Holwell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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John Holwell (1649–1686?) English astrologer and mathematician
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John Zephaniah Holwell
John Zephaniah Holwell (17 September 1711 – 5 November 1798) was a surgeon, an employee of the British East India Company, and a temporary Governor of Bengal (1760). He was also one of the first Europeans to study Indian antiquities and was ...
(1711–1798), employee of the English East India Company and writer on the East Indies
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Norman Holwell (1928–2020), British speed skater
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Richard J. Holwell (born 1946), District Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
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William Holwell
William Holwell (1726 – 13 February 1798) was an English cleric and writer.
Life
The eldest son of William Holwell, esq., of Exeter, and Ann Blackall, daughter of Ofspring Blackall, he was born in 1726. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, ...
(1726–1798), English cleric
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