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 IIMuriel Dowding, Baroness Dowding, wife of Hugh Dowding; English animal rights campaignerGeoffrey Dowding, typographer, author of Finer Points in the Spacing & Arrangement of TypeKeith Dowding, professor of political science at the London School of EconomicsLeilani Dowding, British glamour modelPeter Dowding, former premier of Western Australia