Noun: Owens ow-unz
- United States athlete and Black American whose success in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin outraged Hitler (1913-1980)
- Jesse Owens, James Cleveland Owens
- Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858)
- Robert Owen
- English comparative anatomist and palaeontologist who was an opponent of Darwinism (1804-1892)
- Sir Richard Owen
Type of: athlete, comparative anatomist, crusader, fossilist [archaic], industrialist, jock [N. Amer, informal], meliorist, palaeontologist [Brit, Cdn], paleontologist [N. Amer], reformer, reformist, social reformer
Encyclopedia: Owens, Michael
Owen, Peter