Bowles (surname)
Bowles is an English and Irish surname of Norman origin. Notable people with the surname include:
- Brian Bowles , US baseball player
- Brian Bowles , US mixed martial artist
- Charles J. Bowles, US athletics coach
- Chester Bowles, US diplomat and politician
- Cory Bowles, Canadian actor
- Cyril Bowles, English bishop
- Denzel Bowles, American basketball player
- Edward Augustus Bowles, British horticulturalist and writer
- Erskine Bowles, US businessman and politician
- Evelyn M. Bowles US politician
- Frank Bowles, British solicitor and politician
- Hamish Bowles, British magazine editor
- Ian Bowles, environmentalist, businessman, politician, and former Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs
- Jack Bowles, English cricketer
- Jane Bowles, US writer
- Janet Payne Bowles, US artist
- John Bowles , English lawyer and author
- Jovan Bowles, South African rugby player
- Lynn Bowles, British radio reporter
- Martin Bowles, senior Australian public servant
- Michael Bowles, Irish conductor and composer
- Paul Bowles, US composer, author, and translator
- Paul Bowles , English football player
- Peter Bowles, English actor
- Pinckney Downie Bowles, US lawyer and soldier
- Ralston Bowles, US musician
- Ray Bowles, US singer
- Richard Bowles, English-born Australian long-distance runner
- Richard Spink Bowles, Canadian lawyer
- Samuel Bowles , US economist
- Samuel Bowles , US journalist
- Sharon Bowles, British politician
- Skipper Bowles, US politician
- Stanley Bowles, English football player
- Sydney Bowles, matriarch of the Mitford family
- Thomas Bowles, multiple people with the name
- Todd Bowles, American football coach
- Wayde Douglas Bowles , Canadian wrestler, father of Dwayne Johnson
- William Bowles, multiple people with the name
- Andrew Parker Bowles, British military officer
- Camilla Parker Bowles, former name of the Duchess of Cornwall, wife of Prince Charles
- Tom Parker Bowles, British writer
Fictional characters:
- "Sally Bowles," a short story in the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
- *Sally Bowles, fictional character in the 1966 stage musical Cabaret, based on the novel
- *Sally Bowles, fictional character in the 1972 film Cabaret, based on the musical
- Snowy Bowles, fictional character in the television series Sweat, played by Heath Ledger
