Owen Brown is one of the ten villages in Columbia, Maryland, United States, established in 1972.

[3] The village contains the 37-acre (150,000 m2) Lake Elkhorn, with a walking path of two miles (3 km) and a picnic pavilion in the 23-acre (93,000 m2) park.

Due to its proximity, Rouse Company planners used Owen Brown as an early working name for the village.

[12] The Rouse Company was unable to procure the land around the Owen Brown Shopping Center, which remained independently operated outside of Rouse control with an anchor store leased by Giant Food.

[13] The East Columbia branch of the Howard County Library is located in the village.