistock classics in the history of psychiatry. Routledge. p. 931. ISBN 978-0-415-05737-0. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
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