Cowan or Cowans may refer to:
Places
Australia
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Cowan, New South Wales
Cowan is a small town and suburb near Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, approximately north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Hornsby Shire. Cowan shares the postcode of 2081 with Ber ...
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Cowan Creek
Cowan Creek is located in New South Wales, Australia. It is a tidal subcatchment of the Hawkesbury River. Almost all of the catchment lies within Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. Tributaries include Coal and Candle Creek, which branches off from ...
, a waterway to the north of Sydney, Australia
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Division of Cowan
The Division of Cowan is an Australian Electoral Division in Western Australia.
Cowan is an inner-northern Perth seat lying generally between Morley Drive and Hepburn Avenue, extending from the Mitchell Freeway in the west to the Tonkin Freew ...
, a federal division of the Australian House of Representatives, in Western Australia
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Hundred of Cowan
The County of Musgrave is a cadastral unit in the Australian state of South Australia that covers land on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula. It was proclaimed on 22 June 1876 and named after Anthony Musgrave, the Governor of South Australia fr ...
, a cadastral division in South Australia
Canada
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Cowan, Manitoba Cowan, Manitoba is a town in Manitoba, Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making ...
United States
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Cowan, California
Cowan is a census-designated place (CDP) in Stanislaus County, California. Cowan sits at an elevation of . The 2010 United States census reported Cowan's population was 318.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP covers an ...
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Cowan, Indiana
Cowan is an unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Delaware County, Indiana.
History
Cowan was founded in 1869, when the railroad was extended to that point. It was named for Charles McCowan, a longtime resident who donated funds to build ...
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Cowan, Pennsylvania
Cowan is a populated place in Buffalo Township, Union County, Pennsylvania, United States. Notable institutions in Cowan include Bucknell University
Bucknell University is a private liberal arts college in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Founded ...
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Cowan, Tennessee
Cowan is a city in Franklin County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 1,737 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Tullahoma, Tennessee Micropolitan Statistical Area.
History
The earliest settlers arrived in the Cowan area in the l ...
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Cowans Brook
Cowans Brook is a stream in Aitkin and Kanabec counties, Minnesota, in the United States. Cowans Brook was named for a lumberjack.
See also
*List of rivers of Minnesota
Minnesota has 6,564 natural rivers and streams that cumulatively flow fo ...
, a stream in Minnesota
Other uses
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Cowan (surname) Cowan is a surname of both Scottish-Irish and Jewish origins.
As a Scottish or Irish surname
The name Cowan is first seen in the historical record in the UK and Ireland among Briton people in the Scottish and English borderlands. It derives from th ...
, a surname
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EML ''Admiral Cowan'' (M313), a ''Sandown''-class minehunter of the Estonian Navy
See also
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Cowen (disambiguation) Cowen may refer to:
* Cowen (surname)
* Cowen, West Virginia, in the United States
* Cowen Group
Cowen Inc., is an American multinational independent investment bank and financial services company that operates through two business segments: a ...
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Parkinson Cowan
Parkinson Cowan was a British manufacturer of gas meters and gas stoves between 1900 and 1971. The name is now used for a brand of cooking appliances, owned by the Electrolux group.
History
*1900: The company is formed by the amalgamation of ...
, a brand of cooking appliances
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Rich & Cowan
Rich & Cowan Ltd was a book publisher, based at 37 Bedford Square, London WC1.
They specialized in literary books.
Books
* ''A Ghost in Monte Carlo'' by Barbara Cartland, (1951)
* ''Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 ...
, UK book publishing company
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