Braun is a common surname, originating from the

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word for the color

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. The name is the 22nd most common

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. Many German emigrants to the

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also changed their name to ''Brown'' (''see

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''). In German, ''Braun'' is pronounced , except for the "r" equal to the English word "brown". In English, it is often pronounced as "brawn", as in 'Carol Moseley Braun'. Pronunciation is an individual preference and is hard to guess unless one is in a position to hear the person's name spoken. As forename: *

Braun Strowman Adam Joseph Scherr (born September 6, 1983) is an American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler and former Strongman (strength athlete), strongman. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown (WWE brand), SmackDo ...

(formerly Braun Stowman), ring name of American professional wrestler Adam Scherr (born 1983) As surname: *

Alexander Braun Alexander Carl Heinrich Braun (10 May 1805 – 29 March 1877) was a German botanist from Regensburg, Bavaria. His research centered on the morphology of plants. Biography He studied botany in Heidelberg, Paris and Munich. In 1833 he began teachi ...

(1805–1877), German botanist * Anna Maria Braun (born 3 July 1979), German business executive and lawyer *

Annette Frances Braun Annette Frances Braun (1884–1978) was an American entomologist and leading authority on microlepidoptera, a grouping of mostly small and nocturnal moths. Her special interest was leaf miners: moths whose larvae live and feed from within a leaf ...

(1884–1978), American entomologist *

Arthur Michael Braun Arthur Michael Braun (July 18, 1910 – January 7, 1989) was an American politician and businessman. Braun was born in Belgrade, Minnesota and went to schools in Badger, Minnesota. He lived in Greenbush, Minnesota with his wife and family and ...

(1910–1989), American politician and businessman *

Ben Braun Benjamin Abraham Braun (born November 25, 1953) is an American former men's college basketball coach and college basketball analyst. He served as the head men's basketball coach at Siena Heights University (1977–1985), Eastern Michigan Universit ...

(born 1953), American college basketball coach *

Bob Braun Robert E. Braun (April 20, 1929 – January 15, 2001) was an American local television and radio personality, best known for a program originating in Cincinnati, Ohio named ''The Bob Braun Show''. The show, which he hosted from 1967 to 1984, had t ...

(1929–2001), Cincinnati television personality *

Carol Moseley Braun Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun, also sometimes Moseley-Braun (born August 16, 1947), is a former U.S. Senator, an American diplomat, politician, and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999. Prior to her Senate ...

(born 1947), American politician and lawyer *

Carl Braun (basketball) Carl August Braun Jr. (September 25, 1927 – February 10, 2010) was an American professional basketball and baseball player and professional basketball coach. Sports career Born on Sept. 25, 1927, in Brooklyn, New York, Braun's family moved to ...

(1927–2010), American basketball player and coach *

Carl Braun (bass) Carl Braun (2 June 1886, Meisenheim, Hesse-Nassau – 24 April 1960, Hamburg) was a German bass opera singer. Biography He was born on 2 June 1886 in Meisenheim, Hesse-Nassau in Germany. A pupil of the ''Berlin Imperial Opera'', he sang with th ...

(1886–1960), German opera singer, bass *

Carl Braun (obstetrician) Carl Braun (22 March 1822 – 28 March 1891), sometimes Carl Rudolf Braun alternative spelling: Karl Braun, or Karl von Braun-Fernwald, name after knighthood Carl Ritter von Fernwald Braun was an Austrian obstetrician. He was born 22 March 1822 ...

(1822–1891), Austrian obstetrician (knighted to Carl Ritter von Fernwald Braun) *

Christian Braun Christian Nicholas Braun (pronounced ; born April 17, 2001) is an American professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball at the University of Kansas and was a s ...

(born 2001), American basketball player *

Colin Braun Colin Braun (; born September 22, 1988) is an American racing driver. He is the 2014 and 2015 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Prototype Challenge Champion and currently drives the No. 54 CORE autosport Ligier LMP3 for CORE autosport in the IMSA ...

(born 1988), race car driver *

Dagmar Braun Celeste Dagmar Ingrid Braun Celeste (''née'' Braun; born November 23, 1941) is an American counselor, and author. The former first lady of Ohio, she was married to former Ohio governor (1983–1991) and U.S. ambassador Richard F. Celeste, whom she me ...

(born 1942), first lady of Ohio *

Egidius Braun Egidius Braun (27 February 1925 – 16 March 2022) was a German sports administrator who served as the eighth president of the German Football Association (german: Deutscher Fußball-Bund, DFB) from 1992 to 2001. Subsequently, he was appointed ...

(1925–2022), president of the German Soccer Association (1992-201) *

Émile Braun Émile, Baron Braun (2 December 1849 – 30 August 1927) was an engineer, Belgian liberal politician and manager of companies in the textile industry. He was provincial Council member for East Flanders (1891–1898), mayor of Ghent (1895–1921) ...

(1849–1927), Belgian liberal politician, Mayor of Ghent *

Emma Lucy Braun E. Lucy Braun (April 19, 1889 – March 5, 1971) was a prominent botanist, ecologist, and expert on the forests of the eastern United States who was a professor of the University of Cincinnati. She was the first woman to be elected President o ...

(1889–1971), American botanist and ecologist *

Emmy Braun Emmy Braun (the pseudonym for ''Ida Luise Jacob'', May 25, 1826 in Zweibrücken – April 4, 1904 ibid) was a German cookbook author. She is the best-known cookbook author in the Palatinate, alongside Anna Bergner (1800-1882). Her ''Neues pfälz ...

(1826–1904), German cookbook author *

Ernest Braun Ernst Braun (9 March 1925 – 3 March 2015) was a British-Austrian scholar in technology policy and technology assessment. Biography Born in Vienna as Czechoslovak citizen, Braun grew up in Czechoslovakia. He studied physics at Charles Univers ...

(1925–2015), British-Austrian technology assessor *

Eva Braun Eva Anna Paula Hitler (; 6 February 1912 – 30 April 1945) was a German photographer who was the longtime companion and briefly the wife of Adolf Hitler. Braun met Hitler in Munich when she was a 17-year-old assistant and model for his ...

(1912–1945), longtime companion of Adolf Hitler *

Franziska Braun Eva Anna Paula Hitler (; 6 February 1912 – 30 April 1945) was a German photographer who was the longtime companion and briefly the wife of Adolf Hitler. Braun met Hitler in Munich when she was a 17-year-old assistant and model for his ...

(died 1976), mother of Eva Braun *

Friedrich Braun Friedrich Braun or Fyodor Aleksandrovich Braun (20 July 1862 – 14 June 1942) was a Russian-German scholar who provided philological and mythological backing for the Normanist theory. Braun came to study Scandinavian and Germanic epics on the adv ...

(1862–1942), Russian-German philologist *

Gregor Braun Gregor Braun (; born 31 December 1955) is a retired track cyclist and road bicycle racer from Germany, who was a professional rider from 1977 to 1989 and who became a multiple Olympic Gold medaillist and track world champion. his profession was ...

(born 1955), German bicycle racer *

Grzegorz Braun Grzegorz Michał Braun (born 11 March 1967) is a Polish far-right politician, journalist, academic lecturer, movie director and screenwriter. He is the leader of the Confederation of the Polish Crown and one of the leaders of Confederation Libe ...

(born 1967), Polish journalist, media director and politician *

György Bálint György Bálint (originally surname Braun; 28 July 191921 June 2020) was a Hungarian horticulturist, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, journalist, author, and politician who served as an MP. Biography Bálint's parents Braun Izidor and Koc ...

(originally surname Braun; 1919–2020), Hungarian

horticulturist Horticulture is the branch of agriculture that deals with the art, science, technology, and business of plant cultivation. It includes the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs, sprouts, mushrooms, algae, flowers, seaweeds and no ...

, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, journalist, author, and politician who served as an MP. * Győző Braun (1911–1972), Hungarian and British table tennis champion, better known as

Viktor Barna Viktor Győző Barna (Braun) (24 August 1911 – 27 February 1972) was a Hungarian and British champion table tennis player as well as a record five times singles World Champion. He won 41 World Championship medals and also won 20 English O ...

Hanns Braun Hanns Braun (26 October 1886 – 9 October 1918) was a German athlete. Biography He was born in ''Wernfels'' (today Spalt) and died near Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France as fighter-pilot in an airplane-crash in World War I. He won the bronze ...

(1886–1918), German athlete * Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Braun (1862–1934), German surgeon *

Hel Braun Helene (Hel) Braun (June 3, 1914 – May 15, 1986) was a German mathematician who specialized in number theory and modular forms. Her autobiography, ''The Beginning of A Scientific Career,'' described her experience as a female scientist working ...

(1914–1986), German mathematician *

Helena Braun Helena Braun (20 March 1903 – 2 September 1990) was a German dramatic soprano. She made her stage debut in Mozart's ''Le nozze di Figaro'' in 1928 and joined the Vienna State Opera and the Bavarian State Opera in 1939 and 1940, respectively. S ...

(1903–1990), German soprano *

Helge Braun Helge Reinhold Braun (born 18 October 1972) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Between 2018 and 2021, he served as Head of the Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Affairs in the fourth coalition governmen ...

(born 1972), German politician *

Isabella Braun Isabella Braun (born 12 December 1815 in Jettingen, died 2 May 1886 in Munich) was a German writer. Biography Braun was the daughter of Bernhard Maria Braun, and his wife Euphemia. After her father's death in 1827, the family moved to Augsburg ...

(1815–1886), German writer *

Jayme Caetano Braun Jayme Guilherme Caetano Braun ( Bossoroca, January 30, 1924 – Porto Alegre, July 8, 1999) was a Brazilian folk musician, poet and composer . Jayme was the most famous payador of Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of t ...

(1924–1999), Brazilian folk musician, composer and poet *

Jerzy Braun (disambiguation) Jerzy Braun can refer to: * Jerzy Braun (rower) (1911–1968), Polish rower * Jerzy Braun (writer) Jerzy Bronisław Braun, ps. "Bronisław Rogowski" (born September 1, 1901 in Dąbrowa Tarnowska, died October 17, 1975 in Rome) was a Polish writer ...

, several people *

Johanna Braun Johanna Braun (7 May 1929 – 24 October 2008) was a German writer. Biography Johanna Braun was born in Magdeburg on 7 May 1929. Her father was an optician. She spent most of her life living in East Germany and held a number of jobs including se ...

(1929–2008), German writer *

Jürgen Braun Jürgen Braun (born 25 August 1961) is a German politician. Born in Bergneustadt, North Rhine-Westphalia, he represents Alternative for Germany (AfD). Jürgen Braunhas served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg since ...

(born 1961), German politician * Justin Braun (born 1987), American ice hockey player *

Karl Ferdinand Braun Karl Ferdinand Braun (; 6 June 1850 – 20 April 1918) was a German electrical engineer, inventor, physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. Braun contributed significantly to the development of radio and television technology: he shared the ...

(1850–1918), German physicist and inventor *

Lasse Braun Lasse Braun (born Alberto Ferro; 11 January 1936 – 16 February 2015) was an Italian pornographer, film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist and researcher. He initially produced so-called loops, ten-minute hardcore movies that he sold to ...

(born Alberto Ferrero 1936), Franco-Italian director *

Lilian Jackson Braun Lilian Jackson Braun (June 20, 1913June 4, 2011) was an American writer well known for her light-hearted series of ''The Cat Who...'' mystery novels. ''The Cat Who'' books center on the life of (former) newspaper reporter, James Qwilleran, and h ...

(1913–2011), American writer *

Lily Braun Lily Braun (2 July 1865 – 8 August 1916), born Amalie von Kretschmann, was a German feminist writer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Life She was born in Halberstadt, in the Prussian province of Saxony, the daught ...

(1865–1916), German feminist writer *

Ma Braun Maria Johanna "Ma" Braun (Delfshaven, 28 December 1881 – Rotterdam, 9 October 1956) was a Dutch swimming coach. She led the Dutch women's swimming team at the 1928–1952 Olympics and at the European championships in between, with her trainees ...

(1881–1956), Dutch swimming coach *

Marie Braun Maria "Marie" Johanna Philipsen-Braun (22 June 1911 – 23 June 1982), also known as Zus Braun, was a Dutch swimmer. She competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam and in 1932 in Los Angeles, winning a gold medal in the 100 m backstroke an ...

(1911–1982), Dutch swimmer, daughter of Ma Braun *

Matt Braun Matt Braun is an author specializing in novels of the American West. He has written fifty-six books, most of which are in the Western genre and has over 40 million copies in print.

(born 1932), American writer of Western novels *

Matthias Braun Matthias Bernard Braun (Czech: ''Matyáš Bernard Braun'', 24 February 1684 in Sautens near Innsbruck – 15 February 1738 in Prague) was a sculptor and carver active in the Czech lands, one of the most prominent late baroque style sculptors i ...

(Czech: Matyáš Bernard Braun; 1684–1738), sculptor and carver *

Maurice Braun Maurice Braun (1877–1941) was an American artist who became known for his Impressionist landscapes of southern California. He was born in Hungary on October 1, 1877; however, by the age of four, young Maurice and the Braun family had migrat ...

(1877–1941), American painter *

Michael Braun (footballer) Michael Braun (born 24 March 1978) is an Australian rules footballer who played for the AFL's West Coast Eagles. Playing for Echuca United as a youngster in the Northern and Echuca Football League, he was recruited from Echuca/Bendigo Pionee ...

(born 1978), Australian rules footballer *

Mike Braun Michael Kent Braun (; born March 24, 1954) is an American businessman and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Indiana since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he previously represented the 63rd district in the India ...

(born 1954), American businessman and politician in Indiana *

Nicholas Braun Nicholas Joseph Braun (born May 1, 1988) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Greg Hirsch in the HBO series ''Succession'' (2018–present), for which he has received two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supp ...

(born 1988), American actor *

Otto Braun Otto Braun (28 January 1872 – 15 December 1955) was a politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) during the Weimar Republic. From 1920 to 1932, with only two brief interruptions, Braun was Minister President of the Free State of ...

(1872–1955), German Social Democratic politician and prime minister of Prussia *

Otto Braun (communist) Otto Braun (28 September 1900 – 15 August 1974) was a German Communist journalist and functionary of the Communist Party of Germany with a long and varied career. His most significant role was as a Comintern agent sent to Republic of China ( ...

(1900–1974), German communist and representative of the Comintern *

Ralf Braun Ralf Braun (born 24 January 1973 in Berlin) is a retired backstroke swimmer from Germany, who competed for his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 (Atlanta, Georgia). A member of Wasserfreunde Spandau 04 he is be ...

(born 1973), German backstroke swimmer *

Ralph Braun Ralph William Braun (December 18, 1940 – February 8, 2013) was the founder and CEO of the Braun Corporation. He is also known as the "Father of the Mobility Movement" at BraunAbility. Early life Braun was born and raised in Winamac, Indiana. ...

(1940–2013), American businessman *

Rick Braun Rick Braun (born July 6, 1955) is a smooth jazz trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone and keyboards player, vocalist, composer, and record producer. Career Braun was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania and attended Dieruff High School. His mother was a se ...

(born 1955), American jazz trumpet player *

Russell Braun Russell Braun (born 19 July 1965) is a Canadian operatic lyric baritone and Juno Award winner. Much sought-after as a soloist and for opera roles, Russell Braun performs regularly at the Metropolitan Opera, the Salzburg Festival, the Lyric ...

, Canadian operatic lyric baritone, son of Victor Braun *

Ryan Braun Ryan Joseph Braun (born November 17, 1983) is an American former professional baseball left fielder who played his entire career for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2007 to 2020. Braun also played right field and firs ...

(born 1983), American MVP baseball player *

Sabine Braun Sabine Braun (born 19 June 1965 in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German former athlete in track and field. Because she had talents in several disciplines, Sabine Braun competed in the heptathlon and had a number of successes ...

(born 1965), German athlete * Sanford Braun, better known as

Sandy Koufax Sanford Koufax (; born Sanford Braun; December 30, 1935) is an American former left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played his entire career for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers from 1955 to 1966. He has been hailed as one of t ...

(born 1935), American Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher *

Steve Braun (disambiguation) Steve Braun may refer to: *Steve Braun (actor) (born 1976), Canadian television and movie actor *Steve Braun (baseball) (born 1948), American baseball player *Steve Braun (politician) (born 1959), American businessman and politician {{hndis, Bra ...

, several people *

Tamara Braun Tamara Braun (born April 18, 1971) is an American actress known for her work on daytime television. She portrayed the role of Carly Corinthos on ''General Hospital'' from 2001–2005 and Reese Williams on ''All My Children'' from 2008 to 2009. I ...

(born 1971), American actor *

Victor Braun Victor Conrad Braun (August 4, 1935 – January 6, 2001) was a Canadian baritone who had a major international performance career in concerts and operas that lasted more than 40 years. While he was an accomplished performer of the standard op ...

, Canadian-born operatic baritone, father of Russell Braun *

Volker Braun Volker Braun (born 7 May 1939 in Dresden) is a German writer. His works include ''Provokation für mich'' (''Provocation for me'') – a collection of poems written between 1959 and 1964 and published in 1965, a play, ''Die Kipper'' (''The Dumpers ...

(born 1939), German writer *

Wernher von Braun Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun ( , ; 23 March 191216 June 1977) was a German and American aerospace engineer and space architect. He was a member of the Nazi Party and Allgemeine SS, as well as the leading figure in the develop ...

(1912–1977), German-American rocket scientist

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