Cowper (surname)
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Cowper (pronounced Cooper) is a surname of several persons:
- Bob Cowper, Australian cricketer
- Charles Cowper, Australian politician
- Edward Alfred Cowper, metallurgist
- Francis Thomas de Grey Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper
- Frank Cadogan Cowper, British artist
- Gerry Cowper, British actress
- Richard Cowper, pseudonym of John Middleton Murry, Jr.
- Steve Camberling Cowper, American politician and governor of Alaska (born 1938)
- William Cowper of Galloway (1568-1619), bishop
- William Cowper, English poet and hymnodist (1731 – 1800),
- William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (c.1665 - 1723)
- William Cowper (anatomist), English anatomist (1666 - 1709), see also Cowper's gland and Cowper's fluid
- William Cowper-Temple, 1st Baron Mount Temple, British politician and courtier