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Owen Chamberlain
Owen Chamberlain (1920–2006) was an American experimental physicist at UC Berkeley who co-discovered the antiproton and shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics with Emilio Segrè.
Owen Chase
Owen Chase (1798–1869) was an American whaling captain, first mate of the whaleship Essex when a sperm whale sank it in 1820, and author of its wreck narrative.
Owen Churchill
Owen Porter Churchill (1896-1985), American yachtsman and inventor; won 8-metre class gold at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics aboard Angelita, competed in three Olympic regattas, and patented the first rubber swim fin in 1940.
Owen Cooper
Owen Cooper (born 2009, Warrington, England) is a British actor whose debut role as Jamie Miller in Netflix's Adolescence made him the youngest male Emmy acting winner at 15, plus Golden Globe and BAFTA record holder.
Owen Coyle
Owen Coyle, Scottish football manager and former Republic of Ireland-capped forward; promoted Burnley to the Premier League in 2009, managed Bolton, Wigan, Houston Dynamo, Blackburn, and won the 2021-22 ISL Shield with Jamshedpur FC.
Owen Dennis
Owen Dennis (born 1987) is an American animator and creator of Cartoon Network's Infinity Train and Paramount+'s Among Us animated series; MCAD graduate, Regular Show storyboard artist, and voice of One-One.
Owen Elding
Owen Elding (born 2006) is an Irish professional footballer, a left-footed striker for Hibernian in the Scottish Premiership, signed from Sligo Rovers in January 2026 and capped by the Republic of Ireland in 2026.
Owen Epstein
Owen Epstein is a South African–trained gastroenterologist and professor at the Royal Free Hospital in London, known for primary biliary cirrhosis research and one of Europe's most active capsule endoscopy services.
Owen Farrell
Owen Andrew Farrell (born 1991) is an English rugby union fly-half and centre, Saracens captain and 112-cap England captain, 2019 World Cup finalist, and the first professional-era player to win two British & Irish Lions Test series.
Owen Fracture Zone
Owen Fracture Zone (OFZ), 800-km dextral strike-slip fault in the NW Indian Ocean forming the Arabia-India plate boundary between the Makran subduction zone and the Aden-Owen-Carlsberg triple junction; slip 3 ± 1 mm/yr, active trace 3-6 Ma old.
Owen Gingerich
Owen Gingerich (1930–2023) was an American astronomer and historian of science at Harvard, best known for his three-decade census of copies of Copernicus's De revolutionibus.
Owen Harding Wangensteen
Owen Harding Wangensteen (1898–1981) was an American surgeon who chaired surgery at the University of Minnesota from 1930 to 1967 and invented the Wangensteen suction tube for intestinal obstruction.
Owen Hargreaves
Owen Hargreaves, born in Calgary, Canada, is a former midfielder who starred for Bayern Munich, joined Manchester United in 2007, and won 42 England caps between 2001 and 2008.
Owen Hart
Owen Hart (Owen James Hart, 1965–1999), Canadian professional wrestler, youngest son of Stu Hart and brother of Bret Hart; WWF star as the Blue Blazer who died falling 78 feet at Over the Edge 1999, leading to an $18 million settlement and the Owen Hart Foundation.
Owen Henry
Owen Henry is an American Republican politician, a New Jersey senator for the 12th district since 2024 and mayor of Old Bridge Township from 2012 to 2023.
Owen Hunt
Owen Hunt is a fictional trauma surgeon on Grey's Anatomy, played by Kevin McKidd from season 5 (2008) to the season 22 finale. Former Army doctor with PTSD, married Cristina Yang, Amelia Shepherd, and Teddy Altman; exits moving to Paris.
Owen Jones
Owen Jones (born 1984, Sheffield) is a British socialist journalist, Guardian columnist, and author of Chavs (2011), The Establishment (2014), and This Land (2020), who also runs a Substack, YouTube channel, and joined Zeteo UK.
Owen King
Owen King (Owen Philip King, born 1979, Maine) is an American novelist, short-story writer, and screenwriter, youngest son of Stephen and Tabitha King; author of Double Feature and The Curator, coauthor of Sleeping Beauties (2017), and writer-producer on Paramount+'s The Stand.
Owen Kline
Owen Joseph Kline (born 1991, New York City), American filmmaker, actor, and cartoonist, son of Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates; known for Frank Berkman in The Squid and the Whale (2005) and his Safdie-produced, A24 directorial debut Funny Pages (2022), distinct from other people named Owen Kline.
Owen Lattimore
Owen Lattimore (1900–1989), American scholar of Inner Asia and advisor to Chiang Kai-shek, author of Inner Asian Frontiers of China (1940), later persecuted by McCarthy as alleged Soviet agent.
Owen Martin Phillips
Owen Martin Phillips (1930–2010) was an Australian-born physical oceanographer at Johns Hopkins University, known for his 1957 resonance theory of wind-generated ocean waves and the standard reference The Dynamics of the Upper Ocean.
Owen McCown
Owen McCown, left-handed quarterback for the UTSA Roadrunners and son of NFL quarterback Josh McCown; Colorado transfer, two-time bowl MVP, second in UTSA history in passing yards and touchdowns.
Owen McDonnell
Owen McDonnell (born 1974, Galway) is an Irish actor known for Garda Sergeant Jack Driscoll in Single-Handed and Niko Polastri in Killing Eve, plus Bad Sisters, Great Expectations, and The Weir on stage.
Owen Moore
Owen Moore (1884–1939), Irish-born American silent film actor and director, Biograph and D.W. Griffith player, first husband of Mary Pickford (married 1911, divorced 1920), last film A Star Is Born (1937).
Owen N. Witte
Owen N. Witte is an American cancer biologist at UCLA who showed that BCR-ABL drives leukemia, co-discovered BTK, and laid the groundwork for Gleevec and ibrutinib.
Owen Nolan
Owen Nolan, Belfast-born Canadian right wing, first overall pick in 1990 by Quebec; 1,200 NHL games, 422 goals, 885 points, five All-Star Games, 2002 Olympic gold; Sharks captain and franchise scoring leader.
Owen O'Malley
Owen O'Malley is an American software engineer, first committer of Apache Hadoop (2006), architect of MapReduce, security and Hive, founder and technical fellow of Hortonworks (2011-2019), then technical fellow at Cloudera (2019-2020), and founding Vice President of Apache ORC.
Owen O'Neill
Owen O'Neill is a Chicago options trader who joined Belvedere Trading as a partner after its 2002 founding and later served as its Chief Operating Officer.
Owen Painter
Owen Painter (born 1997, West Hartford, Connecticut) is an American actor; breakout as Slurp/Isaac Night in Wednesday season 2 (2025); also Tiny Beautiful Things, The Handmaid's Tale, and Matt Kellner in The Shards (2026).
Owen Parfitt
Owen Parfitt was an elderly paralysed tailor of Shepton Mallet, Somerset, who vanished from a chair outside his sister's house in June 1763 or 1768 while farm workers nearby saw nothing; the 1813 skeleton found nearby was a young woman's, and the case remains unsolved.