List of Famous people with last name Dolby

Ray Dolby

Ray Milton Dolby
First Name Ray
Last Name Dolby
Born on January 18, 1933
Died on September 12, 2013 (aged 80)

Ray Milton Dolby was an American engineer and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR. He helped develop the video tape recorder while at Ampex and was the founder of Dolby Laboratories.

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Thomas Dolby

Thomas Morgan Robertson
First Name Thomas
Last Name Dolby
Born on October 14, 1958 (age 68)

Thomas Morgan Robertson, known by the stage name Thomas Dolby, is an English musician, producer, entrepreneur and teacher. He came to prominence in the 1980s, releasing hit singles including "She Blinded Me with Science" (1982) and "Hyperactive!" (1984). He has also worked in production and as a session musician. In the 1990s he founded Beatnik, a Silicon Valley software company whose technology was used to create the Nokia tune. He was also the music director for the TED Conference. On faculty at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University since 2014, Dolby leads Peabody's Music for New Media program, which enrolled its first students in the fall of 2018.

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Dagmar Dolby

First Name Dagmar
Born on June 28, 1941 (age 85)
Born in Germany

Dagmar Dolby (1941/1942) is an American billionaire.

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