Rowlands
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Rowlands is a surname, and may refer to:
- Clive RowlandsClive RowlandsClive Rowlands OBE is a former Welsh rugby union footballer and later coach.A teacher by profession, Rowlands played club rugby at scrum-half for Abercraf, Pontypool, Llanelli and Swansea...
- David Rowlands (civil servant)David Rowlands (civil servant)Sir David Rowlands, , was a British civil servant, who rose to the rank ofPermanent Secretary to the Department for Transport....
- Elwen RowlandsElwen RowlandsElwen Rowlands is a British television script editor. Born in Wales, after finishing school she lived for a time in New York City, where after briefly working as a waitress she gained a job as a receptionist at a television post-production company...
- Gena RowlandsGena RowlandsGena Rowlands is an American actress of film, stage and television. The four-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner is best known for her collaborations with her actor-director husband John Cassavetes in ten films, in two of which, Gloria and A Woman Under the Influence, she gave Academy...
- Graham RowlandsGraham RowlandsGraham John Rowlands is an Adelaide-based poet who has published widely in magazines and newspapers since the late 1960s. He was awarded the Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship in 2002....
- Hugh RowlandsHugh RowlandsGeneral Sir Hugh Rowlands VC, KCB was a Welsh 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.-Details:...
- Jim RowlandsJim RowlandsJim Rowlands is a Welsh folk singer who lives in Ploermel, Brittany. He has toured France over the last 15 years almost non-stop, promoting Wales and its music and culture in countless festivals, such as L'interceltique de lorient and Printemps de Bourges, and concerts, such as Stade de France and...
- John Rowlands (RAF officer)
- June RowlandsJune RowlandsJune Rowlands was the 60th mayor of Toronto, Ontario, and the first woman to hold that office. She had previously been a long time city councillor, unsuccessful federal candidate, and chair of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Commission....
- Keith RowlandsKeith RowlandsKeith Alun Rowlands , was a Welsh international lock rugby union player, later administrator who was the first Chief Executive Officer of the International Rugby Board.-Playing career:...
- Mark RowlandsMark RowlandsMark Rowlands is a Welsh writer and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami.-Life and Work:Mark Rowlands was born in Newport, Wales and began his undergraduate degree at Manchester University in engineering before changing to philosophy...
- Martin RowlandsMartin RowlandsMartin Charles Rowlands is an English - born - Irish footballer who plays for Wycombe Wanderers F.C on loan from Queens Park Rangers F.C...
- Patsy RowlandsPatsy RowlandsPatsy Rowlands was an English actress who is best remembered for her roles in the Carry On films, as Betty in the popular ITV Thames sitcom Bless This House, and as Alice Meredith in the Yorkshire Television sitcom Hallelujah!.-Early years:She was born in Palmers Green, London and attended a...
- Richard RowlandsRichard RowlandsRichard Rowlands , Anglo-Dutch antiquary, whose real name was Verstegen , was the son of a cooper established in East London. His grandfather, Theodore Roland Verstegen, a Dutch emigrant, came from Gelderland to the Kingdom of England c...
- Samuel RowlandsSamuel RowlandsSamuel Rowlands , English author of pamphlets in prose and verse, which reflect the follies and humours of the lower middle-class life of his time, seems to have had no contemporary literary reputation; but his work throws considerable light on the development of popular literature and social life...
- Ted Rowlands, Baron RowlandsTed Rowlands, Baron RowlandsEdward "Ted" Rowlands, Baron Rowlands, CBE is a Welsh politician, who served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament for over thirty years and as a junior minister in the 1960s and 1970s.-Education:...
- William Bowen RowlandsWilliam Bowen RowlandsWilliam Bowen Rowlands , was a British politician and Member of Parliament.He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating on 22 March 1854 at the age of 18...