Kenneth Alexander Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham, GCB (29 November 1767 – 13 February 1845) was a British Army officer and peer.

Howard was gazetted to an ensigncy in the Coldstream Guards, 21 April 1786, and served with his regiment in Flanders from February 1793 to May 1795, being wounded at St. Amand 8 May 1793.

In January 1811 Howard joined the army in the Peninsula, being placed in command of a brigade of the 1st Division in succession to Sir William Erskine (Wellington Supplementary Despatches, xiii.

He took continuous part in the operations on the frontier, 1813–14, and received the medal and one clasp for Vitoria and the passage of the Nive.

On the conclusion of the war he became Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth and General Officer Commanding South-West District.