Bridget Rowe (born 16 March 1950) is a former newspaper editor in the United Kingdom.

Rowe worked for a succession of magazines: 19, Petticoat, Club, Look Now and Woman's World, before becoming Assistant Editor of The Sun, then editor of "Sunday", the News of the World's magazine. In 1986, Rowe became editor of Woman's Own,^[1] then edited TV Times.

Rowe edited the Sunday Mirror from 1991 to 1992, then moved to edit The People. In 1995, she became managing director of both newspapers, and in 1997 she returned to editing the Sunday Mirror for a year. After this, she served as the Director of Communications for the National Magazine Company, and later was the content director of Yava, until 2001.^[2] She was a panelist on the first series of Loose Women in 1999.

A friend^[3] of United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage, Rowe registered as the leader of Libertas UK with the United Kingdom Electoral Commission in December 2008,^[3] in order to prevent Declan Ganley's political party Libertas from fielding candidates in the UK's European Parliament elections in 2009 under that name.^[3]

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