Kolbe

Kolbe is a surname.

Those bearing it include:

• Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe (1818–1884), German chemist
• Andreas Kolbe (fl. 1557), German printer, prominent in Marburg in the 1540s and 1550s
• Caroline Ridderstolpe, née Kolbe (1793–1878), Swedish composer and singer
• Cheslin Kolbe (born 1993), South African rugby union player
• Clive Kolbe (1944–2016), South African cricketer
• Daniela Kolbe (born 1980), German politician
• Emma Coe Kolbe (1850–1913), business woman and plantation owner of mixed American/Samoan descent
• Fritz Kolbe (1900–1971), German diplomat and World War II Allied spy
• Georg Kolbe (1877–1947), German sculptor
• Heinrich Christoph Kolbe (1771–1836), German painter
• Helga Kolbe, retired German rower
• Hellmuth Kolbe (1926–2002), Swiss musician, audio recording and acoustics pioneer
• Hermann Julius Kolbe (1855–1939), German entomologist
• Ino Kolbe (1914–2010), born Ino Voigt, German Esperantist
• Jim Kolbe (1942-2022), American politician
• Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg (1643–1712), the first ever Minister-President of the kingdom of Prussia
• Josefine 'Pepa' Kolbe, a female Austrian international table tennis player.
• Laura Kolbe (born 1957), Finnish professor of European history
• Maximilian Kolbe (1894–1941), Polish Conventual Franciscan friar and saint
• Parke Kolbe (1881–1942), American author, teacher, administrator and university president
• Peter Kolbe (1675–1726), German astronomer and explorer of South Africa
• Peter-Michael Kolbe (1953-2023), German rower and five time world champion
• Steve Kolbe (born 1967), American sportscaster
• Tanja Kolbe (born 1990), German ice dancer
• Winrich Kolbe (1940–2012), German-born American television director and producer