Dobell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include

• Bertram Dobell (1842–1914), English bookseller, literary scholar, editor and author
• Charles Macpherson Dobell (1869–1954), Canadian soldier
• Clifford Dobell (1886–1949), British biologist
• Doug Dobell (1917–1987), British record store proprietor and record producer
• Elizabeth Mary Dobell (1828-1908), English poet
• Eva Dobell (1867–1963), British poet, nurse, and editor
• Horace Dobell (c. 1827 – 1917), English doctor and medical writer
• Richard Reid Dobell (1836–1902), Canadian businessman and politician
• Sydney Thompson Dobell (1824–1874), English poet and critic
• William Dobell (1899–1970), Australian artist

• Dobell Prize, prize for drawing in Australia
• Division of Dobell, an Australian electoral Division in New South Wales