Dobyns is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Emery Dobyns, American record producer Henry F. Dobyns (1925–2009), American anthropologist Jay Dobyns (born 1961), American special agent John P. Dobyns (1944–2020), American politician Lee Dobyns (born c. 1935), American football coach Lloyd Dobyns (1936–2021), American news anchor Stephen Dobyns (born 1941), American poet and novelist Winifred Starr Dobyns (1886–1963), American suffragist and landscape designer