Bowden
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Places

Australia:
  • Bowden Island
    Bowden Island
    Bowden Island is one of the southern islands of the Family Islands group and located approximately 20 km East of Tully Heads.The Aboriginal name for this island is Budg-Joo Island....

    , one of the Family Islands in Queensland, Australia
  • Bowden, South Australia
    Bowden, South Australia
    Bowden is an inner northern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is located in the City of Charles Sturt.-History:The 'Village of Bowden' was established in 1839 by James Hurtle Fisher, who named it after his native village in Northamptonshire....

    , a northwestern suburb of Adelaide, Australia
    • Bowden railway station

Canada:
  • Bowden, Alberta
    Bowden, Alberta
    Bowden is a town in central Alberta, Canada. It is located in Red Deer County, south of Red Deer, on the Queen Elizabeth II Highway.- Geography :Nearby communities are Innisfail , James River Bridge , Huxley and Olds ....

    , a town in central Alberta, Canada

England:
  • Great Bowden
    Great Bowden
    Great Bowden is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. It is north-east of and a suburb of Market Harborough, although originally the parish of Great Bowden included Harborough. The population is around 1,000, with approximately 50% of that consisting of...

    , a village in Leicestershire, England
  • Little Bowden
    Little Bowden
    Little Bowden is an area of Market Harborough in Leicestershire, England. As a village it was formerly part of Northamptonshire.The River Jordan runs through part of the area.-Places of interest:...

    , conurbation of Market Harborough in Leicestershire, England
  • Bowden, Dorset
    Bowden, Dorset
    Bowden is a village in Dorset, England....

    , a village in Dorset, England
  • Bowden, Devon
    Bowden, Devon
    Bowden is a village in Devon, England....

    , a village in Devon, England

Scotland:
  • Bowden, Scottish Borders
    Bowden, Scottish Borders
    Bowden is a village in the Roxburghshire area of Scottish Borders, situated south of Melrose, west of Newtown St Boswells and tucked in the shadow of the Eildon Hills, Scotland.- History :...

    , a village in Roxburghshire, Scotland

United States:
  • Bowden, West Virginia
    Bowden, West Virginia
    Bowden is an unincorporated census-designated place in Randolph County, West Virginia, USA. Bowden is located on U.S. Route 33 east of Elkins. Bowden has a post office with ZIP code 26254. According to the 2010 Census, there were nine people residing at this location....

    , USA

People with the surname Bowden

  • Adam Bowden
    Adam Bowden
    Adam Bowden is a British international triathlete and former international runner who specialized in the 3000 metres steeplechase.-Early Life and Education:...

     (born 1982), British international track athlete.
  • Andrew Bowden
    Andrew Bowden
    Sir Andrew Bowden , is a British Conservative Party politician.Bowden was educated at Ardingly College and subsequently became a sales executive. He served as a councillor on Wandsworth Borough Council 1956-61 and national chairman of Young Conservatives 1960-61...

     (born 1930), British Conservative politician.
  • B. V. Bowden
    B. V. Bowden
    Bertram Vivian Bowden, Baron Bowden was an English scientist and educationist, particularly associated with the development of UMIST as a successful university.-Life:...

     (1910 - 1989), English scientist and educationist.
  • Barry Bowden (born 1984), Minor League Baseball pitcher
  • Billy Bowden
    Billy Bowden
    Brent Fraser "Billy" Bowden is an international cricket umpire from New Zealand. He was a player until he began to suffer from rheumatoid arthritis and took up umpiring...

     (born 1963), international cricket umpire from New Zealand.
  • A notable American football coaching family:
    • Bobby Bowden
      Bobby Bowden
      Robert Cleckler "Bobby" Bowden is a retired college football coach. He coached the Florida State Seminoles football team from the 1976 to 2009 seasons...

       (born 1929), retired coach of several college programs, most notably Florida State University
    • Tommy Bowden
      Tommy Bowden
      Tommy Bowden is an American football coach who served as the head coach at Clemson University from 1999 until October 13, 2008...

       (born 1954), son of Bobby; former coach at several programs, most recently Clemson University
    • Terry Bowden
      Terry Bowden
      Terry Bowden is an American football coach at the University of North Alabama. Bowden was previously the head coach at Salem University , Samford University , and Auburn University . Bowden is the son of former Florida State University head football coach Bobby Bowden...

       (born 1956), son of Bobby; motivational speaker, college football analyst and current University of North Alabama
      University of North Alabama
      The University of North Alabama is a coeducational university located in Florence, Alabama, and the state's oldest four-year public university....

       coach
    • Jeff Bowden
      Jeff Bowden
      Jeff Bowden is an American college football coach at the University of North Alabama. He currently serves as receivers coach on his brother Terry's staff. Before that he served as the offensive coordinator for the Florida State Seminoles under his father and head coach Bobby Bowden...

       (born c. 1961), son of Bobby; assistant at several programs, currently at North Alabama under Terry
  • Charles Bowden
    Charles Bowden
    Charles Bowden is an American non-fiction author, journalist, and essayist based in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He is a former writer for the Tucson Citizen and often writes about the American Southwest...

     (born 1945), American author, journalist, and essayist
  • Dan Bowden
    Dan Bowden
    Dan Bowden is a musician and music educator. He plays guitar, electric slide guitar and bottleneck guitar. He is a guitar professor at the Berklee College of Music, an online course developer, and instructor for and has published guitar transcription and instructional books for Mel Bay Publications...

    , American musician (Stingy Brimm)
  • Daniel Bowden
    Daniel Bowden
    Daniel Bowden is a New Zealand Rugby Union player that plays rugby for Aviva Premiership side London Irish.-Highlanders:Bowden played his first match for the Highlanders on Friday 15 February 2008 when he started against the Reds in Brisbane, he kicked one penalty for the match...

     (born 1986), New Zealand rugby union player
  • Dominic Bowden
    Dominic Bowden
    Dominic Joseph Bowden . is a New Zealand television personality, host, radio and voice actor. He is best known as the host of the reality series New Zealand Idol. Bowden was also the host of TVNZs game shows Are You Smarter than a Ten Year Old? and Dare to Win, which has a similar format to Minute...

     (born 1977), New Zealand television presenter
  • Eric Bowden
    Eric Bowden
    Eric Kendall Bowden was an Australian solicitor and politician.-Early life:The second son of John and Sarah Bowden, he was born in Parramatta, New South Wales, where his family had resided for four generations...

     (1871 – 1931), Australian solicitor and politician
  • Francis C. Bowden
    Francis C. Bowden
    Francis C. Bowden was Mayor of Anchorage, Alaska from 1946 to 1948.-Biography:Francis C. Bowden was born on December 26, 1903 in Roslyn, Washington. He moved to Alaska in 1928 to work for the Curry Hotel on the Alaska Railroad...

     (1903-1972), American pharmacist, mayor of Anchorage, Alaska 1946-1948
  • Sir Frank Bowden, 1st Baronet (1848 – 1921), founder of the Raleigh Bicycle Company and the inventor of the Bowden cable
  • Sir Harold Bowden, Bart, C.B.E., 2nd Baronet, President of the British Cycle and Motor-Cycle Manufacturers and Trader Union and cited in the Golden Book of Cycling
    Golden Book of Cycling
    The Golden Book of Cycling was created in 1932 by Cycling, a British cycling magazine,to celebrate "the Sport and Pastime of Cycling by recording the outstanding rides, deeds and accomplishments of cyclists, officials and administrators." There exists only a single copy of this compendium of...

  • Gerald Bowden
    Gerald Bowden
    Gerald Francis Bowden , was British Conservative MP for Dulwich from 1983 until 1992. He was succeeded by Tessa Jowell.Gerald Bowden also represented Dulwich on the Greater London Council 1977-81...

     (born 1935), British Conservative politician
  • Herbert Bowden
    Herbert Bowden
    Herbert William Bowden, Baron Aylestone, CH CBE PC was a British Labour politician.Born in Cardiff, Wales, Bowden was a councillor on Leicester City Council 1938–45 and president of Leicester Labour Party in 1938. He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II...

     (1905 – 1994), British Labour politician
  • Herbert Bowden (VFL/AFL)
    Herbert Bowden (VFL/AFL)
    Herbert H. Bowden was an Australian rules footballer.He only played 1 senior year of VFL Football for University as a forward....

     (born 1888), Australian rules footballer.
  • Jack Bowden
    Jack Bowden
    Jack Bowden was an Irish cricketer and field hockey player. He was born and died in County Antrim.-Cricket:...

      (1916 – 1988), Irish cricketer and field hockey player
  • James Bowden (footballer)
    James Bowden (footballer)
    James William Bowden was an English footballer who played at centre-half for various clubs in the 1900s.-Football career:...

     (1880 – 1951), English footballer
  • Jim Bowden
    Jim Bowden
    -Early life and career:Bowden was born in Boston, MA and raised in Weston, Massachusetts and Boothbay Harbor, ME. He graduated from Rollins College in 1983 with a B.A. degree in Communications and Business Administration. He was the Sports Director at the College radio station as well doing the...

     (born 1961), general manager of the Washington Nationals (baseball team)
  • Joel Bowden
    Joel Bowden
    Joel Bowden was an Australian rules footballer with the Richmond Football Club in the AFL. In 2007, he was declared the new president of the AFL Players Association....

     (born 1978), Australian rules footballer
  • Katrina Bowden
    Katrina Bowden
    Katrina Bowden is an American actress. She is known for her short role as Britney Jennings on One Life to Live and for her role as Cerie in 30 Rock .- Education :...

     (born 1988), American actress
  • Lemuel J. Bowden
    Lemuel J. Bowden
    Lemuel Jackson Bowden was an American lawyer and politician from Williamsburg, Virginia.Bowden served as mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia from 1862 to 1863 and represented Virginia in the United States Senate in 1863 as a member of the Unionist Party.Bowden died of smallpox while in office at...

     (1815 – 1864), American lawyer and politician
  • Mark Bowden
    Mark Bowden
    Not to be confused with Mark Bowden, U.N. Resident & Humanitarian Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative for Somalia.Mark Robert Bowden is an American writer and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he is a 1973 graduate of Loyola University Maryland...

     (born 1951), American writer
  • Michael Bowden (Australian rules footballer)
    Michael Bowden (Australian rules footballer)
    Michael Bowden is a former Australian rules football player who played in the VFL between 1967 and 1971 for the Richmond Football Club.Bowden has had three sons also play for the Tigers - Sean, Joel and Patrick. Two more sons - Rhett and Kane - played for the Port Melbourne Football Club in the...

  • Michael Bowden (baseball)
    Michael Bowden (baseball)
    Michael Matthew Bowden is an American professional baseball pitcher with the Boston Red Sox. In , he played for the Lancaster JetHawks and Portland Sea Dogs. He attended high school at Waubonsie Valley High School in Aurora, IL...

     (born 1986)
  • Monty Bowden
    Monty Bowden
    Montague Parker Bowden was an English cricketer and wicket-keeper, who played two Test matches against South Africa in 1888/9....

     (1865 - 1892), English cricketer and wicket-keeper
  • Mwata Bowden
    Mwata Bowden
    Mwata Bowden Mwata Bowden Mwata Bowden (b. Memphis, Tennessee, United States, October 11, 1947, is an American jazz reeds player associated with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and an instructor in improvisational Jazz at the University of Chicago...

      (born 1947), American jazz reeds player
  • Norris Bowden
    Norris Bowden
    Robert Norris Bowden was a Canadian figure skater.Born in Toronto, Bowden won championships in every division of Canadian figure skating...

     (1926 – 1991), Canadian figure skater
  • Oswald Bowden
    Oswald Bowden
    Oswald "Ossie" Bowden was an English footballer who played as an inside-forward for various clubs in the 1930s.-Football career:Bowden was born in Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne and was a trainee at Newcastle United...

     (1912 – 1977), English footballer
  • Patrick Bowden
    Patrick Bowden
    Patrick Bowden is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.-Western Bulldogs:In the 1999 National AFL Draft Bowden was a fourth round selection to the Western Bulldogs...

     (born 1981), Australian rules footballer
  • Ray Bowden
    Ray Bowden
    Edwin Raymond "Ray" Bowden was an English footballer.Born in Looe, Cornwall, he played for local non-league side Looe; a prolific centre forward, despite his slight frame he scored over 100 goals in a season, including ten in a single match...

     (1909 – 1998), English footballer
  • Ron Bowden
    Ron Bowden
    Ronald Henry Bowden is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1992 until 2006, representing South Eastern Province....

     (born 1942), Australian politician
  • Sandra Bowden
    Sandra Bowden
    Sandra Bowden is an artist and painter from New York and is a past president of "Christians in the Visual Arts".A native of New England, Bowden holds a degree from the State University of New York. Bowden is the recipient of numerous awards for her contemporary religious imagery...

     (born 1943), American artist and painter

Other

  • Bowden Lithia water
    Lithia water
    Lithia water is mineral water containing lithium salts.Lithia water can occur naturally in spring form. One example can be found in Ashland, Oregon's Lithia Park...

     was a sold in 1888 as a natural mineral spring water brand that contained Lithium Carbonate
    Lithium carbonate
    Lithium carbonate is a chemical compound of lithium, carbon, and oxygen with the formula Li2CO3. This colorless salt is widely used in the processing of metal oxides and has received attention for its use in psychiatry. It is found in nature as the rare mineral zabuyelite.-Properties:Like almost...

     sourced from Lithia Springs, Georgia
    Lithia Springs, Georgia
    Lithia Springs is an unincorporated area, formerly incorporated as a city, located in northeastern Douglas County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 2,072. The city is named for its historic Lithia Springs springs.Incorporated in 1882, Lithia...

    .
  • Wilson Bowden
    Wilson Bowden
    Wilson Bowden plc was a British housebuilding and general construction company headquartered in Coalville in central England.-History:Wilson Bowden was the holding company for David Wilson Homes and its commercial property subsidiary, Wilson Bowden Properties, the name being adopted at the time of...

    , construction company
  • Bowden cable
    Bowden cable
    A Bowden cable is a type of flexible cable used to transmit mechanical force or energy by the movement of an inner cable relative to a hollow outer cable housing...

  • Bowden BizCom, a form group at The Bulwell Academy
    The Bulwell Academy
    The Bulwell Academy is a large secondary school situated in Bulwell, Nottingham, England, an area of social deprivation. It is run on a house system, and based in the brand-new Bulwell Academy complex.-History:...


See also

  • Boden (disambiguation)
  • Bowdon (disambiguation)
  • Bowen (disambiguation)
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