Bram (surname)
Bram or Bräm is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Christopher Bram (born 1952), American author * Leila Bram (1927–1979), American mathematician * Richard Bram (born 1952), American street photographer * Thüring Bräm Thüring Bräm (born 10 April 1944) is a Swiss composer and conductor. Bräm graduated from a high school in Basel. He then studied piano, conducting and composition in Basel and musicology at the University of Basel and the University of Hei ...

Christopher Bram
Christopher Bram (born February 22, 1952) is an American author. Bram grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia (outside Norfolk), where he was a paperboy and an Eagle Scout. He graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1974 (B.A. in English). He moved to New York City in 1978. His nine novels range in subject matter from gay life in the 1970s to the career of a Victorian musical clairvoyant to the frantic world of theater people in contemporary New York. Fellow novelist Philip Gambone wrote of his work, "What is most impressive in Bram's fiction is the psychological and emotional accuracy with which he portrays his characters ... His novels are about ordinary gay people trying to be decent and good in a morally compromised world. He focuses on the often conflicting claims of friendship, family, love and desire; the ways good intentions can become confused and thwarted; and the ways we learn to be vulnerable and human." Bram has written numerous articles and essays (a selectio ...
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Leila Bram
Leila Ann Dragonette Bram (1927–September 7, 1979) was an American mathematician. She was one of the first to study mock theta functions, and for many years directed the mathematics program at the Office of Naval Research, a position where she set the program for much of mathematics research. Early life and education Bram was born in 1927, in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, and was educated at the Lansdowne High School in Maryland. As an undergraduate at Bryn Mawr College, she double-majored in mathematics and physics, won the Maria L. Eastman Brooke Hall Memorial Scholarship and European Fellowship, the college's highest honor, and did an honors thesis on beta ray spectroscopy. She graduated in 1947. She went to the University of Pennsylvania for graduate study in mathematics, earning a master's degree and a Ph.D. there. Her 1951 doctoral dissertation, ''Asymptotic Formula for the Mock Theta Series of Ramanujan'', was supervised by Hans Rademacher; it (and the journal version she p ...
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Richard Bram
Richard Bram (born 1952) is an American street photographer. He is based in London and was a member of the In-Public street photography collective. Bram has published two books of candid public photographs: ''Street Photography'' (2006), a compact collection of black and white photographs taken around the world from 1988 to 2005; and ''New York'' (2016), "like a greatest-hits album" of work made between 2005 and 2015 whilst living in New York City. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, and the Museum of London. Life and work Bram was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA in 1952. He attended Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona where he received a B.Sc. in political science. He worked in business then later became a professional photographer. Bram lived in Louisville, Kentucky, moving to London in 1997, then New York City in 2008, and back to London around 2016–2017 ...
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