Bowles (surname)

Bowles is an English and Irish surname of Norman origin. Notable people with the surname include:

• Brian Bowles (baseball) (born 1976), US baseball player
• Brian Bowles (fighter) (born 1980), US mixed martial artist
• Charles J. Bowles (1922–2005), US athletics coach
• Chester Bowles (1901–1986), US diplomat and politician
• Cory Bowles (born 1973), Canadian actor
• Cyril Bowles (1916–1999), English bishop
• Denzel Bowles (born 1989), American basketball player
• Edward Augustus Bowles (1865–1954), British horticulturalist and writer
• Erskine Bowles (born 1945), US businessman and politician
• Evelyn M. Bowles (1921–2016) US politician
• Frank Bowles (1902–1970), British solicitor and politician
• Hamish Bowles (born 1963), British magazine editor
• Ian Bowles (born circa 1966), environmentalist, businessman, politician, and former Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs
• Jack Bowles (1890–1971), English cricketer
• Jane Bowles (1917–1973), US writer
• Janet Payne Bowles (1872–1948), US artist
• John Bowles (author) (1751–1819), English lawyer and author
• Jovan Bowles (born 1983), South African rugby player
• Lynn Bowles (born 1963), British radio reporter
• Martin Bowles, senior Australian public servant
• Michael Bowles (1909–1998), Irish conductor and composer
• Paul Bowles (1910–1999), US composer, author, and translator
• Paul Bowles (footballer) (1957–2017), English football player
• Peter Bowles (born 1936), English actor
• Pinckney Downie Bowles (1835–1910), US lawyer and soldier
• Ralston Bowles (born 1952), US musician
• Ray Bowles (born 1975), US singer
• Richard Bowles (born 1978), English-born Australian long-distance runner
• Richard Spink Bowles (1912–1988), Canadian lawyer
• Samuel Bowles (economist) (born 1939), US economist
• Samuel Bowles (journalist) (1826–1878), US journalist
• Sharon Bowles (born 1953), British politician
• Skipper Bowles (1919–1986), US politician
• Stanley Bowles (born 1948), English football player
• Sydney Bowles (1880–1963), matriarch of the Mitford family
• Thomas Bowles (disambiguation), multiple people with the name
• Todd Bowles (born 1963), American football coach
• Wayde Douglas Bowles (AKA Rocky Johnson) (1944–2020), Canadian wrestler, father of Dwayne Johnson
• William Bowles (disambiguation), multiple people with the name
• Andrew Parker Bowles (born 1939), British military officer
• Camilla Parker Bowles (born 1947), former name of the Duchess of Cornwall, wife of Prince Charles
• Tom Parker Bowles (born 1974), British writer

Fictional characters:

• "Sally Bowles," a short story in the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
  • Sally Bowles, fictional character in the 1966 stage musical Cabaret, based on the novel
  • Sally Bowles, fictional character in the 1972 film Cabaret, based on the musical
• Snowy Bowles, fictional character in the television series Sweat, played by Heath Ledger

See also

• Bols (surname)