Howie
Howie is a Scottish locational surname derived from a medieval estate in Ayrshire, southwest Scotland. While its ancient name is known as "The lands of How", its exact location is lost to time. The word "How", predating written history, appears to originate from the ancient Kingdom of Strathclyde as a locational description of a "hollow". The alternative spelling of Howie is Howey. The oldest public record of the surname dates to 1526 in the town of Brechin. People with the surname or its variant include:
Howie
- Al Howie, Canadian athlete
- Alison Howie, Scottish field hockey player
- Archibald Howie, British physicist
- Fanny Howie, New Zealand singer and composer
- Forbes Howie, Scottish businessman
- George Howie, American racecar driver
- Gillian Howie, British philosopher
- Gordon Howie, American politician
- Hugh Howie, Scottish footballer
- James Howie (disambiguation)
- John Howie (biographer), Scottish biographer
- John Howie (businessman), Scottish businessman
- John Mackintosh Howie, Scottish mathematician
- Robert Howie (disambiguation)
- Thomas D. Howie, American army officer
- Thomas W. Howie, Scottish businessman
- William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon, British politician
Howey
- Benjamin Franklin Howey, American politician
- Hugh Howey, American author
- Kate Howey, British judoka
- Lee Howey, English footballer
- Peter Howey, English footballer
- Steve Howey (actor), American actor
- Steve Howey (footballer), English footballer
- William John Howey, American developer, grower and politician
- * SEC v. W. J. Howey Co., United States Supreme Court case
Fictional characters
- Howie Hardy, a composer and musician in the 1987-1996 animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV series
- Sergeant Neil Howie of the West Highland Constabulary, the mainland policeman who visits an isolated Hebridean island in search of a missing girl in the 1973 film ''The Wicker Man''