Thrower

Thrower is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Ben Thrower (born 2000), French Horn player
• Debbie Thrower (born 1957), British television presenter
• Edd Thrower (born 1982), English rugby union footballer
• Francis Thrower Fairey (1887–1971), Canadian politician, member of the Canadian House of Commons
• James Thrower (1936–1999), British academic and writer
• Norma Thrower (born 1936), retired Australian hurdler
• Percy Thrower MBE (1913–1988), British gardener, horticulturist, broadcaster and writer
• Peter Thrower (born 1938), professor emeritus of materials science and engineering at Pennsylvania State University
• Randolph W. Thrower (1913–2014), IRS commissioner under Nixon
• Stephen Thrower (born 1963), English musician and author
• Thomas Thrower (1870–1917), Australian politician
• Willie Thrower (1930–2002), American football quarterback

See also

• Bolt Thrower, British death metal band from Coventry, England
• Hat thrower (Pilobolus crystallinus var. crystallinus), species of fungus in the Mucorales order
• Mammoth spear thrower, spear thrower in the form of a mammoth, discovered at the rock shelter of Montastruc, Tarn-et-Garonne, France
• Thrower flashlight, (also call a thrower, long throw, or high powered flashlight)
• Rocket Thrower, bronze sculpture located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens New York City
• The Knife Thrower and Other Stories by Steven Millhauser, first published in 1998 by Crown Publishers, Inc., New York
• "The Star Thrower", part of a 16-page essay of the same name by Loren Eiseley (1907–1977)