Webb
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Webb is the name of several places:
- Webb, Alabama, USA
- Webb, Iowa, USA
- Webb, Mississippi, USA
- Webb, New York, USA
- Webb City, Missouri, USA
- Webb City, Oklahoma, USA
- Webb Lake, Wisconsin, USA
- Webb County, Texas, USA
- Mount Webb National Park, Queensland, Australia
- Webb Ranch, a farm on Stanford University land, USA
And the name of the following people:
- Webb C. Ball (1847 - ?), US jeweller and watchmaker
- Webb Hayes (1856 – 1923), US businessman and soldier
- Webb Wilder, US musician
- Alan Webb (1983 - ), US track athlete
- Andy Webb, UK ornithologist
- Aston Webb (1849 - 1930), British architect
- Beatrice Webb (1858 - 1943), British reformer; wife of Sidney Webb
- Benjamin Joseph Webb (1814 - 1897), Catholic editor, state senator for Kentucky, and historian
- Chick Webb (1909 - 1939), US jazz musician
- Chloe Webb (1960 - ), US actor
- Clifton Webb (1889 - 1966), US actor
- David Webb, Footballer and football manager
- David Michael Webb, a Hong Kong sharemarket analyst
- Del Webb – developer
- Derek Webb, musician
- Donald Eugene Webb (1931 - ), fugitive on the FBI's most wanted list
- Gary Webb, US reporter
- Gary Webb, singer known by his stage name Gary Numan
- George James Webb (1803 - 1887), British-American composer
- Harry Webb, singer better known by his stage name Cliff Richard
- Jack Webb (1920 - 1982), US actor, most famous for his role as a detective in the television series Dragnet
- James Webb (1945 - 1980) English historian and biographer
- James E. Webb (1906 - 1992), second administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- James H. Webb Jr., (1946 - ), American author, decorated Marine, former Secretary of Navy
- Jimmy Webb (1946 - ), US composer
- John Webb (1611 - 1672), English architect
- Karrie Webb (1974 - ), Australian golfer
- Lizzie Webb, British exercise television show host
- Lucy Webb Hayes (1831 - 1889), First Lady of the United States during the presidency of her husband Rutherford B. Hayes
- Marti Webb (1944 - ), US actor
- Mary Webb (1881 - 1927), English romantic novelist
- Matthew Webb (1848 – 24 July 1883), first person to swim the English Channel without the use of artificial aids
- Morgan Webb, US television host
- Neil Webb, (1963 - ), British footballer, Nottingham Forest and England international
- Philip Webb, British Arts and Crafts architect, designed Red House in Bexleyheath.
- Philip Barker Webb (1793 - 1854), English botanist
- Robert Webb (1972 - ), British Actor, Comedian, and writer.
- Sam Webb, US politician
- Sidney Webb (1859 - 1947), British reformer; husband of Beatrice Webb
- Skeeter Webb (1909 - 1986), Major League Baseball player
- Spud Webb (1963 - ), National Basketball Association (NBA) basketball player
- Steve Webb (1965 - ), United Kingdom politician
- Thomas William Webb (1807 – 1885), British astronomer
- Wellington Webb (1941 - ), US politician
- William Henry Webb (1816 - 1899), U.S. industrialist and philanthropist
The name Webb comes from the word webber - someone who weaves.
There is also:
- James Webb Space Telescope
- Webb and Knapp, development company
- Webb Institute, US college
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