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Coward can mean:
- Someone lacking in courage: see Cowardice
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
- Coward, South Carolina, a town in the USA
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
- Coward Of The County, song and movie
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