Cowherd is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Colin Cowherd
Colin Murray Cowherd (born January 6, 1964) is an American sports media personality. He began his broadcasting career as sports director of Las Vegas television station KVBC and as a sports anchor on several other stations before joining ESPN ...
(born 1964), American sports radio host
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Kevin Cowherd
Kevin Cowherd is an American author, humorist and former award-winning sports and features columnist for ''The Baltimore Sun''. He is the author, along with Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr., of ''The New York Times'' best-seller ''Hothead'' and f ...
, American author, humorist and former newspaper columnist
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Leonard Cowherd
''Last Letters Home: Voices of American Troops from the Battlefields of Iraq'' is a 2004-hour-long HBO documentary by Bill Couturié about U.S. soldiers killed in the Iraq War
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, American soldier killed in the Iraq War, one of the subjects of the documentary ''Last Letters Home''
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Thomas Cowherd Thomas C. Cowherd (March 20, 1817 – April 4, 1907) was a British-born tinsmith and poet, and father to 16 children in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, including James H. Cowherd, the second earliest manufacturer of telephones to Alexander Graham Be ...
(1817–1907), Canadian tinsmith and poet who helped telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bel
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William Cowherd
William Cowherd (1763 – 24 March 1816) was an English Christian minister and vegetarianism activist. He served a congregation in Salford known as the Bible Christian Church. Cowherd advocated and encouraged members of his then small group of ...
(1763–1816), English clergyman
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William S. Cowherd (1860–1915), American mayor of Kansas City and U.S. congressman for Missouri
See also
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The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl
''The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl'' are characters found in Chinese mythology and appear eponymously in a romantic Chinese folk tale. The story tells of the romance between Zhinü (; the weaver girl, symbolized by the star Vega) and Niulang ...
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Cowboy
A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks. The historic American cowboy of the late 19th century arose from the ''vaquero'' ...
, an American who herds cattle on horseback
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Cowman (profession)
A cowman is a person who works specifically with cattle.
Usage
Usage of the word "cowman" has significant geographic variation, though is sometimes used interchangeably with terms such as "stockman", "cattleman", "rancher" and "grazier."
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in the UK, akin to ranch hand or dairy worker in North America
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Stockman (Australia)
In Australia, a stockman (plural stockmen) is a person who looks after the livestock on a station, traditionally on horse. It has a similar meaning to "cowboy". A stockman may also be employed at an abattoir, feedlot, on a livestock export ...
, who works with cattle
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