Dorsey (surname)
Dorsey is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Anne Hanson Dorsey, American novelist
- Arnold George Dorsey, birth name of British-American singer Engelbert Humperdinck
- Candas Jane Dorsey, Canadian poet and science fiction novelist
- Clement Dorsey, Maryland state house of delegates; Maryland state senate; U.S. Representative from Maryland
- Dana A. Dorsey, South Florida's first African-American millionaire, businessman, banker, and philanthropist
- Dean Dorsey, Canadian football player
- Decatur Dorsey, American Civil War hero
- Ella Loraine Dorsey, American author, journalist, translator
- Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey, Democrat; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
- George Amos Dorsey, U.S. ethnologist
- George Washington Emery Dorsey, Republican; U.S. Representative from Nebraska
- Glenn Dorsey, Defensive Lineman for Kansas City
- Hugh Manson Dorsey, Democrat; Governor of Georgia
- Ida Dorsey, American madam
- Issan Dorsey, born Tommy Dorsey, Jr., zen priest
- Jack Dorsey, Executive Chairman of Twitter and founder and CEO of Square
- James Owen Dorsey, American ethnologist, linguist, and missionary
- Joey Dorsey, collegiate basketball player for the Memphis Tigers
- John Dorsey , American football player and administrator
- John Lloyd Dorsey, Jr., Democrat; lawyer; U.S. Representative from Kentucky
- John M. Dorsey, author and professor of psychiatry
- Julie Dorsey, American computer scientist
- Ken Dorsey, quarterback on the NFL's Cleveland Browns
- Lee Dorsey, African-American pop singer of the 1960s
- Michael K. Dorsey, American public intellectual, writer and scholar; former Sierra Club board member
- Norbert Dorsey, American Roman Catholic bishop
- Sarah Anne Ellis Dorsey, American author and benefactor of Jefferson Davis
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey, Republican; U.S. Senator from Arkansas
- Thomas A. Dorsey, gospel music musician
- Tim Dorsey, American crime novelist
- Troy Dorsey, American boxer and kickboxer
- Tyler Dorsey, Greek–American basketball player
- Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb, American politician from Louisiana
- The Dorsey Brothers, big band / orchestra led by:
- *Tommy Dorsey, jazz trombonist in the Big Band era
- *Jimmy Dorsey, jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and big band leader
