Kolbe
Kolbe is a surname.
Those bearing it include:
- Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist
- Andreas Kolbe, German printer, prominent in Marburg in the 1540s and 1550s
- Athena Kolbe, human rights researcher, and writer
- Caroline Ridderstolpe, née Kolbe, Swedish composer and singer
- Cheslin Kolbe, South African rugby union player
- Clive Kolbe, South African cricketer
- Emma Coe Kolbe, business woman and plantation owner of mixed American/Samoan descent
- Fritz Kolbe, German diplomat and World War II Allied spy
- Georg Kolbe, German sculptor
- Heinrich Christoph Kolbe, German painter
- Helga Kolbe, retired German rower
- Hellmuth Kolbe, Swiss musician, audio recording and acoustics pioneer
- Hermann Julius Kolbe, German entomologist
- Ino Kolbe, born Ino Voigt, German Esperantist
- Jim Kolbe, American politician
- Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg, the first ever Minister-President of the kingdom of Prussia
- Josefine 'Pepa' Kolbe, a female Austrian international table tennis player.
- Laura Kolbe, Finnish professor of European history
- Maximilian Kolbe, Polish Conventual Franciscan friar and saint
- Parke Kolbe, American author, teacher, administrator and university president
- Peter Kolbe, German astronomer and explorer of South Africa
- Peter-Michael Kolbe, German rower and five time world champion
- Steve Kolbe, American sportscaster
- Tanja Kolbe, German ice dancer
- Winrich Kolbe, German-born American television director and producer
