Coward (name)
Coward is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Charles Coward, known as the "Count of Auschwitz", English soldier captured during World War II who rescued Jews from Auschwitz
- Chris Coward, English football player
- Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward, actor who starred in the seminal 1972 thriller Deliverance
- John Coward, British gold medal winner at the 1936 Winter Olympics
- John Coward, the first officer of British Airways Flight 38 which crashed at Heathrow on 17 January 2008
- Noël Coward (1899–1973), English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music
- Dame Pamela Coward, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003 for having transformed her school, Middleton Technology School, in Middleton, near Rochdale
- Thomas Coward, English ornithologist and amateur astronomer and author
- William Coward, English physician, controversial writer, and poet