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] ). It can also be an anglicised version of the Irish Eoghan. 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
- Sir Isambard Owen (1850–1927), British physician and university academic
- 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
- Peter Owen, makeup artist
- 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, several people
- 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 M. Begley (1906–1981), New York politician
- 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 And Then There Were None
- 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