Howe
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Howe is the name of several places:
- Howe, Indiana, USA
- Howe, North Yorkshire, UK
- Howe, Oklahoma, USA
- Howe, Texas, USA
- Howe Township, Forest County, Pennsylvania, USA
- Howe Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania, USA
Howe is also the surname of a number of notable people:
- Clarence Decatur Howe prominent Canadian politician.
- Elias Howe, (1819-1867), inventor of the sewing machine
- E. W. Howe, US novelist
- Geoffrey Howe, (born 1926), British politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer under Margaret Thatcher
- George Howe (1725-1758), British general in French and Indian War
- Gordie Howe, (born 1928), ice hockey player
- Greg Howe, musician
- John Howe (1630-1705), English Puritan theologian
- John Howe (born 1957), Canadian illustrator
- Julia Ward Howe, (1819-1910), US reformer
- Richard Howe, (1726-1799), British admiral in American revolution
- Samuel Gridley Howe, (1801-1876), abolitionist & educator
- Steve Howe, musician
- Timothy O. Howe (1816-1883), American politician
- William Howe (1729-1815) British general in American revolution
A Howe is also a type of barrow.
- There were several British warships names HMS Howe.