Cowper (pronounced Cowper or Cooper depending on family) is a surname of several persons:
- Bob Cowper (born 1940), Australian cricketer
- Charles Cowper (1807–1875), Australian politician
- Edward Alfred Cowper (1819–1893), British mechancial engineer, metallurgist
- Francis Thomas de Grey Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper
- Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877–1958), British artist
- Gerry Cowper (born 1958), British actress
- Nicola Cowper (born 1967), British actress
- Peter Cowper (1902–1962), English footballer from the 1920s and 1930s
- Richard Cowper, pseudonym of John Middleton Murry, Jr.
- Spencer Cowper (1670–1728), British MP and barrister
- Steve Camberling Cowper (born 1938), American politician and governor of Alaska
- William Cowper of Galloway (1568–1619), 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
Famous quotes containing the word cowper:
“I pity them greatly, but I must be mum,
For how could we do without sugar and rum?”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)