Fowler (surname)

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'''Fowler''' is an English and/or Scots surname. Its origin is the Old English {{Lang|ang|fugelere}}, an occupational name for a bird-catcher or hunter of wild birds.<ref name="FowlerNewfoundland">{{cite book | last1=Seary | first1=E. R. | last2=Lynch | first2=Sheila M. P. | editor-last=Kirwin | editor-first=William J. | title=Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland | orig-date=1977 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cdZCZ61xXNcC&q=fowler+surname&pg=PA188 | format=Google Books | access-date=2019-09-02 | year=1988 | publisher=McGill–Queen's University Press | location=Canada | isbn=0-7735-1782-0 | page=188 | authorlink=E. R. Seary}}</ref><ref name="Ancestry1">{{cite web | url= https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=fowler | title=Fowler Name Meaning | access-date=2019-09-02 | work=Ancestry }}</ref><ref name="SurnameDB">{{cite web | url= http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?name=Fowler | title=Last name: Fowler | access-date=2019-09-02 | work= SurnameDB | publisher=Name Origin Research }}</ref> Old English {{Lang|ang|fugel}} or {{Lang|ang|fugol}} means "bird" and has evolved into the modern word fowl. {{Wiktionary|fowler|fugelere}}

==Notable Fowlers==

===Born before 1700=== * Constance Aston Fowler (born "Constance Aston"), English author and anthologist * Edward Fowler (bishop) (1632–1714), English churchman, Bishop of Gloucester * Eliza Haywood (born "Elizabeth Fowler" 1693–1756), English writer, actress and publisher * Richard Fowler (chancellor) (c.1425–1477) - Chancellor of the Exchequer to Edward IV * Thomas Fowler (courtier), (d. 1590), steward of the Countess of Lennox, and spy * William Fowler (makar) (c. 1560–1612), Scottish poet, writer, courtier, and translator

===Born after 1700=== * Charles Fowler (1792–1867), English architect * John Fowler (politician) (1755–1840), American national politician * Robert Fowler (archbishop) (1724–1801), Archbishop of Dublin in the Church of Ireland * Robert Fowler (bishop) (1767–1841), his son, Bishop of Ossory in the Church of Ireland * Robert Merrick Fowler (1778–c1850), Royal Navy officer * Samuel Fowler (1779–1844), New Jersey Congressman from 1833 to 1837 * Thomas Fowler (inventor) (1777–1843), English inventor * William Chauncey Fowler (1793–1881), American scholar, son-in-law and assistant to Noah Webster

===Born after 1800===

* Alfred Fowler (1868–1940), English astronomer * Bertha Fowler (1866–1952), American educator, preacher, deaconess * Beryl Fowler (1881–1963), English painter * Charles A. Fowler (1832–1896), American lawyer and politician * Charles Henry Fowler (1837–1908), Canadian-American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church * C. Hodgson Fowler (1840–1910), English ecclesiastical architect * Charles N. Fowler (1852–1932), American national politician * Edmund John Fowler (1861–1926), Irish soldier, Victoria Cross recipient * Edward Brush Fowler (1826–1896), American soldier * Francis George Fowler (1871–1918), English writer on English language, grammar and usage * Frank Fowler (1852–1910), American artist * Frank Oliver Fowler (1861–1945), Canadian politician from Manitoba * George Fowler (politician) (1839–1896), South Australian politician * George William Fowler (1859–1924), Canadian politician and lawyer * Harriet Putnam Fowler (1842–1901), American writer * Hec Fowler (1892–1987), Canadian ice hockey and soccer player * Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton (1830–1911), English politician * Sir Henry Fowler (engineer), (1870–1938) English locomotive engineer * Henry Fowler (died 1896), one of a pair of Victorian murderers, known as Milsom and Fowler * Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933), English schoolmaster, lexicographer and commentator on the usage of English * Henry Weed Fowler (1878–1965), American zoologist * Jack Fowler (footballer born 1899) (1899–1975), Welsh footballer * Jack Beresford Fowler (1893–1972), Australian theatre director * Jesse Fowler (1898–1973), American baseball player * Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet (1817–1898), English railway engineer * John Fowler (agricultural engineer) (1826–1864), English agricultural engineer * John Edgar Fowler (1866–1930), American politician * Joseph S. Fowler (1820–1902), American politician * Lilian Fowler (1886–1954), Australian politician * Lydia Folger Fowler (1823–1879), American physician, activist, and professor of medicine * Orson Squire Fowler (1809–1887), American phrenologist * Ralph H. Fowler (1889–1944), English mathematical physicist * Sir Robert Fowler, 1st Baronet (1828–1891), Lord Mayor of London * Robert Fowler (athlete) (1882–after 1981), Newfoundland-born marathon runner * Robert G. Fowler (1884–1966), American aviation pioneer * Robert Henry Fowler (1857–1957), Irish cricketer * Robert St Leger Fowler (1891–1925), Irish cricketer * Samuel Fowler (1851–1919), American politician from New Jersey * J. Samuel Fowler (1874–1961), American politician from New York * Thomas Fowler (academic) (1832–1904), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford *William Henry Fowler (1854–1932), founder of Fowler's Calculators * William Warde Fowler (1847–1921), English historian and ornithologist * William Weekes Fowler (1849–1923), entomologist

===Born after 1900=== * Alan Fowler (footballer) (1911–1944), English footballer * Art Fowler (1922–2007), American baseball player and coach * Bernie Fowler (1924–2021), American politician * Bobby Jack Fowler (1939–2006), American criminal * Bobby Fowler (fullback, born 1960) (born 1960), American football player * Boob Fowler (1900–1988), American baseball player * Bruce Fowler (born 1947), American trombonist and composer * Calvin Fowler (1940–2013), American basketball player * Cary Fowler (born 1949), American agricultural conservationist * Catherine S. Fowler (born 1940), American anthropologist * Daphne Fowler (born 1939), English quiz show champion * David Fowler (mathematician) (1937–2004), English math historian * Don D. Fowler (born 1936), American anthropologist and archaeologist * Donald Fowler (1935–2020), American politician * Earl B. Fowler (1925–2008), American admiral * H. M. Fowler (1918–2014), American politician * Hal Fowler (1927–2000), American poker player * Hedley Fowler (1916–1944), English RAF Pilot who escaped from Colditz Castle * Henry H. Fowler (1908–2000), American lawyer and politician * Hugh S. Fowler (1912–1975), American film editor * Ian Fowler (1939–2013), British journalist * James Bonard Fowler (1933–2015), Alabama State Trooper convicted of shooting unarmed civil rights protestor Jummie Lee Jackson * James W. Fowler (1940–2015), American psychologist, academic and Methodist clergyman * Jim Fowler (1930–2019), American zoologist and television personality * Keith Fowler (1939–2023), American educator (professor), actor, director * Leila Fowler (1933–2025), Nigerian educationalist * Michael Fowler (1929–2022), New Zealand architect and politician * Norman Fowler (born 1938), English politician * Ron Fowler (born 1944), American businessman * Thomas W. Fowler (1921–1944), American army officer, Medal of Honor recipient * Tillie K. Fowler (1942–2005), American politician * Tommy Fowler (1924–2009), English footballer * Verna Fowler (1942–2023), American Menominee educator, activist, and Catholic nun * William Alfred Fowler (1911–1995), American astrophysicist * Wyche Fowler (born 1940), American politician and diplomat

===Born after 1950=== * Alex Fowler (born 2001), Australian basketball player * Ally Fowler (born 1961), Australian actress * Bernard Fowler (born 1959), American singer, producer, songwriter * Brian Fowler (cyclist) (born 1962), New Zealand cyclist * Bruce Fowler (tenor) (born 1965), American classical tenor * Cam Fowler (born 1991), Canadian ice hockey player * Carlos Fowler (born 1972), American football player * Catherine Fowler (born 1969), film and media academic * Charlie Fowler (1954–2006), American mountain climber, writer, and photographer * Cheyne Fowler (born 1982), South African football player * Chris Fowler (born 1962), American sports journalist * Christopher Fowler (1953–2023), English fiction author * Damon Fowler, American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter * Dennis Fowler (living), American surgeon and hospital executive * Dexter Fowler (born 1986), American baseball player * Dustin Fowler (born 1994), American baseball player * Don Paul Fowler (1953–1999), English classicist * Emma Fowler (born 1979), British biathlete and Army corporal * Elspeth Fowler (born 1992), cricketer * Graeme Fowler (born 1957), English cricketer * Jacob Fowler (born 2004), American ice hockey player * James H. Fowler (born 1970), American political scientist * Jason Fowler (dancer) (living), American ballet dancer * Jason Fowler (footballer) (born 1974), English footballer * Jhaniele Fowler (born 1989), Jamaican netball player * Joe Fowler (born 1955), American television personality and actor * Karen Joy Fowler (born 1950), American fiction author * Kevin Spacey (born "Kevin Fowler", 1959), American actor * Martin Fowler (footballer) (born 1957), English footballer * Martin Fowler (software engineer) (born 1963), English-American software architecture author * Mary Fowler (born 2003), Australian soccer player * Mick Fowler (born 1956), British mountaineer * Nick Fowler (living), New York novelist, singer, songwriter * Pete Fowler (born 1969), Welsh illustrator * Peter Fowler (born 1959), Australian golfer * Rickie Fowler (born 1988), American golfer * Robbie Fowler (born 1975), English footballer * Ryan Fowler (born 1982), American football player * Samuel Fowler (disambiguation), several men of this name * Simon Fowler (born 1965), English musician * Simon Fowler (author) (born 1956), British historian * Therese Fowler (born 1967), American fiction author * Tom Fowler (artist) (living), Canadian comic artist * Tom Fowler (musician) (1951–2024), American musician * Toni Fowler (born 1993), Filipino vlogger, actress, rapper, songwriter, and social media personality

===Brocklebank-Fowler=== * Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler (1934–2020), British politician

==Distribution== The "Fowler" surname evolved from an original use of "{{Lang|ang|Fugelere|italic=no}}" in the early 13th Century.<ref name="SurnameDB"/> The surname is uncommon in the United States, appearing with a rank of 250 in the 1990 Census and a rank of 267 in the 2000 Census, 27½% of the American population being accounted for surnames in the ranks of 1 to 250.<ref name="Ancestry2">{{cite web | url= https://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/namesearch.html | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/19970207210525/http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/namesearch.html | url-status= dead | archive-date= 1997-02-07 | title= Name Search Results | access-date= 2008-01-31 | date= 2000-09-07 | format= Database query | publisher= United States Census Bureau | quote= NAME (last):FOWLER; %FREQ:0.042; CUMM FREQ:27.535%; RANK:250 }}</ref> In 19th Century England, "Fowler" was widespread, appearing in 35 of the 39 historic counties, with higher density in the north of England, in the 1891 Census of England and Wales.<ref name="Ancestry3">{{cite web | url= http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Fowler-family-history-uk.ashx?fn=&yr=1891 | title= Fowler Families Living in England and Wales in 1891 | access-date= 2008-02-01 | work= Family Facts | publisher= The Generations Network, Inc. }}</ref> Meanwhile, in 19th Century United States, "Fowler" appears in every surveyed state in both the 1880 US census and 1840 US Census, showing a higher concentration in New York state in each case.<ref name="Ancestry4">{{cite web | url= http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Fowler-family-history.ashx?fn=&yr=1880 | title= Fowler Family History Facts 1880 | access-date= 2008-02-01 | work= Family Facts | publisher= The Generations Network, Inc. }}</ref><ref name="Ancestry5">{{cite web | url= http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Fowler-family-history.ashx?fn=&yr=1840 | title= Fowler Family History Facts 1840 | access-date= 2008-02-01 | work= Family Facts | publisher= The Generations Network, Inc. }}</ref>

==Fictional characters== * Abijah Fowler in the American animated series ''Blue Eye Samurai'' * Amy Farrah Fowler, from the American sitcom ''The Big Bang Theory'' * Arthur Fowler, in the British soap opera ''EastEnders'' * Bex Fowler, in the British soap opera ''EastEnders'' * Gill Fowler, in the British soap opera ''EastEnders'' * Hope Fowler, in the British soap opera ''EastEnders'' * House Fowler, one of the noble houses of Dorne in the series ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' by George R. R. Martin * Lily Slater, in the British soap opera ''EastEnders'' * Lisa Fowler, in the British soap opera ''EastEnders'' * Mark Fowler, in the British soap opera ''EastEnders'' * Martin Fowler (EastEnders), in the British soap opera ''EastEnders'' * Michelle Fowler, in the British soap opera ''EastEnders'' * Pauline Fowler, in the British soap opera ''EastEnders'' * Ruth Fowler, in the British soap opera ''EastEnders'' * Sonia Fowler, in the British soap opera ''EastEnders'' * Stacey Slater, in the British soap opera ''EastEnders'' * Vicki Fowler, in the British soap opera ''EastEnders''

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