Subbarao or Subba Rao (, Kannada: ಸುಬ್ಬ ರಾವ್), sometimes spelled SubbaRow or Subba Row, is an Indian name.

People with the name

• Adurthi Subba Rao (1912–1975), Telugu film director

• B. A. Subba Rao (fl. 1950–1987), Telugu film director and producer

• B. R. Subba Rao (1925–2020), Entomologist

• Duvvuri Subbarao (born 1949), Indian economist and central banker

• Ganugapati Sree Rama Subba Rao (born 1937), Indian natural product chemist

• Govindarajula Subba Rao (1895–1959), Telugu theater and film actor

• I. V. Subba Rao (scientist) (1934–2010), Indian agriculturist

• Kakarla Subba Rao (1925–2021), Indian radiologist

• Kanta Subbarao, Indian virologist, molecular geneticist, and physician-scientist

• Katta Subba Rao (1940–1988), Telugu film director

• Koka Subba Rao (1902–1976), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India

• Mathukumalli V. Subbarao (1921–2006), Indo-Canadian mathematician

• Nanduri Venkata Subba Rao (1895–1957), Telugu poet

• Nyapati Subba Rao Pantulu (1856–1941), Indian politician and social activist

• Ponnada Subba Rao, Indian politician and lawyer.

• Raman Subba Row (1932–2024), English cricketer

• Rayaprolu Subba Rao (1892–1984), Indian poet

• Tata Subba Rao (born 1942), British statistician

• Tallapragada Subba Row (1856–1890), Indian theosophist and lawyer

• Taluku Ramaswami Subba Rao (1920–1984), Kannada novelist and scholar

• Yellapragada Subbarow (1895–1948), Indian biochemist