Rowntree

Rowntree may refer to:

Companies

• Rowntree's, the confectionery company owned in the 19th & 20th centuries in York by members of the Rowntree family
• Rowntree trusts
  • Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
  • Joseph Rowntree Foundation

People named Rowntree

• Members of the family that owned the Rowntree's confectionery company close relatives. Family tree
  • Arnold Stephenson Rowntree (1872-1951), Liberal MP for York
  • Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree (1871–1954), sociologist and businessman, also known as Seebohm Rowntree
  • Henry Isaac Rowntree (1837–1883), founder of the business
  • John Stephenson Rowntree (1834–1907)
  • John Wilhelm Rowntree (1868–1905), chocolate manufacturer and religious activist
  • Joseph Rowntree (educationist) (1801–1859), education leader
  • Joseph Rowntree (philanthropist) (1836–1925), cocoa and chocolate manufacturer and philanthropist
  • Joshua Rowntree (1844–1915), social reformer
  • Michael Rowntree (1919–2007), journalist and philanthropist
• other apparently unrelated people named Rowntree:
  • Catriona Rowntree (born 1971), Australian television personality
  • Dave Rowntree (born 1964), British musician
  • Fred Rowntree (1860-1927), Scottish architect
  • Gil Rowntree (born 1934), Canadian racehorse trainer and owner
  • Graham Rowntree (born 1971), English rugby union player
  • Joseph Rowntree (Canadian) pioneer of Thistletown, miller on the banks of the Humber River in 1843
  • Kenneth Rowntree (1915-1997), British artist
  • Leslie Rowntree (1914-1975), Canadian political figure
  • Mark Rowntree (born c. 1956), British spree killer
  • Norman Rowntree (1912–1991), British civil engineer
  • Richard Rowntree (1884-1968), English-born New Zealand cricketer
  • Lester Gertrude Ellen Rowntree (1879-1979), American botanist and horticulturist

Other things and places called "Rowntree"

• Rowntree Park, a 20-acre (8.1 ha) park in York