Downs is a surname of Old English origin. Notable people with the surname include:
Alexander Downs (1876–1924), Scottish cricketer Annie F. Downs (born 1980), American author Anthony Downs (1930–2021), American economist Barbara Downs (born 1954), American tennis player Bertis Downs IV (born 1956), American entertainment lawyer Bill Downs (1914–1978), American war correspondent Caleb Downs (born 2004), American football player Carolyn Downs (activist) (1953–1978), American Black Panther Party activist Carolyn Downs (born 1960), British public servant Cathy Downs (1924–1976), American actress C. H. Downs (1911–1985), American lawyer and politician Charles E. Downs (1898–1967), American politician Christopher Downs (born 1974), American boxer Cornelia Mitchell Downs (1892–1987), American microbiologist Damion Downs (born 2004), soccer player Dave Downs (born 1952), American baseball player Deidre Downs (born 1980), American physician and winner of Miss America 2005 Devante Downs (born 1995), American football player Diane Downs (born 1955), American murderer Donald Downs (born 1948), American professor Dorothea Downs (1917–1968), American baseball player Ephraim Downs (1787–1860), American clockmaker Ethan Downs (born 2002), American football player George W. Downs (physicist) ( 1946), American businessman George W. Downs (political scientist) (1946–2015), American political scientist Georgina Downs, British journalist Greg Downs (born 1958), English footballer Hugh Downs (1921–2020), American broadcaster Jack Downs (born 1995), English rugby player James Cloyd Downs (1885–1957) inventor of the Downs cell for electrochemical production of sodium Jason Downs (born 1973), American singer Jeanne Downs (born 1967), British television presenter Jeter Downs (born 1998), American baseball player Johnny Downs (1913–1994), American actor Joseph Downs (1895–1954), American curator Josh Downs (born 2001), American football player Lila Downs (born 1968), Mexican-American singer Matt Downs (born 1984), American baseball player Marion Downs (1914–2014), American audiologist Nicholas Downs (born 1976), American actor Philip Downs (1928–2014), English musicologist Riele Downs (born 2001), Canadian actress Sally Ward Lawrence Hunt Armstrong Downs (1827–1896), American socialite Sarah Corson Downs (1822–1891), American temperance activist Sarah Elizabeth Forbush Downs (1843–1926), American novelist Samara Downs, British ballerina Scott Downs (born 1976), American baseball player Solomon W. Downs (1801–1854), American politician Tara Downs, Canadian artist Thomas Nelson Downs (1867–1938), American magician Wilbur Downs (1913–1991), American naturalist and virologist William Ernest Downs Jr. (1967–2006), American convicted child killer
See also Down (surname)
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