What is "nowell"

n. (archaic spelling of noel English)

Nowell may refer to:

• Nowell (name)
• Nowell (surname)
• Nowell Salmon (1835-1912), British Admiral of the Fleet and recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Nowell Myres (1902-1989), British archaeologist and librarian
• Nowell, Wisconsin, a ghost town
• Nowell Codex, one of the four major Anglo-Saxon literature codices; contains the unique copy of the epic poem Beowulf

Nowell is the surname of:

• Alexander Nowell (c. 1507–1602), Anglican Puritan theologian and clergyman; dean of St Paul's
• Ben Nowell (born 1985), New Zealand rugby union player
• Bradley Nowell (1968-1996), lead singer and guitarist of the ska punk band Sublime
• Howard Wilbert Nowell (1872–1940), instructor in pathology at Boston University and a pioneering cancer researcher
• Increase Nowell (1590-1655), colonial administrator, original patentee of the Massachusetts Bay Company, founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts, and first ruling elder of the First Church in Charlestown
• Jack Nowell (born 1993), rugby union player
• Laurence Nowell, two English cousins often confused with each other, one an antiquarian, cartographer and scholar (c. 1515–c. 1571), the other a churchman (died 1576)
• Louis R. Nowell (1915–2009), Los Angeles city fire captain and politician
• Mel Nowell (born 1940), National Basketball Association player
• Peter Nowell (born 1928), cancer researcher and professor
• Thomas Nowell (1730?–1801), English clergyman, historian and religious controversialist
• Wedgwood Nowell (1878–1957), American film actor
• William Nowell (1880–1968), a British mycologist

Nowell is a masculine English given name derived from noël, meaning Christmas in French. In Irish, it is Nollaig. The actual feminine form is Noelle, but in English-speaking it is Nowell meaning Birth.

Category:English masculine given names