Owen is an anglicized Welsh personal name, cognate with Eugene, as well as with Irish Eoghan and Owain in the Welsh language. Well-known Owens (people and places etc., personal names and surnames) include the following:

Surname

• Bill Owen (1914-1999), British actor
• Clive Owen (born 1964), English actor
• Dicky Owen (1876-1932), Welsh international rugby union player
• Evelyn Owen (1915 – 1949), designer of the Owen Sub Machine Gun
• Greg Owen (born 1972), English golfer
• John Owen (1849-1921), England footballer
• John Owen (1787–1841), Governor of North Carolina
• Kai Owen (born 1975), Welsh actor
• Mark Owen (born 1972) , musician and member of Take That
• Michael Owen (born 1979), English footballer
• Michael Owen, Welsh rugby player
• Nora Owen (born 1945), Irish politician
• Orville Ward Owen (1854-1924), American physician and Baconian
• Priscilla Owen (born 1954), American judge on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, who was filibustered in the Senate
• Richard Owen (1804-1892), biologist
• Robert Owen (1771–1858), a Welsh social reformer, considered the "Father" of the cooperative movement
• Ruth Bryan Owen, member of Congress and U.S. ambassador
• Scott Owen (born 1975), double bass player for Australian rock band The Living End
• Susan Owen, English orthodontic technician and Orthodontic Technicians Association council member
• Syd Owen (1927-1999), England footballer
• Tom Owen (born 1949), British actor; son of Bill
• Wilfred Owen (1893 – 1918), World War I poet
• William Owen, Australian judge
• Several Owen Baronets

Given name

• Owen 'Alik Shahadah (b. 1973), filmmaker and African academic
• Owen Bradley (1915-1998), American country music producer
• Owen Coyle (born 1966), Scottish-born Irish professional football player and current manager of Burnley F.C.
• Owen Davis (1874-1956), Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
• Owen Garvan (born 1988), Irish footballer
• Owain Glyndŵr (c. 1359 – c. 1416), Welsh patriot, last Welsh Prince of Wales
• Owen Hargreaves (born 1981), Canadian-born English footballer
• Owen Hart (1965 – 1999), Canadian professional wrestler
• Owen Nolan (born 1972), hockey player in the NHL
• Owen Schmitt (born 1985), American football player
• Owen I of Strathclyde, King of Strathclyde
• Owen Tudor (c. 1400 – 1461), ancestor of the Tudor dynasty
• Owen Wilson (born 1968), American actor

Fictional

• Owen Harper, protagonist in the television series Torchwood.
• Owen Lars, character in the fictional Star Wars universe, "uncle" of Luke Skywalker
• Owen Paris, character in the fictional Star Trek universe
• Owen, character of Total Drama Island
• Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law, an American legal television drama, and its title character