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Owen Paterson
Owen Paterson, Conservative MP for North Shropshire 1997-2021, Northern Ireland and Defra secretary, resigned in November 2021 after a standards report found breaches of paid advocacy rules involving Randox and Lynn's Country Foods, recommending a 30-day suspension.
Owen Riegling
Owen Riegling (born 1999, Mildmay, Ontario) is a Canadian country singer-songwriter who won the 2022 Boots & Hearts Emerging Artist Competition, signed to Universal Music Canada, scored Double Platinum hit "Old Dirt Roads," and released the albums Bruce County (From The Beginning) and In The Feeling.
Owen Roberts
Owen Josephus Roberts (1875–1955), U.S. Supreme Court associate justice 1930–1945, Teapot Dome special prosecutor, swing vote in West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, Pearl Harbor commission chairman, later Penn Law dean.
Owen Sansom
Owen Sansom is a British cancer biologist known for research on Wnt signaling and APC in colorectal cancer, and director of the Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute.
Owen Smith
Owen Smith, British Labour politician, MP for Pontypridd 2010-2019, former BBC producer, Pfizer government relations head, and shadow work and pensions secretary who lost the 2016 Labour leadership contest to Jeremy Corbyn, 38.2% to 61.8%.
Owen Stanley Range
Owen Stanley Range, mountain chain in southeastern Papua New Guinea, about 480 km long, highest peak Mount Victoria (about 4,073 m). Crossed by the 96 km Kokoda Track, site of the 1942 Kokoda campaign, and a biodiversity hotspot with over 4,000 plant species.
Owen Teague
Owen Teague is an American actor, born in 1998 in Tampa, Florida, known for Nolan Rayburn on Netflix's Bloodline and starring as Noa in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.
Owen Teale
Owen Teale (born 1961) is a Welsh actor, Tony Award winner for A Doll's House on Broadway, best known as Ser Alliser Thorne in Game of Thrones and as Philip Osborne in Line of Duty.
Owen Thiele
Owen Thiele (born 1996, Houston, Texas) is an American actor, writer, and podcaster who plays Anton in FX's Adults and George in Overcompensating, played Gigi in Theater Camp, and hosts the podcast In Your Dreams.
Owen Thomas Jones
Owen Thomas Jones (1878–1967) was a Welsh geologist who established the Ordovician and Silurian succession of central Wales and became the first Professor of Geology at Aberystwyth.
Owen Tudor
Owen Tudor (Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur, c. 1400-1461), Welsh courtier who secretly married Catherine of Valois, widow of Henry V; father of Edmund and Jasper Tudor, grandfather of Henry VII, founder of the Tudor dynasty; beheaded at Hereford after Mortimer's Cross.
Owen Willans Richardson
Owen Willans Richardson (1879–1959) was an English physicist who won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering Richardson's law of thermionic emission, the basis of vacuum-tube technology.
Owen Wilson
Owen Cunningham Wilson, born in 1968 in Dallas, Texas, is an American actor and screenwriter known for comedies like Zoolander and Wedding Crashers and his work with Wes Anderson.
Oweniidae
Oweniidae (Rioja, 1917), tube-dwelling marine polychaete worms; with Magelonidae forms Palaeoannelida, sister to all other annelids. Genera Owenia, Myriowenia, Myriochele, Galathowenia; simple medullary nervous system, mitraria larva.
Owenites
Owenites is an extinct Early Triassic ceratitid ammonoid genus established by Hyatt and Smith in 1905, with involute lenticular smooth shells, serrated ceratitic septa, species including O. koeneni and O. egrediens, used in biostratigraphy.
Owens Corning
Owens Corning, formerly Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, is an American building products manufacturer founded in Toledo, Ohio, in 1938, known for pink fiberglass insulation and roofing shingles.
Owens River
Owens River, eastern California watercourse rising near Mount Lyell and flowing to Owens Lake; since 1913 diverted into the Los Angeles Aqueduct, drying the lake and driving dust mitigation and the Lower Owens River Project restoration.
Owens v Owens
Owens v Owens [2018] UKSC 41 was a UK Supreme Court case in which Tini Owens was refused a divorce from Hugh Owens in 2018.
Owens-Illinois
Owens-Illinois, today O-I Glass, is an American glass container manufacturer formed in 1929 from the merger of Owens Bottle and the Illinois Glass Company, headquartered in Perrysburg, Ohio.
Owensboro, Kentucky
Owensboro, Kentucky, county seat of Daviess County on the Ohio River, formerly Yellow Banks and Owensborough; about 60,900 residents, a manufacturing and tourism hub known for barbecue and bourbon.
Owerri
Owerri, capital and largest city of Imo State, southeastern Nigeria, designated state capital in 1976; a fast-growing Igbo urban center with about 716,000 (Africapolis 2015) to 2.9 million (GHS-UCDB 2020) residents, home to FUTO and Imo State University.
Owkin
Owkin is a French-American AI biotechnology company, founded in 2016 by Thomas Clozel and Gilles Wainrib, that applies machine learning to patient data for drug discovery and diagnostics.
Owl
Owl (order Strigiformes): nocturnal birds of prey in families Tytonidae and Strigidae, 200-254 species worldwide except Antarctica; known for fixed tubular eyes, 270-degree head rotation, asymmetric ears, silent flight, and pellet-forming carnivory.
Owl (Marvel Comics)
The Owl (Leland Owlsley) is a Marvel Comics crime boss and Daredevil enemy, first appearing in Daredevil #3 (1964) by Stan Lee and Joe Orlando; a ruthless financier turned villain, distinct from unrelated owl-named characters.
Owl aviaries
Owl aviaries are large enclosed enclosures for owls in zoos, sanctuaries, and rehabilitation centers, requiring covered tops, species-appropriate perching, and separate breeding enclosures; modern standards phase out tethering by 2030 in favor of free-lofted aviaries.
Owl City
Owl City is the electronic pop project of American musician Adam Young, begun in 2007 in Owatonna, Minnesota, and best known for the 2009 hit "Fireflies."
Owl of Athena
Owl of Athena: the little owl (Athene noctua), sacred bird of the Greek goddess Athena and Roman Minerva, symbol of wisdom, and the reverse emblem of Athens' silver tetradrachm coins minted from about 510 BC.
Owl Pharaoh
Owl Pharaoh is Travis Scott's (Travi$ Scott) debut mixtape, released free May 21, 2013 on G.O.O.D. Music/Hustle Gang after a year's delay and reworks of a 2012 version; singles "Quintana" and "Upper Echelon".
Owl Ventures
Owl Ventures is a San Francisco venture capital firm, founded in 2014, that invests exclusively in education technology from seed to late stage, with over $2 billion in assets.
Owlman
Owlman of Mawnan, also Cornish Owlman (Kowanden): a winged owl-like humanoid cryptid reported near St Mawnan and St Stephen's church, Cornwall, from 17 April 1976, publicized by showman Tony 'Doc' Shiels; no physical evidence, leading explanations a hoax or an escaped eagle-owl.