Howard (surname)
Howard is a family name, which is common in the English-speaking world. It also acts as a first name.
Well-known bearers of the name
A
- Adina Howard ( born 1974 ), American singer
- Agnes Howard (1477-1545), Duchess of Norfolk, see Agnes Tilney
- Albert Howard (1873-1947), British biologist
- Albert Andrew Howard (1858-1925), American classical philologist
- Ann Howard ( club owner ) ( 1924-2007 ), American club owner
- Ann Howard ( singer ) ( 1934-2014 ), British opera singer (mezzo- soprano)
- Ann Howard ( writer ) ( born 1942 ), Australian writer and journalist
- Anne Howard, Countess of Arundel (1557-1630), British nobleman and poet
- Anne Howard ( actress) ( 1925-1991 ), American actress
- Anne Marie Howard ( born 1960 ), American actress
- Anthony Howard (1934-2010), English journalist, radio host and author
- Anthony Howard ( swimmer ) ( born 1979 ), British swimmer
- Arliss Howard (born 1954 ), American filmmaker
- Arthur Clifford Howard (1893-1971), Australian inventor and entrepreneur
B
- Bart Howard (1915-2004), American jazz composer
- Ben Howard ( * 1988), English singer-songwriter
- Benjamin Howard (1760-1814), American politician
- Benjamin Chew Howard (1791-1872), American politician
- Blanche Willis Howard (1847-1898), American writer
- Bob Howard (musician ) ( 1906-1986 ), American jazz musician
- Bob Howard ( Robert William Howard, born 1963 ), American professional wrestler, see Hardcore Holly
- Bronson Howard (1842-1908), American journalist and playwright
- Bryce Dallas Howard ( born 1981 ), American actress
- Byron Howard ( born 1968 ), American animator and director
C
- Catherine Howard ( * ~ 1525), wife of the English King Henry VIII
- Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham ( 1536-1624 ), English statesman and admiral
- Charles Howard, 2nd Earl of Nottingham ( 1579-1642 ), English nobleman and politician
- Charles Howard of Greystoke (1630-1713), English nobleman and traveler
- Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle ( 1674-1738 ), English politician
- Chaunte Lowe (born Howard, born 1984 ), American high jumper
- Clint Howard ( born 1959 ), American actor
- Curly Howard (1903-1952), American comedian
D
- Daniel E. Howard (1861-1935), Liberian politician, President 1912-1920
- Darnell Howard (1905-1966), American jazz musician
- Denean Howard (born 1964 ), American track and field athlete
- Desmond Howard (born 1970 ), U.S. American football player
- Dick Howard ( athlete ) ( 1935-1967 ), American hurdler
- Dick Howard ( soccer player ) ( born 1943 ), Canadian soccer goalkeeper British origin
- Dwight Howard ( born 1985 ), American basketball player
E
- Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928), British urban planner
- Ed Howard ( Edward U. Howard, born 1960 ), American jazz bassist
- Edgar Howard (1858-1951), American politician
- Edmund Howard (1478-1539), English father, the king 's wife Catherine Howard
- Edward Howard ( admiral ) ( 1476-1513 ), English admiral
- Edward Howard ( clockmaker ) ( 1813-1904 ), American Watchmakers and entrepreneurs
- Edward Henry Howard (1829-1892), English Roman Catholic cardinal
- Edward U. Howard ( born 1960 ), American jazz bassist, see Ed Howard
- Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014), British writer
- Elston Howard (1929-1980), American baseball player
- Everette B. Howard (1873-1950), American politician
F
- Felix Howard, British model and songwriter
- Frances Howard (1590-1632), English nobleman
- Francis Howard, 5th Baron Howard of Effingham ( 1643-1695 ), English nobleman and politician
- Frank Howard (1805-1866), British painter, lithographer and art writer
G
- George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle ( 1773-1848 ), British nobleman and politician
- George Howard ( politician ) ( 1789-1846 ), American politician
- George Howard ( theologian ) ( born 1935 ), American theologian and Hebraist
- George Howard (musician ) ( 1956-1998 ), American jazz saxophonist
- George Elliot Howard (1849-1928), American sociologist
- Greville Howard, Baron Howard of Rising ( b. 1941 ), British Conservative politician
- Guy Victor Howard (1879-1954), American politician
- Gwen Howard ( born 1945 ), American politician
B
- Harlan Howard (1929-2002), American composer and country singer
- Henrietta Howard (1688-1767), Countess of Suffolk
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516-1547), English poet
- Henry Howard, Earl of Arundel 22 ( 1608-1652 ), English nobleman
- Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk ( 1628-1684 ), English nobleman
- Henry Howard ( painter) ( 1769-1847 ), English painter
- Henry Howard (1802-1875), English politician
- Henry Howard ( politician ) ( 1826-1905 ), American politician (Rhode Iceland )
- Hildegarde Howard (1902-1998), American paleontologist
J
- Jacob M. Howard (1805-1871), American politician
- James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk ( 1619-1688 ), English nobleman
- James Howard ( born 1984 ), American professional ice hockey player, see Jimmy Howard
- James Howard - Johnston (* 1942) English historian
- James J. Howard (1927-1988), American politician
- James L. Howard (1818-1906), American politician
- James Newton Howard ( born 1951 ), American composer and music producer
- Jamie Howard (born 1976 ), American professional wrestler
- Jay Howard ( born 1981 ), British racing driver
- Jean Howard (1910-2000), American actress and photographer
- Jeremy Howard ( born 1981 ), American actor
- Jewel Howard -Taylor ( born 1963 ), Liberian politician and businesswoman
- Jimmy Howard ( born 1984 ), American ice hockey player
- JoGayle Howard (1951-2011)
- John Howard ( admiral ) ( 1310-1347 ), English admiral
- John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk ( 1430-1485 ), English peer
- John Howard ( philanthropist ) ( 1726-1790 ), English philanthropist
- John Howard ( soldier ) ( 1912-1999 ), English Major
- John Howard (actor, 1913) ( 1913-1995 ), American actor
- John Howard ( politician ) ( b. 1939 ), Australian politician
- John Howard ( triathlete ) ( born 1947 ), American triathlete
- John Howard (actor, 1952) ( born 1952 ), Australian actor
- John Howard ( athlete ) ( born 1981 ), athlete from Micronesia
- John C. Howard (1930-1983), American Cutter
- John Eager Howard (1752-1827), American politician
- John Eager Howard ( physician) ( 1902-1985 ), American endocrinologist
- John George Howard (1803-1890), Canadian architect and builder
- Jonas G. Howard (1825-1911), American politician
- Jonathon Howard ( born 1957 ), British biochemist
- Joseph Howard (1862-1925), Maltese politician
- Josh Howard ( born 1980 ), American basketball player
- Juwan Howard (born 1973 ), American basketball player
K
- Ken Howard ( Kenneth Joseph Howard, Jr., born 1944 ), American actor
- Kenneth Howard ( artist) ( Von Dutch, 1929-1992 ), American artist and mechanic
- Kenneth Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham ( 1767-1845 ), British soldier and nobleman
- Kenneth I. Howard (1932-2000), American psychotherapy researcher and psychotherapist
- Kenneth Howard, pseudonym of the German director Jürgen Enz ( b. 1941 )
- Kenneth Charles Howard ( born 1939 ), British composer, see Ken Howard / Alan Blaikley
- Kenneth Joseph Howard, Jr. ( born 1944 ), American actor, see Ken Howard
- Kid Howard ( Avery Howard; 1908-1966 ), American trumpeter and singer
- Kyle Howard (born 1978 ), American actor
L
- Laura Howard ( born 1977 ), British actress,
- Leigh Howard ( * 1989), Australian cyclist
- Leland Ossian Howard (1857-1950), American entomologist and parasitologist
- Len Howard (1894-1973), British naturalist and musicologist
- Leslie Howard ( actor) ( 1893-1943 ), English actor
- Leslie Howard ( pianist ) ( b. 1948 ), Australian pianist and composer
- Linda Howard ( writer ) ( born 1950 ), American writer
- Linda Howard ( table tennis player ) (* ~ 1956), British table tennis player
- Lisa Howard ( born 1963 ), Canadian actress
- Louis Norberg Howard ( born 1929 ), American mathematician
- Luke Howard (1772-1864), English chemist and meteorologist
M
- Mabel Howard (1894-1972), New Zealand politician
- Malcolm Howard ( b. 1983 ), Canadian rower
- Mary Howard (1913-2009), American actress
- Matt Howard ( * 1989), American basketball player
- Melissa Morrison - Howard (born 1971 ), American hurdler
- Michael Howard ( historian ) ( * 1922 ), British historian
- Michael Howard, 21st Earl of Suffolk ( b. 1935 ), British peer and politician ( Conservative Party )
- Michael Howard ( born 1941 ), British politician
- Milford W. Howard (1862-1937), American politician
- Moe Howard (1897-1975), American comedian
N
- Neva Howard, American dancer and choreographer
- Nick Howard ( b. 1982 ), British pop singer
- Noah Howard (1943-2010), American jazz saxophonist
O
- Oliver Otis Howard (1830-1909), American General
P
- Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel ( 1557-1595 ), English Martyrs
- Pierre Howard ( born 1943 ), American politician
R
- Rachel Howard ( born 1977 ), New Zealand soccer player
- Rance Howard ( born 1928 ), American actor
- Richard Howard ( born 1929 ), American writer
- Robert Howard (musician ) ( born 1961 ), British musician and songwriter, member of The Blow Monkeys
- Robert Howard ( athlete ) ( 1975-2004 ), American triple jumper
- Robert E. Howard (1906-1936), American writer
- Robert L. Howard (1939-2009), American colonel
- Robert William Howard, known as Hardcore Holly ( b. 1963 ), American professional wrestler
- Robin Howard (1924-1989), British philanthropist, promoter of modern dance
- Ron Howard (born 1954 ), American actor and director
- Ronald Howard (1918-1996), British actor
- Rosetta Howard (1914-1974), American jazz and R & B singer
- Rowland S. Howard (1959-2009), Australian musician
- Roy W. Howard (1883-1964), American journalist
- Russ Howard ( born 1956 ), Canadian curler
- Ryan Howard ( born 1979 ), American baseball player
- Ryon Howard ( born 1984 ), American basketball player
S
- Sandy Howard (1927-2008), American film producer
- Sara Howard ( born 1981 ), American politician
- Shemp Howard (1895-1955), American comedian
- Sherman Howard ( b. 1949 ), American actor and voice actor
- Sherri Howard (born 1962 ), American sprinter
- Sidney Howard (1891-1939), American playwright
- Susan Howard ( born 1944 ), American actress
T
- Terrence Howard (born 1969 ), American actor
- Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk ( 1584-1640 ), English politician
- Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk ( 1443-1524 ), English military commander and courtier
- Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk ( 1473-1554 ), English peer
- Thomas Howard (1511-1537), English nobleman
- Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk ( 1536-1572 ), English peer
- Thomas Howard, 3rd Lord Bindon († 1611), English nobleman
- Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk ( 1561-1626 ), English nobleman
- Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel ( 1585-1646 ), English nobleman
- Thomas Howard, 5th Duke of Norfolk ( 1627-1677 ), English peer
- Thomas Howard (pirate) (before 1698 - after 1703), Pirates
- Thomas Howard (baseball player) (born 1964 ), American baseball player
- Thomas Howard ( footballer ) ( 1983-2013 ), U.S. American football player
- Thomas A. Howard ( born 1967), American theologian and university lecturer
- Tilghman Howard (1797-1844), American politician
- Tim Howard ( born 1979 ), American football player
- Todd Howard (born 1971 ), American computer game developer
- Traylor Howard (born 1966 ), American actress
- Trevor Howard (1916-1988), British actor
V
- Volney Howard (1809-1889), American politician
W
- Walker Howard ( born 1980 ), American actor
- Walter Howard (1910-2005), German sculptor
- Webster Eugene Howard ( born 1934 ), American physicist
- Wil Howard (1879-1945), German landscape and portrait painter, illustrator, graphic artists, sculptors and artisans
- Wilhelm Hermann Howard (1848-1919), German agricultural economist
- William Howard ( judge ) (c. 1242-1308 ), British lawyer and judge
- William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham (c. 1510-1573 ), English Lord High Admiral and Lord Privy Seal
- William Howard (Antique ) (also Belted Will or Will Bauld; 1563-1640 ), English nobleman and antiquarian
- William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford ( 1614-1680 ), British landowner and Royalist
- William Howard ( Ohio) ( 1817-1891 ), American politician
- William Howard, a pseudonym of Jürgen Enz ( * 1941 ), German film director
- William Alanson Howard (1813-1880), American politician
- William Alvin Howard ( born 1926 ), American logician
- William K. Howard (1899-1954), American film director, producer and screenwriter
- William Marcellus Howard (1857-1932), American politician
- William S. Howard (1875-1953), American politician
First name
- Howard Hathaway Aiken (1900-1973), American computer scientist
- Howard Baker ( born 1925 ), American politician
- Howard Carpendale (* 1946), German pop singer of South African origin
- Howard Carter (1874-1939), British archaeologist
- Howard Donald ( born 1968 ), British singer
- Howard Engel ( born 1931 ), Canadian writer
- Howard Ferguson (1908-1999), Irish composer
- Howard yarn (1905-1989), American inventor of Sudoku
- Howard Griffiths ( born 1950 ), British conductor
- Howard Hughes (1905-1976), American businessman, film producer and aviation pioneer
- Howard Jacobson ( born 1942 ), British writer and columnist
- Howard MacNutt (1859-1926), American Baha'i
- Howard Mudd ( b. 1942 ), U.S. American football player
- Howard Nemerov (1920-1991), American literature professor and poet
- Howard Shore ( b. 1946 ), Canadian composer
- Howard Stern (born 1954 ), American radio host
- Howard O. Sturgis (1855-1920), British writer