Lowell family
The Lowell family is a Boston Brahmin family of the United States. The family was founded in America by Percival Lowell, a 1639 immigrant to Newbury, Massachusetts. Distinguished members of the family include:
- John Lowell, statesman
- Francis Cabot Lowell, businessman and founder of Lowell, Massachusetts
- James Russell Lowell, poet
- Amy Lowell, poet
- Robert Lowell, poet
- Percival Lowell, astronomer and founder of Lowell Observatory
- Abbott Lawrence Lowell, historian and President of Harvard University
- Charles Russell Lowell, Union General in the American Civil War