Owen
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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:
[edit] People
- Owen Alik Shahadah, A filmmaker and African Academic
- Owain Glyndŵr, Welsh patriot
- Owen Hargreaves, Canadian-born English footballer
- Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler
- Owen Paris, character in the fictional Star Trek universe
- Owen Tudor, ancestor of the Tudor dynasty
- Owen Wilson, American actor
- Owen Bradley, American country music producer
- Clive Owen, English actor
- Evelyn Owen, designer of the Owen Sub Machine Gun.
- Greg Owen, English golfer
- Mark Owen, musician and member of Take That
- Michael Owen, English footballer
- Nora Owen, Irish politician
- Richard Owen (1804-1892), biologist
- Robert Owen (1771–1858), a Welsh social reformer, considered the "Father" of the cooperative movement
- Priscilla Owen, Judge on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, who was filibustered in the Senate
- Scott Owen, double bass player for Australian rock band The Living End
- Wilfred Owen, World War I poet
[edit] Places and other uses
- Owen, South Australia, a small town in South Australia
- Owen, Germany, a town in Baden-Württemberg
- Owen machine carbine, an Australian submachine 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