Holub (feminine Holubová) is a Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, and Belarusian surname. It means pigeon or dove. It is a cognate of Gołąb and Golub. Notable people with the surname include:
- Beata Holub, Polish high jumper
- Emil Holub, Czech doctor, explorer, cartographer, and ethnographer in Africa
- E. J. Holub, American football player
- Eva Holubová, Czech actress
- Jan Holub (disambiguation), multiple people
- Josef Ludwig Holub, botanist
- Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik (born 1992), Polish sprinter
- Miloslava Holubová, Czech tennis player
- Miroslav Holub, Czech poet and immunologist
- Petra Holubová, Czech tennis player
- Radim Holub, Czech football player
- Renate Holub, political philosopher and social theorist
- Robert C. Holub, chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Vicki Hollub, American businesswoman, CEO of Occidental Petroleum
See also
- All pages with titles containing Holub
- Holubek, Holoubek (disambiguation) (diminutive form)
- Holubec
- Golub (other Slavic form)
- Golubev (Russian form)
- Golomb (other Slavic form)
- Galamb (Hungarian form)
- Hrdlička
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