Flowerdew is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alice Flowerdew (1759–1830), English teacher, hymnwriter, religious poet Arthur Flowerdew (1906–2002), British engineer Bob Flowerdew, British television presenter Edward Flowerdew (c.1534–86), English politician and judge Gordon Flowerdew, Canadian Cavalry officer in World War I and recipient of the Victoria Cross Temperance Flowerdew (1590–1628), early settler of the Jamestown Colony of Virginia