title: Townes
text: # Townes
  
  Townes may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  ### Given name
  
  * Townes Van Zandt (1944–1997), American singer songwriter
     * Townes Van Zandt (album), eponymous album
     * Townes (album), 2009 album by Steve Earle, dedicated to Townes Van Zandt
  
  ### Surname
  
  * Carol Lynn Townes, American gospel singer
  * Charles Hard Townes (1915–2015), American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
  * Harry Townes (1914–2001), American television and movie actor
  * Henry Keith Townes (1913–1990), American entomologist
  * Jeffrey Townes (born 1965), an American singer, more commonly known as DJ Jazzy Jeff
  * Linton Townes (born 1959), American basketball player
  * Marques Townes (born 1995), American basketball player
  * Marvin Townes (born 1980), American football running back
  * Sandra L. Townes (1944-2018), federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  * Philip L. Townes, physician and human geneticist who identified Townes–Brocks syndrome
  
  ## Other
  
  * Townes (album), 2009 Steve Earle album
  