Howie is a Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 locational surname

Surname

A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

 derived from a medieval estate in Scotland's southwest county of Ayrshire

Ayrshire

Ayrshire is a registration county, and former administrative county in south-west Scotland, United Kingdom, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. Its principal towns include Ayr, Kilmarnock and Irvine. The town of Troon on the coast has hosted the British Open Golf Championship twice in the...

. While its ancient name is known as "The lands of How", its exact location is lost to time. The word "How", predating written history, appears to originate from the ancient Kingdom of Strathclyde

Kingdom of Strathclyde

Strathclyde , originally Brythonic Ystrad Clud, was one of the early medieval kingdoms of the celtic people called the Britons in the Hen Ogledd, the Brythonic-speaking parts of what is now southern Scotland and northern England. The kingdom developed during the post-Roman period...

 as a locational description of a "hollow" (deep valley). The alternate spelling of Howie is "Howey". The oldest public record of the surname dates to 1526 in the town of Brechin

Brechin

Brechin is a former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland. Traditionally Brechin is often described as a city because of its cathedral and its status as the seat of a pre-Reformation Roman Catholic diocese , but that status has not been officially recognised in the modern era...

. People with the surname or its variant include:

• Archibald Howie
  Archibald Howie
  Archibald "Archie" Howie FRS is a British physicist, known for his pioneering work on the interpretation of transmission electron microscope images of crystals. Born in 1934, he attended Kirkcaldy High School and the University of Edinburgh. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge,...
  
  
• Forbes Howie
  Forbes Howie
  William Forbes Howie, DL, JP, MIEE, ARTC was a successful businessman who played an active role in Scottish public life.-Background and education:...
  
  
• George Howie
  George Howie
  George Howie was an American racecar driver.-Indy 500 results:...
  
  
• Gillian Howie
• Hugh Howie
  Hugh Howie
  Hugh Howie was a Scottish footballer who played for Newton Juniors, Hibernian and the Scotland national team....
  
  
• James Howie
  James Howie
  James "Jimmy" Howie was a Scottish footballer who later became a manager.Born in Galston, Ayrshire, he joined Kilmarnock from local side Galston Athletic in 1898. He was in the side which won the 1899 Second Division title and the following season earned selection to the Scottish League...
  
  
• John Howie (biographer)
• John Howie (businessman)
  John Howie (businessman)
  John Howie was a wealthy Victorian captain of industry and investor, the proprietor of the renowned J & R Howie Hurlford Fireclay Works. He would have been about 350th on a notional Rich List of Britain at the time, with a fortune equal to over £200 million today...
  
  
• John M. Howie (mathematician)
  John Mackintosh Howie
  John Mackintosh Howie, CBE, FRSE , Scottish mathematician, is a prominent semigroup theorist.Howie was educated at Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, the University of Aberdeenand Balliol College, Oxford....
  
  
• Robert Howie
  Robert Howie
  J. Robert Howie, PC is a former Canadian politician.Howie was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1972 federal election as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for York—Sunbury...
  
  
• Robert Howie (businessman)
  Robert Howie (businessman)
  Colonel Robert Howie, VD, JP, MA was a prominent Glasgow businessman, the son of Hugh Howie, a successful iron merchant in the city....
  
  
• Thomas D. Howie
  Thomas D. Howie
  Thomas Dry Howie was an American army officer, killed during the Battle of Normandy during World War II, while trying to capture the French town of Saint-Lô. He is known as "The Major of St...
  
  
• Thomas W. Howie
  Thomas W. Howie
  Thomas Wyllie Howie, JP was a Scottish captain of industry.-Background:Howie was born in Riccarton, Ayrshire, on 8 April 1856 to Robert and Bethia Howie, into a wealthy industrial family who had been active in the Covenanting movement. He was born at the family home, Newhouse, an estate house...
  
  
• William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon
  William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon
  William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon , known as Will Howie, is a retired British Labour Party politician and former Member of Parliament ....
  
  

Howey

• Benjamin Franklin Howey
  Benjamin Franklin Howey
  Benjamin Franklin Howey was an American Republican politician who represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1883 to 1885.-Biography:...
  
  
• Kate Howey
  Kate Howey
  Kate Louise Howey is a former British judoka, the only British judoka to have competed at four Olympic Games. Howey is also the only British woman to have won two Olympic judo medals...
  
  
• Lee Howey
  Lee Howey
  Lee Howey is a former English football player, and the older brother of former Newcastle United and England defender Steve Howey....
  
  
• Peter Howey
  Peter Howey
  Peter Howey is a former professional footballer, who played for Huddersfield Town & Frickley Athletic.-References:*99 Years & Counting - Stats & Stories - Huddersfield Town History...
  
  
• Steve Howey (actor)
  Steve Howey (actor)
  Steven Michael Robert "Steve" Howey is an American film and television actor, best known for his role as Van Montgomery in the television series Reba. His roles also include the films Supercross, DOA: Dead or Alive, and Bride Wars...
  
  
• Steve Howey (footballer)
  Steve Howey (footballer)
  Stephen Norman "Steve" Howey is a former footballer who played for the England national team. At club level, he made more than 300 appearances in the Football League and the Premier League, playing for Newcastle United, Manchester City, Leicester City, Bolton Wanderers and Hartlepool United...