Bowlby is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Anthony Alfred Bowlby (1855–1929), British surgeon and pathologist, son of Thomas William Bowlby George Herbert Bowlby (1865–1916), Canadian physician, municipal politician, and military officer Henry Thomas Bowlby (1864–1940), Headmaster of Lancing College in the 1920s Henry Bowlby (1823–1894), Bishop Suffragan of Coventry 1891-1894 John Bowlby (1907–1990), British developmental psychologist, son of Anthony Alfred Bowlby Ronald Anthony Bowlby (1926-2019), Anglican Bishop of Southwark 1980-1991 Thomas William Bowlby (1818–1860), correspondent to The Times Ward Hamilton Bowlby (1834–1917), Canadian lawyer and politician April Bowlby (born 1980), American actor See also Bowlby baronets, a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Bowlby, West Virginia, unincorporated community