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 AuschwitzChris Coward, English football playerHerbert 'Cowboy' Coward, actor who starred in the seminal 1972 thriller DeliveranceJohn Coward, British gold medal winner at the 1936 Winter OlympicsJohn Coward, the first officer of British Airways Flight 38 which crashed at Heathrow on 17 January 2008Noël Coward (1899–1973), English actor, playwright, and composer of popular musicDame Pamela Coward, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003 for having transformed her school, Middleton Technology School, in Middleton, near RochdaleThomas Coward, English ornithologist and amateur astronomer and authorWilliam Coward, English physician, controversial writer, and poet