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Brent may refer to: * Brent (name), an English given and surname


Place name

;In the United States * Brent, Alabama *
Brent, Florida Brent is a census-designated place (CDP) in Escambia County, Florida, United States. The population was 21,804 at the 2010 census. It is a principal city of the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent Metropolitan Statistical Area. The community is named af ...
* Brent, Georgia * Brent, Missouri, a ghost town *
Brent, Oklahoma Brent is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, United States, south of Sallisaw. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 504 at the 2000 census. The post office o ...
;In the United Kingdom *
Brent, Cornwall Brent is a housing estate in Cornwall, England, UK. It is situated east of the village of Polperro, within the civil parish of Polperro and west of the neighbouring town of Looe Looe (; kw, Logh, ) is a coastal town and civil parish in s ...
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Brent Knoll Brent Knoll is a hill on the Somerset Levels, in Somerset, England. It is located roughly halfway between Weston-super-Mare and Bridgwater, from the Bristol Channel coast at Burnham-on-Sea. At the foot of the hill are two villages East Brent a ...
, a hill in Somerset, England *
Brent Knoll (village) Brent Knoll, formerly known as South Brent, is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, which lies on the southern edge of Brent Knoll – a hill with a height of 137 metres (450 ft) that dominates the low surrounding landscape ...
, a village at the foot of the hill *
East Brent East Brent is a village and civil parish, on the eastern edge of a hill that dominates the surrounding level countryside—Brent Knoll—close to the M5 motorway, west of Axbridge, in the Sedgemoor district of the county of Somerset, in the sou ...
, another village at the foot of the hill * London Borough of Brent, England * South Brent, Devon, England ;Elsewhere * Brent, Ontario, a village in Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada *
Brent crater The Brent crater is an impact crater in both the geographic township of Deacon, Unorganized South Nipissing District and the municipal township of Papineau-Cameron in Nipissing District, northeastern Ontario, Canada, located north of Cedar Lake ...
, a meteor crater named after the village of Brent, Ontario * Brent oilfield, North Sea


In fiction

* Brent (''Planet of the Apes'') * Corey Brent, fictional character on the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' *
David Brent David Brent is a fictional character in the BBC television mockumentary ''The Office'', portrayed by the show's co-creator, co-writer and co-director Ricky Gervais. Brent is a white-collar office middle-manager and the principal character of ...
, fictional character on the BBC television comedy ''The Office'' * Stefan Brent, fictional character on the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' * Brent Scopes, fictional character from the novel ''
Mount Dragon ''Mount Dragon'' is a 1996 techno-thriller novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The action primarily follows Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca, two researchers employed by the corporation GeneDyne and stationed at the Mount Dragon faci ...
'' * Brent McHale, fictional character from the animated film '' Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs''


Other uses

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Brent Cross tube station Brent Cross is a London Underground station located on Highfield Avenue in the Golders Green area of north west London. The station is a Grade II listed building. The station is on the Edgware branch of the Northern line, between Hendon Cent ...
, North-west London, England * Brent Cross Shopping Center, a mall in Northern London, close to the terminus to the M1 Highway *
Brent Crude Brent Crude may refer to any or all of the components of the Brent Complex, a physically and financially traded oil market based around the North Sea of Northwest Europe; colloquially, Brent Crude usually refers to the price of the ICE (Intercon ...
, benchmark classification of oil *
Brent goose The brant or brent goose (''Branta bernicla'') is a small goose of the genus ''Branta''. There are three subspecies, all of which winter along temperate-zone sea-coasts and breed on the high-Arctic tundra. The Brent oilfield was named after t ...
(''Branta bernicla''), known in North America as brant * Brent International School, the Philippines * Brent's method, a root-finding algorithm * Brent railway station, South Devon, England *
Brent sidings Brent sidings was an important marshalling yard and freight facility on the Midland Railway extension to London. History The sidings were situated on both sides of the Midland Main Line between and stations, close to the triangle formed where ...
, railway freight facility in north-west London, England *
Brent Spar Brent Spar, or Brent E, was a North Sea oil storage and tanker loading buoy in the Brent oilfield, operated by Shell UK. With the completion of a pipeline connection to the oil terminal at Sullom Voe in Shetland, the storage facility had cont ...
, decommissioned oil storage and tanker loading buoy * National Theatre of Brent, British comedy double-act *
River Brent The River Brent is a river in west and northwest London, England, and a tributary of the River Thames. in length, it rises in the Borough of Barnet and flows in a generally south-west direction before joining the Tideway stretch of the Thame ...
, London, England


See also

* Bret (disambiguation) *
Brett Brett derives from a Middle English surname meaning "Briton" or "Breton", referring to the Celtic people of Britain and Brittany, France. Brette can be a feminine name. People with the surname * Adrian Brett (born 1945) English flutist and writer ...
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