Dunbar (surname)

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

Earls of Dunbar

• Patrick I, Earl of Dunbar (5th Earl of Dunbar) (died 1232)
• Patrick II, Earl of Dunbar (6th Earl of Dunbar) (died 1248)
• Patrick III, Earl of Dunbar (7th Earl of Dunbar) (1213–1289)
• Patrick IV, Earl of March (8th Earl of Dunbar) (1242–1308)
• Patrick V, Earl of March (9th Earl of Dunbar) (1284–1368)
  • Agnes Dunbar, 4th Countess of Moray, wife of the above
• George de Dunbar, 10th Earl of March (10th Earl of Dunbar) (1340–1420)
• George de Dunbar, 11th Earl of March (11th Earl of Dunbar) (c. 1370–1457)

Other

• Adrian Dunbar (born 1958), Northern Irish actor
• Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875–1935), American poet, journalist, and political activist
• Aynsley Dunbar (born 1946), English musician
• Bobby Dunbar, child who disappeared in 1912
• Bonnie J. Dunbar (born 1949), American astronaut
• Bonnie S. Dunbar(born 1948), vaccine developer
• Carl Owen Dunbar (1891–1979), American paleontologist
• Charles Davidson Dunbar (1870–1939), pipe major
• Charles Franklin Dunbar (1830–1900), American economist
• Council Julian Dunbar Jr. (1922–2020), American politician
• Cyrus Dunbar (1856–1920), Washington state pioneer and businessman
• David Dunbar (disambiguation)
• Donald Dunbar, American poet
• Donald P. Dunbar
• Dorothy Dunbar
• Emmons Dunbar
• Erica Armstrong Dunbar, American historian
• Evelyn Dunbar (1906-1960), British artist
• Forrest Dunbar (born 1984), American politician and attorney
• Gavin Dunbar (disambiguation)
• Gavin Dunbar (archbishop)
• George Dunbar (disambiguation)
• Helen Flanders Dunbar (1902–1959), psychiatrist and psychobiologist
• Jackie Dunbar, Scottish politician
• James Dunbar (disambiguation)
• James Dunbar-Nasmith
• Jennifer Dunbar Dorn
• Jesse Dunbar
• Jim Dunbar
• John Dunbar (disambiguation)
• Jubilee Dunbar (born 1949), American football player
• Karen Dunbar, Scottish comedian
• Lance Dunbar, American football player
• Michael Dunbar, Scottish footballer
• Mike Dunbar, American football coach
• Moira Dunbar (1918–1999), Scottish-Canadian glaciologist
• Nan Dunbar (1928-2005), Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Somerville College, Oxford
• Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906), American poet
• Robin Dunbar, anthropologist and evolutionary biologist
• Roberta Dunbar (d. 1956), American club woman and peace activist
• Rockmond Dunbar
• Ron Dunbar, songwriter and record producer
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• R. Scott Dunbar
• Rudolph Dunbar (1907–1988), Guyanese conductor, clarinetist and composer
• Sly Dunbar (born 1952), Jamaican musician
• Steven Dunbar Jr. (born 1995), American football player
• Susan Ames Dunbar
• Tom Dunbar
• Vaughn Dunbar
• Vicki Nelson-Dunbar
• William Dunbar, medieval Scottish poet
• William Dunbar, 7th Baronet
• William Dunbar (Louisiana), congressman from Louisiana
• William F. Dunbar first Minnesota State Auditor
• William P. Dunbar (1863–1922), American physician in Germany
• William Dunbar (explorer) (1750–1810), American merchant, naturalist, astronomer and explorer

Fictional characters

• Dunbar, a character in the novel Catch-22
• First Lieutenant John J. Dunbar, the protagonist/narrator of Dances with Wolves
• Heather Dunbar, erstwhile Solicitor General and 2016 Democratic Primary challenger to President Frank Underwood.
• Russell Dunbar, a character in Rules of Engagement (TV series)
• Zeke Jedediah Dunbar, the protagonist's sidekick in the 2009 PlayStation 3 video game Infamous
• William Dunbar, a recurring character in Code Lyoko who becomes a main character in Code Lyoko: Evolution.
• Daniel Dunbar, also known as Dan the Dyna-Mite, from The Young All-Stars