Rabe (surname)

Rabe is a German surname meaning "raven" and may refer to:

• David Rabe (born 1940), American playwright and screenwriter
• Eckard Rabe (born 1948), South African actor
• Eugene Rabe (1911–1974), German-American astronomer
• Folke Rabe (1935–2017), Swedish composer
• Florence Bates (born Rabe, 1888–1954) American actress
• Jean Rabe (born 1957), fantasy and science fiction author and editor
• John Rabe (1882–1950), German businessman who rescued more than 200,000 Chinese during the World War II Nanjing Massacre
• Josh Rabe (born 1978), former Major League Baseball player
• Jutta Rabe (born 1955), German journalist
• Karin Rabe, Swedish orienteering competitor
• Karin M. Rabe, American physicist
• Karl Rabe (1895–1968), automobile designer and Chief Designer at Porsche
• Laurentius Corvinus (Laurentius Rabe in German) (1465–1527), Silesian scholar and poet
• Lily Rabe (born 1982), American actress
• Margarete Rabe (born 1923), German World War II concentration camp guard
• Pamela Rabe (born 1959), Canadian/Australian actor and theatre director
• Peter Rabe (1921–1990), German-American writer, mostly of crime fiction
• Sascha Rabe (born 1985), German ice dancer
• Stephen G. Rabe, American historian and professor
• Thomas Rabe (born 1951), German professor of gynaecology and obstetrics
• Wilhelm F. Rabe (1893–1958), German astronomer

See also

• Raabe