Dumas (surname)
Dumas is a Southern French topographic surname, with fused preposition and definite article du, for someone who lived in an isolated dwelling in the country rather than in a village, from Occitan mas 'farmstead' (Late Latin mansum, mansus).[1]
People surnamed Dumas include:
- Adolphe Dumas (1805-1861), French poet.
- Alexandre Dumas, père (1802-1870), French novelist and author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo
- Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824-1895), son of the above and also a novelist, author of The Lady of the Camellias
- Amy Dumas (born 1975), former professional wrestler better known as "Lita"
- Charles Dumas (disambiguation), multiple people
- Daniel Dumas (born 1983), Australian rugby player
- Dumas (musician) (born 1979), Canadian musician born Steve Dumas
- Franck Dumas (born 1968), French football player and manager
- Frédéric Dumas (1913–1991), one of the first two diving companions of Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- Georges Dumas (French link) (1866-1946), French doctor and psychologist
- Gilles Dumas, French rugby league footballer and coach
- Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas, comte Dumas (1753-1837), French general
- Henry Dumas (1934-1968), African-American poet and author
- Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800-1884), French chemist
- Joseph Dumas (1875-1950), Canadian politician
- Marlene Dumas (born 1953), South African artist
- Maurice Dumas (1927-2015), Canadian professor and politician
- Pierre Benoît Dumas (1668–1745), French Governor General of Pondicherry and Réunion
- Richard Dumas (born 1969), American basketball player
- Roland Dumas (born 1922), French politician and lawyer
- Romain Dumas (born 1977), French racing driver
- Russell Dumas (1887-1975), Australian engineer and public servant
- Tancrède Dumas (1830-1905), Italian photographer
- Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (1762-1806), general of the French Revolution and father of the novelist Alexandre Dumas, père
- Tony Dumas (born 1972), American basketball player
- Vito Dumas (1900-1965), Argentine single-handed sailor
- W. W. Dumas (1916-1993), former Mayor-President of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
References
See also
- Edward Canfor-Dumas (born 1957), English TV scriptwriter and novelist
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