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.

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 (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
 * 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
 * Richard M. Owens (1876–1932), birth name of Dicky Owen, Welsh international rugby 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
 * 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, 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