Powells or Powell's may refer to:

Places

Powell Islands Alifushi (Dhivehi: އަލިފުށި) is one of the inhabited islands of Raa Atoll in the Maldives. History Powell Islands Alifushi and Etthingili were named as the Powell Islands by Captain Robert Moresby after Lieutenant F.F. Powell, who assis ...

(Powells), Raa Atoll, Maldives

Cities, towns, communities

* Powells Corners, Ontario, Canada

United States

* Powells Crossroads, Tennessee * Powells Point, North Carolina * Powellton, California, formerly called Powell's Ranch

Watercourses, rivers, creeks

* Powell's Creek (Prince George County, Virginia), United States * Powells Creek, a river in

Prince William County Prince William County is located on the Potomac River in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population sits at 482,204, making it Virginia's second-most populous county. Its county seat is the independent city of Manassas ...

, Virginia, United States *

Powells Creek (Sydney) Powells Creek, a southern tributary of the Parramatta River, is an urban stream west of Sydney Harbour, located in Sydney, Australia. It flows through Sydney Olympic Park and joins Parramatta River at Homebush Bay. Ecology Powells Creek begins ...

, Australia

Mathematics

* Powell's method, an algorithm for finding a local minimum of a function *

Powell's dog leg method Powell's dog leg method, also called Powell's hybrid method, is an iterative optimisation algorithm for the solution of non-linear least squares problems, introduced in 1970 by Michael J. D. Powell.Powell (1970) Similarly to the Levenberg–Marquar ...

, an iterative optimization

Other uses

Powell's Books Powell's Books is a chain of bookstores in Portland, Oregon, and its surrounding metropolitan area. Powell's headquarters, dubbed Powell's City of Books, claims to be the largest independent new and used bookstore in the world. Powell's City ...