Dobie (name)

Dobie is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname:

• Alan Dobie (born 1932), British actor
• Armistead Mason Dobie (1881–1962), law professor and United States federal judge
• Beatrix Dobie (1887-1945), New Zealand artist
• Don Dobie (1927–1996), politician
• Gil Dobie (1878–1948), footballer
• Hector Dobie (1860–1954), politician
• J. Frank Dobie (1888–1964), American folklorist
• Mark Dobie (born 1963), footballer
• Richard Dobie (1731–1805), fur trader
• Scott Dobie (born 1978), footballer

Given name, nickname or stage name:

• Dobie Gillis Williams (1961–1999), criminal
• Dobie Gray (born 1940–2011), American singer-songwriter born Lawrence Darrow Brown
• Walter Dobie Moore (1890–1963), American baseball player in the Negro leagues

Fictional characters:

• Dobie Gillis, the protagonist of a series of short stories and novels by author Max Shulman, and of the film and TV series adapted from those works

See also

• Doby, a surname