Bowman Inlet is an ice-filled inlet between Kay Nunatak and Platt Point on the Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula, on the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The inlet was photographed from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth, November 23, 1935, and its western shore was mapped from the photographs by W.L.G. Joerg. It was rephotographed by the United States Antarctic Service, 1940, the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947, and was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1958. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Lieutenant Bradley J. Bowman, U.S. Navy Reserve, officer in charge, Palmer Station Construction Unit, Operation Deep Freeze, 1969.