Coward is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Charles Coward, known as the "Count of Auschwitz", English soldier captured during World War II who rescued Jews from Auschwitz
Chris Coward, English football player
Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward, actor who starred in the seminal 1972 thriller Deliverance
John Coward, British gold medal winner at the 1936 Winter Olympics
John Coward, the first officer of British Airways Flight 38 which crashed at Heathrow on 17 January 2008
Noël Coward (1899–1973), English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music
Dame Pamela Coward, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003 for having transformed her school, Middleton Technology School, in Middleton, near Rochdale
Thomas Coward, English ornithologist and amateur astronomer and author
William Coward, English physician, controversial writer, and poet
