Dowding (surname)

Dowding is an English surname of Old English origin. Notable people with this surname include the following:


 * Alan Dowding (1929–2023), Australian cricketer and schoolteacher
 * Bruce Dowding, Australian spy for Britain
 * Geoffrey Dowding, typographer, author of Finer Points in the Spacing & Arrangement of Type
 * Gordon Dowding (1918-2003), Canadian politician
 * Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Royal Air Force commander during World War II
 * Keith Dowding, professor of political science at the London School of Economics
 * Keith Dowding (activist), Australian Presbyterian minister
 * Leilani Dowding, British glamour model
 * Muriel Dowding, Baroness Dowding, wife of Hugh Dowding; English animal rights campaigner
 * Peter Dowding, former Australian politician and premier of Western Australia