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Bowen is a surname of English origin and a place name used in several countries. It is associated with geographic locations, notable individuals, and concepts across various disciplines.

Geographic places named Bowen include Bowen, Queensland, Australia, a coastal town in the Shire of Bowen. It lies on the Coral Sea and serves as a port for the region. The town is named after Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the first Governor of Queensland. Bowen Island in British Columbia, Canada, is an island in Howe Sound north of Vancouver, and it is also the name of the municipality on the island.

People with the surname Bowen include Sir George Bowen, a British colonial administrator and the first Governor of Queensland; Murray Bowen, a psychiatrist who developed family systems theory; and Tom Bowen, an Australian healer who developed the Bowen technique. Bowen Yang is a contemporary American actor and comedian.

Other uses include Bowen's reaction series, a framework in geology that describes the sequence of mineral crystallization from cooling magma, named after Norman L. Bowen. The Bowen technique, or Bowen therapy, is a form of manual therapy used in some alternative medicine practices.