MacDowell
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MacDowell is a surname derived from the Gaelic Mac Dubhghaill, MacDubhghaill, meaning "son of Dubhghall".

People

  • Andie MacDowell
    Andie MacDowell
    Rosalie Anderson "Andie" MacDowell is an American model and actress. She has received the Golden Camera and an Honorary César.-Early life:...

     (born 1958), American film actress
  • Edward MacDowell
    Edward MacDowell
    Edward Alexander MacDowell was an American composer and pianist of the Romantic period. He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites "Woodland Sketches", "Sea Pieces", and "New England Idylls". "Woodland Sketches" includes his most popular short piece, "To a Wild Rose"...

     (1860–1908), American composer
  • Harold MacDowell
    Harold MacDowell
    Harold MacDowell is a construction company executive.Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, Harold MacDowell graduated from high school in Fort Smith, Arkansas and received his Bachelor's degree in Engineering Management from Southern Methodist University in 1984...

    , American construction company executive
  • Joao MacDowell
    Joao MacDowell
    Brazilian musical artist Joao MacDowell, born in Brasilia, started his professional career as leader and vocalist of the Brazilian cult band Tonton Macoute...

    , Brazilian musician
  • Louis G. MacDowell
    Louis G. MacDowell
    Dr. Louis Gardner MacDowell was a researcher for the United States Department of Agriculture . With Edwin L. Moore and C. D. Atkins in the 1940s, he helped develop a new process for making concentrated orange juice. All three men were inducted together into the Florida Agricultural Hall of Fame in...

     (died 1986), American USDA researcher
  • Marian MacDowell
    Marian MacDowell
    Marian MacDowell was a pianist, and in 1907 the founder and developer of the MacDowell Colony, an art colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, United States...

     (1857–1956), American pianist
  • Patrick MacDowell
    Patrick MacDowell
    Patrick MacDowell RA was a sculptor from Belfast. At about the age of sixteen, he was apprenticed to a coach-builder in London and later went to lodge in the house of P F Chenu, the sculptor where he took to modelling...

     (1799–1870), Irish sculptor
  • Thain Wendell MacDowell
    Thain Wendell MacDowell
    Thain Wendell MacDowell, VC , DSO , was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....

     (1890–1960), Canadian Victoria Cross recipient


Fictional:
  • Billy MacDowell, a fictional character in the Alice 19th
    Alice 19th
    is a Japanese shōjo manga written by Yuu Watase . It appeared as a serial in the manga magazine Shōjo Comic....

    manga

Places

United States
  • MacDowell Colony
    MacDowell Colony
    The MacDowell Colony is an art colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, U.S.A., founded in 1907 by Marian MacDowell, pianist and wife of composer Edward MacDowell. She established the institution and its endowment chiefly with donated funds...

    , an art colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire


Canada

See also

  • McDowell (disambiguation)
  • Dowell (disambiguation)
  • Clan Macdowall
    Clan MacDowall
    Clan Macdowall is a Scottish clan. The clan claims to descend from the senior descendants in the male line of the princely house of Fergus, first of the ancient Lords of Galloway...

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