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Rabe (surname)

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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
  • Hugo Rabe (1867–1932), German classical philologist
  • 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

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