Bright is a given name. Notable people with the given name include: ;Given name *

Bright Addae Bright Christopher Addae (also spelled Addai; born 19 December 1992) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. Club career Wa All Stars Born in Wa, Addae began his career with Wa All Stars. Parma and loan deals I ...

, Ghanaian footballer * Bright Allotey, Ghanaian footballer *

Bright Edomwonyi Bright Osagie Edomwonyi (born 24 July 1994) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a striker. Career On 9 May 2018, Edomwonyi won the 2017–18 Austrian Cup with Sturm Graz Sportklub Sturm Graz is an Austrian association foot ...

, Nigerian footballer * Bright Enobakhare, Nigerian footballer * Bright Esieme, Nigerian footballer *

Bright Gyamfi Bright Gyamfi (born 20 January 1996) is a Ghanaian footballer who plays as a defender who plays for Italian club Potenza. Club career On 19 January 2022, he returned to Benevento Benevento (, , ; la, Beneventum) is a city and '' comune'' of ...

, Ghanaian footballer * Bright Igbinadolor, Nigerian footballer *

Bright Matonga Bright Matonga is a Zimbabwean politician. He was the Deputy Information Minister in the cabinet of president Robert Mugabe. In the 2008 Zimbabwean parliamentary election, 2008 parliamentary election, as a member of the Zimbabwe African National ...

, Zimbabwean politician * Bright Nxumalo, Swazi footballer *

Bright Phiri Bright Phiri (born 9 March 1999) is a Zimbabwean cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Matabeleland Tuskers in the 2017–18 Logan Cup on 2 May 2018. Prior to his debut, he was part of a high performance squad of under-19 players, who wer ...

, Zimbabwean cricketer *

Bright Rwamirama Bright Kanyontore Rwamirama is a Ugandan politician and retired army officer. He is the minister for animal industry in the Ugandan cabinet. He was appointed to that position on 1 June 2006. In the cabinet reshuffle of 16 February 2009, that o ...

, Ugandan politician * Bright Samuel, English footballer *

Bright Sheng Bright Sheng (Chinese: 盛宗亮 pinyin: ''Shèng Zōngliàng''; born December 6, 1955) is a Chinese-born American composer, pianist and conductor. Sheng has earned many honors for his music and compositions, including a MacArthur Fellowship in ...

, Chinese-American composer * Bright Silas, Nigerian footballer *

Bright Simons Bright Simons is a Ghanaian social innovator, entrepreneur, writer, social and political commentator. He is the vice-president, in charge of research at IMANI Centre for Policy and Education. He is also the founder and president of mPedigree. Ed ...

, Ghanaian social innovator *

Bright Sodje Bright Ojamohare Sodje (born 21 April 1966) is a retired dual-code rugby player, who played for rugby league clubs; the Wakefield Trinity (Wildcats), Hull Kingston Rovers, and the Sheffield Eagles in England as well as rugby union for Wakefie ...

, English rugby player * Bright Tetteh Ackwerh, Ghanaian artist *

Bright Vachirawit Vachirawit Chivaree ( th, วชิรวิชญ์ ชีวอารี; born 27 December 1997), known professionally as Bright Vachirawit or Bright ( th, ไบร์ท), is a Thai actor, singer, television host, model and entertainer. He i ...

, Thai actor * Bright Williams, New Zealand veteran * Bright Wireko-Brobby, Ghanaian politician ;Middle name *

Edgar Bright Wilson Edgar Bright Wilson Jr. (December 18, 1908 – July 12, 1992) was an American chemist. Wilson was a prominent and accomplished chemist and teacher, recipient of the National Medal of Science in 1975, Guggenheim Fellowships in 1949 and 1970, th ...

, American chemist *

Edgar Bright Wilson (politician) Edgar Bright Wilson (1874-1953) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as the Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1901 to 1903. Early life Edgar Brighton Wilson was born in 1874. His father, James A. Wilson, was a ve ...

, American politician * Edward Bright Vedder, American physician * Georgia Bright Engel, American actress *

Harold Bright Maynard Harold Bright Maynard (Oct. 18, 1902 - Mar. 10, 1975) was an American industrial engineer, consulting engineer at the Methods Engineering Council, and management author. He is known as the "Broadway counsel for industries, railroads, state governm ...

, American engineer *

Helen Bright Clark Helen Bright Clark (1840–1927) was a British women's rights activist and suffragist. The daughter of a radical Member of Parliament, Clark was a prominent speaker for women's voting rights and at times a political realist who served as a mains ...

, British activist *

James Bright Morgan James Bright Morgan (March 14, 1833 – June 18, 1892) was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi. He was born near Fayetteville, Tennessee and moved with his parents to De Soto County, Mississippi in 1840, settling in Hernando. He received a ...

, American politician *

Joan Bright Astley Joan Bright Astley, OBE (27 September 1910 – 24 December 2008), born Penelope Joan McKerrow Bright, organized the Special Information Centre (SIC) for Winston Churchill during World War II. As a young woman, she dated Ian Fleming and is b ...

, British military writer *

John Bright Banister John Bright Banister (1880–1938) was senior obstetric physician at Charing Cross Hospital, London, and a member of staff at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital for Women. During the First World War he served as chief medical officer at the Ang ...

, British physician *

Joy Bright Hancock Joy Bright Hancock (4 May 1898 – 20 August 1986), a veteran of both the First and Second World Wars, was one of the first women officers of the United States Navy. Biography Joy Bright was born in Wildwood, New Jersey on 4 May 1898. During ...

, American veteran *

Margaret Bright Lucas Margaret Bright Lucas (14 July 1818 – 4 February 1890) was a British temperance activist and suffragist Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise, is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although th ...

, British temperance activist *

Nathaniel Bright Emerson Nathaniel Bright Emerson (July 1, 1839 Waialua, Oahu – July 16, 1915, at sea) was a medical physician and author of Hawaiian mythology. He was the son of Protestant missionaries John S. Emerson and Ursula Newell Emerson, and father of artist Ar ...

, American physician *

Priscilla Bright McLaren Priscilla Bright McLaren (8 September 1815 – 5 November 1906) was a British activist who served and linked the anti-slavery movement with the women's suffrage movement in the nineteenth century. She was a member of the Edinburgh Ladies' Emanci ...

, British activist * Thomas Bright Crosse, British politician

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