Owen

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Owen is an anglicized Welsh personal name, cognate with Eugene, as well as with Irish Eoin ("John") and Eoghan and Owain in the Welsh language. Well-known Owens (people and places etc., personal names and surnames) include the following:

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[edit] People

[edit] Surname

  • Clive Owen (born 1964), English actor
  • Evelyn Owen (1915 – 1949), designer of the Owen Sub Machine Gun
  • Greg Owen (born 1972), English golfer
  • John Owen (1849-1921), England footballer
  • John Owen (1787–1841), Governor of North Carolina
  • Mark Owen (born 1972) , musician and member of Take That
  • Michael Owen (born 1979), English footballer
  • Nora Owen (born 1945), Irish politician
  • Orville Ward Owen (1854-1924), American physician and Baconian
  • Priscilla Owen (born 1954), American judge on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, who was filibustered in the Senate
  • Richard Owen (1804-1892), biologist
  • Robert Owen (1771–1858), a Welsh social reformer, considered the "Father" of the cooperative movement
  • Ruth Bryan Owen, member of Congress and U.S. ambassador
  • Scott Owen (born 1975), double bass player for Australian rock band The Living End
  • Susan Owen, English orthodontic technician and Orthodontic Technicians Association council member
  • Syd Owen (1927-1999), England footballer
  • Wilfred Owen (1893 – 1918), World War I poet
  • William Owen, Australian judge
  • Several Owen Baronets

[edit] Given name

Fictional

[edit] Places

Australia
United States
Germany

[edit] Vessels

  • USS Owen, a Fletcher-class destroyer that took part in World War II and Vietnam
  • HMS Owen, British Royal Navy frigate

[edit] Other uses

[edit] See also


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