Howard, Given Name
- Howard Duane Allman (1946-1971), American guitar virtuoso
- Howard Burnett (born 1961), Jamaican track and field athlete
- Howard Carter (1874–1939), King Tut Tomb discoverer
- Howard Cosell (1918–1995), sports broadcaster
- Howard Dean (born 1948), American politician
- Howard Donald (born 1968), English singer with Take That
- Howard Devoto (born Howard Trafford, 1952), English rock and roll singer/songwriter
- Howard Duff (1913–1990), American actor
- Howard Goodall (born 1958), British musician, musicologist and TV presenter
- Howard Grant (born 1966), Jamaican-Canadian boxer
- Howard Hawks (1896–1977), American producer
- Howard Hesseman (born 1940), American actor
- Howard Hughes (1905–1976), American aviation pioneer and film mogul
- Howard Johnson, name of several people
- Howard Jones (musician) (born 1955), English
- Howard Judd (1935–2007), American physician and medical researcher
- Howard Kendall, English football player and manager
- Howard Lederer (born 1964), professional poker player
- H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), American writer
- Howard McNear (1905–1969), American radio and television actor
- Howard Marks (born 1945), former teacher, drug smuggler and author
- Howard Allen O'Brien, birth name of author Anne Rice
- Howard Payne (athlete) (1931–1992), English hammer thrower
- Howard Shore (born 1946) Canadian film-score composer
- Howard Stern (born 1954), American talk-radio host
- Howard K. Stern (born 1968), attorney for Anna Nicole Smith
- Howard Unruh (1921–2009), American spree killer
- Howard Wilkinson, English football manager
- Howard Zinn, (1922-2010), an American historian, academic, author, playwright, and social activist.
Read more about this topic: Howard