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Powers may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
- Powers (comics), an American creator-owned comic book series by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming
- Powers (U.S. TV series), a PlayStation Network series, based on the comics, originally for FX Network.
- Powers (UK TV series), a 2004 children's science-fiction TV series.
- Powers, an order of angels in De Coelesti Hierarchia, a work on angelology, which exerted great influence on scholasticism
- Powers, a novel in the Annals of the Western Shore series by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Powers Girl, a 1943 musical comedy film about aspiring models
Businesses
- Powers (whiskey), a brand of Irish whiskey
- Powers Accounting Machine, an early 20th-century tabulating machine
Geography
In the United States
- Powers, Indiana
- Powers, Michigan
- Powers Township, Cass County, Minnesota
- Powers Lake, North Dakota
- Powers, Oregon
- Powers, West Virginia
- Powers Ferry, a historic ferry of the Atlanta area on the Chattahoochee River
People named Powers
- A. T. Powers (1896–1975), American Baptist Association president
- Abigail Fillmore (née Abigail Powers, 1798–1853), First Lady of the United States
- Albert E. Powers (b. 1816), President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Caleb Powers (1869–1932), US Representative from Kentucky
- Chet Powers (Chester William Powers Jr., 1937–1994), American singer-songwriter
- D. Lane Powers (1896–1968), US Representative from New Jersey
- Darrell Powers ("Shifty" Powers, 1923–2009), American WWII veteran portrayed in Band of Brothers
- David Powers (1912–1998), Special Assistant to John F. Kennedy
- Doc Powers (Michael Riley Powers, 1870–1909) an American Major League Baseball player
- Georgia Davis Powers (1923-2016), Kentucky politician
- Gershom Powers (1789–1831), US Representative from New York
- Francis Gary Powers (1929–1977), American pilot who was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960
- Hardy Powers (1900–1972), general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene
- Harold J. Powers (1900–1996), Lieutenant Governor of California
- Harriet Powers (1837–1910), African American slave, folk artist and noted quilt maker
- Hiram Powers (1805–1873), American neoclassical sculptor
- Horace Henry Powers (1835–1913), US Representative from Vermont
- J. F. Powers (1917–1999), American short story and novel writer
- Jack Powers, Irish-American gambler and gang leader
- James Powers (New York) (1785–1868), New York politician
- James F. Powers (1938-2012), New Hampshire politician
- Jessica Powers (1905–1988), American poet and Carmelite nun
- John Powers (American football), college football co-head coach
- John Powers (baseball) (1929–2001), baseball outfielder
- John Powers (mayor), American politician, Mayor of Spokane, WA
- John A. Powers (1922–1979), public affairs officer for NASA
- John E. Powers (1910–1998), Massachusetts politician
- John Holbrook Powers (1831–1918), Nebraska pioneer
- John J. Powers (food scientist) (born 1918), Food Science
- John James Powers (1912–1942), United States Navy officer and Medal of Honor recipient
- John R. Powers (born 1945), American novelist and playwright
- John Robert Powers (1892–1977), American actor and owner of a modelling agency.
- John T. Powers, President of the Federal League of baseball
- Johnny Powers (born 1943), originally named Dennis Waters, a Canadian professional wrestler
- Kevin Powers (born 1980), American writer and Iraq War veteran
- Kirsten Powers (born 1969), American columnist, blogger, pundit and political commentator
- Kitty Powers, the drag queen persona of game developer Rich Franke and the titular character of Kitty Powers' Matchmaker
- Lauren Powers (born 1961), American actress, amateur bodybuilder and firefighter
- Leo J. Powers (1909–1967), US Army soldier and a recipient of the Medal of Honor
- Levi P. Powers (1828-1888), Wisconsin legislator and judge
- Lewis J. Powers (1837–1915), Massachusetts businessman and politician
- Llewellyn Powers (1836–1908), Governor of Maine, US Representative from Maine
- Mala Powers (1931–2007), American film actress and television guest actress
- Mike Powers (disambiguation)
- Millard Powers (born 1965), American musician, songwriter, record producer and recording engineer
- Millard Powers Fillmore (1828–1889), son of US President Millard Fillmore
- Oswald A. Powers (1915–1942), US Navy officer and Navy Cross recipient
- PJ Powers (born 1960), a South African singer also known as Penelope Jane Dunlop and as Thandeka
- Pat Powers (businessman) (1870–1948), Irish-American businessman
- Patrick Powers (volleyball) (born 1958), American volleyball player
- Patrick T. Powers (1860–1925), American minor league baseball executive
- Preston Powers (1842–1904), American sculptor
- Powers Boothe (born 1948), American actor
- R. E. Powers, mathematician
- Richard Powers (born 1957), American novelist
- Richie Powers (1930–1998), American professional basketball referee
- Ridgley C. Powers (1836–1912), Governor of Mississippi
- Ron Powers (born 1941), American journalist, novelist, and non-fiction writer
- Samuel L. Powers (1848–1929), US Representative from Massachusetts
- Stefanie Powers (born 1942), American actress and singer
- Stephen Powers (1840–1904), American journalist, ethnographer, and historian of Native American tribes in California
- Thomas Powers (born 1940), American author, intelligence expert, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize
- Tim Powers (born 1952), American science fiction and fantasy author
- Tom Powers (1890–1957), American stage and film actor
- William Powers (politician), Chairman of the New York Republican State Committee
- William C. Powers (born 1946) the 28th president of The University of Texas at Austin
- William T. Powers (1926–2013), scholar of psychology theory
- William T. Powers (industrialist) (1820–1907), manufacturer and capitalist
- Warren Powers (born 1941), American football coach
- Warren Powers (American football) (born 1965), American football player
See also
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