Powers

Powers may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Powers (comics), an American creator-owned comic book series by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming
• Powers (TV series), a 2004 children's science-fiction TV series.
• Powers (FX TV series), a 2011-12 FX Network TV series based on the comics.
• Powers, an order of angels in De Coelesti Hierarchia, a work on angelology, which exerted great influence on scholasticism
• Powers, a novel in the Annals of the Western Shore series by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Powers Girl, a 1943 musical comedy film about aspiring models

Businesses

• Powers (whiskey), a brand of Irish whiskey
• Powers Accounting Machine Company, an early 20th century tabulating machine company

Geography

• Powers, Indiana, an unincorporated town in Jefferson Township, Jay County, Indiana, United States
• Powers, Michigan, a village in Menominee County in Michigan, United States
• Powers Township, Minnesota a community in Minnesota
• Powers Lake, North Dakota a city in North Dakota
• Powers, Oregon, a city in southwestern Oregon (Coos County), United States

Name

• A. T. Powers (1896–1975), American Baptist Association president
• Abigail Fillmore (born Abigail Powers, 1798–1853), First Lady of the United States
• Albert E. Powers (b. 1816), President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Caleb Powers (1869–1932), US Representative from Kentucky
• Chet Powers (1937–1994), American singer-songwriter
• D. Lane Powers (1896–1968), US Representative from New Jersey
• Darrell Powers (1923–2009), American WWII veteran portrayed in Band of Brothers
• David Powers (1912–1998), Special Assistant to John F. Kennedy
• Doc Powers (1870–1909) an American Major League Baseball player
• Georgia Davis Powers (born 1923), Kentucky politician
• Gershom Powers (1789–1831), US Representative from New York
• Mike Powers (1906–1983), American Baseball player
• Francis Gary Powers (1929–1977), American pilot who was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960
• Hardy Powers (1900–1972), general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene
• Harold J. Powers (1900–1996), Lieutenant Governor of California
• Harriet Powers (1937–1910), African American slave, folk artist and noted quilt maker
• Hiram Powers (1805–1873), American neoclassical sculptor
• Horace Henry Powers (1835–1913), US Representative from Vermont
• J. F. Powers (1917–1999), American short story and novel writer
• Jack Powers, Irish-American gambler and gang leader
• James Powers (New Hampshire) (born 1938), New Hampshire politician
• James Powers (New York) (1785–1868), New York politician
• Jessica Powers (1905–1988), American poet and Carmelite nun
• John A. Powers (1922–1979), public affairs officer for NASA
• John E. Powers (1910–1998), Massachusetts politician
• John Holbrook Powers (1831–1918), Nebraska pioneer
• John J. Powers (food scientist) (born 1918), Food Science
• John James Powers (1912–1942), United States Navy officer and Medal of Honor recipient
• John Powers (American football), college football co-head coach
• John Powers (baseball) (1929–2001), baseball outfielder
• John Powers (mayor), American politician, Mayor of Spokane, WA
• John R. Powers (born 1945), American novelist and playwright
• John Robert Powers (1892–1977), American actor and owner of a modelling agency.
• John T. Powers, President of the Federal League of baseball
• Johnny Powers (born 1943), originally named Dennis Waters, a Canadian professional wrestler
• Kirsten Powers (born 1969), American columnist, blogger, pundit and political commentator
• Lauren Powers (born 1961), American actress, amateur bodybuilder and firefighter
• Leo J. Powers (1909–1967), US Army soldier and a recipient of the Medal of Honor
• Lewis J. Powers (1837–1915), Massachusetts businessman and politician
• Llewellyn Powers (1836–1908), Governor of Maine, US Representative from Maine
• Millard Powers Fillmore (1828–1889), son of US President Millard Fillmore
• Mala Powers (1931–2007), American film actress and television guest actress
• Millard Powers (born 1965), American musician, songwriter, record producer and recording engineer
• Oswald A. Powers (1915–1942), US Navy officer and Navy Cross recipient
• Patrick Powers (volleyball) (born 1958), American volleyball player
• Pat Powers (businessman) (1870–1948), Irish-American businessman
• Patrick T. Powers (1860–1925), American minor league baseball executive
• Preston Powers (1842–1904), American sculptor
• PJ Powers (born 1960), a South African singer also known as Penelope Jane Dunlop and as Thandeka
• Powers Boothe (born 1948), American actor
• R.E. Powers, mathematician
• Richard Powers (born 1957), American novelist
• Richie Powers (1930–1998), American professional basketball referee
• Ridgley Ceylon Powers (1836–1912), Governor of Mississippi
• Ron Powers (born 1941), American journalist, novelist, and non-fiction writer
• Samuel L. Powers (1848–1929), US Representative from Massachusetts
• Stefanie Powers (born 1942), American actress and singer
• Stephen Powers (1840–1904), American journalist, ethnographer, and historian of Native American tribes in California
• Tim Powers (born 1952), American science fiction and fantasy author
• Tom Powers (1890–1957), American stage and film actor
• Thomas Powers (born 1940), American author, intelligence expert, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize
• William T. Powers (Michigan) (1820–1907) manufacturer and capitalist
• William C. Powers (born 1946) the 28th president of The University of Texas at Austin
• William Powers (politician), Chairman of the New York Republican State Committee
• Warren Powers (born 1941), American football coach
• Warren Powers (American football) (born 1965), American football player

See also

• Power (disambiguation)
• List of comic book superpowers