Rowbotham

Rowbotham is a surname. Etymologically it is roe–bottom, meaning a depression in the ground (Old English bothm) inhabited by deer (roe). The name originates from such a geographic feature near Ashton-under-Lyne, England. Notable people with the surname include:

• Darran Rowbotham (born 1966), Welsh footballer
• David Rowbotham (1924–2010), Australian poet and journalist
• Dave Rowbotham (1958–1991), English rock musician
• Harry Rowbotham (1911–1979), English footballer
• Jason Rowbotham (born 1969), Welsh footballer
• Jeffrey Rowbotham (1920–1984), Scottish architect
• Joseph Rowbotham (1831–1899), English cricketer
• Michael Rowbotham, political and economic writer and commentator
• Mike Rowbotham (born 1965), South African footballer
• Samuel Rowbotham (1816–1884), English inventor and writer, advocate for a flat earth
• Sara Rowbotham, British councillor and activist
• Sheila Rowbotham (born 1943), British socialist feminist theorist
• Thomas Charles Leeson Rowbotham (1823–1875), British painter
• Thomas Leeson Scrase Rowbotham (1782–1853), British painter
• William John Owen Rowbotham, birth name of Bill Owen (1914–1999), British actor
• Clarence Rowbotham (1934–2023), Canadian musician and adventurer

Variant forms

• Rowbottom

Robottom

• Dame Marlene Robottom, British educator

Robotham

• George Robotham (1921–2007), American actor
• Michael Robotham (born 1960), Australian crime author
• Robert Robotham (c. 1522 – c. 1571), English politician
• William Arthur Robotham (Roy) British engineer with Rolls-Royce, designer of the Rolls-Royce Meteor tank engine

External links

• Rowbotham at House of Names