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Mackenzie Bowell was born on December 7, 1823, at Suffolk, England. he came to Canada with his parents in 1832 and became a printer's apprentice in the office of the Belleville Intelligencer, a newspaper of which he was later to become the editor and proprietor. In 1847 he married Harriet Louisa Moore of Belleville.

Early in his life Bowell joined the Orange Order and served as Grand Master of the Orange Lodge of Ontario and as Grand Master of the Orange Association of British America. In 1867 he was elected to the House of Commons and served as Conservative representative for the Riding of North Hasting until 1892. Appointed Minister of Customs in 1878 by Sir John A. Macdonald, Bowell was largely responsible for putting the "National Policy" into operation. Early in 1892 he was appointed Minister of Militia and Defence and later the same year became Minister of Trade and Commerce, a position he held until 1894. In 1894, following the death of Sir John Thompson, Bowell was sworn in as Prime Minister, only to resign in early 1896 after several members of his cabinet also resigned. He remained Opposition Leader in the senate until his retirement in 1907. He died at Belleville on december 10, 1917.

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The Bowerman family emigrated from England to the United States and Canada and were a prominent family in Prince Edward County. Merton Yarwood Williams, a descendant of the Bowerman family, was a Queen's graduate (1909) and professor of Geology at the University of British Columbia.

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Douglas Bowie was born in Kingston in 1944. Raised predominantly in Ottawa, he returned to Kingston to attend Queen's in 1962 but transferred to Carleton University from where he graduated in 1966. Bowie's writing career began when he entered the CBC Centennial Playwriting Competition while working at an advertising firm in Ottawa. His teleplay, Who Was the Lone Ranger, won a prize which set Bowie onto his professional writing career.
Bowie wrote a succession of film and television dramas, mini-series, feature films, plays and a couple of radio plays. He won an ACTRA in 1984 for Best Writer for the mini-series Empire, Inc., and was a recepient of the 1998 Margaret Collier Award which is presented to a writer for their outstanding body of work in Canadian television. Bowie also edited Best Canadian Screenplays with Tom Shoebridge, and added playwriting to his repertoire in the 1990s. He was the playwright-in-residence at Thousand Islands Playhouse for many years. Bowie has continued to live in Kingston and has been involved with such local organizations asTheatre Kingston, Cinema Kingston, Hope Theatre and the Kingston Tennis club.

C.E. Bowker was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.

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Robert Eric Bowley, an Engineering Chemist, amateur photographer and philatelist, was born 12 May 1922 to Mary Salmon Stalker and Eric Ernest Bowley in Hagersville, Ontario. He graduated from Welland High School, where he learned to take and develop photographs. In 1941 he started at Queen's University, where he joined the C.O.T.C. During his time at Queen's, Bowley was a photographer for the Queen's Journal with Ken Carey. In 1942, he joined the Royal Canadian Artillery as a Lieutenant and served in Canada until 1945. After graduating from Queen's as an Engineering Chemist, he worked in industry for fourteen years before becoming a chemistry teacher at Peterborough Collegiate Vocational School. His lifetime devotion to philately taught him the history and geography of many countries, culminating in his grand adventure of sailing from Mongareva to Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific. He published a book about his travels and a number of booklets about Peterborough history. He was a long-time member and Past President of the Kawartha Philatelic Society and the Peterborough Historical Society. Robert Bowley passed away in Peterborough on 26 November 2000.