The Kokowara were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland.
The ethnonym, applied to them by other tribes, namely Kokowara, means 'rough speech'. Their autonym, or word for themselves, had not been ascertained as of 1974.
According to Norman Tindale, the Kokowara had some of tribal land on the Normanby River, extending south from Lakefield to Laura and the Laura River. Their central camping area was at a place called Daidan on the Deighton River.