George Loring Brown
George Loring Brown (February 2, 1814 – June 25, 1889) was an American landscape painter. He was born in Boston and first studied wood engraving under Alonzo Hartwell and worked as an illustrator. He studied painting with Washington Allston, ...
George Mackay Brown
George Mackay Brown (17 October 1921 – 13 April 1996) was a Scottish poet, author and dramatist with a distinctly Orcadian character. He is widely regarded as one of the great Scottish poets of the 20th century.
Biography Early life and caree ...
(1921–1996), Scottish poet, author, and dramatist
* George Brown (medievalist) (died 2021), American scholar of Anglo-Saxon literature
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George Brown (musician)
Kool & the Gang is an American R&B/soul/funk band formed in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1964 by brothers Robert "Kool" Bell and Ronald Bell, with Dennis "Dee Tee" Thomas, Robert "Spike" Mickens, Charles Smith, George Brown, and Ricky West. T ...
(born 1949), American drummer for Kool & the Gang
Business and industry
* George Edwards Brown (1780–1848), British-born Chilean businessman and politician
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George Brown (financier)
George Brown (August 17, 1787 – August 26, 1859) was an Irish-American investment banker and railroad entrepreneur.
Early life
Brown was born on August 17, 1787, in Ballymena in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. He was the second son of bank ...
(1787–1859), American banker and railroad founder
* George W. Brown (businessman) (1845–1918), American founder of the
Brown's Business College Brown's Business College was a chain of business colleges located in the midwestern United States, started in Illinois in the 1870s by George W. Brown (1845-1918) of Jacksonville, Illinois.Kemp, Bill (29 November 2008)Brown's delivered white-collar ...
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* George A. Brown (1885–1940), Scottish businessman, manager of the ''Rangoon Times''
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George R. Brown
George Rufus Brown (May 12, 1898 – January 22, 1983) was a prominent Houston entrepreneur. With his brother Herman, Brown led Brown & Root Inc. to become one of the largest construction companies in the world and helped to foster the political c ...
(1898–1983), American construction entrepreneur
* George Garvin Brown IV (born 1969/70), Canadian businessman
George Stewart Brown
George Stewart Brown (August 16, 1871 – November 11, 1941) was a judge of the United States Customs Court and a member of the Board of General Appraisers.
Education and career
Born on August 16, 1871, in Baltimore, Maryland, Brown received a ...
(1871–1941), judge for the United States Customs Court
* George H. Brown Jr. (Tennessee judge) (born 1939), associate justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court
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George Brown (Belizean judge) Sir George Noel Brown (13 June 1942 – 26 July 2007) was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Belize from 1991 to 1998, the second native-born Belizean to sit in that position.
Career
Brown served the judiciary for more than four decades, ri ...
(1942–2007), chief justice of Belize from 1990 to 1998
George Brown (Canadian politician)
George Brown (November 29, 1818 – May 9, 1880) was a British-Canadian journalist, politician and one of the Fathers of Confederation; attended the Charlottetown (September 1864) and Quebec (October 1864) conferences. A noted Reform politician, ...
George Mackenzie Brown
George Mackenzie Brown (1869 – 14 July 1946) was a Canadian-born Scottish publisher who also followed a political career. As a publisher, he produced Arthur Conan Doyle's books; as a politician, he beat him to win election to the House of Com ...
(1869–1946), member of parliament
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George Brown, Baron George-Brown
George Alfred George-Brown, Baron George-Brown, (2 September 1914 – 2 June 1985) was a British Labour Party politician who served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1960 to 1970 and held several Cabinet roles under Prime Minist ...
(1914–1985), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
United States
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George Brown (Rhode Island politician)
George Brown (January 10, 1746 – June 19, 1836) was a Rhode Island politician and judge who served as a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from May 1796 to June 1799, and as the first Lieutenant governor of Rhode Island from 1799 to 18 ...
George Brown Jr.
George Edward Brown Jr. (March 6, 1920 – July 15, 1999) was an American Democratic politician from California. He represented suburban portions of Los Angeles County in the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1971 and parts of ...
Hank Brown
George Hanks "Hank" Brown (born February 12, 1940) is an American politician and lawyer from Colorado. He is a former Republican politician and U.S. Senator. He served as the 21st president of the University of Colorado system from April 2005 ...
(George Hanks Brown, born 1940), U.S. senator from Colorado
Other countries
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George Brown (South African politician)
George Brown (1870 – August 1932) was a Scottish trade unionist and politician, active in South Africa.
Born in Glasgow to a mining family, Brown completed an apprenticeship as a boilermaker and in 1890 joined the United Society of Boilerm ...
George Brown (bishop of Dunkeld)
George Brown (c. 1438 – January 1515) was a late 15th-century and early 16th-century Scottish churchman. He first appears on record in 1478 as the rector of the church of Tyningham, and is called a clerk of the diocese of Brechin. In 1482, ...
George Brown (bishop of Liverpool)
George Hilary Brown (1784 – 1856) was an English prelate who served as the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool from 1850 to 1856.
Early life
George Hilary Brown was born in Clifton, Lancashire on 15 January 1784, the son of William Br ...
(1784–1856), English Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool
* George Brown (missionary) (1835–1917), English Methodist missionary to Fiji, Samoa, and New Britain, president-general of the Methodist Church of Australasia
Science and medicine
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George Brown (inventor)
George Brown (1650–1730) was a Scotland, Scottish arithmetician, and inventor of two incomplete mechanical calculating machines now kept at the Museum of Scotland, National Museum of Scotland. In 1698 he was granted a patent for his mechanical ca ...
(1650–1730), Scottish inventor
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George Lindor Brown
Sir George Lindor Brown (9 February 1903, Liverpool – 22 February 1971) was an English physiologist and secretary of the Royal Society, of which he was elected a Fellow in 1946.
He was commonly referred to as Sir Lindor Brown; by his own pref ...
(1903–1971), English physiologist and Secretary of the Royal Society
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George Harold Brown
George Harold Brown (14 October 1908 – 11 December 1987) was an American research engineer. He was a prolific inventor who held more than 80 patents and wrote over 100 technical papers.
He led the RCA Corporation's efforts to develop a color ...
(1908–1987), American developer of color television
* George W. Brown (computer scientist) (1917–2005), American statistician, game theorist, and computer scientist
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G. Spencer-Brown
George Spencer-Brown (2 April 1923 – 25 August 2016) was an English polymath best known as the author of '' Laws of Form''. He described himself as a "mathematician, consulting engineer, psychologist, educational consultant and practitioner, co ...
(1923–2016), English mathematician
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George Malcolm Brown
Sir George Malcolm Brown, FRS (5 October 1925 – 27 March 1997) was one of the most respected geologists of the second half of the twentieth century. His formidable reputation as an igneous petrologist enabled him to become one of the few scie ...
George Brown (footballer, born 1903)
George Brown (22 June 1903 – 10 June 1948) was an English professional footballer and football manager, who played most of his career with Huddersfield Town.
Playing career
A centre-forward, he was the highest ever goal-scorer for Huddersfi ...
George Brown (soccer, born 1935)
George Brown (born August 19, 1935) is an English-born American former soccer forward who played his entire career in the United States. He signed with an amateur team in 1950 at the age of fifteen and was highly successful until suffering a k ...
George Brown (cricketer, born 1821)
George Grainger Brown (16 June 1821 – 21 March 1875) was an English cricketer active in the 1850s, making over forty appearances in first-class cricket. Born at Brighton, Sussex, Brown was a right-handed batsman and an underarm bowler, who p ...
George Knockout Brown
Georgios "George" A. Contas (August 25, 1890 – September 21, 1971) also known as George Knockout Brown was a Greek American middleweight boxer from Chicago, Illinois.
Biography
He was born on August 25, 1890, in Sparta, Greece. His family m ...
Igor Gouzenko
Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko (russian: Игорь Сергеевич Гузенко ; January 26, 1919 – June 25, 1982) was a cipher clerk for the Soviet embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, and a lieutenant of the GRU (Main Intelligence Direct ...
(alias George Brown, 1919–1982), Soviet defector to Canada
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George Brown College
George Brown College is a public, fully accredited college of applied arts and technology with three campuses in downtown Toronto (Ontario, Canada). Like many other colleges in Ontario, GBC was chartered in 1966 by the government of Ontario and ...
, applied arts and technology college in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
* '' George Brown, Class Clown'', a book series by author Nancy E. Krulik
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George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens
The George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens is a botanical garden located 2 km north of the CBD of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
History
The gardens were established on their present site in 1886; this was the third attempt by Euro ...
, located in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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Georg Stanford Brown
Georg Stanford Brown (born June 24, 1943) is an American actor and director, perhaps best known as one of the stars of the ABC police television series '' The Rookies'' from 1972 to 1976. On the show, Brown played the character of Officer Terry ...
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