Rowan (disambiguation)

Rowans are a genus (or subgenus) of deciduous trees.

Rowan may also refer to:

Places

Geography

Iran

• Rowan, Iran, a village in Hamadan Province

United States

• Rowan, Iowa, a city
• Rowan County, Kentucky
• Rowan County, North Carolina

Outer space

• 4599 Rowan, a main belt asteroid discovered in 1985

People

• Rowan (name), a surname and personal name

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• Rowan Blackshaw, on The Returned (U.S. TV series)
• Rowan Mayfair, in the Anne Rice Lives of the Mayfair Witches series of novels
• the title character of Rowan of Rin, a series of five children's fantasy novels by Emily Rodda
• Rowan Freemaker, in Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures
• Rowan Whitethorn, a character in the Throne of Glass book series by Sarah J. Maas
• Rowan Damisch, one of the two main characters in the Scythe (novel) book series by Neal Shusterman

Literature

• The Rowan, a novel by Anne McCaffrey

Music

• The Rowans, also known as The Rowan Brothers, an American country-rock group
  • The Rowans (album), a 1975 album by The Rowans
• Rowan, a 2006 album by Maggie Reilly

Businesses

• Rowan Companies, a defunct offshore drilling contractor, now part of Valaris plc
• Rowan Software, a British computer game development company

Schools

• Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey, United States
• Rowan College at Gloucester County, Sewell, New Jersey, United States

Ships

• USS Rowan, four US Navy vessels
• HMS Rowan, a First World War armed boarding steamer of the Royal Navy
• HMS Rowan, a Second World War Royal Navy Tree class trawler

Other uses

• Rowan steam railmotor, a steam railcar
• Rowan Hall, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States

See also

• Rowan Museum, Salisbury, North Carolina, United States
• Rowan Oak, William Faulkner's former home in Oxford, Mississippi, United States