Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe (27 September 1818 – 25 November 1884) was a major contributor to the birth of modern organic chemistry. He was a professor at Marburg and Leipzig. Kolbe was the first to apply the term synthesis in a chemical con ...
(1818–1884), German chemist
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Andreas Kolbe
Andreas Kolbe ( fl. 1557) was a German printer, prominent in Marburg in the 1540s and 1550s. As of 1540 he ran Christian Egenol's printing shop in Marburg. In 1546 he published for Johann Oldendorp, a jurist. He was a known printer of Hans Staden ...
(fl. 1557), German printer, prominent in Marburg in the 1540s and 1550s
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Caroline Ridderstolpe
Caroline Johanna Lovisa Ridderstolpe, née Kolbe (September 2, 1793 – October 8, 1878) was a Swedish composer and singer.
Ridderstolpe was born in Berlin, the daughter of the chapel conductor, Carl Kolbe, and in 1816 married the Swedish govern ...
, née Kolbe (1793–1878), Swedish composer and singer
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Cheslin Kolbe
Cheslin Kolbe (born 28 October 1993) is a South African professional rugby union player who currently plays for the South Africa national team and for in the Top 14 in France. His regular position is Wing (rugby union), wing, but he also plays ...
(born 1993), South African rugby union player
* Clive Kolbe (1944–2016), South African cricketer
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Daniela Kolbe
Daniela Kolbe (born 22 February 1980) is a German physicist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saxony from 2009 until 2021.
Political career
Kolbe first became member o ...
(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
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Georg Kolbe
Georg Kolbe (15 April 1877 – 20 November 1947) was a German sculptor. He was the leading German figure sculptor of his generation, in a vigorous, modern, simplified classical style similar to Aristide Maillol of France.
Early life and educa ...
Ino Kolbe Ino Kolbe (February 28, 1914 – February 16, 2010), born Ino Voigt, was a German Esperantist and author.
She wrote books, paperback booklets and articles about the planned language Esperanto and proofread the massive Esperanto–German dictionary ...
(1914–2010), born Ino Voigt, German Esperantist
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Jim Kolbe
James Thomas Kolbe (June 28, 1942 – December 3, 2022) was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives. He represented Arizona's 5th congressional district from 1985 to 2003 and its 8t ...
Laura Kolbe
Laura Kolbe (born 9 September 1957) is a Finnish professor of European history at the University of Helsinki. She is also a Helsinki City Council member, representing the Centre Party and the Inspector of Eteläsuomalainen osakunta, student nati ...
(born 1957), Finnish professor of European history
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Maximilian Kolbe
Maximilian Maria Kolbe (born Raymund Kolbe; pl, Maksymilian Maria Kolbe; 1894–1941) was a Polish Catholic priest and Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in the German death camp ...
(1894–1941), Polish Conventual Franciscan friar and saint
* Parke Kolbe (1881–1942), American author, teacher, administrator and university president
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Peter Kolbe
Peter Kolbe (also referred to as Kolb) (10 October 1675 in Marktredwitz – 31 December 1726 in Neustadt an der Aisch) was a German teacher, astronomer, ethnologist, traveller and explorer of South Africa. His major work was the book ''Caput bona ...
(1675–1726), German astronomer and explorer of South Africa
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Peter-Michael Kolbe
Peter-Michael Kolbe (, ; born 2 August 1953) is a retired German rower who specialized in the single sculls. In this event, between 1975 and 1988 he won five world titles and three Olympic silver medals, in 1976, 1984 and 1988; he missed the 198 ...
(1953-2023), German rower and five time world champion
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Steve Kolbe
Steve Kolbe is an American sportscaster who has ties to the Pittsburgh Penguins and the play-by-play announcer for Minor League Baseball's Jacksonville Suns of the Double-A Southern League. From 1998–99 NHL season to the 2010–11 NHL season h ...
(born 1967), American sportscaster
* Tanja Kolbe (born 1990), German ice dancer
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