Dowding is an English surname. Notable people with this surname include the following:
Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Royal Air Force commander during World War II
Muriel Dowding, Baroness Dowding, wife of Hugh Dowding; English animal rights campaigner
Geoffrey Dowding, typographer, author of Finer Points in the Spacing & Arrangement of Type
Keith Dowding, professor of political science at the London School of Economics
Leilani Dowding, British glamour model
Peter Dowding, former premier of Western Australia