Febres is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Carmen Febres-Cordero de Ballén (1829–1893), Venezuelan writer, poet George Febres (1943), an Ecuadorian-born painter Héctor Febres (d. 2007), an Argentinean navy officer León de Febres Cordero (1797–1872), a Venezuelan Army commander León Febres Cordero (1931 – 2008), former President of Ecuador Mayra Santos-Febres Mayra Santos-Febres (b. 1966 ), a Puerto Rican author, poet, novelist, and literary critic Miguel Febres Cordero (1854–1910), religious education leader

See also Febre, another surname Febres (Cantanhede), a civil parish in the municipality of Cantanhede