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), American professional baseball player
• Charles Trowbridge (1882–1967), American film actor
• Charles Christopher Trowbridge (1800–1883), American explorer, politician, businessman and ethnographer of Native American cultures
• 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
• 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), American author
• Josiah Trowbridge (1785–1862), American politician
• N. C. Trowbridge (1815–1879), American slave trader
• Peter Trowbridge, American landscape architect
• Richard Trowbridge (1920–2003), Royal Navy rear-admiral and Governor of Western Australia
• Rowland E. Trowbridge (1821–1881), American politician
• 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 P. Trowbridge (1828–1892), American mechanical engineer, military officer and naturalist