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 Provided by Wikipedia