Bowles (surname)
Appearance
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
- Snowy Bowles, fictional character in the television series Sweat, played by Heath Ledger