Owen (name)
Owen is an anglicized variant of the Welsh name Owain. Owen is a traditional Welsh surname in the United Kingdom. Historically in Welsh Owen is spelt Owain and the Irish name is spelt Eóghan/Eoin. Etymologists consider it to be cognate with Eugene meaning noble-born.[1] The name 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
- 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
- Edmund Owen (1847–1915), English surgeon
- 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 submachine 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
- Maria Tallant Owen (1825–1913), American botanist
- Mark Owen (born 1972), English musician and member of Take That
- May Owen (1892–1988), Texas physician
- 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
- 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, a founder 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
- Stephen W. Owen, American missionary
- Susan Owen, English orthodontic technician
- 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), Irish professional football player and current head coach of Houston Dynamo
- 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), 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
Fictional
- Owen Hunt, character in Grey's Anatomy
- Owen Harper, protagonist in the television series Torchwood
- Owen Lars, character in the Star Wars universe, step-uncle of Luke Skywalker
- Owen Milligan, character in the Degrassi series
- Owen Paris, character in the Star Trek universe
- Owen Meany, title character in John Irving's novel A Prayer For Owen Meany
Toponyms
Canada
Quebec
- Anse Owen, Bonne-Espérance, Quebec (Municipality), MRC Gulf of Saint Lawrence, administrative region of Côte-Nord. Geographical data: 51° 21' 31"; 57° 48' 04"
- Owen Lake, Lac-Nilgaut, Quebec (unorganized territory), Pontiac, Outaouais. Geographical data: 46° 14' 47"; 76° 30' 50"
- Owen Lake, La Tuque, Quebec (city), Mauricie. Geographical data: 47° 26' 03"; 72° 24' 46"
- Owen Lake, La Tuque, Quebec (city), Mauricie. Geographical data: 47° 36' 27"; 73° 44' 30"
- Owen River, Degelis Quebec (city), Temiscouata Regional County Municipality, administrative region of Bas-Saint-Laurent. Coordonnées: 47° 37' 56"; 68° 30' 12"
- Zec Owen (controlled harvesting zone), Lejeune, Quebec (Municipality), Temiscouata Regional County Municipality, administrative region of Bas-Saint-Laurent. Geographical data: 47° 41' 00"; 68° 29' 00"
- Forêt rare de la Rivière-Owen (En: "Rare Forest of River Owen"), exceptional forest ecosystem, Dégelis, Quebec (City), MRC Temiscouata Regional County Municipality, administrative region of Bas-Saint-Laurent. Geographical data: 47° 36' 30"; 68° 29' 15"
Ontario
- Owen Sound, Canadian city in Western Ontario, located on an island of Georgian Bay bearing the same name.
See also
References
- ↑ Morgan, T. J. and Morgan, Prys, Welsh Surnames, University of Wales, 1985, "Owain (Owen, Bowen, Ednowain)". According to T. J. Morgan in Welsh Surnames (pp. 172–173) the name is a derivation of the Latin "Eugenis" > [Old Welsh] Ou(u)ein, Eug(u)ein..."variously written in [Middle Welsh] as Ewein, Owein, Ywein. LL gives the names Euguen, Iguein, Yuein, Ouein. The corresponding form in Irish is Eoghan." Morgan notes that there are less likely alternative explanations and agrees with Dr. Rachel Bromwich that Welsh "Owein" "is normally Latinized as Eugenius", and both the Welsh and Irish forms are Latin derivatives. Additionally, another latinized variations of the name Owain is "Audoenus" in certain parish registers.
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