Cobb (surname)
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People
- Amasa CobbAmasa CobbAmasa Cobb was a Republican Wisconsin politician and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
, American politician - Andrew R. CobbAndrew R. CobbAndrew Randall Cobb, ARCA, FRIBA was a Canadian-American architect based in Nova Scotia.In his day, Cobb was one of the most renowned architects in Atlantic Canada...
(1876-1943), Canadian architect - Arnett CobbArnett CobbArnett Cobb was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.Cobb was born Arnette Cleophus Cobbs in Houston, Texas. His musical career began with the local bands of Chester Boone, from 1934 to 1936, and Milt Larkin, from 1936 to 1942...
, American jazz tenor saxophonist - Artie CobbArtie CobbArtie Cobb is an American professional poker player, based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Originally from New York, Cobb began playing poker there and moved to Las Vegas in 1976.- Poker career :...
, American poker player - Britt CobbBritt CobbW. Britt Cobb, Jr. is the chief of staff for North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue and the former Secretary of Administration ....
, American politician - Cully CobbCully CobbCully Alton Cobb, Sr. , was an agricultural pioneer, educator, printer, journalist, and philanthropist in the American South who with his second wife, Lois Dowdle Cobb , co-founded the Cobb Institute of Archaeology on the campus of Mississippi State University at Starkville, Mississippi.-Early...
, American agricultural publisher - David CobbDavid CobbDavid Keith Cobb is an American activist and was the 2004 presidential candidate of the Green Party of the United States .-Career and political activities:...
, American lawyer, activist, and Green Party presidential candidate - David CobbDavid Cobb (Massachusetts)David Cobb was a Massachusetts physician, military officer, jurist, and politician who served as a U.S. Congressman for the At-large District of Massachusetts.-Biography:...
, American politician of the eighteenth century - DeAndra CobbDeAndra CobbDeAndra' Cobb is a professional American and Canadian football running back who is currently a free agent. He last played for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League. He was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the sixth round of the 2005 NFL Draft...
(born 1981), American football player - Garry CobbGarry CobbGarry Wilbert Cobb is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League and current radio personality on WIP in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the author of a book entitled Don't Be Clueless: 7 Keys to Life in the Real World, which is targeted to the challenges of urban youth...
, American football player - George Cobb (disambiguation), multiple people
- Henry Ives CobbHenry Ives CobbHenry Ives Cobb , born in Brookline, Massachusetts to Albert Adams and Mary Russell Candler Cobb, was a Chicago-based architect in the last decades of the 19th century, known for his designs in the Romanesque and Victorian Gothic styles...
, American architect - Henry N. CobbHenry N. CobbHenry N. Cobb is an American architect and founding partner with I.M. Pei of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, an international architectural firm based in New York City....
, American architect - Howell CobbHowell CobbHowell Cobb was an American political figure. A Southern Democrat, Cobb was a five-term member of the United States House of Representatives and Speaker of the House from 1849 to 1851...
, American politician - Humphrey CobbHumphrey CobbHumphrey Cobb was a screenwriter and novelist. He is best known for writing the novel Paths of Glory, which was made into an acclaimed 1957 movie by Stanley Kubrick. Cobb was also the lead screenwriter on the 1937 movie San Quentin, starring Humphrey Bogart.Cobb was born in Siena, Italy...
, Canadian/American novelist - Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, American writer
- James Cobb (disambiguation), multiple people
- Janine O'Leary CobbJanine O'Leary CobbJanine O'Leary Cobb is a women's health activist and educator, and the author of one of the first popular books on menopause intended for a mainstream audience, Understanding Menopause...
, women's health advocate and educator - Jerrie CobbJerrie CobbGeraldyn M. Cobb in Norman, Oklahoma is an American aviator. She was also part of the "Mercury 13," a group of women who underwent some of the same physiological screening tests as the original Mercury Seven astronauts as part of a private, non-NASA program.- Early life :Cobb is the daughter of...
, American aviator - Joe CobbJoe CobbJoe Frank Cobb was a former American child actor, most notable for appearing as the original "fat boy" in the Our Gang comedies from 1922 to 1929...
, American actor - John Cobb (disambiguation), multiple people
- Jimmy CobbJimmy Cobb-External links:* - includes full discography* * * * * * *...
, American jazz drummer - Keith Hamilton CobbKeith Hamilton Cobb-Career:He is best known for his roles as the ruthless Nietzschean mercenaryTyr Anasazi in the science-fiction series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda from 2000 to 2002, and as Noah Keefer on All My Children from 1994 to 1996...
, American actor - Lee J. CobbLee J. CobbLee J. Cobb was an American actor. He is best known for his performance in 12 Angry Men his Academy Award-nominated performance in On the Waterfront and one of his last films, The Exorcist...
(1911-1976), American actor - Linda CobbLinda CobbLinda Cobb is an American who is known as the Queen of Clean. She began her career as a cleanliness counselor as a columnist for a Michigan newspaper, and she once owned a restoration business for homes that had suffered fires in her native state.Cobb, a resident of Phoenix, Arizona, is the...
(born c. 1950), American home-care journalist - Michael CobbMichael CobbMichael Roy Cobb is an Australian politician who represented the electorate of Parkes in the Australian House of Representatives from 1984 to 1998.Before entering politics Cobb worked as a veterinary surgeon and ran a farm...
, Australian politician - Nathan CobbNathan CobbNathan Augustus Cobb is known as "the father of nematology in the United States".He provided the foundations for nematode taxonomy and described over 1000 different nematode species...
, American nematodeNematodeThe nematodes or roundworms are the most diverse phylum of pseudocoelomates, and one of the most diverse of all animals. Nematode species are very difficult to distinguish; over 28,000 have been described, of which over 16,000 are parasitic. It has been estimated that the total number of nematode...
zoologist - Randall Cobb (born 1990), American football player
- Randall 'Tex' Cobb (born 1950), American boxer, kickboxer and actor
- Reggie CobbReggie CobbReginald "Reggie" John Cobb is a former professional American football player who was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the second round of the 1990 NFL Draft. A 6'0", 225-lb...
, American football player - Richard CobbRichard CobbRichard Charles Cobb was a British historian. He became Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford, after an initially unconventional academic career in which he spent a dozen years working as an independent scholar in French archives. His work was recognised in France by the award of...
(1917 – 1996), British historian - Robert Cobb (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ron CobbRon CobbRon Cobb is an American cartoonist, artist, writer, film designer, and film director.By the age of 18, with no formal training in graphic illustration, Cobb was working as an animation "inbetweener" artist for Disney Studios in Burbank, California. He progressed to becoming a breakdown artist on...
, cartoonist and special effects professional - Rufus W. CobbRufus W. CobbRufus Willis Cobb was an American Democratic politician who was the 25th Governor of Alabama from 1878 to 1882.-Biography:...
, American politician - Samuel Sylvester CobbSamuel Sylvester CobbSamuel S. Cobb, the youngest son of J.B. Cobb., was born on December 12, 1865, in Bradley County, Tennessee, USA. In 1870] Cobb and his family traveled by train to Fort Scott, Kansas, where they loaded up and took a wagon to Tahlequah, Indian Territory, the Cherokee Nation's capital...
, American Business Man - Stanley CobbStanley Cobb-External links:* can be found at The Center for the History of Medicine at the Countway Library, Harvard Medical School....
, American neurologist and psychiatrist - Stephen Euin CobbStephen Euin CobbStephen Euin Cobb is a U.S. author, magazine writer, interviewer and host of the award-winning podcast The Future and You...
, American science fiction author - Thomas Reade Rootes CobbThomas Reade Rootes CobbThomas Reade Rootes Cobb was an American lawyer, author, politician, and Confederate officer, killed in the Battle of Fredericksburg during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
, American lawyer, author, politician, and Confederate general, killed in the Civil War - Tim CobbTim CobbTimothy Cobb is the current principal double bassist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center. He previously taught at the Peabody Institute of Music, and joined the Manhattan School of Music faculty in 1992...
, American double-bassist - Ty CobbTy CobbTyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb , nicknamed "The Georgia Peach," was an American Major League Baseball outfielder. He was born in Narrows, Georgia...
(1886-1961), American baseball player, subject of the 1994 film CobbCobb (film)Cobb is a 1994 biopic starring Tommy Lee Jones as the famed baseball player Ty Cobb. It was written and directed by Ron Shelton and was based on a book by Al Stump... - Will D. CobbWill D. CobbWill D. Cobb was an American lyricist and composer. He had a writing partnership with Ren Shields that produced many popular musicals and musical comedies.Productions and input of Will D. Cobb...
, American songwriter
Fiction
- Jayne Cobb, a character from FireflyFirefly (TV series)Firefly is an American space western television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon, under his Mutant Enemy Productions label. Whedon served as executive producer, along with Tim Minear....
- Cobb, a character in the webcomic "User FriendlyUser FriendlyUser Friendly is a discontinued daily webcomic about the staff of a small, fictional Internet service provider, Columbia Internet. The strip's humor tends to be centered around technology jokes and geek humour....
" - Cob, a character in the fantasyFantasyFantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...
novel "The Farthest ShoreThe Farthest ShoreThe Farthest Shore is the third of a series of books written by Ursula K. Le Guin and set in her fantasy archipelago of Earthsea, first published in 1972. It follows on from The Tombs of Atuan, which itself was a sequel to A Wizard of Earthsea. It is the Earthsea series novel which inspired the...
" - Dom Cobb, the protagonist of the 2010 film, InceptionInceptionInception: The Subconscious Jams 1994-1995 is a compilation of unreleased tracks by the band Download.-Track listing:# "Primitive Tekno Jam" – 3:23# "Bee Sting Sickness" – 8:04# "Weed Acid Techno" – 8:19...
See also
- Cob (disambiguation)
- Cobb and CoCobb and CoCobb and Co is the name of a transportation company in Australia. It was prominent in the late 19th century when it operated stagecoaches to many areas in the outback and at one point in several other countries, as well....
, Australian company - CobbeCobbeCobbe is an Irish surname, and may refer to:*Cobbe family, a prominent Irish family*Alexander Cobbe, Irish General and holder of VC*Frances Power Cobbe, Irish writer and animal rights activist*Charles Cobbe, Archbishop of Dublin...
- CobbsCobbsCobbs is a surname, and may refer to*Arnette Cleophus Cobbs, American jazz saxophonist Arnett Cobb*Bill Cobbs, American actor*Call Cobbs, Jr., American jazz organist*Janet Cobbs, American volleyball player*Willie Cobbs, blues musician-See also:...
- CobbyCobbyCobby may refer to:*Anita Cobby, Australian murder victim*Brian Cobby , British actor*Harry Cobby , Australian military aviator*Steve Cobby, UK musician, composer, DJ and producer...