Samuel or Sam Ward may refer to:

• Samuel Ward (banker) (1786–1839), American banker
• Samuel Ward (field hockey) (born 1990), British field hockey player
• Samuel Ward (footballer) (1906–?), Scottish footballer
• Samuel Ward (ice hockey) (born 1995), Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender
• Samuel Ward (lobbyist) (1814–1884), American political lobbyist and gourmet
• Samuel Ward (minister) (1577–1640), English Puritan minister of Ipswich
• Samuel Ward (Rhode Island politician) (1725–1776), governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and a delegate to the Continental Congress
• Samuel Ward (scholar) (1572–1643), English academic at Cambridge
• Samuel Ward (taster) (1732–1820), painted by Joseph Wright of Derby but known for being Bonnie Prince Charlie's taster
• Samuel Ward Jr. (1756–1832), American Revolutionary soldier and politician
• Samuel A. Ward (1847–1903), American organist and composer
• Samuel Baldwin Ward (1842–1915), American surgeon
• Samuel Gray Ward (1817–1907), American poet, Transcendentalist, banker, and patron of the arts
• Samuel Ringgold Ward (1817–c. 1860), American abolitionist and newspaper editor
• Samuel Ward, the co-composer of "Tell Her", a song sung by Frank Sinatra on his album That's Life
• Sam Ward (footballer, born 1880) (1880–1968), English footballer

• Samuel Ward Academy, Haverhill, Suffolk
• Samuel Ward King (1786–1851), governor of Rhode Island