Pioneer recording engineer at Atlantic Records
Michael Dowd (19 November 1958 – 7 October 2023) was an American author, ordained minister (United Church of Christ and Universal Life Church) and lecturer who became known as America's "evolutionary evangelist" for his project of integrati
Siobhan Dowd (4 February 1960 – 21 August 2007) was a British-Irish children's-fiction writer and human-rights activist whose four young-adult novels — three published in her lifetime, one posthumously — won her substantial international re
Proposed the four-time-zone railway system (1869); time-zones pioneer
David Dudley Dowd Jr.
Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd (7 December 1919 – 8 September 2017) was an American Marxist political economist, economic historian and lifelong civil rights and anti-war activist who taught economics at Cornell University, the University of Calif
Harry Dowd (4 July 1938 – 2015) was an English goalkeeper who played for Manchester City, Stoke City and Oldham Athletic in a long Football League career; he was Manchester City's first-choice goalkeeper for the 1969 FA Cup Final, a 1–0 win
John Leo Dowd (3 January 1891 – 31 January 1981) was an American Major League Baseball shortstop who played a brief stint for the New York Highlanders in 1912 — one season at the very end of the franchise's pre-Yankees era — before falling
James Joseph Dowd was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the 1910 Pittsburgh Pirates in one game o.
Alice Mary Dowd (16 December 1855 – 2 July 1943) was an American educator, poet and author whose career, beginning at age seventeen, spanned more than three decades of American teaching across district school, evening school, private school
Bernard J.
Clement Dowd (27 August 1832 – 15 April 1898) was a North Carolina lawyer and Democratic politician who served as Mayor of Charlotte from 1869 to 1871, as a US Representative for North Carolina's 6th District from 1881 to 1885, and as Feder
David William Dowd was an American Republican Party politician and minor league baseball player with the New York Yankee.
James Henry Dowd, also known as J.
Robert Dowd (1936–1996) was an American Pop-art painter and sculptor whose currency and postage-stamp paintings were among the founding works of the American Pop movement and who in 1962 hung in the Pasadena Art Museum's *New Painting of Co
Ross Dowd was an American set decorator.
Timothy Joseph Dowd (1915–2014) was the deputy chief of New York City Police Department (1940–1978) who led the manhunt.
Tommy Dowd (20 April 1869 – 2 July 1933), nicknamed "Buttermilk Tommy," was an American Major League Baseball outfielder and second baseman from Holyoke, Massachusetts who played ten seasons in the majors between 1891 and 1901.
American Democratic politician and lawyer; Arkansas State Senator (1978-2000); practised law in Texarkana for over four decades.
William Richmond Dowd (28 February 1922 – 25 November 2008) was an American harpsichord maker and one of the most important figures in the twentieth-century revival of historical-principles instrument building.
Denis Austin Dowd was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy, South Melbourne and North Melbourne in the.
Australian rules footballer; played senior football for Footscray in the VFL.
Joseph J.
William F.
Johnny Dowd (born John David Dowd; 29 March 1948 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American alternative country musician based in Ithaca, New York whose songs are notable for their experimental noisy breaks and strong gothic — dark, gloomy, often
Emmy-winning actress (Handmaid's Tale, The Leftovers, Hereditary)
Pulitzer-winning New York Times Op-Ed columnist
Former NYPD officer convicted of racketeering and narcotics conspiracy in 1992; subject of the 2014 documentary film The Seven Five; case central to the Mollen Commission inquiry into NYPD corruption.
NHL center (Washington Capitals); rare Alabama-born NHLer
Labour MP for Bootle (2015–); ex-Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Jeff Dowd (born 1949) is an American film producer, publicist and political activist who is best known to the wider public as the principal real-life inspiration for the character of Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski in the Coen Brothers' *The Bi
NHL center, 1995 Stanley Cup champion (New Jersey Devils)
American attorney best known for leading Major League Baseball's 1989 investigation of Pete Rose (the "Dowd Report") and for serving as Donald Trump's lead personal attorney in the Mueller Special Counsel investigation from 2017 to 2018.
Matthew J.
Oscar-winning screenwriter (Coming Home, Slap Shot)
Ned Dowd (born 1950) is an American actor, line producer and former minor-league professional hockey player whose hockey experiences directly inspired his sister Nancy Dowd's screenplay for the cult sports comedy *Slap Shot* (1977).
Phil Dowd (born 4 July 1963) is a retired English professional football referee who officiated primarily in the Premier League across fifteen seasons of top-flight refereeing.
American Catholic priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross; 18th president of the University of Notre Dame since 2024; political scientist of religion and democracy in Africa.
English professional ice hockey player; captain of the Sheffield Steelers; the EIHL's all-time leading point-scorer; six-time EIHL champion; Great Britain national-team captain.
Jim Dowd (born 5 March 1951) is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Lewisham West from 1992 to 2017.
John Dowd (born 1965) is an American professional motocross and supercross racer from New England — celebrated within the AMA scene as one of the great sand-track specialists, a particular mastery suited to the strength-sapping, deep-sand c
British economist; Professor of Finance and Economics at Durham University Business School; leading academic exponent of free banking and private money.
Thomas Edward Dowd (born 11 September 1970) is a Canadian Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Sault Ste Marie, Ontario since 22 October 2020.
Dakoda Flowie Dowd, also known as "Koda", is an American amateur golfer.
Graham William Dowd (born 17 December 1963) is a former All Blacks rugby union player who, despite being widely rated the second-best hooker in New Zealand at the height of his career, made just a single Test appearance in his All Blacks ca
Hayley Dowd is an American professional soccer player who played as a striker for AS Saint-Étienne.
Hugh Dowd (born 19 May 1951) is a Northern Irish former professional footballer, an accomplished centre-half who began his career at his hometown Glenavon in Lurgan, County Armagh and went on to captain the Northern Ireland Amateur side.
American businessman and federal appointee; United States Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) confirmed 2020; previously US Director of the African Development Bank.
American social scientist; Professor of Demography and Population Health and deputy director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford; founding member of public-health collective Dear Pandemic.
John Robert Arthur Dowd AO KC (born 12 November 1940) is a former leader of the Liberal Party of Australia in New South Wales and a former Attorney-General of New South Wales.
Lisa Dowd is a British news reporter for Sky News.
Irish cave archaeologist; The Archaeology of Caves in Ireland (2015)
Nora Anne Dowd Eisenhower, daughter to Thomas F.
American Democratic politician and historian; member of Pittsburgh City Council 2008-2013; previously elected to the Pittsburgh Board of Education in 2003.
Peter Alan Dowd is an Australian scientist who is Professor of Mining Engineering at the University of Adelaide.
American game designer; principal author of Shadowrun 2nd Edition (FASA) and contributor to numerous tabletop role-playing systems.
Meath GAA captain, 1996 All-Ireland; four All-Stars
Canadian writer; biographical record carried on the French-language Wikipedia and Wikidata.
American volleyball player; biographical record carried on the German- and Italian-language Wikipedias and Wikidata.