Gary Owens (born May 10, 1936) is an American disc jockey and voice actor. His polished baritone speaking voice generally offers deadpan recitations of total nonsense, which he frequently demonstrated as the announcer on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Owens is equally proficient in straight or silly assignments, and is frequently heard in television, radio, and commercials.

Father of Christopher Dane Owens

Honorary sheriff of Encino, California

Was the narrator in the computer games Space Quest IV and Space Quest VI: The Spinal Frontier (1995) (VG).

Gary Owens was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1994.

Added to the insanity as the on-camera ("from beautiful downtown Burbank") hand-cupping-the-ear announcer with the inimitable, over-modulated voice on the cult TV slapstick romp "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" (1968) from 1968 to 1973.

Prolific radio announcer, DJ, narrator, broadcaster and animated voice specialist, one of the best in the business, who has marked over 3,000 cartoon shows and appeared in over 12,000 radio shows. His cartel of cartoon characters include Roger Ramjet, Space Ghost, The Blue Falcon and Ren & Stimpy's Powdered Toast Man.

Hosted his own offbeat radio show in Los Angeles in 1962 ("KMPC") and stayed for 20 years.

Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

First job was delivering news as a teenager on radio in Mitchell, South Dakota.

For a year 2000 United States Army USO performance, appeared at Camp Garry Owen, South Korea.

Guest-hosted "American Top 40" for Casey Kasem the weekend of September 12-13, 1981; it was his only time counting down the forty hottest hit singles from Billboard Magazine's "Hot 100" survey.