Kolbe

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This article is about people bearing the name. For the asteroid, see 7315 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
  • Athena Kolbe, human rights researcher, and writer
  • 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 (born 1942), 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 (born 1953), 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

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