Owen
Owen is an anglicized Welsh personal name, cognate with Eugene, as well as with Irish Eoin ("John") and Eoghan and Owain in the Welsh language. Well-known Owens (people and places etc., personal names and surnames) include the following:
People
Surname
- Clive Owen (born 1964), English actor
- Evelyn Owen (1915 – 1949), designer of the Owen Sub Machine Gun
- Greg Owen (born 1972), English golfer
- John Owen (1849-1921), England footballer
- John Owen (1787–1841), Governor of North Carolina
- Mark Owen (born 1972) , musician and member of Take That
- Michael Owen (born 1979), English footballer
- 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
- Richard Owen (1804-1892), biologist
- Robert Owen (1771–1858), a Welsh social reformer, considered the "Father" of the cooperative movement
- Scott Owen (born 1975), double bass player for Australian rock band The Living End
- Susan Owen, English orthodontic technician and Orthodontic Technicians Association council member
- Syd Owen (1927-1999), England footballer
- Wilfred Owen (1893 – 1918), World War I poet
Given name
- Owen ‘Alik Shahadah (b. 1973), A filmmaker and African Academic
- Owen Bradley(1915-1998), American country music producer
- Owain Glyndŵr (c. 1359 – c. 1416), Welsh patriot, last Welsh Prince of Wales
- Owen Hargreaves (born 1981), Canadian-born English footballer
- Owen Hart (1965 – 1999), Canadian professional wrestler
- Owen Nolan (born 1972), hockey player in the NHL.
- Owen Schmitt (born 1985), American football player
- Owen Tudor (c. 1400 – 1461), ancestor of the Tudor dynasty
- Owen Wilson (born 1968), American actor
- Fictional
- Owen Harper, protagonist in the television series Torchwood.
- Owen Paris, character in the fictional Star Trek universe
Places and other uses
- Owen, South Australia, a small town in South Australia
- Owen, Germany, a town in Baden-Württemberg
- Owen submachine gun, an Australian gun
- Owen (band), an indie rock band from Chicago
- Owain mab Urien (Ywain)'s name is sometimes spelled Owen
- USS Owen, a Fletcher-class destroyer that took part in World War II and Vietnam
- Owen (hippopotamus) a young hippopotamus orphaned by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
- A Prayer for Owen Meany is a 1989 novel by American writer John Irving
- Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management Graduate Business School of Vanderbilt University
See also
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