Downs is a surname of Old English origin. Notable people with the surname include:Alexander Downs (1876–1924), Scottish cricketer
Annie F. Downs, American author
Anthony Downs (1930–2021), American economist
Barbara Downs, American tennis player
Bertis Downs IV, American entertainment lawyer
Bill Downs (1914–1978), American war correspondent
Caleb Downs, American football player
Carolyn Downs (activist) (1953–1978), American Black Panther Party activist
Carolyn Downs, British public servant
Cathy Downs (1924–1976), American actress
C. H. Downs (1911–1985), American lawyer and politician
Charles E. Downs (1898–1967), American politician
Christopher Downs, American boxer
Cornelia Mitchell Downs (1892–1987), American microbiologist
Damion Downs, soccer player
Dave Downs, American baseball player
Deidre Downs, American physician and winner of Miss America 2005
Devante Downs, American football player
Diane Downs, American murderer
Donald Downs, American professor
Dorothea Downs (1917–1968), American baseball player
Ephraim Downs (1787–1860), American clockmaker
Ethan Downs, American football player
George W. Downs (physicist), American businessman
George W. Downs (1946–2015), American political scientist
Georgina Downs, British journalist
Greg Downs, English footballer
Hugh Downs (1921–2020), American broadcaster
Jack Downs, English rugby player
James Cloyd Downs (1885–1957) inventor of the Downs cell for electrochemical production of sodium
Jason Downs, American singer
Jeanne Downs, British television presenter
Jeter Downs, American baseball player
Johnny Downs (1913–1994), American actor
Joseph Downs (1895–1954), American curator
Josh Downs, American football player
Lila Downs, Mexican-American singer
Matt Downs, American baseball player
Marion Downs (1914–2014), American audiologist
Nicholas Downs, American actor
Philip Downs (1928–2014), English musicologist
Riele Downs, Canadian actress
Sally Ward Lawrence Hunt Armstrong Downs (1827–1896), American socialite
Sarah Corson Downs (1822–1891), American temperance activist
Sarah Elizabeth Forbush Downs (1843–1926), American novelist
Samara Downs, British ballerina
Scott Downs, American baseball player
Solomon W. Downs (1801–1854), American politician
Tara Downs, Canadian artist
Thomas Nelson Downs (1867–1938), American magician
Wilbur Downs (1913–1991), American naturalist and virologist
William Ernest Downs Jr. (1967–2006), American convicted child killer