Owens (surname)

Owens is a surname representing two separate Celtic ethnicities: the Welsh from ab Owain meaning "son of Owen" (Owen meaning 'noble') with English patronymic-s, and the Irish by the Gaelic surname Mac Eoghain.^[1]

This is a list of notable people born with the last name Owens and people who married into the Owens family.

• Bill Owens (baseball) (1901–1999), African-American Negro League baseball player
• Bill Owens (Colorado politician) (born 1950), 40th Governor of Colorado
• Bill Owens (Massachusetts politician) (1937–2022), African-American Massachusetts businessman and politician
• Bill Owens (New York politician) (born 1949), Representative for New York
• Bill Owens (photographer), American author of Suburbia
• Billy Owens (born 1969), American basketball player
• Billy Owens (American football) (born 1965), American football player
• Bob Owens (businessman) (1921–1999), New Zealand businessman and mayor
• Bob Owens (born c. 1935), American football coach
• Bob Owens (American football, born 1946), American football coach
• Brick Owens (1885–1949), American baseball umpire
• Brig Owens (1943–2022), American football player
• Buck Owens (1929–2006), American country music singer
• Candace Owens (born 1990), African-American political commentator
• Casey Owens (c. 1981–2014), United States Marine
• Casey Owens (basketball), American professional basketball coach
• Craig Owens, American musician
• Craig Owens (author), American historian, author, fine art photographer, and television personality
• Craig Owens (critic) (1950–1990), American post-modernist art critic, gay activist and feminist
• Commodore Perry Owens (1852–1919), American lawman and gunfighter of the Old West
• Queen Latifah (born Dana Elaine Owens in 1970), African-American rapper/singer and actress
• Darryl Owens (1937–2022), African-American politician
• Delia Owens (born 1949), American author and zoologist
• Gary Owens (1936–2015), American radio and TV announcer
• Gervarrius Owens (born 1999), American football player
• Ginny Owens (born 1975), American contemporary Christian music and pop singer/songwriter, author and blogger
• Graeme Owens (born 1988), English footballer
• Greg Owens (born 1981), Australian football player
• Hailey Owens (2003–2014), American murder victim
• Isaac Owens, English footballer
• Isaiah "Ikey" Owens (1974–2014), African-American keyboardist formerly of The Mars Volta
• Jack Owens (singer-songwriter), American singer/songwriter
• Jacob Owens (born 1984), American af2 defensive lineman
• Jay Owens (musician) (1947–2005), African-American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
• Jerry Owens (born 1981), American baseball player
• Jesse Owens (1913–1980), American Olympic athlete

• John Owens (merchant) (1790–1846), English merchant

• John Owens (Australian politician) (1809–1866), doctor and politician in Victoria, Australia

• John E. Owens (1824–1886), English-American comedian

• John G. Owens (1865–1893), American archaeologist

• John W. Owens (1884–1968), editorial writer on the Baltimore Sun

• John Reginald Owens (1890–1944), English footballer also known as Reg Owens

• John Sidney Owens (1893–1965), American pursuit pilot and World War I flying ace

• John Owens (Gaelic footballer) (born 1966), Irish Gaelic footballer

• John B. Owens (born 1971), American lawyer and federal appellate judge

• Johnny Owens (born 1977), Canadian drummer

• John Owens (American football) (born 1980), American football tight end
• Jonathan Owens (born 1995), American football player and husband of American gymnast, Simone Biles
• Joseph Owens (Jesuit), priest, Caribbean social worker and author
• Joseph Owens (Redemptorist) (1908–2005), Canadian priest and scholar in medieval philosophy
• Josh Owens (born 1988), American basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
• Julie Owens (born 1958), Australian politician
• Keith Owens (born 1969), American basketball player
• Ken Owens (born 1987), Welsh rugby union player
• Ken Owens (basketball) (born 1959), American basketball player and coach
• Lamar S. Owens Jr., American coach and United States Naval Academy quarterback
• Lilliana Owens (1898–1992), American nun, historian and writer
• Lynne Owens (born 1969), British law enforcement officer
• Mary Ann Aspinwall Owens (1928–2005), philatelist of New York
• Mathew Owens (born 1977), Welsh space physicist
• Michael Owens (politician), African-American politician
• Nancy Fulda (née Owens), American science fiction writer, editor, and computer scientist
• Natasha Owens (born 1976), American Christian musician
• Nigel Owens (born 1971), Welsh international rugby referee
• O'dell Owens (1947–2022), African-American physician
• Pat Owens (born 1941), mayor of Grand Forks, North Dakota from 1996 to 2000
• Patricia Owens (1925–2000), Canadian-born actress in Hollywood films
• Randy Owens (1959–2015), American basketball player
• Rick Owens (born 1962), American fashion designer
• Robert Owens (composer) (1925–2017), African-American composer, pianist, and actor
• Robert Owens (musician) (born 1961), vocalist on Chicago house records in the 1980s
• Robert A. Owens (1920–1942), United States marine hero of the World War II landing at Bougainville; posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor
• Robert Bowie Owens (1870–1940), American electric engineer who discovered alpha rays
• Robert G. Owens Jr. (1917–2007), United States marine general
• Robyn Owens, Australian applied mathematician and computer scientist
• Sam Owens, American musician and artist
• Samuel Owens (1856–1921), American politician
• Sandra Tayler (née Owens) (born 1973), American short story and children's book writer and blogger
• Steve Owens (American football) (born 1947), American football player and winner of the Heisman Trophy
• Steve Owens (baseball) (born 1965), American college baseball coach
• Susan Owens (1949-2025), associate justice of the Washington Supreme Court
• Susie Owens (born 1956), American model and perfumer
• Susan Owens (academic) (born 1954), British professor of Environment and Policy
• Susan O. Hickey (née Owens) (born 1955), Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas
• Terrell Owens (born 1973), American football player
• Tim "Ripper" Owens (born 1967), American heavy metal singer
• Tinker Owens (born 1954), American football player
• Tyler Owens (born 2001), American football player
• William Owens (admiral) (born 1940), American naval commander, former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, also former CEO of Nortel
• William Owens (Canadian politician) (1840–1917), Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Argenteuil and Senator for Inkerman, Quebec
• William Owens (Navy SEAL) (1980–2017), United States Navy SEALs senior chief petty officer
• William A. Owens (1905–1990), American author
• William C. Owens Jr. (born 1947), Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly
• William Claiborne Owens (1849–1925), United States House of Representatives for Kentucky

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• Bown
• Bowne
• Bownes
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