Cave (name)

Cave is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname:

• Alexander Cave FRCS FLS (1900–2001), British anatomist
• Andy Cave (born 1966), British mountaineer and author
• Basil Cave (1865–1931), British diplomat
• Charles Cave (disambiguation), various people
• Charles John Philip Cave (1871–1950), British meteorologist
• Darren Cave (born 1987), rugby union player
• Edward Cave (1691–1754), English printer, editor, and publisher, founder of the first general-interest magazine
• Etosha Cave, American mechanical engineer
• Francis Oswin Cave (1897–1974), English army officer, priest, and ornithologist
• George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave (1856–1928), British lawyer and Conservative politician
• George Cave (footballer) (1874–1904), English footballer
• Harry Cave (1922–1989), New Zealand cricketer
• Hugh B. Cave (1910–2004), American pulp fiction writer
• J. A. Cave (1823–1912), English musician, actor and theatre proprietor
• Jake Cave (born 1992), American baseball player
• Jennifer Cave (died 2005), American female murder victim
• Joyce Cave (1902–1953), English squash player
• Kathryn Cave (born 1948), award-winning British children's book author
• Lucie Cave, features editor of Heat magazine
• Micky Cave (1949–84), English football midfielder
• Nancy Cave (1896–1989), English squash player
• Nick Cave (born 1957), leader of the Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• Nick Cave (performance artist) (born 1959), American artist
• Peter Cave, foreign affairs editor for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• Phil Cave (born 1987), English football defender
• Phil Cave, founder of Australian private equity company Anchorage Capital Partners
• Stephen Cave (1820–1880), British lawyer, writer, and Conservative politician
• Wilbur Cave, American politician from South Carolina.
• William Cave (1637–1713), English divine
• William H. Cave (1872–1941), Newfoundland merchant and politician
• William Cave (rugby union) (1882–1970), England and British Isles rugby union player

Given name:

• Cave Beck (1623–c.1706), English schoolmaster and clergyman, author of an early constructed language
• Cave Johnson (1793–1866), U.S. Congressman from Tennessee and United States Postmaster General

Fictional characters:

• Cave Carson, character in science fiction stories published by DC Comics
• Cave Johnson (Portal), character in Portal video games