Howie is a Scottish

locational surname A toponymic surname or topographic surname is a surname derived from a place name.

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estate in

Ayrshire Ayrshire ( gd, Siorrachd Inbhir Àir, ) is a historic county and registration county in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. Its principal towns include Ayr, Kilmarnock and Irvine and it borders the counties of Re ...

, southwest Scotland. While its ancient name is known as "The lands of How", its exact location is lost to time. The word "How", predating

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, appears to originate from the ancient

Kingdom of Strathclyde Strathclyde (lit. "Strath of the River Clyde", and Strað-Clota in Old English), was a Brittonic successor state of the Roman Empire and one of the early medieval kingdoms of the Britons, located in the region the Welsh tribes referred to as Yr ...

as a locational description of a "hollow" (deep valley). The alternate spelling of Howie is "Howey". The oldest public record of the surname dates to 1526 in the town of

Brechin Brechin (; gd, Breichin) is a city and former Royal burgh in Angus, Scotland. Traditionally Brechin was described as a city because of its cathedral and its status as the seat of a pre-Reformation Roman Catholic diocese (which continues today ...

. People with the surname or its variant include: * Al Howie (1945–2016), Canadian athlete * Alison Howie (born 1991), Scottish field hockey player *

Archibald Howie Archibald "Archie" Howie (born 8 March 1934) is a British physicist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Cambridge, known for his pioneering work on the interpretation of transmission electron microscope images of crystals. Born in 1 ...

(born 1934), British physicist *

Forbes Howie William Forbes Howie, DL, JP (13 August 1920 – 27 December 2000) was a businessman who played an active role in Scottish public life. Background and education Born one of six children in Woodlands, Falkirk, Scotland, he was the son of Anne ...

(1920–2000), Scottish businessman * George Howie (1899–1979), American racecar driver *

Gillian Howie Gillian Howie (4 October 1965 – 26 March 2013) was a Professor in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool and Director of the Institute for Feminist Theory and Research. She is author of ''Essential Reorientations: feminism and dialectical ma ...

, British philosopher *

Gordon Howie Gordon K. Howie (born July 23, 1949) is an American politician from the state of South Dakota. As a member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he served in the South Dakota House of Representatives and the South Dakota Sena ...

(born 1949), American politician * Hugh Howie (1924–1958), Scottish footballer * James Howie (disambiguation) *

John Howie (biographer) John Howie (14 November 1735 – 5 January 1793) was a Scottish biographer. His best known work was ''Biographia Scoticana'', first published in 1775, which is often called ''The Scots Worthies''. It deals with Christians and particularly Pre ...

(1735–1793), Scottish biographer *

John Howie (businessman) John Howie (12 March 1833 – 20 September 1895) was a wealthy Victorian captain of industry and investor, the proprietor of the renowned J & R Howie Hurlford Fireclay Works. He would have been about 350th on a national Rich List of Britain a ...

(1833–1895), Scottish businessman *

John Mackintosh Howie John Mackintosh Howie (23 May 1936 – 26 December 2011) was a Scottish mathematician and prominent semigroup theorist. Biography Howie was educated at Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, the University of Aberdeen and Balliol College, Oxfo ...

(1936–2011), Scottish mathematician * Robert Howie (born 1929), Canadian politician *

Robert Howie (businessman) Colonel Robert Howie, Volunteer Decoration, VD, Justice of the Peace, JP, Master of Arts (Scotland), MA (1846–1927) was a prominent Glasgow businessman, the son of Hugh Howie, a successful iron merchant in the city. Educated at the High S ...

(1846–1927), Scottish businessman *

Thomas D. Howie Major Thomas Dry Howie (April 12, 1908 – July 17, 1944) was a United States Army Infantry Officer and Battalion Commander in the 29th Infantry Division who was killed in action during the Battle of Normandy in World War II while leading his un ...

(1908–1944), American army officer * Thomas W. Howie (1856–1927), Scottish businessman *

William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon (2 March 1924 – 26 May 2018), known as Will Howie, was a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament (MP). Howie was elected to the House of Commons at a 1963 by-election in the Luton consti ...

(1924–2018), British politician *

Benjamin Franklin Howey Benjamin Franklin Howey (March 17, 1828 – February 6, 1893) was an American lawyer and Republican politician who represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for one term from 1883 to 1885. ...

(1828–1895), American politician *

Hugh Howey Hugh C. Howey (born 1975) is an American writer, known best for the science fiction series ''Silo'', part of which he published independently through Amazon.com's Kindle Direct Publishing system. Howey was raised in Monroe, North Carolina and be ...

(born 1975), American author *

Kate Howey Kate Louise Howey (born 31 May 1973 in Andover, Hampshire, England) is a former elite British judoka. She remains the only British woman to have won two Olympic judo medals (silver at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, and bronze at the 1992 Olympi ...

(born 1973), British judoka *

Lee Howey Lee Howey (born 1 April 1969) is an English former footballer who played primarily as a defender. Howey began his career at Bishop Auckland, before moving to Sunderland where he spent the majority of his career. He later player for Burnley, N ...

(born 1969), English footballer *

Peter Howey Peter Howey (born 23 January 1958) is an English former professional footballer, who played for Huddersfield Town, Newport County, Scarborough & Frickley Athletic Frickley Athletic Football Club is a football club based in South Elmsall, ...

(born 1958), English footballer *

Steve Howey (actor) Steven Michael Robert Howey (born July 12, 1977) is an American film and television actor. He is known for his roles as Van Montgomery on The WB/The CW, CW television series ''Reba (TV series), Reba'', and Kevin Ball on the Showtime (TV network), ...

(born 1977), American actor *

Steve Howey (footballer) Steven Norman Howey (born 26 October 1971) is an English football coach, former professional footballer and sports radio presenter. As a player, he was a centre back who notably played in the Premier League for Newcastle United, Manchester City, ...

(born 1971), English footballer

Fictional characters

*Howie Hardy, a composer and musician in the 1987-1996 animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV series *Sergeant Neil Howie of the West Highland Constabulary, the mainland policeman who visits an isolated

Hebridean The Hebrides (; gd, Innse Gall, ; non, Suðreyjar, "southern isles") are an archipelago off the west coast of the Scottish mainland. The islands fall into two main groups, based on their proximity to the mainland: the Inner Hebrides, Inner a ...

island in search of a missing girl in the 1973 film ''

The Wicker Man ''The Wicker Man'' is a 1973 British folk horror film directed by Robin Hardy and starring Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt, and Christopher Lee. The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer, inspired by David Pinner's 1967 nov ...

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