Brandon may refer to:
Names and people
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Brandon (given name)
Brandon is a masculine given name which originates from two or possibly three separate sources, two Celtic, the other, Anglo-Saxon, and has historically been used by these different cultures independently. Today, most people with the name do n ...
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Brandon (surname) Brandon is a surname. Notable persons with that surname include:
* Alexander Brandon (born 1974), American musician and composer
* Alfred de Bathe Brandon (all of Wellington, New Zealand):
** Alfred Brandon (politician) (1809–86), politician
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, a surname with several different origins
Places
Australia
*Brandon, a farm and 19th century homestead in
Seaham, New South Wales
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Brandon, Queensland, a small town just south of Townsville
Canada
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Brandon, Manitoba
Brandon () is the second-largest city in the province of Manitoba, Canada. It is located in the southwestern corner of the province on the banks of the Assiniboine River, approximately west of the provincial capital, Winnipeg, and east of the ...
England
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Brandon, County Durham
Brandon is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated a short distance to the southwest of Durham. Brandon was originally one of the seven townships within the ancient parish of Brancepeth. It grew from a sparsely populated agricultural ...
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Brandon, Lincolnshire
Brandon is a small village in South Kesteven, south Lincolnshire, England, part of the civil parish of Hough-on-the-Hill (where the population is listed).
The village is also part of the ecclesiastical parish of Hough on the Hill, part of the ...
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Brandon, Northumberland
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Brandon, Suffolk
Brandon is a town and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk.
Brandon is located in the Breckland area of Suffolk, close to the adjoining county of Norfolk. It lies between the towns of Bury St Edmunds, Thetford, Mildenhall, Downham M ...
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Brandon, Warwickshire
Brandon is a small village in Warwickshire, England. Along with nearby Bretford, it forms part of a joint civil parish of Brandon and Bretford. Administratively it is part of the borough of Rugby. The River Avon passes just to the east of the v ...
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Brandon Hill, Bristol
Brandon Hill, also known as St Brandon's Hill, is a hill close to Bristol city centre, between the districts of Clifton and Hotwells, in south west England.
At the summit is the Cabot Tower, opened in 1897 to commemorate the 400th anniversary ...
France
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Brandon, Saône-et-Loire
Brandon () is a former commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Navour-sur-Grosne.Brandon, County Kerry
Cé Bhréannain or Bréanainn (anglicized as Brandon) is a Gaeltacht village on the northern coast of the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. It lies directly north of Dingle, at the foot of Mount Brandon and on the shores of Brandon Ba ...
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Mount Brandon
Mount Brandon or Brandon (), at , is one of the ten highest peaks in Ireland, being the 8th–highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin list, and the 9th–highest on the Vandeleur-Lynam list. Brandon is the highest Irish mountain outside the Mac ...
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Brandon Bay
Cé Bhréannain or Bréanainn (anglicized as Brandon) is a Gaeltacht village on the northern coast of the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. It lies directly north of Dingle, at the foot of Mount Brandon and on the shores of Brandon Bay ...
, the bay overlooked by the village
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Brandon Creek, County Kerry
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Brandon Hill
Brandon Hill () is the highest mountain in County Kilkenny, Ireland, with an elevation of and prominence at . The South Leinster Way, a long-distance trail, meandering through the Barrow Valley and traverses Brandon Hill. The village of ...
, a hill between Graiguenamana and Inistoige, Co. Kilkenny.
United States
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Brandon Corner, California
Brandon Corner (formerly, Brandons) is an unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California. It is located northeast of Latrobe, at an elevation of 748 feet (228 m).
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Unincorporated communities in California
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Brandon, Colorado
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Brandon, Florida
Brandon is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. It is part of the Tampa–St. Petersburg–Clearwater Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 114,626 at the 2020 ...
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Brandon, Iowa
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Brandon Township, Michigan
Brandon Charter Township is a charter township of Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 15,175 at the 2010 census.
As a northern suburb of Metro Detroit, Brandon Township is about north of the city of Detroit and ...
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Brandon, Minnesota
Brandon is a city in Douglas County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 501 at the 2020 census.
History
The village of Brandon was incorporated on November 22, 1881. The current town site was laid out when the railroad was being buil ...
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Brandon Township, Minnesota
Brandon Township is a township in Douglas County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 641 at the 2000 census.
Brandon Township was organized in 1867. It took its name from the settlement of Brandon, Minnesota.
Geography
According to t ...
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Brandon, Mississippi
Brandon is a city in and the county seat of Rankin County, Mississippi, United States. It was incorporated on December 19, 1831. The population was 21,705 at the 2010 census. Brandon is part of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is l ...
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Brandon, Montana
Brandon is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Madison County, Montana, United States. It is in the northwestern part of the county, at the western base of the Tobacco Root Mountains, in the valley of Mill Creek. Via ...
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Brandon, Nebraska
Brandon is an unincorporated community in Perkins County, Nebraska, United States.
History
Brandon got its start when the Burlington Railroad was extended to that point. A post office called Brandon was established in 1890. The origin of the n ...
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Brandon, New York
Brandon is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. It is centrally located in the county, southwest of Malone. The town population was 577 at the 2010 census. It was named after Brandon, Vermont, by early settlers.
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Brandon, Ohio
Brandon is an unincorporated community in Knox County, in the U.S. state of Ohio.
History
Brandon was originally called Four Corners, then Hildreth, but the site was never legally platted on account of a land dispute in the 1840s. A post off ...
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Brandon, South Dakota
Brandon is a city in Minnehaha County, South Dakota, United States. Brandon is located five miles east of Sioux Falls. The population was 11,048 as of the 2020 census.
History
A post office called Brandon has been in operation since 1878. The c ...
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Brandon, Texas Brandon is an unincorporated community located in Hill County in Central Texas. It is located at the intersection of State Highway 22 and FM 1243, approximately ten miles east of Hillsboro.
Brandon had an estimated population of eighty in 2010 ...
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Brandon, Vermont
Brandon is a town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,129.
History
On October 20, 1761, the town of Neshobe was chartered to Capt. Josiah Powers. In October 1784, the name of the town was chang ...
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Brandon (CDP), Vermont
Brandon is an unincorporated village and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Brandon, Rutland County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,727.
Most of the village is listed on the National Register of Hi ...
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Brandon, Wisconsin
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Brandon Lake, a lake in Minnesota
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Lower Brandon Plantation
Lower Brandon Plantation (or simply Brandon or Brandon Plantation and initially known as Martin's Brandon) is located on the south shore of the James River in present-day Prince George County, Virginia.
The plantation is an active farm and w ...
(Prince George County, Virginia)
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Upper Brandon Plantation
Upper Brandon Plantation is an historic plantation in Prince George County, Virginia on the James River.
History
Upper Brandon plantation was part of a 1616 original land patent of 5,000 acres granted to Captain John Martin, one of the founder ...
(Prince George County, Virginia)
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Brandon Plantation (Halifax County, Virginia)
Other
* Brandon, the name of the dog in the American television series ''
Punky Brewster
''Punky Brewster'' is an American sitcom television series about a young girl (Soleil Moon Frye) being raised by a foster parent (George Gaynes). The show ran on NBC from September 16, 1984, to March 9, 1986, and again in syndication from Octo ...
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Ulmus americana 'Brandon', an elm cultivar
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Brandon Railroad, Nebraska, United States
* , several warships
* Brandon, a male doll in the
Groovy Girls
Groovy Girls were a line of fashion dolls manufactured by the American toy company Manhattan Toy and launched in 1998. Each year new dolls were produced until 2019.
History
Groovy Girls launched in 1998 as a funky alternative to Barbie. Each do ...
doll line
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Brendon (disambiguation) Brendon is a village in Devon, England. It may also refer to:
People
* Brendon (singer), a former British pop/glam rock singer born Brendon Dunning
* Brendon Ayanbadejo, an American football linebacker
* Brendon Hartley, a New Zealand racecar dri ...
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Brandin, a given name and surname
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