Coward (surname)
Coward is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Charles Coward, English soldier captured during World War II who claimed to have rescued Jews from Auschwitz
- Chris Coward, English football player
- Dena Coward, 21st century Canadian sports event coordinator
- John Coward, British ice hockey player, member of the gold medal team at the 1936 Olympics
- John Coward , British retired vice-admiral
- John Coward, first officer of British Airways Flight 38 which crashed at Heathrow in 2008
- Noël Coward, English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music
- Pamela Coward, British educator and teacher
- Thomas Coward, English ornithologist and amateur astronomer
- William Coward, English physician, controversial writer, and poet
- William Coward , London merchant and supporter of Dissenters
- William Coward , minor English pirate