# 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
* Dorothy Bowers (1902–1948), British novelist
* 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