Coombs

Coombs is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Anthony Coombs (politician) (born 1952), British Conservative politician
• Anthony Coombs (Canadian football) (born 1992), Canadian football running back
• Bobby Coombs (1908-1991), American baseball player
• Clyde Coombs (1912–1988), American psychologist
• David Coombs (born 1937), British author, historian and teacher
• Derek Coombs (1931–2014), British Conservative politician
• Doug Coombs (1957–2006), American Alpine skier and mountaineer
• Ernie Coombs, Canadian/American children's entertainer, host of the long-running Canadian TV series Mr. Dressup from 1967-1996
• Frank Coombs, United States Representative from California
• H.C. Coombs Herbert Cole (Nugget) Coombs, Australian economist and Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia 1960-1968
• Jack Coombs, Major-League baseball pitcher from 1906-1920
• James Coombs, American college football coach
• John Coombs (1922–2013), British racing driver and racing team owner
• Kris Coombs-Roberts, guitarist with Welsh band Funeral for a Friend
• Melvin Coombs (1948–1997), Wampanoag dancer, cultural educator and cultural interpreter
• Nathan Coombs, founder of Napa, California
• Orde M. Coombs (1939–1984), Saint Vincent-born American writer and editor
• Pat Coombs (1926–2002), English actress
• Patricia Coombs (born 1926), American children's author and illustrator
• Peter Coombs (priest) (born 1928), English Anglican archdeacon
• Robert Coombs, Australian politician
• Robert Coombs (cricketer), English cricketer
• Robin Coombs (1921–2006), British immunologist, the Coombs test is named after him.
• Simon Coombs (born 1947), British Conservative politician
• Stephen Coombs, one of Britain's best known pianists
• Ted Coombs (born 1954), American artist, record-breaking roller skater and forensic scientist

See also

• Coombs test, a test for the presence of antibodies or antigens
• Coombs reagent, the reagent used in the Coombs test
• Coombs' method, a type of voting designed by the psychologist Clyde Coombs
• Coombs, British Columbia, a small community in British Columbia, Canada
• Coombes, a village and civil parish in the Adur District of West Sussex, England
• Coombs, California, a former settlement in Yuba County
• Coombs Lake, a lake in Minnestoa
• Coombe (disambiguation)
• Combs (disambiguation)
• Coomes