Gower (surname)

Gower, as a surname of Welsh or Anglo-Norman origin. Notable people with the surname include:

Andre Gower (born 1973), American child actor
Andrew Gower (born 1978), British video game developer and creator of RuneScape
Andrew Gower (actor) (born 1989), British actor
Craig Gower (born 1978), Australian rugby footballer
David Gower (born 1957), English former cricketer
David Gower (rugby league) (born 1985), Australian Rugby league player
David J. Gower, palaeontologist
Erasmus Gower (1742–1814), Welsh naval officer and colonial governor
Flynn Gower (born 1972), Australian musician with the rock band Cog
George Gower (c. 1540–1596), English portrait painter
H. D. G. Leveson Gower (1873–1954), English cricketer
Henry Gower, fourteenth century canonist, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and bishop
Humphrey Gower (1638–1711), English clergyman and academic
Iris Gower, pen name of novelist Iris Davies (1935–2010)
Janice Gower, English bowls player
Jessica Gower (born 1977), Australian actress
John Gower (c. 1330–1403), English poet
John Gower (Wisconsin politician) (1941–2011), American politician
Laurence Gower (1913–1967), English lawyer and academic
Lily Gower (1877–1959), English croquet player
Luke Gower, Australian musician for rock band Cog and Flynn's brother
Mark Gower (born 1978), English footballer
Pauline Gower (1910–1947), British pilot and writer, head of the female branch of the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War
Raymond Gower (1916–1989), Welsh Member of Parliament
Richard Hall Gower (1768–1833), English mariner, empirical philosopher, nautical inventor, entrepreneur, and humanitarian
Lord Ronald Gower (1845–1916), British aristocrat, Member of Parliament, sculptor and writer
Rosalie Gower (1931–2013), Canadian civil servant and activist
Sir Thomas Gower, 2nd Baronet (c. 1605–1672), twice High Sheriff of Yorkshire
William Gower (born c. 1662), English Member of Parliament

SURNAME MOTTO

Frangas Non Flectes

Thou may break, not bend us

See also