Surname Coward

Notable people with the surname include:

• Charles Coward (1905–1976), English soldier captured during World War II who claimed to have rescued Jews from Auschwitz
• Chris Coward (born 1989), English football player
• Dena Coward, 21st century Canadian sports event coordinator
• Herbert Coward (born 1938), American actor
• John Coward (ice hockey) (1910–1989), British ice hockey player, member of the gold medal team at the 1936 Olympics
• John Coward (Royal Navy officer) (1937–2020), British retired vice-admiral
• John Coward, first officer of British Airways Flight 38 which crashed at Heathrow in 2008
• Michael Coward (1945–2003), British geologist
• Mike Coward (born 1946), Australian sports writer
• Noël Coward (1899–1973), English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music
• Pamela Coward, British educator and teacher
• Thomas Coward (1867–1933), English ornithologist and amateur astronomer
• William Coward (1657?–1725), English physician, controversial writer, and poet
• William Coward (merchant) (1648–1738), London merchant and supporter of Dissenters
• William Coward (pirate) (fl. 1689), minor English pirate

As a surname (attested from mid-13c.) it represents Old English cuhyrde "cow-herd."

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