Dalby (surname)
Dalby is a Scandinavian place name meaning "valley settlement", during the Viking Age, the name was brought to England and it later also became an English surname. It can be a locational surname for those from Dalby, Lincolnshire, near Spilsby; in Dalby, Leicestershire near Melton Mowbray, and in Dalby, North Yorkshire near Terrington. Notable people with the surname include:
- Amy Dalby, British actress
- Andrew Dalby, Culinary writer
- Andy Dalby, guitarist
- Claire Dalby, British artist
- Dave Dalby, former NFL football player
- David Dalby, British linguist, founder of Linguasphere Observatory
- Greg Dalby, American soccer player
- Håkan Dahlby, Swedish double trap shooter
- Irene Dalby, Norwegian swimmer
- John Dalby, English singer and composer
- John Dalby , English painter
- Liza Dalby, American anthropologist and writer
- Matthew Dalby, British scientist
- Mark Dalby, British Anglican Archdeacon
- Martin Dalby, Scottish composer
- Nicolas Dalby, Danish mixed martial artist
- Richard Dalby
- Robert Dalby, English martyr
- William Bartlett Dalby, British aural surgeon and otologisthe
