Bowler (surname)

Bowler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Bertie Bowler Albert Bowler (born 1891) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward. Career Bowler was born in Nottingham. He began his career while serving as a private in the British Army, playing for Army Cup winners Sherwood F ...

, English footballer * Bill Bowler, Canadian ice hockey player * George Bowler, English professional footballer * Gerry Bowler (1919–2006), Northern Irish footballer *

Grant Bowler Grant Bowler (born 18 July 1968) is a New Zealand-Australian actor and television presenter who has worked in American, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian film, television, and theatre. He is known for playing the role of Constable Wayne ...

, Australian actor * Grant Bowler (baseball), American Major League Baseball player *

Henry Alexander Bowler Henry Alexander Bowler (30 November 1824 – 6 August 1903) was an English artist. He was a teacher at the Royal Academy of Arts for many years, and exhibited paintings there. Life Bowler was born in the Kensington district of London, son of C ...

(1824–1903), English painter and academic * Holden Bowler (1912–2001), American athlete, singer and businessman who served as the namesake for Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger's novel ''The Catcher in the Rye'' * J. Andrew Bowler (1862–1935), African American educator and Baptist minister * Jade Bowler (born 2000), British YouTuber known as Unjaded Jade *

James Bowler James Bernard Bowler (February 5, 1875 – July 18, 1957) was an American politician from Chicago, Illinois. He served three terms as a United States House of Representatives, United States Representative for Illinois. Elected at age 78, Bowle ...

(1875–1957), American politician * Jeff Bowler, American film and television producer *

John Bowler (disambiguation) John Bowler may refer to: *John Bowler (actor) (born 1952), English actor *John Bowler (politician) (born 1949), Western Australian politician *John Bowler (businessman) (1937–2022), English football chairman *John Andrew Bowler (1862–1935), Ame ...

, several people *

Joseph Bowler Joseph Bowler (born 1928, Forest Hills, Queens, Forest Hills, New York) is an artist and illustrator. Bowler was a regular illustrator for the likes of ''Cosmopolitan Magazine'' and ''Ladies' Home Journal'' in the ''Second Illustrative Golden Age' ...

, American artist and illustrator *

Kate Bowler Kate Bowler is a Canadian academic and writer from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Bowler is currently an associate professor of the history of Christianity in North America at Duke Divinity School. She is the author of ''Blessed: A History of the American Pr ...

, Canadian academic and writer * Larry Bowler, Republican politician from the State of California * Max L. Bowler (1881–1949), American businessman and politician * Michael Bowler, English football player *

Norman Bowler Norman Clifford Bowler (born 1 August 1932) is an English actor, best known for his role as Frank Tate in the ITV soap opera ''Emmerdale''. Early life Norman Clifford Bowler was born on 1 August 1932 in London, England. His father, Clifford N ...

, British actor *

Peter Bowler (cricketer) Peter Duncan Bowler (born 30 July 1963) is a former English-born Australian cricketer who played for Leicestershire in 1986, Tasmania in 1986/87, Derbyshire from 1988 to 1994 and for Somerset from 1995 to 2004. Despite his name, Bowler was not a ...

, English born Australian cricketer *

Peter Bowler (lexicographer) Peter Bowler was an Australian lexicographer and author of '' The Superior Person's Book of Words'', '' The Superior Person's Second Book of Weird and Wondrous Words'', and '' The Superior Person's Third Book of Well-Bred Words''. He specializ ...

, Australian lexicographer and author * Peter J. Bowler, historian of biology * Phil Bowler, American jazz double-bassist *

Shaun Bowler Shaun Bowler (born June 21, 1958) is Distinguished Professor & Dean of the Graduate Division in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside) is a p ...

(born 1958), American political scientist *

Shirley D. Bowler Shirley Bowler (née Duvigneaud; born October 2, 1949) is a writer and editor who served as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1992 until term-limited in 2008. A Republican, she represented Louisiana House District 78, w ...

, Louisiana Republican legislator * Thomas William Bowler (d. 1869), British landscape painter *

Tim Bowler Tim Bowler (born 14 November 1953) is an author of books for teenagers and young adults. He won the 1997 Carnegie Medal from the CILIP, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject, for the novel '' River Boy''. ''The Sund ...

, English writer for young adults {{surname, Bowler