Dobbin
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Dobbin can refer to:
Dobbin may refer to the following people:
Dobbin may also refer to the following places:
Other uses:
- HorseHorseThe horse is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus, or the wild horse. It is a single-hooved mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today...
, as rural slang
Dobbin may refer to the following people:
- Brian DobbinBrian DobbinBrian Dobbin is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played in 63 National Hockey League games with the Philadelphia Flyers and Boston Bruins.-External links:...
(born 1966), a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player - Craig DobbinCraig DobbinCraig Lawrence Dobbin OC was an industrialist and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CHC Helicopter Corporation, a public company traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange...
(1935 - 2006), Canadian businessman - Dermot DobbinDermot DobbinNoel Dermot Dobbin, businessman and team President of the St. John's Fog Devils of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, was born St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada....
, Canadian businessman - Uncle DobbinUncle DobbinFrederick James Dobbin universally known as Uncle Dobbin was a South African rugby union player who represented South Africa on nine occasions...
(1879-1950), nickname of Frederick Dobbin, South African rugby union international - James C. DobbinJames C. DobbinJames Cochran Dobbin was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer who served as United States Secretary of the Navy from 1853 to 1857....
(1814 – 1857), the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1853 to 1857 - Jim DobbinJim DobbinJames "Jim" Dobbin is a British Labour Co-operative politician and microbiologist, who has been the Member of Parliament for Heywood and Middleton since 1997.-Education and career:...
(born 1941), British politician - Jim Dobbin (footballer)Jim Dobbin (footballer)James "Jim" Dobbin is a Scottish former professional football player who played as a midfielder from 1980 until 2000 notably for Celtic, Barnsley and Grimsby Town...
(born 1964), a Scottish former professional football player - Kate DobbinKate DobbinKate Dobbin practised as an artist for over half a century, specialising in watercolours of Irish country scenes and still lifes of flowers. Between 1894 and 1947 she exhibited over one hundred watercolours at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin...
(1868 - c.1948), an Irish artist - Tony DobbinTony DobbinTony Dobbin is a retired Northern Irish National Hunt jockey who rode mainly in Great Britain. He rode the winner of the Grand National on Lord Gyllene in 1997 and won over 1,200 races during his career in the saddle. He was the regular stable jockey for Nicky Richards...
(born 1972), a retired Irish National Hunt jockey
Dobbin may also refer to the following places:
- Dobbin, TexasDobbin, TexasDobbin is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 170 in 2000, although some estimates place that figure at close to 300. Dobbin is part of the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown...
- Dobbin, West VirginiaDobbin, West VirginiaDobbin is an unincorporated community on the North Branch Potomac River in Grant County, West Virginia, USA. Dobbin is located southwest of Bayard on West Virginia Route 90....
- Dobbins, CaliforniaDobbins, CaliforniaDobbins is a census-designated place in Yuba County, California. It lies northeast of Marysville, at an elevation of 1742 feet, in the foothills of the western Sierra Nevada Mountain Range off of Highway 20 and Marysville Road. Dobbins is north of Oregon House and south of Bullards Bar Dam...
, formerly Dobbin
Other uses:
- USS Dobbin (AD-3)USS Dobbin (AD-3)USS Dobbin is the name of a United States Navy destroyer tender of World War II, named after James Cochrane Dobbin, the Secretary of the Navy from 1853 to 1857.The USS Dobbin was launched on 5 May 1921 by the Philadelphia Navy Yard...
, an American Navy destroyer tender launched 5 May 1921 and decommissioned on 27 September 1946 - A pantomime horse on the British television series RentaghostRentaghostRentaghost is a British children's television comedy show, broadcast by the BBC between 6 January 1976 and 6 November 1984. The show's plot centred on the antics of a number of ghosts who worked for a firm called Rentaghost, which rented out the ghosts for various tasks.-Background:The company,...