The invention relates to a method for recovering cobalt, and the like in cobalt-containing waste residues from zinc smelting, solving the technical problems of providing the method for recovering the cobalt, and the like in the cobalt-containing waste residues from zinc smelting, which has the advantages of high enrichment ratio and good cobalt precipitation effect, recovers and utilizes valuable metals such as the cobalt, and the like in the cobalt-containing waste residues from zinc smelting with lowest cost and realizes the purpose of comprehensively utilizing the cobalt-containing waste residues from zinc smelting with high value. The method for recovering the cobalt, and the like in the cobalt-containing waste residues from zinc smelting is characterized by comprising the following steps of: taking the cobalt-containing waste residues from zinc smelting as a raw material; carrying out process flows of ball milling, leaching, filter pressing lead slags, removing iron and manganese, filter pressing iron and manganese slags, precipitating the cobalt and filter pressing cobalt slags; and obtaining the cobalt raw material with the cobalt content larger than 30 percent in the cobalt-containing waste residues from zinc smelting, thereby realizing efficient separation of metals, such as the cobalt, zinc, nickel, cadmium, and the like and completely solving the problem of difficult separation of the cobalt, the zinc, the nickel, the cadmium, and the like of the prior art. The method can be also used for separating out the lead slags with the lead content larger than 30 percent, cadmium sponge used for producing refined cadmium, nickel slags with the nickel content larger than 10 percent and a zinc sulfate solution.