John or Jack Bowen may refer to:
- John Bowen (bishop) (1815–1859), bishop of Sierra Leone
- John Bowen (colonist) (1780–1827), English sailor and administrator; founded the first settlement at Hobart, Australia
- John Bowen (pirate) (died 1704), pirate active in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea
- John Bowen (antiquary) (1756–1832), English painter, genealogist and antiquarian
- John C. Bowen (1872–1957), Canadian clergyman
- John Clyde Bowen (1888–1978), U.S. federal judge
- John Griffith Bowen (born 1924), British playwright and novelist
- John Henry Bowen (1780–1822), American politician
- John S. Bowen (1830–1863), American Confederate general
- John S. Bowen (executive) (born c. 1927), American advertising executive
- John S. Bowen (sound designer), American synthesizer designer
- John T. Bowen (1857–1940), American dermatologist
- John W. Bowen, Republican politician in the Ohio Senate
- John William Bowen, Member of Parliament for Crewe, 1929–1931
- John T. Bone (John Gilbert Bowen, born 1947), British-born American porn director
- Jack Bowen, footballer
- John Bowen, of the Bowen baronets
Famous quotes containing the words john and/or bowen:
“There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment—and nothing more corrupting.”
—A.J.P. (Alan John Percivale)
“Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thriven ... on the changes and chances, the dislocations and ... contrasts which have made up so much of my life.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)