Bowness can refer to:
- Rick Bowness, assistant coach for the Vancouver Canucks and former Canadian National Hockey League leftwinger
- Tim Bowness, English singer with No-Man and other projects
- Bowness-on-Windermere, a town in the Lake District of Cumbria, England
- Bowness-on-Solway, a village in Cumbria on the Anglo-Scottish border
- Bo'ness, a town in Scotland
- Bowness, Calgary, a former town in Canada, now a neighbourhood of Calgary