Cowper (surname)

Cowper (pronounced Cowper or Cooper depending on family) is a surname of several persons:

• Austen Cowper (1885–1960), South African cricketer
• Bob Cowper (born 1940), Australian cricketer
• Sir Charles Cowper (1807–1875), Australian politician
• Charles Cowper Jr. (1834–1911), Australian politician, son of Sir Charles Cowper Snr.
• David Scott Cowper (born 1942), British yachtsman
• Douglas Cowper (1817–1839), British painter
• E. E. Cowper (1859–1933), British author
• Edward Alfred Cowper (1819–1893), British mechanical engineer and metallurgist
• Francis Thomas de Grey Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper
• Frank Cowper (1849–1930), British yachtsman and author
• Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877–1958), British artist
• Gerry Cowper (born 1958), British actress
• Mary Cowper (1625–1784), British courtier and diarist
• Nicola Cowper (born 1967), British actress
• Peter Cowper (1902–1962), English footballer of the 1920s and 1930s
• Phipps Coles Cowper (1819–1870), English naval captain and inventor
• Richard Cowper, pseudonym of John Middleton Murry Jr.
• Robert Cowper (1465–1539/40), English composer
• Spencer Cowper (1670–1728), British MP and barrister
• Spencer Cowper (priest) 1713–1774, Dean of Durham Cathedral
• Steve Cowper (born 1938), American politician and governor of Alaska
• William Cowper of Galloway (1568–1619), Scottish bishop
• William Cowper (1731–1800), English poet and hymnodist
• William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper (1665–1723), Lord Chancellor of England
• William Cowper (anatomist), English anatomist (1666–1709), see also Cowper's gland and Cowper's fluid
• William Cowper-Temple, 1st Baron Mount Temple (1811–1888), British politician and courtier
• William C. Cooper (actor) (1853-1918), stage and film actor

See also

• Earl Cowper, a title in the Peerage of Great Britain