Owen (name)

Owen is an anglicized variant of the Welsh name Owain, and may appear as both a personal name and as a surname (with or without the s as in Owens [son of Owen] ). Notable people with the surname or first name of Owen include:

Surname

• Bennie Owen (1875–1970), American athlete and coach
• Bill Owen (actor) (1914–1999), English actor, father of Tom Owen
• Bill Owen (baseball), American college baseball coach
• Bradley Owen (born 1950), American politician
• Cliff Owen (1919–1993), British TV and film director
• Clive Owen (born 1964), English actor
• Daniel Owen (1836–1895), Welsh novelist
• Dicky Owen (1876–1932), Welsh international rugby union player
• Don Owen (1930-2012), Louisiana television anchorman and politician
• Elias Owen (Welsh cleric) (1833–1899), Welsh cleric and antiquary
• Elias Owen (footballer) (1863–1888), Welsh international footballer
• Evelyn Owen (1915–1949), Australian designer of the Owen Sub-Machine Gun
• Gareth Owen (footballer born 1971), Welsh footballer
• Gareth Owen (footballer born 1982), Welsh footballer
• Gilberto Owen (1904–1952), Mexican poet
• Gordon Owen (born 1959), English footballer
• Greg Owen (born 1972), English golfer
• Gwilym Ellis Lane Owen (1922–1982), Welsh philosopher
• Henry Owen (1716–1795), Welsh theologian
• Huw Parri Owen (1926–1996), Welsh theologian, writer and academic
• Ian Owen (born 1948), former Australian rules footballer
• Jimmy Owen (1864–??), English footballer
• John Owen, several people, including:
  • John Robert Blayney Owen (1849–1921), English footballer
  • John Owen (North Carolina politician) (1787–1841), Governor of North Carolina
  • John Owen (theologian) (1616–1683), English Nonconformist theologian
  • Johnny Owen, Welsh boxer
• Kai Owen (born 1975), Welsh actor
• Lloyd Owen (born 1966), British actor
• Malcolm Owen (1955–1980), lead singer of The Ruts
• Mark Owen (born 1972), English musician and member of Take That
• Michael Owen (born 1979), English footballer
• Michael Owen (rugby player) (born 1980), Welsh rugby player
• Nick Owen (born 1947), English television presenter and newsreader
• 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
• Randy Owen (born 1949), American country musician
• Ray Owen (1941–2006), English rugby league footballer
• Richard Owen (1804–1892), English biologist
• Robert Owen (1771–1858), a Welsh social reformer, considered the "Father" of the cooperative movement
• Roger Owen (born 1935), British historian
• Russell Owen((1889–1952), American journalist
• Ruth Bryan Owen (1885–1954), member of Congress and U.S. ambassador
• Scott Owen (born 1975), double bass player for Australian rock band The Living End
• Sid Owen (born 1972), English actor
• Siobhan Owen (born 1993), Australian harpist
• Susan Owen, English orthodontic technician and Orthodontic Technicians Association council member
• Syd Owen (1927–1999), English footballer
• Tom Owen (actor) (born 1949), English actor; son of Bill Owen
• Walter C. Owen (1868–1934), American judge
• Wilfred Owen (1893–1918), British World War I poet
• William Fitzwilliam Owen (1774–1857), British naval officer, hydrographer and explorer.
• William Owen (judge) (1899–1972), Australian judge
• Several Owen baronetcies

First name

• Owen 'Alik Shahadah (born 1973), filmmaker and African academic
• Owen Aspinall (1927–1997), 45th Governor of American Samoa
• Owen Astrachan (born 1956), Duke University computer scientist
• Owen Bradley (1915–1998), American country music producer
• Owen Coyle (born 1966), Scottish-born Irish professional football player and current manager of Bolton Wanderers FC
• Owen Daniels (born 1982), American professional football player
• Owen Davis (1874–1956), Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
• Owen Garvan (born 1988), Irish footballer
• Owen Hargreaves (born 1981), Canadian-born English footballer
• Owen Hart (1965–1999), Canadian professional wrestler
• Owen I of Strathclyde, King of Strathclyde
• Owen Kelly (born 1977), Australian race car driver
• Owen Lovejoy (born 1943), American paleoanthropologist and anatomist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Owen Nolan (born 1972), Northern Irish hockey player in the NHL
• Owen Pallett (born 1979), Canadian songwriter and winner of the inaugural Polaris Music Prize
• Owen J. Roberts (1875-1955) US Supreme Court justice
• Owen Schmitt (born 1985), American football player
• Owen Tudor (c. 1400–1461), Welsh ancestor of the Tudor dynasty
• Owen Von Richter (born 1975), Canadian medley swimmer
• Owen Walter (born 1979), Canadian ice hockey defenceman
• Owen Wilson (born 1968), American actor
• Owen Wister (1860–1938), American author

Fictional

• Owen Hunt, character in Grey's Anatomy
• Owen Harper, protagonist in the television series Torchwood
• Owen Lars, character in the Star Wars universe, "uncle" of Luke Skywalker
• Owen Lift, played by Danny DeVito, one of the main characters in the 1987 movie Throw Momma from the Train
• Owen Milligan, character in the Degrassi series
• Owen Paris, character in the Star Trek universe
• Owen, character of Total Drama Island
• Owen U.N., pseudonym of the assassin character in Agatha Christie's Ten Little Niggers
• Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law, American legal television drama, and its title character
• Owen Meany, title character in John Irving's novel A Prayer For Owen Meany
• Owen Slater, character on Boardwalk Empire

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