Rowbotham
# 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
