Cowherd is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Colin Cowherd (born 1964), American sports radio host Kevin Cowherd, American author, humorist and former newspaper columnist Leonard Cowherd, American soldier killed in the Iraq War, one of the subjects of the documentary Last Letters Home Thomas Cowherd (1817–1907), Canadian tinsmith and poet who helped telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bel William Cowherd (1763–1816), English clergyman William S. Cowherd (1860–1915), American mayor of Kansas City and U.S. congressman for Missouri
See also The Cowherd, the male protagonist of the Chinese story "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl" Cowboy, an American who herds cattle on horseback Cowman (profession) in the UK, akin to ranch hand or dairy worker in North America Stockman (Australia), who works with cattle