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