Durbin (surname)

Durbin /ˈdɜːrbɪn/ is a very rare male first name and a very popular surname, according to the 1990 U.S. Census. The surname Durbin is of French origin from a place called D'urban or D'urbin in Languedoc. At the time of the British Census of 1881,^[1] its relative frequency was highest in Somerset (36.9 times the British average), followed by Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, Gloucestershire, Brecknockshire, Glamorgan, Cambridgeshire, Wiltshire and Warwickshire.

• Allison Durbin (born 1950), New Zealand-born Australian former pop singer
• Deanna Durbin (1921–2013), Canadian singer and actress
• Frederic S. Durbin, American fantasy/horror novelist
• James Durbin (born 1989), American singer and guitarist, former American Idol]contestant
• John Durbin, American actor
• Karen Durbin (1944–2025), American journalist, feminist, and critic

• Dick Durbin (born 1944), the Majority Whip for the 113th United States Senate
• Evan Durbin (1906–1948), British economist and politician
• Winfield T. Durbin (1847–1928), Governor of Indiana, USA

• Elisha John Durbin (1800–1887), American Catholic priest, the "patriarch-priest of Kentucky"
• John Price Durbin (1800–1876), Chaplain of the United States Senate, president of Dickinson College

• Evan Durbin (1906–1948), British economist and politician
• James Durbin (1923–2012), British statistician and econometrician
• Marion Durbin Ellis (1887–1972) American ichthyologist and entomologist
• Richard M. Durbin (born 1960), computational biologist

• Blaine Durbin (1886–1943), Major League Baseball player
• Chad Durbin (born 1977), Major League Baseball pitcher
• J. D. Durbin (born 1982), baseball pitcher
• Mike Durbin, American ten-pin bowling player
• William Durbin (born 1953), American martial artist, especially of Kiyojute Ryu

• Frank Durbin (1895–1999), one of the last surviving American veterans of the First World War