Famous People with Name Owen

Owen Kay Garriott            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Owen Kay Garriott: is a former NASA astronaut who spent 60 days aboard Skylab in 1973 and 10 days aboard Spacelab-1 in 1983. He is also the father of Robert Garriott and fellow spacefarer Richard Garriott.[1]

Owen Thomas Phillips III            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Owen Thomas Phillips III: is an American professional tennis player. Phillips mainly plays doubles. Phillips was born in Newport News, Virginia. He started to play tennis at the age of four with his mother Brenda and father O.T. When he was 16, he was among the top 10 in America i

Owen Porter Churchill            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Owen Porter Churchill: was an American sailor who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1940 Churchill designed and patented the swim fin improving it from the earlier version made by Louis de Corlieu in 1935. With skin-diving's low popularity in America, he sold under a tho

Owen Lovejoy            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Owen Lovejoy: was an American lawyer, Congregational minister, abolitionist, and Republican congressman from Illinois. He was also a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad. After his brother Elijah Lovejoy was murdered in November 1837 by pro-slavery forces, Owen beca

Owen Jenks Cleary            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Owen Jenks Cleary: was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.He became a lawyer and a candidate in the primary for Lieutenant Governor of Michigan in 1946. Cleary served as chair of the Michigan Republican Party from 1949-1953. He was a delegate to 1952 Republican Na

James Owen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James Owen: was an American politician from North Carolina. Born in North Carolina, Owen was a member of the North Carolina state legislature and was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina 5th District from 1817 to 1819. He died in 1865 and was interred at Oakdale

Robert Latham Owen, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert Latham Owen, Jr.: was one of the first two U.S. senators from Oklahoma. He served in the Senate between 1907 and 1925. He earlier came to public notice as a successful lawyer of part-Cherokee ancestry, who in 1906 won a major court case on behalf of the Eastern Cherokees s

Robert Dale Owen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert Dale Owen: was a longtime exponent in his adopted United States of the socialist doctrines of his father, Robert Owen, as well as a politician in the Democratic Party.Owen was elected a member of the Indiana Constitutional Convention in 1850, and was instrumental in

Philip Walter Owen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Philip Walter Owen: was the mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia from 1993 to 2002, making him one of Vancouver's longest serving mayors. His father was Walter S. Owen, who was Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia from 1973 to 1978. He entered civic politics in 1978 after being elected to the Vancouver Parks Board. In 1986 he became a member of Vancouver City Council, and served there for seven years.

William Reid Owen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Reid Owen: was the 20th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia in 1924. He was born in Ontario and moved to Vancouver in 1899. He became mayor after winning a narrow victory over Louis Taylor by 53 votes. He lost to Taylor the following year by 640 votes.