Plowden

Plowden may refer to:


 * Plowden, Shropshire, village in Shropshire, England

People with the surname Plowden

 * Alfred Chichele Plowden (1844–1914), English barrister and court magistrate
 * Alison Plowden (1931–2007), English historian and biographer
 * Anna Plowden (1938-1997), archaeological conservator
 * Bridget Plowden, Lady Plowden (1910–2000), English educationist, reformer
 * David Plowden (born 1932), American photographer
 * Edmund Plowden (1518–1585), English lawyer, legal scholar and theorist
 * Edmund Plowden (colonial governor) (1590–1659), explorer and colonial governor
 * Edwin Plowden, Baron Plowden (1907–2001), English industrial and public servant
 * Francis Plowden (politician) (c.1644–1712), English Jacobite official
 * Francis Peter Plowden (1749–1829), English barrister and writer.
 * Francis Plowden (British Army officer) (1851–1911), British general
 * Francis Plowden (businessman) (born 1945), lay member of the U. K. Judicial Appointments Commission
 * Henry Plowden (1840-1920), English cricketer
 * Luke Ishikawa Plowden (1995), Japanese-American actor
 * Robert Plowden (1740–1823), English Jesuit priest
 * Thomas Plowden (1594–1664), English Jesuit priest, translator
 * Walter Plowden (1820–1860), British consul in Ethiopia
 * William Plowden (Conservative politician) (1787–1880), English politician
 * William Chichele Plowden (1832–1915), Member of the Legislative Council in India, British Member of Parliament
 * William Julius Lowthian Plowden (1935–26 June 2010) was a British political science academic and government advisor.