Bryan is a surname found in the English-speaking world

English-speaking world

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This surname has several different origins. One origin of the name is from an Anglo-Norman

Anglo-Norman

The Anglo-Normans were mainly the descendants of the Normans who ruled England following the Norman conquest by William the Conqueror in 1066. A small number of Normans were already settled in England prior to the conquest...

 name, de Brionne, derived from either of two places called Brionne in the north of France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

—one is Brionne

Brionne

Brionne is a commune in the Eure department in Haute-Normandie in northern France.-Population:-Sights:The keep, built in the 11th century was one of the rare Norman squareshaped defensive keeps, reminding of British architecture. It was destroyed in the 18th century.The church Saint-Martin has a...

, in Eure

Eure

Eure is a department in the north of France named after the river Eure.- History :Eure is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790...

; the other is Brionne in Creuse

Creuse

Creuse is a department in central France named after the Creuse River.-History:Creuse is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from the former province of La Marche....

. Another origin of the surname is from the name which was brought to England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 and Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 by the Breton

Breton people

The Bretons are an ethnic group located in the region of Brittany in France. They trace much of their heritage to groups of Brythonic speakers who emigrated from southwestern Great Britain in waves from the 3rd to 6th century into the Armorican peninsula, subsequently named Brittany after them.The...

 followers of the Normans

Normans

The Normans were the people who gave their name to Normandy, a region in northern France. They were descended from Norse Viking conquerors of the territory and the native population of Frankish and Gallo-Roman stock...

, who invaded in England in the 11th century. This name is thought to be derived from the same Old Celtic language element as the modern given name Bryan

Bryan (given name)

Bryan is a masculine given name. It is a variant spelling of the masculine given name Brian.-Origin and meaning of the name:The given name Bryan is a variant of the given name Brian. This name is thought to be derived from an Old Celtic language word meaning "high", or "noble".The spelling of the...

. When the Anglo-Normans invaded Ireland in the 12th century, this name was confused with the native Irish name Brian

Brian

Brian is a male given name of Irish and Breton origin, as well as a surname of Occitan origin. It is common in the English-speaking world. It is possible that the name is derived from an Old Celtic word meaning "high" or "noble". For example the element bre means "hill"; which could be transferred...

. The 'i' in "Brionne" is pronounced like a 'y', and as a result, as the names got confused, the y emerged.

People with this surname

• Albert V. Bryan Jr.
  Albert V. Bryan Jr.
  Albert Vickers Bryan Jr. is a United States federal judge.Born in Alexandria, Virginia, Bryan's father Albert Vickers Bryan, was also a federal judge. Bryan served in the United States Marine Corps reserve from 1944 to 1946, and then received an LL.B. from University of Virginia School of Law in...
  
  , American judge
• Alfred Bryan
  Alfred Bryan
  Alfred Bryan was a United States songwriter and pacifist.-Songs:His hits included*"Peg O' My Heart"*"Come Josephine in My Flying Machine"*"I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier"...
  
  , American songwriter
• Arthur Bryan
  Arthur Bryan
  Sir Arthur Bryan is former managing director of the Wedgwood pottery firm . He became the first non-Wedgwood family member to hold the post when he succeeded Josiah Wedgwood V in 1967. He was knighted in 1976 for services to export.-External links:*...
  
  , British business executive
• Arthur Q. Bryan
  Arthur Q. Bryan
  Arthur Quirk Bryan was a United States comedian and voice actor, remembered best for his longtime recurring role as well-spoken, wisecracking Dr...
  
  , American comedian
• Bob and Mike Bryan
  Bob and Mike Bryan
  Twin brothers Robert Charles Bryan and Michael Carl Bryan are American professional tennis double players. They have been the World No. 1 doubles player for over 270 weeks and have finished the ATP year-end number 1 doubles team a record 7 times...
  
  , American tennis doubles team made up of the twin brothers:
  • Bob Bryan
    Bob Bryan
    Robert Charles "Bob" Bryan is an American male professional tennis player. With his twin brother Mike, he has spent over 200 weeks as a World No. 1 doubles player. He has won eighteen Grand Slam titles, 11 in men's doubles and seven in mixed doubles. He turned professional in 1998...
    
    
  • Mike Bryan
    Mike Bryan
    Michael Carl "Mike" Bryan is an American professional tennis player. He stands tall, weighs 192 lbs and plays right-handed. He turned professional in 1998. With his twin brother Bob, he has been World No...
    
    
• Brother Bryan
  Brother Bryan
  James Alexander Bryan, known as Brother Bryan, was a well-loved pastor of Third Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama....
  
  , American Presbyterian minister
• Charles Faulkner Bryan
  Charles Faulkner Bryan
  Charles Faulkner Bryan was an American composer, musician, music educator and collector of folk music.-Biography:...
  
  , American composer
• Charles W. Bryan
  Charles W. Bryan
  Charles Wayland Bryan was the younger brother of perennial U.S. Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan, with whom he shares the distinction of being the only set of brothers to be nominated for national office by a major party.-Biography:Born in 1867 in Salem, Illinois, Bryan...
  
  , Governor of Nebraska
• Charlie Bryan
  Charlie Bryan
  Charlie Bryan was the head of the International Association of Machinists union in the southeast United States, during the mid to late 1980s. He led machinists to strike against Eastern Air Lines and Frank Lorenzo in 1989.-References:...
  
  , American labor leader
• Daniel Bryan
  Daniel Bryan
  Colonel Dan Bryan was an officer in the Irish Army and head of G2 during World War II, known in neutral Ireland as "The Emergency"....
  
  , ring name of American professional wrestler Bryan Danielson (born 1981)
• David Bryan
  David Bryan
  David Bryan is the keyboard player of the band rock classic, Bon Jovi. Bryan also sings backing vocals and often at live shows sings part of or the whole of the song "In These Arms", one of a handful of Bon Jovi songs credited to him as songwriter...
  
  , American musician
• Donald Bryan
  Donald Bryan
  Donald Bryan is the former Acting Commissioner of Banking and Insurance in New Jersey. A career employee of his department, served as Director of the Division of Insurance from 1999 to 2006, where he served two separate stints as acting commissioner....
  
  , American politician
• Dora Bryan
  Dora Bryan
  Dora May Bryan OBE is an English actress of stage, film and television.-Early life:Bryan was born as Dora May Broadbent in Southport, Lancashire, England. Her father was a salesman and she attended Hathershaw County Primary School in Oldham, Lancashire...
  
  , British actress
• Elizabeth Bryan, mistress of Henry VIII and wife of his close friend, Nicholas Carew
• Ernie Bryan
  Ernie Bryan
  Ernest "Ernie" Bryan is a former Welsh footballer.Bryan made one peacetime appearance in The Football League for Chester, when he replaced regular right back Reg Butcher in a 3–3 draw at Darlington in January 1949...
  
  , Welsh footballer
• Sir Francis Bryan
  Francis Bryan
  Sir Francis Bryan was an English courtier and diplomat during the reign of Henry VIII. He was Chief Gentleman of the Privy chamber and Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Bryan always retained Henry's favour, achieving this by altering his opinions to conform to the...
  
  , brother of Elizabeth, sixteenth-century politician, known as The Vicar of Hell
• Gary Bryan
  Gary Bryan
  Gary Bryan is a radio disc jockey, currently on the air in Los Angeles, California at KRTH 101.1 FM. With more than 30 years in broadcasting, Bryan's career includes major-market morning show duties, serving as host and producer of several syndicated programs, and ventures online and in...
  
  , American DJ
• Gay Bryan
  Gay Bryan
  Gaylord Bryan Chaikin was a male long and triple jumper from the United States, who competed in the 1940s and 1950s for his native country. Bryan set his personal best in the men's long jump event on April 9, 1949 at a meet in Westwood...
  
  , American long and triple jumper
• George Hartley Bryan (1864-1928), English mathematician and engineer
• Goode Bryan
  Goode Bryan
  Goode Bryan was a planter, politician, military officer, and American Civil War general in the Confederate States Army. His brigade played a prominent role during the Battle of the Wilderness, fighting stubbornly until exhausting its ammunition.-Early life and career:Bryan was born in Hancock...
  
   American Civil War Confederate general
• Henderson Bryan
  Henderson Bryan
  Henderson Ricardo "Hendy" Bryan Is a cricket player. He played 15 One Day Internationals but no Tests for the West Indies. He also played domestic cricket for Barbados and Griqualand West.-References:*...
  
  , Barbadian cricketer
• Henry Francis Bryan
  Henry Francis Bryan
  Henry Francis Bryan was a United States Navy Rear Admiral and the 17th Governor of American Samoa. He served as governor from March 17, 1925 to September 9, 1927. Bryan was one of only three naval governors of the territory who had retired from naval service before serving as governor, the other...
  
  , 17th Governor of American Samoa
• Henry Hunter Bryan
  Henry Hunter Bryan
  Henry Hunter Bryan was an American politician who represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives.-Biography:...
  
  , American politician
• Jack Bryan
  Jack Bryan
  John Lindsay Bryan , was a cricketer who played for Cambridge University and Kent.Jack Bryan was a left-handed opening batsman and an occasional bowler of highly-spun leg breaks and googlies. He played for Kent's second eleven before the First World War, and then again in 1919, before he went to...
  
  , English cricketer
• Jane Bryan
  Jane Bryan
  Jane Bryan was an American actress who was being prepared by the Warner Bros. studio to become one of their leading ladies until she married a drugstore magnate in 1940 and retired....
  
  , American actress
• Jimmy Bryan
  Jimmy Bryan
  James Ernest Bryan was an American racecar driver. Born in Phoenix, Arizona, Bryan died as a result of injuries sustained in a champ car race at Langhorne Speedway.-Career:...
  
  , American racing driver
• John H. Bryan
  John H. Bryan
  John Henry Bryan, Jr. is the former CEO of the Sara Lee Corporation.A graduate of Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee and Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, he is also affiliated with the French Legion of Honor, the World Economic Forum, and was a Member of the Board for Sara Lee,...
  
  , American CEO
• John Neely Bryan
  John Neely Bryan
  John Neely Bryan was a Presbyterian farmer, lawyer, and tradesman in the United States and founder of the city of Dallas, Texas.- Early life :...
  
  , Founder of the city of Dallas
• Joseph Hunter Bryan
  Joseph Hunter Bryan
  Joseph Hunter Bryan was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina...
  
  , American politician
• Joseph M. Bryan
  Joseph M. Bryan
  Joseph McKinley Bryan was an American insurance executive, broadcast pioneer, and philanthropist.Born in Elyria, Ohio, Bryan was the second son of Bart and Caroline Ebert Bryan. After serving overseas in World War I, he returned to New York City to take a job with a cotton firm. In 1923 he became...
  
  , American businessman and philanthropist
• Kirk Bryan (geologist), American geologist
• Kirk Bryan (oceanographer)
  Kirk Bryan (oceanographer)
  Kirk Bryan is an American oceanographer who is considered to be the founder of numerical ocean modeling. Starting in the 1960s at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, then located in Washington, D.C., Bryan worked with a series of colleagues to develop numerical schemes for solving the...
  
   (born 1929), American oceanographer
• Margaret Bryan, made Baroness Bryan in her own right for running the households of all four of Henry VIII's acknowledged children
• Marvin Bryan
  Marvin Bryan
  Marvin Lee Bryan is an English professional footballer. He plays as a right-back.Bryan began his career as a trainee with Queen Park Rangers in 1992. He joined Doncaster Rovers on loan in 2004, where he made his first league appearances before joining Blackpool in August 1995...
  
  , English footballer
• Nathan Bryan
  Nathan Bryan
  Nathan Bryan was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina from 1795 to 1798.Bryan was born in Craven County, North Carolina in 1748 and was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons in 1787 and from 1791 to 1794. In 1794, Bryan, a Republican, was elected to the 4th United States Congress and...
  
  , American politician
• Nathan P. Bryan
  Nathan P. Bryan
  Nathan Philemon Bryan was a lawyer, federal judge, and United States Senator from Florida.-Personal:Bryan was born on April 23, 1872 near Fort Mason, Orange County , Florida. He attended the common schools but graduated from Emory College, Oxford, Georgia , in 1893...
  
  , American politician
• Richard Bryan
  Richard Bryan
  Richard Hudson "Dick" Bryan is an American politician. He served as the 25th Governor of the U.S. state of Nevada from 1983 to 1989. He is a former United States Senator from Nevada. He is a member of the Democratic Party.-Early life:...
  
  , American politician
• Sabrina Bryan
  Sabrina Bryan
  Reba Sabrina Hinojos , better known by her stage name Sabrina Bryan,is an American singer, actress, author, songwriter, fashion designer, choreographer, dancer, and television personality best known as a member of the girl group, The Cheetah Girls, and for starring in the Disney Channel Original...
  
  , American actress
• Samuel Bryan
  Samuel Bryan
  Samuel Bryan was a Pennsylvanian Anti-Federalist author, who wrote during the American Revolution. Historians generally ascribe to him the Letters of Centinel written under the pseudonym Centinel between 1787 and 1789. Centinel attacked the proposed Constitution of the United States as a document...
  
  , American political writer
• Thomas Bryan (VC), British soldier
• Thomas Bryan (Chief Justice)
  Thomas Bryan (Chief Justice)
  Sir Thomas Bryan KS KB was a British justiceHe was born to common blood, most likely to the son of John Bryan, who was a fishmonger, although Thomas assumed the arms of Guy Bryan when he became a person of some importance...
  
  , English judge who served as Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas
• Vincent P. Bryan
  Vincent P. Bryan
  Vincent Patrick Bryan was a composer and lyricist.In the 1903-1909 production of The Wizard of Oz he was called upon to introduce new songs in numerous revisions.*with Theodore F. Morse...
  
  , Canadian songwriter
• William James Bryan
  William James Bryan
  William James Bryan was a U.S. Senator from Florida who served as a Democrat. He was the brother of U.S. Senator Nathan P...
  
   (1876-1908), US Senator from Florida
• William Jennings Bryan
  William Jennings Bryan
  William Jennings Bryan was an American politician in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. He was a dominant force in the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as its candidate for President of the United States...
  
   (1860 - 1925), American politician and three-time Presidential candidate
• William Joel Bryan
  William Joel Bryan
  William Joel Bryan was a Texas soldier and land owner.Bryan was born at Hazel Run in Sainte Genevieve County, Missouri to James Bryan and Emily Austin Perry. He attended school at Potosi, Missouri until 1830. In 1831, William Joel Bryan's mother and stepfather James Franklin Perry followed...
  
  , Texan soldier & landowner
• Zachery Ty Bryan
  Zachery Ty Bryan
  Zachery Ty Bryan is an American actor and producer best known for his role as Brad Taylor on the American sitcom Home Improvement.-Personal life:...
  
  , American actor