Gibbon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Edward Gibbon (1737–1794), English historian and MP, author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireJohn Gibbon (1827–1896), United States Army officerJohn Heysham Gibbon (1903–1973), US surgeon and inventor of the heart-lung machineJoe Gibbon (born 1935), US baseball playerLardner A. Gibbon (1820–1910), US Navy lieutenant, Amazon explorer, co-author of Exploration of the Valley of the AmazonLewis Grassic Gibbon (1901–1935), Scottish writerRay Gibbon (c. 1926-1999), former mayor of St. Albert, CanadaRoger Gibbon (born 1944), track cyclist from Trinidad and TobagoWilliam Monk Gibbon (1896–1987), Irish poet and prolific author