Henry Roy Fowler (26 March 1934 – 27 June 2009) was an English long-distance runner who competed mainly in track and cross country running competition.

He also represented England at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games and was a four-time champion at the World Masters Athletics Championships in the over-40s category.

[3][4] A win at the 1961 Inter-Counties Cross Country Championships, achieved in heavy snow while he had been off work due to an illness, brought him to greater attention as he beat British record holder Bruce Tulloh among others.

At the 1963 International Cross Country Championships in San Sebastián, Spain, he surprised by topping the field, beating the much more established Gaston Roelants by over ten seconds.

[9][10] At the European Champion Clubs Cup Cross Country in 1967 he was runner-up to old rival Roelants,[1] but this was enough bring North Staffs & Stone Harriers to its first (and thus far only) ever team title at the competition.

At the 1975 World Association of Veteran Athletes Championships – the first edition of that competition – he took a long-distance triple in the men's over 40 category, winning 5000 m, 10,000 m and cross country events.

He returned for the 1977 edition and defended his 10,000 m title but was beaten into second place by Gaston Roelants (another former world cross country champion) in the other two disciplines.

for England goalkeeper Gordon Banks among others, and athletics coaching, including Mark Roberts (multiple winner of the Potteries Marathon).