Fowkes is a surname of English, ultimately of Norman-French, origin. Notable people with the surname include:
Charles Christopher Fowkes (1894–1966), British army major-general Conard Fowkes (1933–2009), American actor Maja and Reuben Fowkes (active from 2006), British museum curators and art historians Mary Fowkes (1954–2020), American physician Robert Fowkes (1913–1998), American linguist William Fowkes, English Member of Parliament
See also Fowkes Formation, a geological formation in Wyoming, U.S.A. Fowkes hypothesis, a first order approximation in physics named after F. M. Fowkes Fowkes v Pascoe, an English trusts law case of 1875 Richards, Fowkes & Co., American builders of historical-style mechanical-action pipe organs Fawkes (disambiguation) Folkes, a surname Foulkes, a surname Fowke, a surname Vaulx (disambiguation) Vaux (disambiguation)