Reese Rowling

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| birth_name = Reese McIntosh Rowling

| birth_date = 1928

| birth_place = Waycross, Georgia, U.S.

| death_date = 2001

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| alma mater = Texas College of Mines and Metallurgy

| occupation = businessman and geologist

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| known for = co-founded Tana Oil and Gas Corporation with William E. Colson

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| children = Robert Rowling

| parents = Harry Herschel Rowling
Lily Mae Rowling

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Reese McIntosh Rowling (1928–2001) was an American businessman and geologist, who co-founded Tana Oil and Gas Corporation with William E Colson in Corpus Christi, Texas, which was eventually taken over by Texaco.{{cite news|last1=Ramirez|first1=Cindy|title=Reese Rowling: Geologist finds treasures abound|url=http://ia.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=41519|accessdate=13 June 2017|work=NOVA Quarterly Fall 2006|publisher=University of Texas at El Paso|date=2006}}

He was born in 1928 in Waycross, Georgia, the son of Harry Herschel Rowling, a railway worker, and his wife Lily Mae Rowling. In 1951 he graduated from the Texas College of Mines and Metallurgy (now UTEP).

In 1972, he co-founded Tana Oil and Gas Corporation with William E. Colson in Corpus Christi, Texas

He was the father of Robert Rowling.