Cowell (surname)
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Cowell is a surname with multiple origins.
Origin of the name
Cowell is a surname of English origin.[1] It is a habitational name from several places in the counties of Lancashire and Gloucestershire called Cowhill, composed the Old English cu (cow) + hyll (hill).[1] In some instances the surname Cowell may also be an Americanized form of the Polish, Jewish and Sorbian name Kowal.[1]
People with the surname
- Brady Cowell (1899–1989) – American college sports coach
- Brendan Cowell (born 1976) - Australian actor, screenwriter and director
- Cressida Cowell (born 1966) - English children's author, known for novel How to Train Your Dragon
- Edward Byles Cowell (1826–1903) - professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge University
- Elizabeth Cowell - British BBC television service presenter
- Frank Cowell - professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science
- Harry Cowell, record producer
- Henry Cowell (1897–1965) - American composer
- Several people named John Cowell:
- John Cowell - Irish World War I flying ace
- John Cowell (1554–1611) - English jurist
- John F. Cowell (1852–1915) American botanist
- John G. Cowell (1785–1814) - American Navy officer in the War of 1812
- Philip Herbert Cowell (1870–1949) - British astronomer
- Roberta Cowell (born 1918) - British racing driver and World War 2 fighter pilot; and the first known British transsexual woman to undergo sex reassignment surgery
- Roland Cowell American college sports coach
- Two people named Simon Cowell:
- Simon Cowell (born 1959) - British record producer and impresario, known for Britain's Got Talent and other shows
- Simon Cowell - British television presenter, host of Wildlife SOS
- Stanley Cowell (born 1941) - American jazz pianist and founder of the Strata-East Records label
- Ted Bundy - American serial killer, rapist and necrophile, born Theodore Robert Cowell
See also
- Cowell (disambiguation), other things named Cowell
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Cowell Name Meaning and History". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 13 February 2010.
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