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Zelman Cowen (ur. 7 października 1919 w Melbourne, zm. 8 grudnia 2011 tamże) – australijski prawnik żydowskiego pochodzenia, znawca prawa konstytucyjnego państw Wspólnoty Narodów. W latach 1977–1982 gubernator generalny Australii.
Sir Zelman Cowen, AK, GCMG, GCVO, PC, QC, FTSE (7 October 1919 – 8 December 2011) was an Australian legal scholar and university administrator who served as the 19th Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1977 to 1982.
Sir Zelman Cowen obituary. Former governor general of Australia who restored a measure of dignity to the office after the 1975 crisis in which his predecessor had dismissed the prime minister,...
Encyclopaedia Judaica. COWEN, ZELMANCOWEN, ZELMAN (1919– ), Australian jurist and authority on constitutional law. Cowen, who was born in Melbourne, joined the Royal Australian Navy in 1941. After the war he was an adviser on constitutional problems to the British and U.S. military governments in Germany.
The Rt Hon Sir Zelman Cowen AK GCMG GCVO QC DCL (1919–2011), academic, writer and former Governor-General, was educated at Scotch College and the University of Melbourne before serving in the navy in the Second World War. After the war, he went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar.
Sir Zelman Cowen, 1919-2011, a distinguished lawyer and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England, was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Queensland in 1970. During his tenure at UQ he oversaw continued growth while coping with growing student activism, managing these challenges with dignity. In 1977 he was appointed Governor General of Australia, a position he held ...
Sir Zelman Cowen AK GCMG GCVO PC QC (7 October 1919 – 8 December 2011) was an Australian legal scholar and university administrator. He served as the 19th Governor-General of Australia from 1977 to 1982, under Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. He was the second Jewish person to be Governor-General of Australia (the first being Sir Isaac Isaacs ).
