Rabe is a German surname meaning "raven" and may refer to:
David Rabe (born 1940), American playwright and screenwriter
Eckard Rabe (born 1948), South African actor
Eugene Rabe (1911–1974), German-American astronomer
Folke Rabe (1935–2017), Swedish composer
Florence Bates (born Rabe, 1888–1954) American actress
Jean Rabe (born 1957), fantasy and science fiction author and editor
John Rabe (1882–1950), German businessman who rescued more than 200,000 Chinese during the World War II Nanjing Massacre
Josh Rabe (born 1978), baseball player
Jutta Rabe (born 1955), German journalist
Karin Rabe, Swedish orienteering competitor
Karin M. Rabe, American physicist
Karl Rabe (1895–1968), automobile designer
Laurentius Corvinus (Laurentius Rabe in German) (1465–1527), Silesian scholar and poet
Lily Rabe (born 1982), American actress
Margarete Rabe (born 1923), German World War II concentration camp guard
Pamela Rabe (born 1959), Canadian/Australian actor and theatre director
Peter Rabe (1921–1990), German-American writer, mostly crime fiction
Sascha Rabe (born 1985), German ice dancer
Stephen G. Rabe, American historian
Thomas Rabe (born 1951), German professor of gynaecology and obstetrics
Ties Rabe (born 1960), German politician
Wilhelm F. Rabe (1893–1958), German astronomer