United States athlete and Black American whose success in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin outraged Hitler (1913-1980)
"Jesse Owens became a celebrated hero after his victories at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where his performance directly challenged Nazi racial ideology."
A surname, from given names.
"The Owens family has lived in that small town for three generations."
Owens is a surname derived from the given name Owen combined with the patronymic suffix -s. It literally means "son of Owen."