Rowan (disambiguation)
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Rowans are a genus (or subgenus) of deciduous trees in family Rosaceae that are notable for their red berries.
Rowan may also refer to:
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[edit] Places
- Northern Ireland
- United States of America
- Rowan, Iowa
- Rowan County, Kentucky
- Rowan County, North Carolina
- Fort Rowan, a historical fort that once existed in Craven County, North Carolina
[edit] People
- With the surname
- Archibald Hamilton Rowan (1751–1834), Irish celebrity and founding member of The Dublin Society of United Irishmen
- Andrew Summers Rowan (1857–1943), American army officer
- Athol Rowan (1921–1998), South African cricketer
- Carl Rowan (born 1925-2000), American journalist and author
- Sir Charles Rowan (c. 1782–1852), officer in the British Army and Commissioner of Police of the (London) Metropolis
- Dan Rowan (died 1987), actor and comedian featured in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
- Dave Rowan (1882–1955), Canadian baseball player
- Dawn Rowan (born 1946), Australian therapist specialising in counselling adult survivors of childhood ritual, satanic, emotional, sexual and physical abuse
- Dominic Rowan (born 1970), English actor
- Ellis Rowan (1847–1922), Australia naturalist and illustrator
- Eric Rowan (1909–1993), South African cricketer
- Ford Rowan, American television reporter for NBC News and panelist on Meet the Press
- Henry Rowan (born 1923), American philanthropist and engineer
- John Rowan (disambiguation)
- Jonathan Rowan (born 1981), English footballer
- Joseph Rowan (1870–1930) was a U.S. Representative from New York
- Katie Rowan, Canadian voice actress
- Kelly Rowan (born 1965), Canadian actress and model
- Lou Rowan (born 1925), Australian Test cricket match umpire
- Louis R. Rowan (1911–1988), American businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder
- Matthew Rowan (died 1769) acting governor of North Carolina in 1753 and 1754
- Peter Rowan (born 1942), American bluegrass musician and composer
- Ron Rowan (born 1962), retired American basketball player
- Stephen Clegg Rowan (1808–1890), Vice Admiral, US Navy
- William Rowan (1789–1879), British military commander
- With the given name
- Rowan Atkinson, comedian
- Rowan Pelling, British editrice and columnist
- Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Sir William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician
[edit] Fiction
- The Rowan, a novel by Anne McCaffrey
- Rowan of Rin, a series of five children's fantasy novels by Australian author Emily Rodda
- Rowan Mayfair, a fictional character in the Mayfair Chronicles by Anne Rice
- Professor Rowan, a fictional character from the video games Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum
- Rowan, a fictional character from the film Jason X
- Lily Rowan, a fictional character in the series of novels and narratives about detective Nero Wolfe by American writer Rex T. Stout
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- Rowan (TB-8), a torpedo boat commissioned in 1899 and decommissioned in 1912
- Rowan (DD-64), a destroyer commissioned in 1916 and decommissioned in 1922
- Rowan (DD-405), a destroyer commissioned in 1939 and sunk by enemy action in September 1944
- Rowan (DD-782), a destroyer commissioned in 1945 and decommissioned in 1975
[edit] Other uses
- Rowan (album), an album by Maggie Reilly
- Rowan Companies, an S&P 500 contract drilling and aircraft service company
- Rowan Software, a British computer game development company
- Rowan Oak, William Faulkner's former home in Oxford, Mississippi
- Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey, USA
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