Plowden is a surname, and may refer to:

• Alison Plowden (1931–2007), English historian and biographer
• David Plowden (born 1932), American photographer
• Edmund Plowden (1518-1585), English lawyer, legal scholar and theorist
• Edmund Plowden (colonial governor) (1590–1659), explorer and colonial governor
• Francis Plowden (fl. 2008), lay member of the U. K. Judicial Appointments Commission
• Robert Plowden (1740-1823), English Jesuit priest
• Walter Plowden (1820-1860), British consul in Abyssinia.
• William Plowden (1787–1880), English politician
• William Chichele Plowden (1832-1915), Civil Servant, Member of the Legislative Council in India, politician

[edit] See also

• Plowden Report

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