Jonathan Harvey Rowell (February 10, 1833 – May 15, 1908) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.

Born in Haverhill, New Hampshire, Rowell attended Rock Creek School and later graduated from Eureka College, Illinois.

During the Civil War he served as a company officer in the Seventeenth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress after which he resumed the practice of law.

This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress