Henry "Hank" Madison Rowan, Jr. (Dec. 4, 1923 - Dec. 9, 2015) was an entrepreneur and businessman born in Raphine, Virginia. On July 6, 1992, Henry "Hank" Madison Rowan, Jr., and Betty Long Rowan gifted $100 million that helped transform Glassboro State College into Rowan University.

At the age of nine, Henry Rowan started his first business—raising chickens and selling eggs with his mother as his only customer. In 1941, Rowan enrolled in a dual degree program to earn a bachelor of arts from Williams College in Massachusetts and a master of science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The program was interrupted by World War II. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps as an aviation cadet and trained to be a bomber pilot. Shortly after qualifying to fly the B- 17 bomber, news came that the war was over.

Henry Rowan was the founder, president, and CEO of Inductotherm Industries. Inductotherm designs and manufactures induction equipment for melting, heating, coating, galvanizing, and galvannealing, primarily for the steel industry. Rowan designed and built his first induction furnace, an electrical furnace in which the heat is applied by induction heating of metal, in 1953 in the garage of his home in Ewing Township, New Jersey with the help of his wife, Betty Long Rowan.

With the success of Inductotherm Industries, Rowan turned to philanthropy and invested in the education of students in South Jersey with his gift of $100 million. Rowan’s donation came with the stipulation that a college of engineering. The College of Engineering admitted its first class in 1997.