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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 (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
  • 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 (born 1941), American rodeo clown and performer
  • Ricky Dobbs (born 1988), United States Navy officer and former college football quarterback
  • Roland Dobbs (born 1924), British physicist
  • Samuel Candler Dobbs (1868–1950), president and chairman of The Coca-Cola Company 1919–1922

Usage examples of "dobbs".

If Dobbs deserved punishment, or if this punishment was being inflicted upon him unjustly, as most punishments are, such a thought did not enter his head at this moment.

So, compared with Dobbs, they were capitalists, they had money invested.

When the waiter put the ice-water on the table, Dobbs looked up at the price-list painted on the wall and yelled: "Haven't you bandits raised the price for that stinking coffee five cents more?

When Dobbs arrived, the water was well crowded with a multitude of Mexicans, Indians, and whites who had reached the same social level as Dobbs.

And Dobbs could save the twenty-five centavos a short shower in the Oso Negro cost--a shower which lasted only thirty seconds.

When he finally stood beside the two, Dobbs made an exaggerated gesture and, pointing into the dense bush, yelled: "There, there he is, running away now.

When he thought a suppressed growl reached his ears, he jerked Dobbs awake.

The terror-stricken Indian, who certainly knew a tiger when he smelled one, deprived Dobbs and Moulton of the last bit of courage they had kept so far.

No sooner had the Indian taken note of what Dobbs was doing than he was right after him, climbing close behind him and pushing Moulton, who wanted to be next, away from the tree.

He considered the safest place of all exactly between the two Americans, Dobbs above him, and Moulton beneath him.

He consoled himself for his precarious position by calling up to Dobbs: "That devil of an Indian has robbed me of all my chances.

Listen, Dobbs, can't you climb up a few feet higher so that I can have a better chance?

Just as Moulton started to open his lips for a hearty laugh, Dobbs said to him harshly: "Listen, you, if you don't want me to sock you, don't laugh.

And, Slick, you and Dobbs get the drum up the derrick and have it anchored.

He could see that Dobbs and Curtin were in a state of mind which would make them forget to fight it out in a decent way, and that he had every chance to land in the hospital and stay there for weeks, while the contract would go to someone else.