Dumas (surname)
Dumas is a Southern French topographic surname, with fused preposition and definite article du, for someone who lived in an isolated dwelling in the country rather than in a village, from Occitan 'farmstead'.
People surnamed Dumas include:
- Adolphe Dumas, French poet.
- Alexandre Dumas, père, French novelist and author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo
- Alexandre Dumas, fils, son of the above and also a novelist, author of The Lady of the Camellias
- Amy Dumas, former professional wrestler better known as "Lita"
- Caroline Dumas, French soprano
- Charles Dumas, multiple people
- Daniel Dumas, Australian rugby player
- Dumas , Canadian musician born Steve Dumas
- Franck Dumas, French football player and manager
- Frédéric Dumas, one of the first two diving companions of Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- Georges Dumas, French physician and psychologist
- Gilles Dumas, French rugby league footballer and coach
- Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas, comte Dumas, French general
- Gustave Dumas, Swiss mathematician
- Henry Dumas, African-American poet and author
- Jean-Baptiste Dumas, French chemist
- Joseph Dumas, Canadian politician
- Marlene Dumas, South African artist
- Maurice Dumas, Canadian professor and politician
- Mireille Dumas, French journalist
- Pierre Benoît Dumas, French Governor General of Pondicherry and Réunion
- Richard Dumas, American basketball player
- Roland Dumas, French politician and lawyer
- Romain Dumas, French racing driver
- Russell Dumas, Australian engineer and public servant
- Tancrède Dumas, Italian photographer
- Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, general of the French Revolution and father of the novelist Alexandre Dumas, père
- Tony Dumas, American basketball player
- Vito Dumas, Argentine single-handed sailor
