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Ronald Rowe

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 31, 2025
Entity authorityQ128753340
Source-derived summary

Ronald, Ron, or Ronnie Rowe could refer to:

Ronald Rowe (footballer) (Ronald George Rowe, 1902–1977), English amateur footballer

Ronnie Rowe (ice hockey) (Ronald Nickolas Rowe, 1923–2005), Canadian ice hockey player

R. Kerry Rowe (Ronald Kerry Rowe, born 1951), Canadian civil engineer

Ronald L. Rowe Jr. (born 1971), deputy director of the United States Secret Service

Ronnie Rowe (actor) (fl. 2010s–2020s), Canadian film and television actor

See also

Ronald Roe (fl.

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The public source identifies “Ronald Rowe” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ronald, Rowe and Wikimedia.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1902, 1977, 1923, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ronald, Rowe and Wikimedia providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 31, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q128753340. The first chronological checks are 1902, 1977, 1923 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from Ronald Rowe” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.