Rowley

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Rowley may refer to geographical places:

• Rowley (town), Massachusetts, USA
• Rowley (CDP), Massachusetts, USA
• Rowley, Iowa, USA
• Rowley, Alberta, Canada
• Rowley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
• Rowley, Shropshire, England
• Rowley, London, a former parish in Barnet, London, England

Other locations with Rowley inside:

• Rowley Hills
• Rowley's House, Museum, Shrewsbury (England)
• Rowley Island
• Rowley Mile
• Rowley Regis
• Rowley Shoals
• Rowley Shoals Marine Park

Rowley as a last name might refer to: (alphabetically listed)

• Arthur Rowley, football player (most prolific striker in Football League history)
• Christopher Rowley
• Coleen Rowley, FBI agent and whistleblower before WTC event, TIME Person of the Year, attended Wartburg College
• Cynthia Rowley
• Elizabeth "Liz" Rowley
• Geoff Rowley, skateboarder
• George Rowley
• G. D. Rowley, scientist with works on Echinopsis or the Cactus
• Ian Cecil Robert Rowley, Australian ornithologist
• Jack Rowley, football player
• James Rowley
• Janet D. Rowley
• Max Rowley
• Richard Rowley, pseudonym of Richard Valentine Williams
• Samuel Rowley
• Stanley Rowley
• Thomas Rowley (several men with this name)
• Thomas A. Rowley, Union Army general in the American Civil War
• Thomas D. Rowley
• William Rowley

All owners of the title Baron Langford (1763-1912) had the last name Rowley. (see detailed listing in separate article) One owner of the title Baron Hatherton.

Rowley as a first name might refer to:

• Sir Henry Rowley Bishop
• Rowley Birkin QC, fictional character

Literature:

• Rowley's History of England, authorship is a pseudonym for Thomas Chatterton
• Old Rowley by Dennis Wheatley
• Rowleian in literature means a Rowley-authored style or character:
  • style of Thomas Chatterton under pseudonym of Thomas Rowley
  • style of William Rowley, i.e in Spanish Gypsy and Birth of Merlin

Medicine:

• Rowley-Rosenberg syndrome

Military

• (DE-95) Rowley, US destroyer escort mission in WW2