Downs (surname)

Downs is a surname of Old English origin. ^[1] Notable people with the surname include:

• Alexander Downs (1876–1924), Scottish cricketer
• Anthony Downs (1930–2021), American economist
• 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. "Sammy" Downs (1911–1985), American lawyer and politician
• Charles E. Downs (1898–1967), American politician
• Christopher Downs (born 1974), American boxer
• 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) (fl. Tooltip floruit 1946), American businessman
• George W. Downs (political scientist) (1946–2015), American political scientist
• Georgina Downs, British journalist
• 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
• 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
• Nicholas Downs (born 1976), American actor
• Philip Downs (1928–2014), English musicologist
• Sally Ward Lawrence Hunt Armstrong Downs (1827–1896), American socialite
• Samara Downs, British ballerina
• Scott Downs (born 1976), American baseball player
• Solomon W. Downs (1801–1854), American politician
• 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)

References

1. "Last name: Downs". surnamedb.com. Retrieved 2025-03-17.