Cowper (surname)

Cowper (pronounced Cowper or Cooper depending on family) is a surname of several persons:
 * Andrew Cowper (1898-1980), Australian fighter pilot
 * Austen Cowper (1885–1960), South African cricketer
 * Bob Cowper (born 1940), Australian cricketer
 * Sir Charles Cowper (1807–1875), Australian politician
 * Charles Cowper Jr. (1834–1911), Australian politician, son of Sir Charles Cowper Snr.
 * David Scott Cowper (born 1942), British yachtsman
 * Douglas Cowper (1817–1839), British painter
 * E. E. Cowper (1859–1933), British author
 * Edward Alfred Cowper (1819–1893), British mechanical engineer and metallurgist
 * Frances Maria Cowper (née Madan; sometimes known as Maria Frances; 1726-1797), British poet
 * Francis Thomas de Grey Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper
 * Frank Cowper (1849–1930), British yachtsman and author
 * Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877–1958), British artist
 * Gerry Cowper (born 1958), British actress
 * Henry Swainson Cowper (1865-1941), British author and collector of antiques
 * Mary Cowper (1625–1784), British courtier and diarist
 * Nicola Cowper (born 1967), British actress
 * Peter Cowper (1902–1962), English footballer of the 1920s and 1930s
 * Phipps Coles Cowper (1819–1870), English naval captain and inventor
 * Richard Cowper, pseudonym of John Middleton Murry Jr. (1926–2002)
 * Robert Cowper (1465–1539/40), English composer
 * Sarah Cowper (1644–1720), English diarist
 * Spencer Cowper (1670–1728), British MP and barrister
 * Spencer Cowper (priest) 1713–1774, Dean of Durham Cathedral
 * Steve Cowper (born 1938), American politician and governor of Alaska
 * William Cowper (disambiguation), multiple people