Bowman
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Places

Antarctica
  • Bowman Island
    Bowman Island
    Bowman Island is a high ice-covered island, about long and from wide, shaped like a figure eight. Bowman Island is located at . Bowman Island rises above the northeastern part of Shackleton Ice Shelf, which partially encloses the island, northeast of Cape Elliott...

  • Bowman Peninsula
    Bowman Peninsula
    Bowman Peninsula is a peninsula, long in a north-south direction and wide in its northern and central portions, lying between Nantucket Inlet and Gardner Inlet on the east coast of Palmer Land. The peninsula is ice covered and narrows toward the south, terminating in Cape Adams...


Australia
  • Bowman Park
    Bowman Park
    Bowman Park is a public park on the Crystal Brook about 5 km northeast of the township of Crystal Brook and 200 km north of the major city of Adelaide. The park has an area of about 40ha and is in the Northern Agricultural Area of the state of South Australia. It is open to the public...

    , South Australia
  • Division of Bowman
    Division of Bowman
    The Division of Bowman is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was created in 1949 and is named for David Bowman, an early leader of the Australian Labor Party, in Queensland...

    , an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives

Canada
  • Bowman, Quebec
    Bowman, Quebec
    Bowman is a village and municipality in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada. It is located in the Laurentian Hills, north-east of Gatineau.-Geography:...

  • Bowman Bay
    Bowman Bay
    Bowman Bay is an Arctic waterway in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in the Foxe Basin by northeastern Foxe Peninsula off Baffin Island. The closest community is Cape Dorset, situated to the south, while Nuwata, a former settlement, is situated to the west.-Avifauna:During...


United States
  • Bowman, Chicot County, Arkansas
    Bowman, Chicot County, Arkansas
    Bowman is an unincorporated community in Chicot County, Arkansas, United States....

  • Bowman, Craighead County, Arkansas
    Bowman, Craighead County, Arkansas
    Bowman is an unincorporated community in Craighead County, Arkansas, United States.-April 27, 2011 Tornado:At 3:08 PM on April 27, 2011, a tornado – part of the April 25–28, 2011 tornado outbreak – hit Bowman. The tornado was rated EF-1 with winds at , a width of , that traveled a path of...

  • Bowman, California
    Bowman, California
    Bowman is an unincorporated community in Placer County, California. Bowman is located on the Southern Pacific Railroad, north-northeast of Auburn. It lies at an elevation of 1617 feet ....

  • Bowman, Georgia
    Bowman, Georgia
    Bowman is a city in Elbert County, Georgia, United States. The population was 898 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Bowman is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....

  • Bowman, North Dakota
    Bowman, North Dakota
    As of the census of 2000, there were 1,600 people, 702 households, and 419 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,227.8 people per square mile . There were 799 housing units at an average density of 613.2 per square mile . The racial makeup of the city was 99.12% White, 0.12%...

  • Bowman County, North Dakota
    Bowman County, North Dakota
    -Major highways:* U.S. Highway 12* U.S. Highway 85* North Dakota Highway 67-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 3,242 people, 1,358 households, and 890 families residing in the county. The population density was 3 people per square mile . There were 1,596 housing units at an average...

  • Bowman, South Carolina
    Bowman, South Carolina
    Bowman is a town in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 1,198 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Bowman is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land.-History:...


People

  • Abie Philbin Bowman
    Abie Philbin Bowman
    Abie Philbin Bowman is an Irish comedian and journalist. He is the writer/director/performer of "Jesus: The Guantanamo Years" which was staged in 2006 in the Project Arts Centre and the Underbelly as part of the Edinburgh Fringe...

    , Irish columnist and comedian
  • Alexander Hamilton Bowman
    Alexander Hamilton Bowman
    Alexander Hamilton Bowman was an engineer, military educator, and career officer in the United States Army. Bowman supervised the erection of Charleston Harbor defenses, including Fort Sumter, and served as Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York during the...

    , U.S. Army engineer of Fort Sumter
  • Amanda Bowman
    Amanda Bowman
    Amanda Bowman is a British disc jockey.Her broadcasting career began in the mid 1980s while she was working for Radio Trent. Initially one of the station's Careline presenters, she went on to host a show at Trent in her own right, before later taking a career break in order to bring up her children...

    , British radio personality
  • Barbara T. Bowman
    Barbara T. Bowman
    Barbara Taylor Bowman is an award-winning early childhood education expert/advocate, professor, and author. Her areas of expertise include early childhood care/education, educational equity for minority and low-income children, as well as intergenerational family support and roles...

    , early childhood educator and co-founder of Chicago's Erikson Institute
  • Bob Bowman (disambiguation)
  • Brandon Bowman
    Brandon Bowman
    Brandon Kyle Bowman is an American professional basketball player. A former collegiate men's basketball player in the NCAA, he attended Georgetown University and graduated in 2006. Bowman played primarily at the small forward position under coach John Thompson III. He wore number 1. Bowman was a...

    , American basketball player
  • Carol Bowman
    Carol Bowman
    Carol Bowman, M.S., is an author, lecturer, counselor, and therapist, known for her work in studying cases of reincarnation, especially those involving young children....

    , American writer and therapist
  • Charles C. Bowman, US Congressman from Pennsylvania
  • Christopher Bowman
    Christopher Bowman
    Christopher Nicol' Bowman was an American figure skater. He was a two-time U.S. national champion and two-time World medalist. He won the 1983 World Junior Figure Skating Championships and competed in two Olympic Winter Games, placing 7th in 1988 and 4th in 1992.-Biography:Bowman was born in...

    , American figure skater
  • Colin Bowman
    Colin Bowman
    Colin Bowman was the publisher and owner of WCW Magazine from 1994 to 1999.He worked in London's film and TV industry from 1979, A part-time actor and full-time memorabilia expert, Colin collaborates with Jimmy Hart on numerous projects, including the XWF and WWL.He was also involved with the...

    , wrestling promoter
  • David Bowman (disambiguation)
  • Edith Bowman
    Edith Bowman
    Edith Eleanor Bowman is a Scottish music critic, radio DJ and television presenter. She is mostly known for hosting the weekday afternoon show and from September 2009 weekend morning on BBC Radio 1 and for presenting a variety of music related television shows and music...

    , British television presenter
  • Elmer Bowman
    Elmer Bowman
    Elmari Wilhelm Bowman was a Major League Baseball player for the Washington Senators in August 1920. The 23-year-old rookie made two pinch-hitting appearances for the Senators and did not play in the field, so his position is not known.Both of Bowman's appearances took place on the road...

    , American baseball player
  • Euday L. Bowman
    Euday L. Bowman
    Euday Louis Bowman was an American pianist and composer of ragtime and blues who represented the style of Texas Ragtime...

    , American blues and ragtime musician
  • Fallon Bowman
    Fallon Bowman
    Fallon Bowman is a musician from Ontario, Canada, best known for her involvement with Kittie, Pigface, Amphibious Assault and most recently, a solo career. She is of Dutch and Indonesian descent.-Kittie:...

    , Canadian guitarist
  • Frank L. Bowman
    Frank L. Bowman
    Frank Llewellyn Bowman was an American politician who represented West Virginia in the United States House of Representatives from 1925-1933.-Biography:...

    , US Congressman from West Virginia
  • George Bowman
    George Bowman
    George Bowman, or Bo Mun Soen sa Nim, is a Zen master and licensed psychotherapist living at Furnace Mountain in Clay City, Kentucky . He received Dharma transmission from Seung Sahn Soen Sa Nim in 1992, and is a former teacher in the Kwan Um School of Zen...

    , Zen master
  • Georgina Bowman, British radio personality
  • Herbert Bowman
    Herbert Bowman
    Herbert Bowman was an outstanding American tennis player in the early 20th Century.Born in New York, New York, Bowman was ranked as high as No. 13 in the United States....

    , American tennis player
  • Ira Bowman
    Ira Bowman
    Ira Bowman is a retired American professional basketball player formerly in the NBA.He attended Providence College and the University of Pennsylvania but was not selected in an NBA Draft. He played for the Philadelphia 76ers and the Atlanta Hawks from 1999 to 2001, as well as Grand Rapids Hoops of...

    , American basketball player
  • Isaiah Bowman
    Isaiah Bowman
    Isaiah Bowman, AB, Ph. D. was an American geographer...

    , American geographer
  • James Bowman (disambiguation)
  • Jessica Bowman
    Jessica Bowman
    Jessica Robyn Bowman is an American actress perhaps best known for her role as Colleen Cooper on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.-Career:Bowman was born in Walnut Creek, California...

    , American actress
  • Joe Bowman (marksman)
    Joe Bowman (marksman)
    Joe Bowman, born Joseph Lee Bowman , was a Houston bootmaker and marksman called "The Straight Shooter", considered to have been a guardian of Texas and western frontier culture. Shortly after his death, Bowman was inducted posthumously into the Texas Heroes Hall of Honor at the Frontier Times...

    , American marksman and Wild West Show entertainer
  • John Bowman (disambiguation)
  • Jonathan Philbin Bowman
    Jonathan Philbin Bowman
    Jonathan Philbin Bowman was an Irish journalist and radio broadcaster.-Early life and education:Born in Dublin in 1969, Jonathan Philbin Bowman, the son of the historian and broadcaster John Bowman, was educated at Sandford Park School and at Newpark Comprehensive School in Dublin...

    , Irish journalist
  • Joseph Bowman
    Joseph Bowman
    Joseph Bowman was a Virginia militia officer during the American Revolutionary War. He was second-in-command during George Rogers Clark's famous campaign to capture the Illinois country, in which Clark and his men seized the British-controlled towns of Kaskaskia, Vincennes, and others...

    , American Revolutionary War officer
  • Karl M. Bowman, MD
    Karl Bowman
    Karl Murdock Bowman, MD was a pioneer in the study of psychiatry. From 1944 to 1946 he was the president of the American Psychiatric Association. His work in alcoholism, schizophrenia, and homosexuality is particularly often cited.-Family and Education:Bowman was born in Topeka, Kansas, and...

    , psychiatrist and president of the American Psychiatric Association
  • Lee Bowman
    Lee Bowman
    Lee Bowman was an American film and television actor.Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Bowman graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1936 and began his film career playing a bit part in Swing High, Swing Low .His many film appearances include A Man to Remember , Love Affair , Third...

    , American actor
  • Nathaniel Bowman (Settler)
    Nathaniel Bowman (Settler)
    Nathaniel Bowman was the first Bowman immigrant to be among the earliest settlers of the Massachusetts Bay colony. He had the rank of gentlemen in the public records, indicating that he came from some distinguished English stock. On October 19, 1630, he applied to the general court, but his name...

    , first Bowman family immigrant to settle in the Massachusetts Bay colony
  • Paul Bowman (rugby league), Australian rugby league footballer
  • Paul Bowman-MacDonald, a fictional character from Monarch of the Glen
  • Raymond D. Bowman
    Raymond D. Bowman
    Raymond DeArmond Bowman was an important American classical, jazz and ethnic music critic, concert promoter and writer, based in Southern California...

    , American music critic
  • Rob Bowman (music writer)
    Rob Bowman (music writer)
    Rob Bowman is a contemporaneous Canadian professor of ethnomusicology and a music writer. He currently lives in Toronto with both his children....

    , Canadian ethnomusicologist
  • Rob Bowman (filmmaker), American film maker
  • Robert M. Bowman
    Robert M. Bowman
    Robert M. Bowman is a former Director of Advanced Space Programs Development for the U.S. Air Force in the Ford and Carter administrations, and a former United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel with 101 combat missions. He holds a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering from the California...

    , American retired Air Force officer and anti-Strategic Defense Initiative activist
  • Sally Anne Bowman (1987-2005), British murder victim
  • Sarah A. Bowman
    Sarah A. Bowman
    Sarah A. Bowman was an American innkeeper, restaurateur, and madam. Nicknamed "The Great Western", she gained fame, and the title "Heroine of Fort Brown", as a camp follower of Zachary Taylor's army during the Mexican–American War...

     (c. 1813-1866), heroine of Fort Brown (Mexican–American War) nicknamed the Great Western
  • Scotty Bowman
    Scotty Bowman
    William Scott "Scotty" Bowman is a retired National Hockey League head coach. He holds the record for most wins in league history, with 1,244 wins in the regular season and 223 in the Stanley Cup playoffs. He coached the St. Louis Blues, Montreal Canadiens, Buffalo Sabres, Pittsburgh Penguins, and...

    , National Hockey League coach
  • Selwyn Z. Bowman
    Selwyn Z. Bowman
    Selwyn Zadock Bowman was an attorney and politician who served in several public offices including that of U.S...

    , US Congressman from Massachusetts
  • Thaddeus Bowman
    Thaddeus Bowman
    Thaddeus Bowman was the last scout sent out by Capt. John Parker at Lexington, MA, but the only one to find the approaching British troops and get back to warn the militia, on the first day of the American Revolution ....

    , American Revolution patriot
  • Thea Bowman
    Thea Bowman
    Sister Thea Bowman, F.S.P.A., was a Roman Catholic Religious Sister, teacher, and scholar.-Life:Born as Bertha Bowman in Yazoo City, Mississippi, she converted to the Roman Catholic Church, during her childhood, and joined the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration at La Crosse, Wisconsin,...

    , Roman Catholic nun and educator
  • Thomas Bowman (disambiguation)
  • Walter Bowman
    Walter Bowman
    Walter Wells Bowman in Canada, was the first non-British player to play in the Football League.Canadian Bowman was first discovered while playing for a Canadian team that was in England playing exhibition matches against some of England's top teams...

    , early Canadian soccer player
  • Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet, British surgeon and anatomist


Other uses

  • Someone who practices archery
    Archery
    Archery is the art, practice, or skill of propelling arrows with the use of a bow, from Latin arcus. Archery has historically been used for hunting and combat; in modern times, however, its main use is that of a recreational activity...

  • Bowman (communications system)
    Bowman (communications system)
    Bowman is the name of the tactical communications system used by the British Armed Forces.The Bowman C4I system consists of a range of HF radio, VHF radio and UHF radio sets designed to provide secure integrated voice, data services to dismounted soldiers, individual vehicles and command HQs up to...

    , the new digital battlefield communications system for the British Army
  • Bowman Flag
    Bowman Flag
    The complex Bowman Flag with its swallow-tail fly was designed by John and Honor Bowman of Richmond NSW in 1806. The shield on the design shows the rose of England, thistle of Scotland and shamrock of Ireland...

    , historical Australian flag
  • Bowman Gum
    Bowman Gum
    Bowman Gum was a Philadelphia-based manufacturer of bubble gum and trading cards in the period surrounding World War II founded by Jacob Warren Bowman. Originally known as Gum, Inc., the company produced a series of cards known as the "Play Ball" sets each year from 1939 to 1941...

    , a maker of bubble gum and baseball cards

See also

  • Bowman's capsule
    Bowman's capsule
    The Bowman's capsule is a cup-like sac at the beginning of the tubular component of a nephron in the mammalian kidney that performs the first step in the filtration of blood to form urine. A glomerulus is enclosed in the sac...

    , a part of the kidneys found in mammals
  • Bowman's membrane
    Bowman's membrane
    The Bowman's membrane is a smooth layer in the eye. It is located between the superficial epithelium and the stroma in the cornea. It is composed of strong collagen fibers and helps the cornea maintain its shape...

    , a layer in the cornea of the eye
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