Snowden is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• A. Loudon Snowden (1835–1912), U.S. ambassador to Spain 1892–1893
• Andrew Snowden (elected 2021), British Police and Crime Commissioner
• Cal Snowden (born 1946), former American football player
• Charles Snowden (born 1998), American football player
• Christopher Snowden (born 1956), English engineer, academic and executive
• Dave Snowden (born 1954), knowledge management consultant and researcher
• Edward Snowden (born 1983), American-Russian whistleblower who disclosed U.S. National Security Agency's mass surveillance programs
• Elmer Snowden (1900–1973), American jazz musician
• Ethel Snowden (1881–1951), British socialist and feminist politician
• George Holburn Snowden (1901–1990), American sculptor
• George Snowden (1904–1982), American dancer
• Gilda Snowden (1954–2014), African American artist from Detroit
• Grant Snowden, American policeman and criminal defendant
• James Ross Snowden (1809–1878), Treasurer and Director of the U.S. Mint
• Jeffrey Snowden (born 1973), English cricketer
• John M. Snowden (1776–1845), Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1825–1828
• John Snowden (sport shooter), New Zealand sport shooter
• Kade Snowden (born 1986), Australian rugby league footballer
• Leigh Snowden (1929–1982), an American actress in motion pictures and television
• M.L. Snowden, American sculptor
• Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden (1864–1937), British Labour Party politician
• Raymond Snowden (1921–1957), American murderer executed in Idaho
• Richard Snowden (ironmaster) (1640–1711), founder of Maryland's first iron works near present-day Laurel Maryland
• Sylvia Snowden, African American abstract painter
• Vivianna Olivia Snowden, (1840-1892) was a preacher and activist who went by the name Anna Oliver professionally

See also

• Snowden (character), a fictional character from the novel Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Snowden (disambiguation)
• Snowdon (disambiguation)
• Sowden, a surname