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