Dowdeswell
Dowdeswell is a family name that may refer to :
- Colin Dowdeswell (born 1955), British tennis player
- Elizabeth Dowdeswell (* 1944), Canadian civil servant and UN Under-Secretary-General, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
- John Edmund Dowdeswell (1772-1851), British politician
- William Dowdeswell (1721–1775), British politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer, Chancellor of the Exchequer