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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:
- Claude Rowbotham (1864–1949), British artist
- David Rowbotham (born 1924), Australian poet and journalist
- Jason Rowbotham (born 1969), Welsh footballer
- 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
- Sheila Rowbotham (born 1943), British socialist feminist theorist
- Stanley Rowbotham (1890–1979), British anaesthetist
- Thomas Charles Leeson Rowbotham (1823–1875), British painter
- Thomas Leeson Scrase Rowbotham (1782–1853), British painter
- W. A. Rowbotham (Roy) British engineer with Rolls-Royce, designer of the Rolls-Royce Meteor tank engine