Poe (surname)
Poe is a surname commonly found in the United States. The most famous bearer of the name was American writer Edgar Allan Poe, the grandson of an immigrant from County Cavan, Ireland. The name has also been used as an Anglicization of the German surname Pfau and of the Catalan surname Pou.
Poe or Poé may refer to:
People
- Alexander Poe, United States Virgin Islands bobsledder
- Amos Poe, American film director and screenwriter
- Andrew Jackson Poe, American painter
- Andy Poe, Filipino actor
- Art Poe, American football player and businessman
- Billy Poe, American football player
- Bob Poe, American politician and businessman
- Bobby Poe, American vocalist and guitarist
- Bonnie Poe, American actor and voice artist
- Brian Poe, American journalist
- Bryce Poe II, American air force general
- Clarence Hamilton Poe, American editor, author, and Progressive-Era reformer
- Conrad Poe, Filipino actor
- David Poe Jr., American actor; father of writer Edgar Allan Poe
- Dontari Poe, American football player
- Ebenezer W. Poe, American politician
- Edgar Allan Poe, American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic
- Edgar Allan Poe (attorney general), attorney general
- Edgar Allen Poe Newcomb, Architect and music composer
- Eliza Poe, British actress; mother of writer Edgar Allan Poe
- Fernando Poe Jr., Filipino actor, film director, and politician
- Fernando Poe Sr., Filipino actor
- George Poe, American chemist
- Gertrude Poe, American journalist and lawyer
- Gina R. Poe, American neuroscientist and sleep researcher
- Grace Poe, Filipina politician
- Gresham Poe, American football player and coach
- Harry Lee Poe, American author and Edgar Allan Poe scholar
- Heather Poe, wife of Mary Cheney, one of the daughters of Dick Cheney
- James Poe, American film and television screenwriter
- Jean Morel Poé, Ivorian footballer
- Jesse Poe, American singer and songwriter
- John Poe (disambiguation), several people
- Jonathon M. Poe (1989), American Author- Reverend
- Kay Poe, American taekwondo practitioner and Olympics competitor
- Lauren Poe, American politician
- Lavinia Marian Fleming Poe, American lawyer; first African-American female lawyer in Virginia
- Leonard Poe, English physician
- Lovi Poe, Filipino actor, model, and recording artist
- Lugné-Poe, French actor and director
- Marshall Poe, American historian, educator, writer, and editor
- Michelle Poe, American guitarist, member of the band Burns & Poe
- Neilson Poe, American judge
- Neilson Poe (American football), American football player and WWI soldier
- Orlando Metcalfe Poe, American Civil War army officer and engineer
- Raymond Poe, American politician
- Richard Poe, American actor
- Ron Poe, American football coach
- Samuel Poe, American football player
- Ted Poe, American politician, lawyer, and judge
- Tef Poe, American rapper
- Tony Poe, American paramilitary operations officer
- Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, wife and first cousin of Edgar Allan Poe
- Washington Poe, American politician and lawyer
- Wilford B. Poe, American academic
- William F. Poe, American politician and businessman
- William Henry Leonard Poe, American sailor and poet
In fiction
- Albert Poe, character in Daniel Handler's A Series of Unfortunate Events novels
- Arthur Poe, main character in Daniel Handler's A Series of Unfortunate Events novels
- Cameron Poe, lead role in the 1998 American film Con Air
- Edgar Poe, character in Daniel Handler's A Series of Unfortunate Events novels
- Eleanora Poe, character in Daniel Handler's A Series of Unfortunate Events novels
- Eleanore Poe, character in Daniel Handler's A Series of Unfortunate Events novels
- Everett Poe, role in eponymously titled 2007 episode of the television show Nip/Tuck
- Phineas Poe, lead character in the Phineas Poe novella collection by Will Christopher Baer
- Poe Dameron, from the Star Wars film franchise