Trowbridge (surname)
# Trowbridge (surname)

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

* Alexander Buel Trowbridge (1929–2006), U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Lyndon Johnson
* Augustus Trowbridge (1870–1934), American physicist and professor
* Bill Trowbridge (1930–2019), British physicist and engineer
* Bob Trowbridge (1930–1980), professional baseball player
* Charles Trowbridge (1882–1967), American film actor
* Charles Christopher Trowbridge (1800–1883), explorer, politician, businessman, and ethnographer of Native American cultures who lived in Detroit
* Charles T. Trowbridge (1835–1907), American politician
* Edmund Trowbridge (1709–1793), judge during the Boston Massacre trial.
* Elton Trowbridge (1904–1974), member of the Wyoming House of Representatives from 1961 until his death
* Glenn E. Trowbridge (born 1943), American politician.
* John Trowbridge (physicist) (1843–1923), American physicist
* John Todd Trowbridge (1780–1858), member of the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature
* John Townsend Trowbridge (1827–1916), popular American author
* Josiah Trowbridge (1785–1862), American politician from Buffalo, New York
* Peter Trowbridge, American landscape architect
* Rear Admiral Sir Richard Trowbridge (1920–2003), KCVO, Governor of Western Australia from 1980 to 1983
* Rowland E. Trowbridge (1821–1881), U.S. Representative from Michigan
* Samuel Beck Parkman Trowbridge (1862–1925), partner in Trowbridge & Livingston architectural practice
* Stephen V. R. Trowbridge (Michigan Attorney General) (1855–1891), American lawyer and politician
* Stephen V. R. Trowbridge (Michigan legislator) (1794–1859), American politician
* Thomas E. Trowbridge (1930–2009), member of both houses of the Wyoming State Legislature
* William Petit Trowbridge (1828–1892), civil engineer who built Trowbridge House in 1859
