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
• 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 (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

• 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