Fowler (surname)

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Fowler is an English and/or Scots surname. Its origin is the Old English fugelere, an occupational name for a bird-catcher or hunter of wild birds.[1][2][3] Old English fugel or fugol means "bird" and has evolved into the modern word fowl.

Look up fowler or fugelere in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Notable Fowlers

Born before 1700

Born after 1700

Born after 1800

Born after 1900

  • Alan Fowler (footballer)
  • Art Fowler (1922–2007), American professional baseball player & pitching coach
  • Bobby Jack Fowler (1939–2006), American criminal
  • Bobby Fowler (fullback, born 1960) (born 1960), American former football fullback
  • Boob Fowler (1900–1988), American professional baseball player
  • Bruce Fowler (born 1948), American trombonist
  • Calvin Fowler (1940–2013), American Olympic basketball player
  • Cary Fowler (born 1949), 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
  • Donald Fowler (1935–2020), American politician
  • Don D. Fowler (born 1936), American anthropologist and archaeologist
  • Earl B. Fowler
    (1925–2008), Admiral, United States Navy
  • H. M. Fowler (1918–2014), American politician
  • Hal Fowler (1927–2000), American amateur World Champion poker player
  • Hedley Fowler (1916–1944), English RAF Pilot who escaped from Colditz Castle
  • Henry H. Fowler (1908–2000), American lawyer and Secretary of the Treasury
  • 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 (born 1939), American educator (professor), actor, director
  • Michael Fowler (1929–2022), New Zealand architect and Mayor of Wellington
  • Norman Fowler
    (born 1938), English national politician and peer (Lord Fowler)
  • Ron Fowler (born 1943) executive chairman of the San Diego Padres and CEO of Liquid Investments Incorporated
  • Thomas W. Fowler (1921–1944), World War II American Army officer, recipient of the Medal of Honor
  • Tillie K. Fowler
    (1942–2005), American national politician
  • Tommy Fowler (1924–2009), English professional footballer
  • William Alfred Fowler (1911–1995), American astrophysicist
  • Wyche Fowler (born 1940), American national politician and diplomat

Born after 1950

Brocklebank-Fowler

Distribution

The "Fowler" surname evolved from an original use of "Fugelere" in the early 13th Century.

1840 US Census, showing a higher concentration in New York state in each case.[6][7]

Fictional characters

  • Sam and Amanda Fowler, fictional characters in U.S. soap opera Another World
  • Amy Farrah Fowler, from the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory
  • House Fowler, one of the noble houses of
    Dorne
    in the series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin

EastEnders

Several characters in the British soap opera EastEnders share the "Fowler" surname:

See also

Human name disambiguation pages

References

  1. ISBN 0-7735-1782-0
    . Retrieved 2019-09-02.
  2. ^ "Fowler Name Meaning". Ancestry. Retrieved 2019-09-02.
  3. ^ a b "Last name: Fowler". SurnameDB. Name Origin Research. Retrieved 2019-09-02.
  4. ^ "Name Search Results". United States Census Bureau. 2000-09-07. Archived from the original (Database query) on 1997-02-07. Retrieved 2008-01-31. NAME (last):FOWLER; %FREQ:0.042; CUMM FREQ:27.535%; RANK:250
  5. ^ "Fowler Families Living in England and Wales in 1891". Family Facts. The Generations Network, Inc. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
  6. ^ "Fowler Family History Facts 1880". Family Facts. The Generations Network, Inc. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
  7. ^ "Fowler Family History Facts 1840". Family Facts. The Generations Network, Inc. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
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