Cobb (surname)
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Cobb is a surname of Anglo-Saxon origin, and may refer to:
People
- Abbie Cobb, American actress and author
- Alex Cobb (born 1987), Major League Baseball pitcher
- Alf Cobb, professional American football player
- Amasa Cobb (1823–1905), politician, officer in the Union Army in the American Civil War
- Andrew R. Cobb (1876–1943), Canadian-American architect based in Nova Scotia
- Arnett Cobb (1918–1989), American jazz tenor saxophonist
- Artie Cobb (born 1942), American professional poker player, based in Las Vegas
- Betty Reynolds Cobb (born 1884), attorney, author, and activist
- Britt Cobb, former North Carolina Chief of Staff under Beverly Purdue
- Buff Cobb (1927–2010), American actress and talk show host
- Calvin Cobb (born 1853), American newspaper publisher
- Camilla Cobb (1843–1933), founder of the first kindergarten in Utah
- Charles Cobb (American football), American football player and coach
- Charles Cobb (cricketer) (1863–1922), English cricketer
- Charles Cobb (economist) (1875–1949), American mathematician and economist
- Charles E. Cobb, Jr. (aka Charlie Cobb, born 1943), journalist, professor and former activist
- Charley Cobb, American football coach in the United States
- Chris Cobb, Chief Operating Officer and University Secretary at the University of London
- Clinton L. Cobb (1842–1879), U.S. Representative from North Carolina
- Craig Cobb (born 1951), anti-semitic white supremacist activist
- Cully Cobb (1884–1975), American agricultural pioneer, educator, printer, journalist, and philanthropist
- Curt Cobb (born 1971), American politician
- Cyril Cobb, KBE, MVO (1861–1938), British barrister and Conservative Party politician
- Darius Cobb (1834–1919), American painter
- David Cobb (born 1962), American lawyer, activist, and Green Party presidential candidate
- David Cobb (artist), born in 1921
- David Cobb (Massachusetts) (1748–1830), Massachusetts physician, military officer, jurist and politician
- DeAndra' Cobb (born 1981), professional American and Canadian football running back
- Denise LeClair Cobb, American former CNN and CNN Headline News anchor
- Ed Cobb (1938–1999), musician, songwriter and record producer
- Edmund Cobb (1892–1974), American actor
- Edward Cobb (1891–1957), English Conservative Party politician
- Enoch Cobb (1797–1876), farmer, businessman and philanthropist from Barnstable, Massachusetts
- Frank I. Cobb (1869–1923), American journalist
- Frederick Arthur Cobb (1901–1950), UK radio engineer and Labour Party politician
- Freeman Cobb (1830–1878), American who established the Cobb and Co stagecoach company in 1853
- Gail Cobb (1950–1974), the first policewoman killed in the line of duty
- Garry Cobb (born 1957), former American football linebacker in the National Football League
- Gary Cobb (born 1968), English former professional footballer
- George Cobb (baseball) (1865–1926), professional baseball player
- George Cobb (coach), the head coach of the Rhode Island Rams football team
- George Cobb (golf), ASGCA (1914–1986), golf course designer
- George Cobb (lighthouse keeper), American lighthouse keeper
- George H. Cobb (1864–1943), American politician from New York
- George L. Cobb (1886–1942), prolific composer best known for ragtime
- George T. Cobb (1813–1870), American Democratic Party politician
- Guy Cobb (born 1963), American artist and entrepreneur
- Henry Ives Cobb (1859–1931), Chicago-based architect
- Henry Ives Cobb, Jr. (1883-1974), American artist and architect
- Henry N. Cobb (born 1926), American architect
- Henry Peyton Cobb (1835–1910), English banker, solicitor and Liberal politician
- Herb Cobb (1904–1980), Major League Baseball pitcher
- Howell Cobb (1815–1868), American political figure
- Howell Cobb (born 1772) (1772–1818), American politician, farmer and soldier
- Howell Cobb (judge) (1922–2005), Texas lawyer and federal judge
- Hubbard Cobb (1917–2006), American writer
- Humphrey Cobb (1899–1944), Canadian/American screenwriter and novelist
- Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1876–1944), American author, humorist, and columnist
- J. R. Cobb (born 1944), American guitarist, played with the Classics IV
- Jack Cobb (1904–1966), college basketball player at the University of North Carolina
- James E. Cobb (1835–1903), U.S. Representative from Alabama
- Janine O'Leary Cobb, women's health activist and educator
- Jennifer Jo Cobb (born 1973), American race-car driver and team owner
- Jerrie Cobb (born 1931), American aviator
- Jewel Plummer Cobb (born 1924), American biologist, cancer researcher, academic administrator
- Jimmy Cobb (born 1929), American jazz drummer
- Joe Cobb (1916–2002), American child actor
- Joe Cobb (Arizona politician), Arizona politician
- Joe Cobb (baseball) (born 1895), Major League Baseball player
- Joe Cobb (footballer) (born 1990), English professional footballer
- John B. Cobb (born 1925), American United Methodist theologian
- John Cobb (Australian politician) (born 1950), Australian politician
- John Cobb (cabinetmaker) (1710–1778), English cabinetmaker and upholsterer
- John Cobb (Manitoba politician) (died 1959), politician in Manitoba, Canada
- John Cobb (racing driver) (1899–1952), British racing motorist
- John Cobb Cooper (1887–1967), American jurist, airline executive and presidential advisor
- John Nathan Cobb (1868–1930), author, naturalist, conservationist, canneryman, educator
- John Robert Cobb (1903–1967), American orthopedic surgeon known for the Cobb angle
- Josh Cobb (born 1990), English cricketer
- Julie Cobb (born 1947), longtime American actress
- Junie Cobb (1896–1970), American jazz multi-instrumentalist and bandleader
- Keith Hamilton Cobb (born 1962), American actor
- Kevin Cobb, faculty member of The Juilliard School and the Aspen Music Festival
- Laura M. Cobb (1892–1981), United States Navy Nurse, served during World War II
- Leander Cobb (1835–1872), experienced United States seaman and master mariner
- Lee J. Cobb (1911–1976), American actor
- Linda Cobb (born 1950), American home-care journalist
- Lyman Cobb (1800–1864), leading competitor of Noah Webster as an author of spelling books
- Marvin Cobb (born 1953), former American football safety in the National Football League
- Mary E. Cobb (1852–1902), the first known American manicurist
- Michael Cobb (born 1945), Australian politician
- Michael Cobb (railway historian) PhD FRICS (1916–2010), railway historian, British Army officer, served in World War II
- Mike Cobb (born 1955), former American football tight end in the National Football League
- Nathan Cobb (1859–1932), American nematode zoologist
- Ned Cobb (1885–1973), tenant farmer born in Tallapoosa County in Alabama
- Norah Marjorie Cobb (1899–1991), English toy maker and businesswoman
- Oscar Cobb, American architect of theaters
- Osro Cobb (1904-1996), American lawyer and politician
- Price Cobb (born 1954), won the 1990 24 Hours of Le Mans
- Randall "Tex" Cobb (born 1950), former American boxer turned actor
- Randall Cobb (American football) (born 1990), American football wide receiver
- Reggie Cobb (born 1968), former professional American football player
- Richard Cobb (1917–1996), British historian
- Robert Cobb (American football) (born 1957), former American football defensive end
- Robert W. Cobb, American lawyer
- Ron Cobb (born 1937), American cartoonist, artist, writer, film designer, and film director
- Roy Cobb (1914–1990), soldier in the United States Army during World War II
- Rufus W. Cobb (1829–1913), American Democratic politician
- Samuel C. Cobb, (1826–1891), American businessman and politician
- Samuel Cobb (poet) (1675–1713), English poet, critic and school master
- Samuel Sylvester Cobb, American Businessman
- Seth Wallace Cobb (1838–1909), U.S. Representative from Missouri
- Stanley Cobb (1887–1968), American neurologist and psychiatrist
- Stanwood Cobb (1881–1982), American educator, author and prominent Bahá'í
- Stephen A. Cobb (1833–1878), U.S. Representative from Kansas
- Stephen Euin Cobb (born 1955), American science fiction author
- Sue Bell Cobb (born 1956), American jurist
- Sue M. Cobb, OJ (Hon.), (born 1937), Secretary of State of Florida
- Thomas Cobb (author), American novelist
- Thomas R. Cobb (1828–1892), U.S. Representative from Indiana
- Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (1823–1862), American lawyer, author, politician, Confederate general, killed in the Civil War
- Thomas W. Cobb (1784–1830), United States Representative and Senator from Georgia
- Tim Cobb (born 1964), American double bass player
- Trevor Cobb (born 1970), former American college and professional football player
- Ty Cobb (1886–1961), American baseball player, subject of the 1994 film Cobb
- Wally Cobb (1870–1933), rugby union player who represented Australia
- Walt Cobb, former Canadian politician
- Weldon J. Cobb, Chicago author, newspaper reporter
- Will D. Cobb (1876–1930), American lyricist and composer
- William Cobb (1917–1990), American designer and engineer of roller coasters
- William Cobb (Eureka character), character on the American science fiction drama Eureka
- William H. Cobb, author of Pulitzer Prize nominated novel A Walk through Fire
- William J. Cobb (1926–1989), one of the heaviest professional wrestlers of all time
- William Jelani Cobb Ph.D. (born 1977), American author and educator
- William Montague Cobb, pioneering 20th-century physical anthropologist
- William T. Cobb (1857–1937), American politician and the 46th Governor of Maine
- Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb (1807–1864), American politician
Fiction
- Jayne Cobb, a character from Firefly
- Cobb, a character in the webcomic "User Friendly"
- Cob, a character in the fantasy novel "The Farthest Shore"
- Dom Cobb, the protagonist of the 2010 film, Inception, directed by Christopher Nolan
- Cobb, a character of the 1998 film, Following, also directed by Nolan
See also
- Cob (disambiguation)
- Cobb and Co, Australian company
- Cobbe
- Cobbs
- Cobby
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