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"
• Axel Dumas (born 1970), French billionaire, CEO of Hermès
• Bullet Dumas (born 1986), Filipino musician
• Caroline Dumas (born 1935), French soprano
• 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 (1866–1946), French physician and psychologist
• Gilles Dumas, French rugby league footballer and coach
• Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas, comte Dumas (1753–1837), French general
• Gustave Dumas (1872–1955), Swiss mathematician
• Henry Dumas (1934–1968), African-American poet and author
• Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800–1884), French chemist
• Joseph Dumas (1875–1950), Canadian politician
• Lloyd J. Dumas (born 1945), American macroeconomist
• Marlene Dumas (born 1953), South African artist
• Maurice Dumas (1927–2015), Canadian professor and politician
• Mireille Dumas (born 1953), French journalist
• Pierre Dumas (died 2000), French doctor
• Pierre Benoît Dumas (1668–1745), French Governor General of Pondicherry and Réunion
• René-François Dumas (1753–1794) a French revolutionary lawyer
• Rennie Dumas (died 2017), Trinidad and Tobago politician
• Richard Dumas (born 1969), American basketball player
• Roger Dumas, multiple people
• Roland Dumas (1922–2024), French politician and lawyer
• Romain Dumas (born 1977), French racing driver
• Russell Dumas (1887–1975), Australian engineer and public servant
• Sidonie Dumas (born 1967), French film producer
• Stephanie Summerow Dumas, the first African-American woman elected as a county commissioner in the history of Ohio
• 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