Owens (surname)
Owens is a surname representing two separate Celtic ethnicities, the Welsh 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 (born 1950), 40th Governor of Colorado
- Bill Owens (baseball) (1901-1999), African-American negro league baseball player
- Bill Owens (Massachusetts politician) (born 1937), African-American Massachusetts businessman and politician
- Bill Owens (New York) (born 1949), United States House of Representatives for New York
- Bill Owens (photographer), American author of Suburbia
- Billy Owens (American football) (born 1965), American football player
- Billy Owens (born 1969), African-American basketball 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 (born 1943), American football player
- Buck Owens (1929–2006), American country music singer
- Candace Owens (born 1990), African-American political commentator
- Craig Owens, American musician
- Craig Owens (critic), gay activist, post-modernist art critic and feminist
- Queen Latifah (born Dana Elaine Owens in 1970), African-American rapper/singer and actress
- Gary Owens (1936–2015), American radio and TV announcer
- Ginny Owens (born 1975), American contemporary Christian music and pop singer/songwriter, author and blogger
- Graeme Owens (born 1988), an 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, American singer/songwriter
- Jacob Owens (born 1984), American af2 defensive lineman
- Jerry Owens (born 1981), African-American baseball player
- Jesse Owens (1913–1980), African-American Olympic Games athlete
- 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), African-American basketball player
- 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., African-American coach and United States Naval Academy quarterback
- Lynne Owens (born 1969), British law enforcement officer
- Mary Ann Aspinwall Owens (1928–2005), philatelist of New York
- Nancy Fulda (née Owens), American science fiction writer, editor, and computer scientist
- Nigel Owens (born 1971), Welsh international rugby referee
- Pat Owens, former mayor of Grand Forks, North Dakota
- Patricia Owens (actress) (1925–2000), Canadian-born actress in Hollywood films
- Randy Owens (1959–2015), American basketball player
- Richard M. Owens (1876–1932), birth name of Dicky Owen, Welsh international rugby player
- Rick Owens (born 1962), American fashion designer
- Robert Bowie Owens (1870–1940), American electric engineer who discovered alpha rays
- Robert A. Owens (1920–1942), United States marine hero of the World War II landing at Bougainville; posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor
- Robert Owens (musician) (born 1961), vocalist on Chicago house records in the 1980s
- Robert Owens (composer) (1925–2017), African-American composer, pianist, and actor
- Robert M. Owens (born 1973), Ohio lawyer and candidate for Ohio Attorney General
- 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
- Terrell Owens (born 1973), African-American football player
- Tim "Ripper" Owens (born 1967), American heavy metal singer
- Tinker Owens (born 1954), American football player
- William Claiborne Owens (1849-1925) United States House of Representatives for Kentucky
- William Owens (Canadian politician) (1840-1917) , Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Argenteuil and Senator for Inkerman, Quebec
- William A. Owens (1905-1990), American author
- William Owens (admiral) (born 1940), former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, also former CEO of Nortel
- William C. Owens Jr. (born 1947), Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly
- William Owens (Navy SEAL) (1980-2017) United States Navy SEALs senior chief petty officer
- William Owens, former chief financial officer of HealthSouth Corporation
See also
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