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People

  • Anna Brewster
    Anna Brewster
    -Acting career:Anna has appeared in the films Anita and Me, Mrs Henderson Presents, Hippie Hippie Shake with Sienna Miller and Cillian Murphy and How to Lose Friends & Alienate People...

  • Benjamin Brewster (disambiguation)
    Benjamin Brewster (disambiguation)
    Benjamin Brewster may refer to:*Benjamin Brewster , Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine, USA*Benjamin H. Brewster , United States Attorney General, 1881–1885...

  • Craig Brewster
    Craig Brewster
    Craig James Brewster is a Scottish football player and coach. He made his name in a long and successful career playing as a striker for numerous clubs in Scotland, particularly Forfar Athletic, Raith Rovers, Dundee United and Dunfermline Athletic...

  • Daniel Brewster
    Daniel Brewster
    Daniel Baugh Brewster was a Democratic member of the United States Senate, representing the State of Maryland from 1963 until 1969...

  • David Brewster
    David Brewster
    Sir David Brewster KH PRSE FRS FSA FSSA MICE was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer and university principal.-Early life:...

    , Scottish scientist
  • David Brewster (journalist)
    David Brewster (journalist)
    David Clark Brewster is an American journalist and the founder, editor and publisher of the Seattle Weekly and the online Northwest "newspaper" Crosscut.com...

  • Diane Brewster
    Diane Brewster
    Diane Brewster was an American television actress most noted for playing three distinctively different roles in US TV series of the 1950s and 60s: confidence trickster Samantha Crawford in Maverick; pretty young second-grade teacher Miss Canfield in Leave It to Beaver; and doomed wife Helen...

  • Elizabeth Brewster
    Elizabeth Brewster
    Elizabeth Winifred Brewster, CM is a Canadian poet and academic.Born in Chipman, New Brunswick, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of New Brunswick, a Master of Arts degree from Radcliffe College, a Bachelor of Library Science from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D....

  • Harlan Carey Brewster
    Harlan Carey Brewster
    Harlan Carey Brewster was a politician in British Columbia, Canada. Brewster arrived in British Columbia in 1893, and had various careers working on a ship and then in a cannery. He eventually became owner of his own canning company...

    , Canadian politician
  • Henry Percy Brewster
    Henry Percy Brewster
    Henry Percy Brewster was a lawyer, statesman, and soldier from Texas. He fought in the Texas Revolution, and as a colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.-Biography:...

  • Janet Huntington Brewster
    Janet Huntington Brewster
    Janet Huntington Brewster was an American philanthropist, writer, radio broadcaster and relief worker during World War II in London.-Life:...

  • John Brewster (disambiguation)
  • Jordana Brewster
    Jordana Brewster
    Jordana Brewster is an American actress. She began her acting career in her late teens, with a 1995 one-episode role in the soap opera All My Children. She followed that appearance with the recurring role as Nikki Munson in As the World Turns, for which Brewster was nominated for Outstanding Teen...

  • Kent Brewster
    Kent Brewster
    Kent Brewster is a writer, editor, and publisher. He was the publisher and frequent editor of the Hugo Award-nominated Speculations, a magazine of science fiction and other speculative fiction, from its inception in 1994 until it ceased operating in 2008.Brewster's short story, "“In the Pound,...

  • Kingman Brewster, Jr.
    Kingman Brewster, Jr.
    Kingman Brewster, Jr., was an educator, president of Yale University, and American diplomat.-Early life:...

    , American educator and diplomat
  • Lamon Brewster
    Lamon Brewster
    "Relentless" Lamon Tajuan Brewster is a retired American professional heavyweight boxer, and former WBO heavyweight champion. He won the silver medal as an amateur at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata....

    , American professional boxer (Heavyweight)
  • Lincoln Brewster
    Lincoln Brewster
    Lincoln Brewster is a contemporary Christian musician and pastor. As a guitarist, singer, and songwriter, Brewster became a sought-after session guitarist in the early 90s. Brewster is the senior worship pastor at Bayside Church in Roseville, California.-Biography:Brewster has been musically...

  • Love Brewster
    Love Brewster
    Elder Love Brewster was an early American settler, the son of Elder William Brewster and his wife, Mary Brewster. He traveled with his father, mother and brother, Wrestling, on the Mayflower reaching what became the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620...

  • Martha Wadsworth Brewster
    Martha Wadsworth Brewster
    Martha Wadsworth Brewster was an 18th-century American poet and writer. She is one of only four colonial women who published volumes of their verse before the American Revolution and was the first American-born woman to publish under her own name.-Early life:She was born on April 1, 1710 in...

  • Owen Brewster
    Owen Brewster
    Ralph Owen Brewster was an American politician from Maine. Brewster, a Republican, was solidly conservative...

    , American politician
  • Paget Brewster
    Paget Brewster
    Paget Valerie Brewster is an American actress. She is currently known for playing Special Agent Emily Prentiss on the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds. In June 2010, it was said that her role on Criminal Minds would be reduced in the sixth season. In March 2011, Brewster's character left the series...

  • Pete Brewster
    Pete Brewster
    Darrel "Pete" Brewster is a former American football end and coach and collegiate football and basketball player.-College career:...

  • Rudi M. Brewster
    Rudi M. Brewster
    Rudi M. Brewster is a United States Federal Judge, best known for 2006 ruling in a patent infringements suit against Microsoft tied to the licensing of the MP3 format....

    , American federal judge
  • Stephen Singer-Brewster
    Stephen Singer-Brewster
    Stephen C. Singer-Brewster is an American astronomer.Mr. Brewster is a member of the American Association of Variable Star Observers. He participated in the Palomar Planet Crossing Asteroid Survey as an observer and astrometrist under the direction of Dr. Eleanor F. Helin from 1985 to 1988....

  • Tim Brewster
    Tim Brewster
    Tim Brewster is an American football player and coach. He most recently served as the head coach of the University of Minnesota from 2007 until he was fired midway through the Golden Gophers' 2010 season.-Playing career:...

  • Todd Brewster
    Todd Brewster
    -Biography:Brewster served as Senior Editorial Producer for ABC News and co-authored three books with the late Peter Jennings: The Century, The Century for Young People, and In Search of America...

  • Vic Brewster
  • W. Herbert Brewster
    W. Herbert Brewster
    William Herbert Brewster was an influential African American Baptist minister, composer, dramatist, singer, poet and community leader....

    , African-American minister and songwriter
  • William Brewster (disambiguation)
  • Wrestling Brewster
  • Yvonne Brewster
    Yvonne Brewster
    Yvonne Brewster, O.B.E. is a stage director, teacher and writer.Born in Jamaica, Yvonne Brewster went to the UK to study drama in the mid-fifties at the Rose Bruford College and the Royal Academy of Music...


  • Brewster Kahle
    Brewster Kahle
    Brewster Kahle is a computer engineer, internet entrepreneur, activist, and digital librarian.- Biography :Kahle graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science in computer science and engineering, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. The...

    , computer technologist
  • Brewster H. Shaw
    Brewster H. Shaw
    Brewster Hopkinson Shaw, Jr. is a former NASA astronaut, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and former executive at Boeing. Shaw was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 6, 2006....

    , astronaut

Places

United States
  • Brewster, Florida
    Brewster, Florida
    Brewster is a ghost town in southwest Polk County, Florida 10 miles south of Mulberry. It is at an elevation of 143 feet above sea level. It has been uninhabited since the early 1960s. The population is 3, according to the 2010 Census....

  • Brewster, Kansas
    Brewster, Kansas
    Brewster is a city in Thomas County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 305.-Geography:Brewster is located at . According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land.-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 285...

  • Brewster, Massachusetts
    Brewster, Massachusetts
    Brewster is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, Barnstable County being coextensive with Cape Cod. The population of Brewster was 9,820 at the 2010 census.Brewster is twinned with the town of Budleigh Salterton in the United Kingdom....

    • Brewster (CDP), Massachusetts
      Brewster (CDP), Massachusetts
      Brewster is a census-designated place in the town of Brewster in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 2,212 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Brewster is located at ....

  • Brewster, Minnesota
    Brewster, Minnesota
    Brewster is a city in Nobles County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 473 at the 2010 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, Brewster has a total area of , all of it land. It is located one-half mile from the Jackson County line, on section 25 of Hersey Township...

  • Brewster, Nebraska
    Brewster, Nebraska
    Brewster is a village in Blaine County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 29 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Blaine County.-Geography:Brewster is located at ....

  • Brewster, New York
    Brewster, New York
    Brewster is a village within the town of Southeast in Putnam County, New York, United States. Its population was 2,162 at the 2000 census. The village is the most densely populated portion of the town...

    • Brewster (Metro-North station)
      Brewster (Metro-North station)
      The Brewster Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of Brewster, New York via the Harlem Line. It is the southernmost station in Putnam County. Trains leave for New York City every hour, and about every 25 minutes during rush hour...

  • Brewster Hill, New York
    Brewster Hill, New York
    Brewster Hill is a hamlet located in the township of Southeast in Putnam County, New York. As of the 2000 census, the population was 2,226.Brewster Hill is located on the east side of Tonetta Lake and is east of Interstate 84....

  • Brewster, Ohio
    Brewster, Ohio
    Brewster is a village in Stark County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,324 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Canton–Massillon Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Brewster is located at , along Sugar Creek....

  • Brewster, Washington
    Brewster, Washington
    Brewster is a city in Okanogan County, Washington, United States. The population was 2,370 at the 2010 census.-History:In 1811, John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company established Fort Okanogan just north of the present site of Brewster, which was the first American post in Washington...

  • Brewster County, Texas
    Brewster County, Texas
    Brewster County is a county located in western part of the US state of Texas, along the border with Mexico. It is one of the nine counties that comprise the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas. As of the 2000 census, the population is 8,866. In 2009, the population was estimated to be 9,481. Its...

  • Brewster Creek
    Brewster Creek
    Brewster Creek is located in the Firestone Park area of Akron, Ohio and is a vital drainage waterway for the region.The length of the creek is nearly 5.5 miles with an average width of 13 feet . The creek originates near Arlington Road and ultimately drains in Nesmith Lake off Manchester Road...

    , in Akron, Ohio
  • Islands in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts:
    • Great Brewster Island
      Great Brewster Island
      Great Brewster Island is a one of the outer islands in the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, situated some offshore of downtown Boston. The island has a permanent size of , plus an intertidal zone of a further...

    • Little Brewster Island
      Little Brewster Island
      Little Brewster Island is a rocky outer island in the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. It is best known as the location of Boston Light, the only remaining Coast Guard-manned lighthouse in the United States, and an important navigation aid for traffic to and from the Port of Boston...

    • Middle Brewster Island
      Middle Brewster Island
      Middle Brewster Island is a rugged outer island in the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, located offshore from downtown Boston. The island has a permanent size of , reaches a height of above sea level, and is bounded by sharp cliffs and sunken crags. It has only sparse vegetation...



United Kingdom
  • Brewster Park (Enniskillen)
    Brewster Park (Enniskillen)
    Brewster Park is a new Gaelic Athletic Association stadium in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is the home ground of Enniskillen Gaels and the County ground of Fermanagh GAA. The ground has recently reopened after having been closed for redevelopments...

    , Northern Ireland


The Moon
  • Brewster (crater)
    Brewster (crater)
    Brewster is a small lunar impact crater in the northern fringes of Sinus Amoris. It lies to the southwest of the larger crater Römer. To the southeast of Brewster is the similar-sized Franck. This crater is cup-shaped and symmetrical, with no overlapping craters of note. A low ridge is attached to...


Structures

Schools
  • Brewster Academy
    Brewster Academy
    Brewster Academy is a co-educational independent boarding school located on in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire USA, two hours north of Boston. It occupies 1/2 mile of shoreline along Lake Winnipesaukee...

    , a boarding school in New Hampshire, USA
  • Brewster High School (Brewster, Washington), USA
  • Brewster School District (disambiguation), several

Hospitals
  • Brewster Hospital
    Brewster Hospital
    The Brewster Hospital is a historic U.S. hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. It is located at 915 West Monroe Street. On May 13, 1976, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.-History:...

    , in Duval County, Florida, USA

Housing Projects
  • Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects, in Detroit, Michigan, USA

Business

  • Brewster & Co.
    Brewster & Co.
    Brewster & Company was an American coachbuilder, active from 1810-1937. Their first known bodywork on an automobile was in 1896, on an electric car, and a gasoline powered car in 1905, on a Delaunay-Belleville chassis. Eventually they would use chassis from a variety of makers...

    , American coachbuilders and automobile maker and a brand of automobile
  • Brewster Aeronautical Corporation
    Brewster Aeronautical Corporation
    The Brewster Aeronautical Corporation was a North American defense contractor that operated from the 1930s until the end of World War II.It started existence as an aircraft division of Brewster & Co., a company that originally sold carriages and had branched into automobile bodies and airplane parts...

  • Brewster Buffalo
    Brewster Buffalo
    The Brewster F2A Buffalo was an American fighter aircraft which saw limited service early in World War II. Though the Buffalo won a competition against the Grumman F4F Wildcat in 1939 to become the US Navy's first monoplane fighter aircraft, it turned out to be a big disappointment...

    , American military aircraft
  • Brewster Jennings & Associates
    Brewster Jennings & Associates
    Brewster Jennings & Associates was a front company set up in 1994 by the Central Intelligence Agency as a "cover" for its agents. The most famous is Valerie Plame, a "covert employee of the CIA" whose employment status was "classified" and whose then-classified covert identity was published in a...

    , a front company set up by the CIA
  • Crocker & Brewster
    Crocker & Brewster
    Crocker & Brewster was a leading publishing house in Boston, Massachusetts, during its 58-year existence. The business was located at today's 173-175 Washington Street for nearly half a century; in 1864 it moved to the adjoining building, where it remained until the firm's dissolution.The firm was...

    , publishing house in Boston, USA

Science

  • Brewster's angle
    Brewster's angle
    Brewster's angle is an angle of incidence at which light with a particular polarization is perfectly transmitted through a transparent dielectric surface, with no reflection. When unpolarized light is incident at this angle, the light that is reflected from the surface is therefore perfectly...

    , a physics concept
  • Brewster (unit), a unit of measure named after David Brewster

Entertainment

  • Brewster McCloud
    Brewster McCloud
    Brewster McCloud is a 1970 movie, directed by Robert Altman, about a young recluse who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome, where he is building a pair of wings so he can fly. He is helped by his fairy godmother, played by Sally Kellerman....

    , a 1970 film
  • Brewster's Millions
    Brewster's Millions
    Brewster's Millions is a novel written by George Barr McCutcheon in 1902, originally under the pseudonym of Richard Greaves. It was adapted into a play in 1906, which opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre, and the novel or play has been made into a film nine times .-Plot introduction:The novel's...

    , 1902 novel
  • Brewster's Millions (1985 film)
    Brewster's Millions (1985 film)
    Brewster's Millions is a 1985 comedy film starring Richard Pryor and John Candy based on the 1902 novel of the same name by George Barr McCutcheon. It is the seventh film based on the story, with a screenplay by Herschel Weingrod & Timothy Harris...

  • Brewster Rockit: Space Guy!, a comic strip
  • Punky Brewster
    Punky Brewster
    Punky Brewster was an American sitcom about a girl named Punky Brewster being raised by her foster parent...

    , a TV program
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