Cowper (surname)
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Cowper (pronounced Cowper or Cooper depending on family) is a surname of several persons:
- Austen Cowper (1885–1960), cricketer
- Bob Cowper (born 1940), Australian cricketer
- Charles Cowper (1807–1875), Australian politician
- Douglas Cowper (1817–1839), British painter
- 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; father of artist Frank Cadogan Cowper
- 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
- Richard Cowper, pseudonym of John Middleton Murry, Jr.
- Spencer Cowper (1670–1728), British MP and barrister
- Spencer Cowper (priest) 1713–1774, Dean of Durham Cathedral
- 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
See also
- Earl Cowper, a title in the Peerage of Great Britain
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