Bowness can refer to:

• Rick Bowness, assistant coach for the Phoenix Coyotes and former Canadian National Hockey League leftwinger,
• Bowness-on-Windermere, a town in the Lake District of Cumbria, England,
• Bowness-on-Solway, a village in North-West Cumbria on the Scottish border,
• Bo'ness, a town in Scotland, or
• Bowness, Alberta, a former town in Canada annexed by Calgary in 1964.