Cowper
Cowper is a family name for the following people:
- Edward Alfred Cowper (1819-1893), English inventor
- Edward Cowper (1790-1852), English inventor
- Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877-1958), English painter
- Frederick Augustus Grant Cowper (1883–1978), American Romanist and Medievalist
- Gerry Cowper (born 1958), British actress
- Henry Swainson Cowper (1865–1941), British author and collector
- James Denis Cowper (? –1974), British cactus specialist
- Leopold Copeland Parker Cowper (1811–1875), American politician and lawyer
- Mary Cowper (Mary, Countess Cowper, née Mary Clavering; 1685-1724), English court lady and diary writer
- Nicola Cowper (born 1967), British actress
- Richard Cowper (1926–2002), British teacher and writer
- Steve Cowper (* 1938), American politician and Governor of Alaska
- William Cowper (theologian) (1568–1619), Scottish theologian, Bishop of Galloway
- William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper (1665–1723), English politician
- William Cowper (anatomist) (1666–1709) English surgeon and anatomist
- William Cowper (poet) (1731–1800), English lawyer and poet
- William Cowper-Temple, 1st Baron Mount Temple (1811–1888), British Liberal Party politician, House of Commons member and peer
Cowper also referred to
- Cowper's gland, see bulbourethral gland
- Wind heater in blast furnace operation
See also:
- Thomas Cooper (Bishop) (also: Couper, Cowper; around 1517–1594), English theologian, Bishop of Winchester, lexicographer (Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britannicae)
