Owe is a surname or given name, a spelling variation of Ove, and may refer to:
- Baard Owe (born 1936), Norwegian-born actor
- Owe Hellberg (born 1953), Swedish Left Party politician
- Owe Jonsson (1940–1962), Swedish athlete
- Owe Wiktorin (born 1940), Swedish General
Famous quotes containing the word owe:
“Little minds mistake little objects for great ones, and lavish away upon the former that time and attention which only the latter deserve. To such mistakes we owe the numerous and frivolous tribe of insect-mongers, shell-mongers, and pursuers and driers of butterflies, etc. The strong mind distinguishes, not only between the useful and the useless, but likewise between the useful and the curious.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young and dodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)