Coward (disambiguation)

Coward (disambiguation)

Contents

Coward can mean:

People

  • Charles Joseph Coward, known as the "Count of Auschwitz", English soldier captured during World War II who rescued Jews from Auschwitz
  • Chris Coward, English football player
  • Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward, actor who starred in the seminal 1972 thriller Deliverance
  • John Coward, British gold medal winner at the 1936 Winter Olympics
  • John Coward, the first officer of British Airways Flight 38 which crashed at Heathrow on 17 January 2008
  • Noël Coward (1899–1973), English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music
  • Dame Pamela Coward, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003 for having transformed her school, Middleton Technology School, in Middleton, near Rochdale
  • Thomas Alfred Coward, English ornithologist and amateur astronomer and author
  • William Coward, English physician, controversial writer, and poet

Etymology

The surname "Coward" is generally theorized to have started as a misspelling of "Cowherd".

Places

Others

  • Cowards, British four-man comedy act
  • Coward (album), album by Made Out of Babies
  • In heraldry, of an animal, shown with its tail between its legs

See also


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