title: Canby (surname)
text: # Canby (surname)
  
  Canby is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Edward Canby (1817–1873), American general
  * Henry Seidel Canby (1878–1961), critic, editor, and Yale University professor
  * James Canby (1781–1858), businessman and banker based in Wilmington, Delaware
  * Louisa Hawkins Canby (1818–1889), wife of Edward Canby
  * Richard S. Canby (1808–1895), U.S. Representative from Ohio
  * Vincent Canby (1924–2000), film critic
  * William C. Canby Jr. (born 1931), U.S. Court of Appeals senior judge
  * William Marriott Canby (1831–1904), American financier and botanist
  