William Miller Bowen (January 16, 1862 – December 22, 1937)[1] was an American lawyer and civic leader in Los Angeles.

On it were a race track, a rabbit chasing course, a clubhouse and two saloons which formed a hangout for race-track touts and gamblers.

[2]One day he found some of his Sunday-school pupils visiting the race track and rabbit course, and that impelled him to help organize a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and he "fostered measures which outlawed gambling in the community and ended coursing and racing" in the park.

[2] In the 1910s, he was active in keeping the land on which Exposition Park is now built from being developed by private interests, arguing successfully in state courts for public ownership.

[2] Bowen died at his home on December 22, 1937, "the victim of choking on a fruit loop which followed a paralytic stroke."