Gower (surname)

Gower is a surname of English origin. Notable people with the surname include:

• Andre Gower (born 1973), American child actor
• Andrew Gower (born 1978), British video game developer and creator of RuneScape
• Andrew Gower (actor) (born 1989), British actor
• Craig Gower (born 1978), Australian rugby footballer
• David Gower (born 1957), English former cricketer
• David Gower (rugby league) (born 1985), Australian Rugby League player
• David J. Gower, palaeontologist
• Erasmus Gower (1742-1814), Welsh naval officer and colonial governor
• Flynn Gower (born 1972), Australian musician with the rock band Cog
• George Gower (c. 1540–1596), English portrait painter
• H. D. G. Leveson Gower (1873-1954), English cricketer
• Henry Gower, 14th century canonist, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and bishop
• Humphrey Gower (1638–1711), English clergyman and academic
• Iris Gower, pen name of novelist Iris Davies (1935–2010)
• Jessica Gower (born 1977), Australian actress
• John Gower (c. 1330-1403), English poet
• John Gower (Wisconsin politician) (1941-2011), American politician
• Laurence Gower (1913-1967), English lawyer and academic
• Lily Gower (1877–1959), English croquet player
• Luke Gower, Australian musician for rock band Cog and Flynn's brother
• Mark Gower (born 1978), English footballer
• Pauline Gower (1910–1947), British pilot and writer, head of the female branch of the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War
• Raymond Gower (1916-1989), Welsh Member of Parliament
• Richard Hall Gower (1768–1833), English mariner, empirical philosopher, nautical inventor, entrepreneur, and humanitarian
• Lord Ronald Gower (1845–1916), British aristocrat, Member of Parliament, sculptor and writer
• Rosalie Gower (1931–2013), Canadian civil servant and activist
• Sir Thomas Gower, 2nd Baronet (c. 1605–1672), twice High Sheriff of Yorkshire

See also

• Leveson-Gower, the name of a Scottish noble family
• Gowers, another surname