Dumas is a Southern French topographic surname, with fused preposition and definite article , for someone who lived in an isolated dwelling in the country rather than in a village, from Occitan mas 'farmstead' (Late Latin mansum, mansus).
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 Fernand Dumas (1892–1956), Swiss architect 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
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
See also Edward Canfor-Dumas (born 1957), English TV scriptwriter and novelist
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