Coward (surname)

Coward is a surname. 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

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