Cobb (surname)

People

• Abbie Cobb, American actress and author
• Alex Cobb, Major League Baseball pitcher
• Alf Cobb American football player
• Amasa Cobb, politician, Union Army colonel in the American Civil War
• Andrew R. Cobb, Canadian-American architect
• Arnett Cobb, American jazz tenor saxophonist
• Artie Cobb, American professional poker player
• Betty Reynolds Cobb, American attorney, author and activist, one of the first female lawyers in Georgia
• Britt Cobb, former North Carolina Chief of Staff
• Buff Cobb, American actress and talk show host
• Calvin Cobb, American newspaper publisher
• Camilla Cobb, founder of the first kindergarten in Utah
• Charles Cobb, American football player and coach
• Charles Cobb , English cricketer
• Charles Cobb , American mathematician and economist
• Charles E. Cobb, Jr., 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, U.S. Representative from North Carolina
• Craig Cobb, anti-semitic white supremacist activist
• Cully Cobb, American agricultural pioneer, educator, printer, journalist and philanthropist
• Curt Cobb, American politician
• Cyril Cobb, British barrister and Conservative Party politician
• Darius Cobb, American painter
• David Cobb, American lawyer, activist, and Green Party presidential candidate
• David Cobb, born in 1921
• David Cobb , Massachusetts physician, military officer, jurist and politician
• David Cobb , American football player
• DeAndra' Cobb, professional American and Canadian football running back
• Denise LeClair Cobb, American former CNN and CNN Headline News anchor
• Ed Cobb, musician, songwriter and record producer
• Edmund Cobb, American actor
• Edward Cobb , English Conservative Party politician
• Enoch Cobb, farmer, businessman and philanthropist from Barnstable, Massachusetts
• Eunice Cobb, American writer, public speaker, activist
• Frank I. Cobb, American journalist
• Frederick Arthur Cobb, UK radio engineer and Labour Party politician
• Freeman Cobb, American who established the Cobb and Co stagecoach company in 1853
• Gail Cobb, the first policewoman killed in the line of duty
• Garry Cobb, former American football linebacker in the National Football League
• Gary Cobb, English former professional footballer
• George Cobb , professional baseball player
• George Cobb, head coach of the Rhode Island Rams football team
• George Cobb, ASGCA, golf course designer
• George Cobb, American lighthouse keeper
• George H. Cobb, American politician from New York
• George L. Cobb, prolific composer best known for ragtime
• George T. Cobb, American politician
• Guy Cobb, American artist and entrepreneur
• Henry Ives Cobb, Chicago-based architect
• Henry Ives Cobb, Jr., American artist and architect
• Henry N. Cobb, American architect
• Henry Peyton Cobb, English banker, solicitor and politician
• Herb Cobb, Major League Baseball pitcher
• Howell Cobb, American politician, 40th governor of Georgia, Secretary of the Treasury under President James Buchanan and President of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States
• Howell Cobb , American politician, farmer and soldier
• Howell Cobb , Texas lawyer and federal judge
• Hubbard Cobb, American writer
• Humphrey Cobb, Canadian/American screenwriter and novelist
• Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, American author, humorist and columnist
• J. R. Cobb, American guitarist who played with the Classics IV
• Jack Cobb, college basketball player
• James E. Cobb, U.S. Representative from Alabama
• Janine O'Leary Cobb, women's health activist and educator
• Jennifer Jo Cobb, American race-car driver and team owner
• Jerrie Cobb, American aviator
• Jewel Plummer Cobb, American biologist, cancer researcher and academic administrator
• Jimmy Cobb, American jazz drummer
• Joe Cobb, American child actor
• Joe Cobb, Arizona politician
• Joe Cobb , Major League Baseball player
• Joe Cobb , English professional footballer
• John B. Cobb, American United Methodist theologian
• John Cobb , Australian politician
• John Cobb , English cabinetmaker and upholsterer
• John Cobb , politician in Manitoba, Canada
• John Cobb , British racing motorist
• John Cobb Cooper, American jurist, airline executive and presidential advisor
• John Nathan Cobb, author, naturalist, conservationist, canneryman and educator
• John Robert Cobb, American orthopedic surgeon known for the Cobb angle
• Josh Cobb, English cricketer
• Julie Cobb, American actress
• Junie Cobb, American jazz multi-instrumentalist and bandleader
• Keith Hamilton Cobb, American actor
• Kevin Cobb, faculty member of The Juilliard School and the Aspen Music Festival
• Laura M. Cobb, United States Navy nurse who served during World War II
• Lee J. Cobb, American actor
• Linda Cobb, American home-care journalist
• Lyman Cobb, leading competitor of Noah Webster as an author of spelling books
• Marvin Cobb, American former National Football League player
• Mary E. Cobb, the first known American manicurist
• Michael Cobb, Australian politician
• Michael Cobb , railway historian, British Army officer in the Second World War
• Mike Cobb, former American football tight end in the National Football League
• Nathan Cobb, American zoologist
• Ned Cobb, African-American tenant farmer
• Norah Marjorie Cobb, English toy maker and businesswoman
• Oscar Cobb, American architect of theaters
• Osro Cobb, American lawyer and politician
• Price Cobb, won the 1990 24 Hours of Le Mans
• Randall "Tex" Cobb, American boxer turned actor
• Randall Cobb , American National Football League player
• Rebecca Cobb, British children's book illustrator
• Reggie Cobb, American former National Football League player
• Richard Cobb, British historian
• Robert Cobb , American former National Football League player
• Robert W. Cobb, American lawyer and NASA Inspector General
• Ron Cobb, American cartoonist, artist, writer, film designer and film director
• Rufus W. Cobb, American politician
• Samuel C. Cobb,, American businessman and politician
• Samuel Cobb , English poet, critic and school master
• Seth Wallace Cobb, U.S. Representative from Missouri
• Stanley Cobb, American neurologist and psychiatrist
• Stanwood Cobb, American educator, author and prominent Bahá'í
• Stephen A. Cobb, U.S. Representative from Kansas
• Sue Bell Cobb, American jurist
• Sue M. Cobb, Secretary of State of Florida
• Thomas Cobb, American novelist
• Thomas R. Cobb, U.S. Representative from Indiana
• Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, American lawyer, author, politician, and Confederate general killed in the Civil War
• Thomas W. Cobb, United States Representative and Senator from Georgia
• Tim Cobb, American double bass player
• Trevor Cobb, former American college and professional football player
• Ty Cobb, American Hall-of-Fame Major League Baseball player
• Ty Cobb, American lawyer
• Wally Cobb, rugby union player who represented Australia
• Walt Cobb, Canadian former politician
• Weldon J. Cobb, Chicago author and newspaper reporter in the early 20th century
• Wilbur Cobb, American jazz drummer
• Will D. Cobb, American lyricist and composer
• William Cobb, American designer and engineer of roller coasters
• William J. Cobb, one of the heaviest professional wrestlers of all time
• William Jelani Cobb, American author and educator
• William Montague Cobb, pioneering physical anthropologist
• William T. Cobb, American politician and the 46th Governor of Maine
• Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb, American politician

  Fictional characters

• Charlotte Cobb, college counselor played by Lily Tomlin in the film Orange County
• Dom Cobb, protagonist of the 2010 film Inception, directed by Christopher Nolan
• Jayne Cobb, in the TV series Firefly
• Matt Cobb, the protagonist in a murder mystery book series by William L. DeAndrea
• William Cobb, in the American science fiction drama Eureka
• Cob, in Ursula K. Le Guin's novel The Farthest Shore
• Cobb, in the webcomic User Friendly
• Cobb, in the 1985 film Silverado, directed by Lawrence Kasdan
• Cobb, in the 1998 film Following, also directed by Nolan