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Cowen (surname)
Cowen () or Cowan is a surname of both Irish and Jewish origins (see Cowan urnamefor further information). Notable people with the surname include: * Barry Cowen (born 1967), Irish politician, son of Bernard Cowen * Bernard Cowen (1932–1984), Irish politician, father of Brian and Barry Cowen *Brian Cowen (born 1960), Irish Taoiseach, former Minister for Finance and Leader of the Fianna Fáil party, son of Bernard Cowen * Elise Cowen (1933–1962), American Beat poet * Frederic Hymen Cowen (1852–1935), British pianist, conductor, and composer *Joseph Cowen (1829–1900), English politician and journalist *Lenore Cowen (born ), American mathematician and computer scientist * Lillie Cowen (1850–1939), Jewish-Irish writer and Hebrew translator * Philip Cowen (1853–1943), Jewish-American newspaper publisher and immigration official *Robert Cowen (born 1930), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit *Scott Cowen (born 1946), president of Tulane University *Tyle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cowan (surname)
Cowan is a surname of both Scottish-Irish and Jewish origins. As a Scottish or Irish surname The name Cowan is first seen in the historical record in the UK and Ireland among Briton people in the Scottish and English borderlands. It derives from the old Gaelic MacEoghain or MacEoin (the "mac" prefix meaning "son of") or the Gaelic given name Eoghan. Alternate Anglicized spellings in Scotland include Cowen and Kewon. Similar names with the same derivation in Ireland and Northern Ireland are Coen, Coan, and Coyne, as well as McKeown and McKeon (the Irish prefix "mc" having the same meaning as the Scottish Gaelic "mac"). Notable people with the surname * Adeline May Cowan, Scottish botanist * Aileen H. Cowan (born 1926), Canadian painter and sculptor * Andrew Cowan (other), several people * Austin M. Cowan (1885–1949), Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court * Barry Cowan (broadcaster), journalist and broadcaster * Barry Cowan (tennis), former tennis player * Bernard Cowan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lillie Cowen
Lillie Goldsmith Cowen (often Mrs. Philip Cowen) (24 October 1850 – 27 September 1939) was the first woman to translate the '' Haggadah'' into English''.'' Biography Cowen, who descended from a family of Jewish- Irish scholars, was born in London, UK, but emigrated to the United States when she was eleven months old. There she grew up and married her second cousin Isaak Goldsmith (Goudsmit) who died in 1876. In 1887, she remarried to Philip Cowen, who was the first publisher of the Jewish weekly newspaper ''The American Hebrew.'' She worked with him on publishing the paper until 1906, when he retired. In 1904, she published the ''Cowen Haggadah'', which was the first American English adaptation of the ''haggadah'' to be published for a mass audience. It became the most popular ''haggadah'' in the United States in the first quarter of the twentieth century, with distribution of 295,000 copies by 1935. Retrieved from Jewish News Archive. 3 October 2012. Up until then, all Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Cowen
Peter Lewis Cowen (born January 1951) is an English ex-professional golfer and golf coach. Professional golfer Cowen played on the European Tour in the 1970s and early 1980s with little success. He finished tied for 6th place in the 1980 Cold Shield Greater Manchester Open after a last round 64. He won the Zambia Open in 1976. Golf coach As a coach, Cowen's clients include former world number one Lee Westwood, major champions Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell, Louis Oosthuizen, Danny Willett, Sergio García, Darren Clarke, Henrik Stenson, Gary Woodland and Brooks Koepka and many other players on both the PGA Tour and European Tour. He has academies in Rotherham, England and in Dubai. He is also senior coach to the English Golf Union. In 2010, he was UK Coach of the Year, an all-sport award. Professional wins *1976 Zambia Open Results in major championships ''Note: Cowen only played in The Open Championship.'' CUT = missed the half way cut (3rd round cut in 1976 Open Champi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zelman Cowen
Sir Zelman Cowen, (7 October 1919 – 8 December 2011) was an Australian legal scholar and university administrator who served as the 19th Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1977 to 1982. Cowen was born in Melbourne, and attended Scotch College before going on to the University of Melbourne. His studies were interrupted by World War II, during which he served in the Royal Australian Navy. After the war's end, Cowen attended New College, Oxford, on a Rhodes Scholarship. He subsequently won the prestigious Vinerian Scholarship as the best student in the Bachelor of Civil Law degree. He remained at Oxford after graduating, serving as a fellow of Oriel College from 1947 to 1950. In 1951, Cowen returned to Australia to become dean of the law faculty at the University of Melbourne. In 1953, still while at the University of Melbourne, he was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholarship in Law to Harvard University. He became known as an expert on constitutional law, and was a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyler Cowen
Tyler Cowen (; born January 21, 1962) is an American economist, columnist and blogger. He is a professor at George Mason University, where he holds the Holbert L. Harris chair in the economics department. He hosts the economics blog ''Marginal Revolution'', together with co-author Alex Tabarrok. Cowen and Tabarrok also maintain the website Marginal Revolution University, a venture in online education. Cowen writes the "Economic Scene" column for ''The New York Times'' and since July 2016 has been a regular opinion columnist at ''Bloomberg Opinion''. He also writes for such publications as ''The New Republic'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''Forbes'', ''Newsweek'' and the ''Wilson Quarterly''. He serves as general director of George Mason's Mercatus Center, a university research center that focuses on the market economy. Since 2015, he has hosted the podcast ''Conversations with Tyler''. In September, 2018, Tyler and his team at George Mason University launched Emergent Ventures, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Cowen
Scott S. Cowen (born 27 July 1946) is the President Emeritus and Distinguished University Chair of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he was also Seymour S. Goodman Memorial Professor in the A.B. Freeman School of Business and professor of economics in Tulane's School of Liberal Arts. He most recently served as the Interim President of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio from 2020-2021. He has written more than a hundred peer-reviewed journal articles and five books. His most recent book, ''Winnebagos on Wednesdays: How Visionary Leadership Can Transform Higher Education'', was published by Princeton University Press in 2018. Cowen is the eponym of Tulane's Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives. Cowen served as Tulane’s 14th president from July 1998 through June 2014. Background Son of Helen Cowen and Stanley Cowen, Scott Cowen finished his secondary education at Metuchen High School, New Jersey. Upon graduation in 1964 he was cited as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Cowen
Robert E. Cowen (born September 4, 1930) is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit based in Philadelphia. He joined the court in 1987 after being nominated by President Ronald Reagan. Cowen has served in the federal judiciary since 1978. Early life and education A native of New Jersey, Cowen graduated from Drake University in 1952 with a Bachelor of Science degree. In 1958, Cowen graduated from Rutgers School of Law–Newark with a Bachelor of Laws. Cowen attended Columbia Law School before leaving to join the Army, where he earned the G.I. Bill, which he needed in order to pay for his education. Legal career Cowen began his legal career as a law clerk for New Jersey Superior Court Judge Walter Conklin in the New Jersey Superior Court from 1958 to 1959 before becoming a private practice attorney licensed in the State of New Jersey from 1959 to 1969. Cowen also served as an Assistant county prosecutor for the Essex Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Cowen
Philip Cowen (July 26, 1853 – April 20, 1943) was a Jewish-American newspaper publisher and immigration official. Life Cowen was born on July 26, 1853 on 140 Walker Street in New York City, New York. His father was Raphael Isaac Keil, a German immigrant from Grätz, Prussia who worked as a tailor and changed his surname to Cowen when he briefly lived in England. His mother was Julia Manasseh from Janowitz in the Province of Posen. Cowen grew up in the Lower East Side and attended the local public schools. He then went to the religious school in the Portuguese Synagogue. When he was thirteen, he began working at odd jobs like in stockyards, with a malt extract concern, and with a glass manufacturer. In 1878, he entered the printing business with Henry Kahrs. A year later, he was a founder of ''The American Hebrew'' together with Frederic de Sola Mendes, H. Pereira Mendes, Daniel P. Hays, Cyrus L. Sulzberger, Solomon Solis Cohen, Max Cohen, Jacob Fonseca de Silva Solis, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenore Cowen
Lenore Jennifer Cowen is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for her work in graph coloring, network routing, and computational biology. She is a professor of computer science and (by courtesy) of mathematics at Tufts University. Early life and education Cowen is the daughter of Robert Cowen, a professor of mathematics at Queens College, City University of New York, and Ilsa Cowen, a high school English teacher. She has been a classical violin player since the age of five, and as a student at Benjamin N. Cardozo High School in Bayside, Queens, she edited the school poetry magazine. However, despite these other interests, she decided to aim for a mathematical career after attending a summer mathematics program for high school students, the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics. She started her studies at Yale University at age 16, and graduated in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, also winning the university's deForest Prize as the top gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Name
A formal Irish name consists of a given name and a surname. In the Irish language, surnames are generally patronymic in etymology but are no longer literal patronyms as, for example, most Icelandic names still are. The form of a surname varies according to whether its bearer is male or female, and in the case of a married woman, whether she chooses to adopt her husband's surname. An alternative traditional naming convention consists of the first name followed by a double patronym, usually with the father and grandfather's names. This convention is not used for official purposes but is generalized in ''Gaeltachtaí'' (Irish-speaking areas) and also survives in some rural non-''Gaeltacht'' areas. Sometimes the name of the mother or grandmother may be used instead of the father or grandfather. Epithets A first name may be modified by an adjective to distinguish its bearer from other people with the same name. ''Mór'' ("big") and ''Óg'' ("young") are used to distinguish father and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Cowen
Joseph Cowen, Jr., (9 July 1829 – 18 February 1900) was an English radical Liberal politician and journalist. He was a firm friend to Anglo-Jewry, and an early advocate of Jewish emancipation, regularly contributing to ''The Jewish Chronicle''. Early life The son of Joseph Cowen, Snr, a prominent citizen and Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle upon Tyne from 1874 to 1886, was born at Stella Hall, Blaydon (demolished 1953). Cowen junior was educated privately in Ryton and at the University of Edinburgh where he interested himself in European revolutionary movements. Cowen then joined his father in his Blaydon brick business, smuggling documents abroad in the consignments of bricks. Cowen numbered among his friends Mazzini, Louis Blanc and Ledru-Rollin, as well as Herzen and Bakunin. Garibaldi, Felice Orsini and Lajos Kossuth came to visit him in Blaydon. He supported the miners and improved the lot of the working-classes. One area of improvement revisited again by Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederic Hymen Cowen
Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen (29 January 1852 – 6 October 1935), was an English composer, conductor and pianist. Early years and musical education Cowen was born Hymen Frederick Cohen at 90 Duke Street, Kingston, Jamaica, the fifth and last child of Frederick Augustus Cohen and Emily Cohen ''née'' Davis. His siblings were Elizabeth Rose Cohen (b. 1843); actress, Henrietta Sophia Cohen (b. 1845); painter, Lionel Jonas Cohen (b. 1847) and Emma Magnay Cohen (b. 1849). At the age of four years Frederic was brought to England, where his father became treasurer to the opera at Her Majesty's Opera, now Her Majesty's Theatre, and private secretary to William Humble Ward, 11th Lord Ward (1817–1885). The family initially lived at 11 Warwick Crescent, London, in the area known as Little Venice. His first teacher was Henry Russell, and his first published composition, ''Minna-waltz'', appeared when he was only six years old. He produced his first published operetta, ''Garibaldi'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
