Dobson (surname)

Dobson is an English and Scottish surname.

Notable people with this surname include:

• 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

• 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

• 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
• Harry Dobson (International Brigades) (1907-1938) Welsh miner and International Brigades volunteer

• 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

• 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
• Shelby Brianne Dobson (1995-) U.S. Texas politician
• Wiliam Polk Dobson (1783-1846), United States politician, Senator of North Carolina

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 (1936–2025), American 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
• Wayne Dobson (1957–2025), English magician

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