Coombs
Coombs is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Anthony Coombs (politician) (born 1952), British Conservative politician
- Anthony Coombs (Canadian football) (born 1992), Canadian football running back
- Bobby Coombs (1908-1991), American baseball player
- Clyde Coombs (1912–1988), American psychologist
- David Coombs (born 1937), British author, historian and teacher
- Derek Coombs (1931–2014), British Conservative politician
- Doug Coombs (1957–2006), American Alpine skier and mountaineer
- Ernie Coombs, Canadian/American children's entertainer, host of the long-running Canadian TV series Mr. Dressup from 1967-1996
- Frank Coombs, United States Representative from California
- H.C. Coombs Herbert Cole (Nugget) Coombs, Australian economist and Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia 1960-1968
- Jack Coombs, Major-League baseball pitcher from 1906-1920
- James Coombs, American college football coach
- John Coombs (1922–2013), British racing driver and racing team owner
- Kris Coombs-Roberts, guitarist with Welsh band Funeral for a Friend
- Mary Coombs (born 1929), British computer programmer
- Melvin Coombs (1948–1997), Wampanoag dancer, cultural educator and cultural interpreter
- Nathan Coombs, founder of Napa, California
- Orde M. Coombs (1939–1984), Saint Vincent-born American writer and editor
- Pat Coombs (1926–2002), English actress
- Patricia Coombs (born 1926), American children's author and illustrator
- Peter Coombs (priest) (born 1928), English Anglican archdeacon
- Robert Coombs, Australian politician
- Robert Coombs (cricketer), English cricketer
- Robin Coombs (1921–2006), British immunologist, the Coombs test is named after him.
- Simon Coombs (born 1947), British Conservative politician
- Stephen Coombs, one of Britain's best known pianists
- Ted Coombs (born 1954), American artist, record-breaking roller skater and forensic scientist
See also
- Coombs test, a test for the presence of antibodies or antigens
- Coombs reagent, the reagent used in the Coombs test
- Coombs' method, a type of voting designed by the psychologist Clyde Coombs
- Coombs, British Columbia, a small community in British Columbia, Canada
- Coombes, a village and civil parish in the Adur District of West Sussex, England
- Coombs, California, a former settlement in Yuba County
- Coombs Lake, a lake in Minnestoa
- Coombe (disambiguation)
- Combs (disambiguation)
- Coomes (disambiguation)
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