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1. United States athlete and Black American whose success in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin outraged Hitler (1913-1980)
   - Jesse Owens, James Cleveland Owens

1. Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858)
   - Robert Owen
    
2. English comparative anatomist and palaeontologist who was an opponent of Darwinism (1804-1892)
   - Sir Richard Owen

Type of: athlete, comparative anatomist, crusader, fossilist, industrialist, jock [N. Amer, informal], meliorist, palaeontologist [Brit, Cdn], paleontologist [N. Amer], reformer, reformist, social reformer

Encyclopedia: Owens, Mark