• Rowena Cortes, Hong Kong singer during 1980s
• Rowena Fulham
  Rowena Fulham
  Rowena Fulham is a former association football player who represented New Zealand at international level....
  
   (born 1960), a former football (soccer) player who represented New Zealand at international level
• Rowena Jackson
  Rowena Jackson
  Rowena Othlie Jackson MBE is a New Zealand prima ballerina. Jackson was born in Invercargill, to William Ernest Jackson and Lilliane Jane, née Solomon. She attended Epsom Girls' Grammar School, in Auckland, and in 1941 won the first Royal Academy of Dancing Scholarship in New Zealand. In 1946 ...
  
   (born 1926), a New Zealand prima ballerina
• Rowena Kennett
  Rowena Kennett
  Rowena Alissa Kennett is a former MTV VJ in Thailand.At the age of three the family moved to Thailand and Kennett became a child model doing photo shoots, shows and various television commercials. At age thirteen, she started professional modeling on Fash Show, a weekly program showcasing new...
  
   (born 1979), a former MTV VJ in Thailand
• Rowena King
  Rowena King
  Rowena Josephine King , sometimes credited as Roweena King, is an English film, television and theatre actress.-Early life and education:She was born in London, England, to an African mother and a Caucasian British father....
  
   (born 1970), a television and film actress
• Rowena Meeks Abdy
  Rowena Meeks Abdy
  Rowena Meeks Abdy was an American painter who flourished in Northern California in the early 20th century. Working in oil, watercolour and charcoal, she achieved prominence in the en plein air painting school and is held in several permanent collections of significant museums...
  
   (1887–1945), an American painter in Northern California
• Rowena Moore
  Rowena Moore
  Rowena Moore was a union and civic activist, and founder of the Malcolm X Memorial Foundation in Omaha, Nebraska. She led the effort to have the Malcolm X House Site recognized for its association with the life of the national civil rights leader...
  
   (1910–1998), a union and civic activist, founder of the Malcolm X Memorial Foundation in Omaha, Nebraska
• Rowena Morrill
  Rowena Morrill
  Rowena A. Morrill is an American artist, working in science-fiction and fantasy illustration.Books of her own work have included The Fantastic Art of Rowena, Imagine , Imagination , and The Art of Rowena...
  
   (born 1944), science-fiction and fantasy illustrator
• Sally Rowena Munt
  Sally Rowena Munt
  Sally Rowena Munt is a feminist academic and author. She has written several books including Murder by the Book: Feminism and the Crime Novel....
  
  , a feminist academic and author
• Rowena Sánchez Arrieta
  Rowena Sánchez Arrieta
  María Rowena Sánchez Arrieta is a Filipina pianist, born in 1962.She was awarded the 1982 Tchaikovsky Competition's 5th prize, and subsequently won the 1986 José Iturbi Competition....
  
  , a Filipina pianist, born in 1962
• Rowena Simpson
  Rowena Simpson
  Rowena E. Simpson is the seventh and current mayor of Nackawic, New Brunswick, Canada. She was elected in May, 2008, as the first woman mayor in the history of the town.She was born in Hartfield, New Brunswick, on March 20, 1946....
  
  , mayor of Nackawic, New Brunswick, Canada
• Rowena Wallace
  Rowena Wallace
  Rowena Wallace is a Gold -Logie winning Australian actress, best known for her role as Patricia in Sons and Daughters.-Early life and budding career:...
  
  , an Australian actress, known for her role as Patricia in Sons and Daughters

In fiction

• The Lady Rowena, Ivanhoe
  Ivanhoe
  Ivanhoe is a historical fiction novel by Sir Walter Scott in 1819, and set in 12th-century England. Ivanhoe is sometimes credited for increasing interest in Romanticism and Medievalism; John Henry Newman claimed Scott "had first turned men's minds in the direction of the middle ages," while...
  
  's love interest in the novel of the same name by Walter Scott
• Rowena Ravenclaw, one of the Founders of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series of books
• Vortigern and Rowena
  Vortigern and Rowena
  Vortigern and Rowena, or Vortigern, an Historical Play is a play that was touted as a newly discovered work by William Shakespeare when it first appeared in 1796. It was eventually revealed to be a Shakespeare hoax, the product of prominent forger William Henry Ireland. Its first and only...
  
  , a historical play touted as a newly-discovered work by William Shakespeare when it first appeared in 1796

Place name

• Rowena, Texas
  Rowena, Texas
  Rowena is an unincorporated community in southwestern Runnels County, Texas, United States.Paul J. Baron designed the town in 1898.According to the US Census, the population was estimated at 483 in 2000, an increase of three percent from 1990s 466 Rowenans...
  
  
• Rowena, South Dakota
  Rowena, South Dakota
  Rowena is an unincorporated community in Minnehaha County, South Dakota along South Dakota State Highway 42.Rowena is located at , just over a mile north of the border with Iowa, about east of Sioux Falls, and west of the Minnesota border, at an elevation of 1,411 feet...
  
  
• Rowena, Oregon
  Rowena, Oregon
  Rowena is an unincorporated community in Wasco County, Oregon, United States. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined Rowena as a census-designated place . The census definition of the area may not precisely correspond to local understanding of the area with the same...
  
  

• Rowena, New South Wales
  Rowena, New South Wales
  Rowena is a small town in the far north-west of New South Wales, Australia, and lies in the Walgett Shire. It serves an agricultural community which consists of both dry and irrigated cropping as well as grazing. At the 2006 census, Rowena had a population of 201 people.A public school, which...