Bowers (surname)

The surname Bowers is of Saxon origin, derived from the word 'bur' meaning 'a chamber; a cottage; a shady recess'. Adding 'er' to the end of topographical terms was common in south east England. An alternative origin is "a maker of bows".

Persons

 * Barney Bowers (born 1959), British football player
 * Bryan Bowers (born 1940), American autoharp player
 * Brock Bowers (born 2002), American football player
 * Cedrick Bowers (born 1978), American baseball player
 * Charles Bowers (1889–1946), American cartoonist and comedian
 * Charles P. Bowers (1929–2015), American baseball player, coach, and scout
 * Chris Bowers (born 1974), American political blogger
 * Claude Bowers (1878–1958), American politician
 * DaQuan Bowers (born 1990), American football player
 * Dane Bowers (born 1979), British pop singer, songwriter and producer
 * David Bowers (director), English animator and film director
 * David A. Bowers (born 1952), the mayor of Roanoke, Virginia
 * David Frederick Bowers (1906–1945), American philosopher
 * Drew Bowers (1886–1985), American politician
 * Eaton J. Bowers (1865–1939), American politician
 * Eden Bowers, Dominican politician, Speaker of the House of Assembly
 * Edgar Bowers (1924–2000), American poet
 * Edward Charles Bowers (1845–1929), Canadian politician
 * Eilley Bowers (1826–1903), American miner, socialite and fortune-teller
 * Elaine Bowers (born 1963), American politician
 * Elizabeth Crocker Bowers (1830–1895), American actress
 * Faubion Bowers (1917–1999), American author and orientalist
 * Fredson Bowers (1905–1991), American bibliographer and scholar
 * Geoffrey Bowers (1954–1987), American lawyer, plaintiff in early AIDS discrimination case
 * George Bowers (filmmaker) (1944–2012), American film director and editor
 * George Hull Bowers (1794–1872), British cleric
 * George M. Bowers (1863–1925), American politician
 * Georgina Bowers (1836–1912), British artist
 * Henry Francis Bowers (1837–1911), American anti-Catholic activist
 * Henry Monroe Bowers (1949–2023) American retiree
 * Henry Robertson Bowers (1883–1912), British seaman and Antarctic explorer
 * Jack Bowers (1908–1970), British football player
 * Jack E. Bowers (1925–2007), American politician and lawyer
 * Jane Bowers (1921–2000), American folk singer and songwriter
 * John Bowers (actor) (1885–1936), American stage and silent film actor
 * John Bowers (bishop) (1854–1926), British Anglican bishop
 * John Bowers (diplomat) (1912–2004), British diplomat
 * John Bowers (loudspeaker builder) (1923–1987), British telecommunications engineer
 * John Bowers (writer) (born 1928), American writer
 * John C. Bowers (1811–1873), African American entrepreneur, organist, abolitionist
 * John M. Bowers (1772–1846), American politician
 * Joseph Bowers (1896–1936), American escapee from Alcatraz prison
 * Joseph Oliver Bowers (1910–2012), Dominican Catholic bishop
 * Kathryn I. Bowers (1943–2015), American politician
 * Kent Bowers (died 1985), Belizean murderer
 * Lally Bowers (1917–1984), British actress
 * Laurence Bowers (born 1990), American basketball player
 * Lee Bowers (1925–1966), witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy
 * Lloyd Wheaton Bowers (1859–1910), American Solicitor General
 * M. F. Bowers, sheriff of El Paso County, Colorado, 1894–1896
 * Marci Bowers (born 1958), American gynecologist
 * Marianne Bowers, Tucson, Arizona Missing Person since 1984
 * Marianne Wood Bowers (born 1951), American retiree
 * Mike Bowers (born 1942), American lawyer, Attorney General of Georgia
 * Nick Bowers (born 1996), American football player
 * Peter M. Bowers (1918–2003), American aviation journalist
 * Q. David Bowers (born 1938), American numismatist
 * Thomas Bowers (singer) (c. 1826 – 1885), American concert singer
 * William W. Bowers (1834–1917), American politician
 * R. J. Bowers (born 1974), professional American football player
 * Robert Bowers (disambiguation), several people
 * Roni Bowers (died 2001), American Christian missionary
 * Ross Bowers (disambiguation)
 * Sam Bowers (gridiron football) (born 1957), American football player
 * Samuel Bowers (1924–2006), American leader of the Ku Klux Klan
 * Sean Bowers (born 1968), American soccer player
 * Shane Bowers (disambiguation), several people
 * Stephen Bowers, South Australian ceramicist and co-creator of the Yerrakartarta in Adelaide
 * Stephen C. Bowers, California politician during the American Civil War
 * Stew Bowers (1915–2005), American baseball player
 * Timmy Bowers (born 1982), American basketball player
 * Tony Bowers (born 1952), British pop musician
 * William Bowers (1916–1987), American screenwriter
 * Alex Bowers (born 1994), American physician

Fictional

 * Henry Bowers, an antagonist of Stephen King's IT