| Gil Cawood | |
| Birth Name: | Gilbert Mervyn Cawood |
| Birth Date: | 4 December 1939[1] |
| Birth Place: | Hamilton, New Zealand |
| Death Place: | Hamilton, New Zealand |
| Height: | 1.83 m |
| Weight: | 83 kg |
| Sport: | Rowing |
| Country: | New Zealand |
| Club: | Waikato Rowing Club |
Gilbert Mervyn Cawood (4 December 1939 – 28 August 2022) was a New Zealand rower.
Cawood was born in 1939 in Hamilton, New Zealand.[2] He was a foundation member of the Waikato Rowing Club.[3] He represented New Zealand at the 1968 Summer Olympics. He is listed as New Zealand Olympian athlete number 218 by the New Zealand Olympic Committee. At the 1970 World Rowing Championships in St. Catharines in Canada, he won a bronze medal with the eight.[4] He died at Waikato Hospital in Hamilton, on 28 August 2022, at the age of 82.[5]