Lowell (surname)

Lowell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• The Lowell family, a prominent family name in England and America
• Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856–1943), lawyer, historian, philanthropist, and former President of Harvard University
• Amy Lowell (1874–1925), poet, critic, publisher, and sister of Abbott Lawrence and Percival Lowell
• Andrea Lowell (born 1983), actress and model
• Augustus Lowell (1830–1900), businessman, philanthropist, and father of Percival, Abbott Lawrence, and Amy Lowell
• Carey Lowell (born 1961), actress and wife of actor Richard Gere
• Charles Russell Lowell, Sr. (1782–1861), Unitarian pastor, son of The Old Judge, father of James Russell, and great-great grandfather of Robert Lowell
• Charles Russell Lowell (1835–1864), Union General and American Civil War hero
• Charlie Lowell (born 1973), keyboardist for Jars of Clay
• Chris Lowell (born 1984), actor
• Delmar R. Lowell (1844–1912), pastor, Civil War veteran, and genealogist
• Edward Jackson Lowell (1845–1894), author and father of Guy Lowell
• Francis Cabot Lowell (businessman) (1775–1817), businessman and namesake of Lowell, Massachusetts
• Francis Cabot Lowell (judge) (1855–1911), U.S. Congressman and Federal Judge
• Guy Lowell (1870–1927), architect and landscape designer
• James Russell Lowell (1819–1891), poet, critic, publisher, abolitionist, Harvard professor, and foreign diplomat
• Joan Lowell (1902–1967), actress and newspaper reporter
• John Lowell (1743–1802), aka The Old Judge, U.S. Federal Judge appointed by President George Washington
• John Lowell, Jr. (lawyer) (1769–1840), aka The Boston Rebel, Federalist lawyer and son of The Old Judge
• John Lowell, Jr. (philanthropist) (1799–1836), son of Industrialist Francis Cabot Lowell and founder of the Lowell Institute
• John Amory Lowell (1798–1881), businessman and philanthropist
• John Lowell (judge) (1824–1897), U.S. Federal judge and son of John Amory Lowell
• Josephine Shaw Lowell (1843–1905), sister of American Civil War hero Robert Gould Shaw, first woman to hold a public office in New York City, and wife of Gen. Charles Russell Lowell
• Maria White Lowell (1821–1853), poet, abolitionist, and wife of James Russell Lowell
• Mike Lowell (born 1974), baseball player for the Boston Red Sox
• Norman Lowell (born 1946), founder of the extreme-right Maltese political party, Imperium Europa
• Percival Lowell (1855–1916), author, astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory, and brother of Amy and Abbott Lawrence Lowell
• Ralph Lowell (1890–1978), businessman, philanthorpist, and founding force behind Boston's WGBH public television
• Robert Lowell (1917–1977), poet and lecturer
• Scott Lowell (born 1965), actor

Fictional characters:

• Christopher Lowell, stagename for Richard Lowell Madden, interior designer and TV host
• Elizabeth Lowell, penname for Ann Maxwell, popular romance writer
• Yuri Lowell, the main character in the game Tales of Vesperia