Cobb (surname)
Cobb is a surname of Anglo-Saxon/Old Norse origin, and may refer to:
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