Dowding (surname)

Dowding is an English surname of Old English origin. Notable people with this surname include the following:

• Alan Dowding (1929–2023), Australian cricketer and schoolteacher
• Bruce Dowding, Australian spy for Britain
• Geoffrey Dowding, typographer, author of Finer Points in the Spacing & Arrangement of Type
• Gordon Dowding (1918-2003), Canadian politician
• Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Royal Air Force commander during World War II
• Keith Dowding, professor of political science at the London School of Economics
• Keith Dowding (activist), Australian Presbyterian minister
• Leilani Dowding, British glamour model
• Muriel Dowding, Baroness Dowding, wife of Hugh Dowding; English animal rights campaigner
• Peter Dowding, former Australian politician and premier of Western Australia