Bowles is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Brian Bowles (baseball) (born 1976), US baseball player
Brian Bowles (fighter) (born 1980), US mixed martial artist
Charles J. Bowles (1922–2005), US athletics coach
Chester Bowles (1901–1986), US diplomat and politician
Cory Bowles (born 1973), Canadian actor
Cyril Bowles (1916–1999), English bishop
Denzel Bowles (born 1989), American basketball player
Edward Augustus Bowles (1865–1954), British horticulturalist and writer
Erskine Bowles (born 1945), US businessman and politician
Frank Bowles (1902–1970), British solicitor and politician
Hamish Bowles (born 1963), British magazine editor
Jack Bowles (1890–1971), English cricketer
Jane Bowles (1917–1973), US writer
Janet Payne Bowles (1872-1948), US artist
John Bowles (author) (1751–1819), English lawyer and author
Jovan Bowles (born 1983), South African rugby player
Lynn Bowles (born 1963), British radio reporter
Martin Bowles, senior Australian public servant
Michael Bowles (1909–1998), Irish conductor and composer
Paul Bowles (1910–1999), US composer, author, and translator
Paul Bowles (footballer) (born 1957), English football player
Peter Bowles (born 1936), English actor
Pinckney Downie Bowles (1835–1910), US lawyer and soldier
Ralston Bowles (born 1952), US musician
Ray Bowles (born 1975), US singer
Richard Spink Bowles (1912–1988), Canadian lawyer
Samuel Bowles (economist) (born 1939), US economist
Samuel Bowles (journalist) (1826–1878), US journalist
Sharon Bowles (born 1953), British politician
Skipper Bowles (1919–1986), US politician
Stanley Bowles (born 1948), English football player
Sydney Bowles (1880–1963), matriarch of the Mitford family
Thomas Bowles (1696–1773), English clergyman
Thomas Gibson Bowles (1841–1922), British journalist
Thomas J. Bowles, US physicist
Wayde Douglas Bowles (AKA Rocky Johnson) (born 1944), Canadian wrestler, father of Dwayne Johnson
William Bowles (disambiguation), multiple people with the name
Andrew Parker Bowles (born 1939), British military officer
Camilla Parker Bowles (born 1947), former name of the Duchess of Cornwall, wife of Prince Charles
Tom Parker Bowles (born 1974), British writer
Fictional characters:
"Sally Bowles," a short story in the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
Sally Bowles, fictional character in the 1966 stage musical Cabaret, based on the novel
Sally Bowles, fictional character in the 1972 film Cabaret, based on the musical
Snowy Bowles, fictional character in the television series Sweat, played by Heath Ledger
