Bowie
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bowie is a Scots surname, derived from the Scottish Gaelic word buie (pronounced approximately boe-ay), meaning yellow-haired. The name spread from Scotland with Scottish emigrants.
Bowie may refer to:
- Bowie, Maryland
- Bowie, Texas
- Bowie County, Texas
- Bowie knife, Jim Bowie's famous knife
[edit] People with the surname Bowie
- Angela Bowie, former wife of David Bowie
- Anthony Bowie, American basketball player
- David Bowie, influential British rock and roll musician, artist, and occasional actor
- Jim Bowie, Scottish-Texan pioneer and soldier
- Joanne W. Bowie, American politician
- Lester Bowie, jazz musician
- Malcolm Bowie, British academic
- Micah Bowie, American baseball player
- Norman E. Bowie, American politician
- Oden Bowie, American politician
- Rezin Bowie, brother of Jim Bowie
- Robert Bowie, American politician
- Russell Bowie, Canadian ice hockey player
- Sam Bowie, American basketball player
- William Bowie, American engineer
