Coward (disambiguation)
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  • Charles Joseph Coward
    Charles Coward
    Charles Joseph Coward , known as the "Count of Auschwitz", was a British soldier captured during World War II who rescued Jews from Auschwitz and smuggled himself into Auschwitz for one night, subsequently testifying about his experience at the Nuremberg Trials and the IG Farben...

    , known as the "Count of Auschwitz", English soldier captured during World War II who rescued Jews from Auschwitz
  • Chris Coward
    Chris Coward
    Chris Coward is an English football player. He came up through the Centre of Excellence youth system at Stockport County, where he became the youngest ever player to play in the Football League Cup aged 16 years and one month. He played for Northwich Victoria and Ashton United on loan, but was...

    , English football player
  • Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward
    Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward
    Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward is an actor who starred in the seminal 1972 thriller Deliverance.He started acting at the Wild West Show called 'Ghost Town in the Sky' in Maggie Valley, North Carolina. He played the part of 'Grandpappy', who came to town to avenge his son's death...

    , actor who starred in the seminal 1972 thriller Deliverance
  • John Coward
    John Coward
    John "Red" Coward , also known as Johnny Coward, was an ice hockey player who mainly played two seasons for the Richmond Hawks in the English National League . However, he is best remembered for playing for the Great Britain national ice hockey team which won the gold medal at the 1936 Winter...

    , British gold medal winner at the 1936 Winter Olympics
  • John Coward, the first officer of British Airways Flight 38
    British Airways Flight 38
    British Airways Flight 38 was a scheduled flight from Beijing Capital International Airport which crash landed just short of the runway at its destination, London Heathrow Airport, on 17 January 2008 after an flight. There were no fatalities, but 47 people sustained injuries...

     which crashed at Heathrow on 17 January 2008
  • Noël Coward
    Noël Coward
    Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...

     (1899–1973), English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music
  • Dame Pamela Coward
    Pamela Coward
    Dame Pamela Sarah Coward, DBE is a British educator and teacher who was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003 for having transformed her school, Middleton Technology School, in Middleton, Greater Manchester....

    , 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
    Thomas Coward
    Thomas Alfred Coward, MSc, FZS, FRES, MBOU , was an English ornithologist and an amateur astronomer. He wrote extensively on natural history, local history and Cheshire.-Life:...

    , English ornithologist and amateur astronomer and author
  • William Coward
    William Coward
    William Coward was an English physician, controversial writer, and poet. He is now remembered for his sceptical writings on the soul, which Parliament condemned as blasphemous and ordered to be burned in his presence.-Life:...

    , English physician, controversial writer, and poet

Etymology

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

Others

  • Cowards
    Cowards
    Cowards are a British four-man comedy act, composed of Tim Key, Stefan Golaszewski, Tom Basden and Lloyd Woolf.-History:Having all studied at Cambridge University and/or been involved in Footlights , Cowards formed in October 2004 and began performing their sketches live. They performed a new hour...

    , British four-man comedy act
  • Coward (album)
    Coward (album)
    -Track listing:#"Silverback" – 3:33#"Proud to Drown" – 4:55#"Fed" – 4:32#"Mandatory Bedrest" – 4:50#"Death in April" – 4:34#"Out" – 4:49#"Lullaby 03" – 1:36#"Mr. Prison Shanks" – 3:39#"Gunt" – 4:58...

    , album by Made Out of Babies
  • In heraldry
    Heraldry
    Heraldry is the profession, study, or art of creating, granting, and blazoning arms and ruling on questions of rank or protocol, as exercised by an officer of arms. Heraldry comes from Anglo-Norman herald, from the Germanic compound harja-waldaz, "army commander"...

    , of an animal, shown with its tail between its legs
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