Dalby (surname)
Dalby is a Scandinavian place name meaning "valley settlement", during the Viking Age, the name was brought to England and it later also became an English surname. It can be a locational surname for those from Dalby, Lincolnshire, near Spilsby; in Dalby, Leicestershire near Melton Mowbray, and in Dalby, North Yorkshire near Terrington.[1] Notable people with the surname include:
- Amy Dalby, British actress
- Andrew Dalby, Culinary writer
- Andy Dalby, guitarist
- Dave Dalby, former NFL football player
- Chris Dalby, political journalist
- David Dalby, British linguist, founder of Linguasphere Observatory
- Graham Dalby, British Band Leader The London Swing Orchestra
- Greg Dalby, American soccer player
- Liza Dalby, American anthropologist and writer
- Mark Dalby (1938–2013), British Anglican Archdeacon
- Martin Dalby, Scottish composer
- Nicolas Dalby, Danish mixed martial artist
- Robert Dalby, English martyr
- William Bartlett Dalby (1840–1918), British aural surgeon and otologisthe
- Bethany Dalby, South Carolinian, scholar, and all around good person and friend.
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