George Brown
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Politicians
- George Brown, Baron George-BrownGeorge Brown, Baron George-BrownGeorge Alfred Brown, Baron George-Brown, PC was a British Labour politician, who served as the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1960 to 1970, and served in a number of positions in the Cabinet, most notably as Foreign Secretary, in the Labour Government of the 1960s...
(1914–1985), British politician, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs - George Brown, Jr.George Brown, Jr.George Edward Brown, Jr. was an American politician. He was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1971 and from 1973 to 1999, representing Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside counties in California.-Background:Brown was born in Holtville, California...
(1920–1999), U.S. Representative from California, 1981–1999 - George Brown (Canadian politician)George Brown (Canadian politician)George Brown was a Scottish-born Canadian journalist, politician and one of the Fathers of Confederation...
(1818–1880), Scottish-born Canadian journalist, politician - George Hanks "Hank" BrownHank BrownGeorge Hanks "Hank" Brown is a former Republican politician and U.S. Senator from Colorado who served as president of the University of Colorado system from April 2005 - January 2008.-Education:...
(born 1940), Senator from Colorado - George Houston BrownGeorge Houston BrownGeorge Houston Brown was an American Whig Party politician, who represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1851 to 1853.-Biography:...
(1810–1865), New Jersey politician 1853–1855 - George L. BrownGeorge L. BrownGeorge Leslie Brown was an American politician. He served in the Colorado Senate from 1955 to 1974 and as Lieutenant Governor of Colorado from 1975 to 1979. He was also a Sr. Vice President with Grumman Corporation. During World War II, he served as a Tuskegee Airman...
(1926–2006), Colorado politician - George Mackenzie BrownGeorge Mackenzie BrownGeorge Mackenzie Brown 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 Commons....
(1869–1946), British Member of Parliament - George William BrownGeorge William BrownGeorge William Brown was the mayor of Baltimore, Maryland from 1860 to 1861.-Pratt Street Riot:Brown played an important role in controlling the Pratt Street Riot on April 19, 1861, at the onset of the American Civil War. After the Pratt Street Riot, some small skirmishes occurred throughout...
, mayor of Baltimore, Maryland 1860–1861 - George W. BrownGeorge W. BrownGeorge William Brown was a Canadian politician and the second Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan from 1910 to 1915....
(1860–1919), Canadian politician and Lt. Governor of Saskatchewan 1910–1915 - George Brown (communist)George Brown (communist)George Brown was an Irish born communist activist and trade unionist who was based in Manchester, England for most of his life. He was a brigadista in the International Brigades fighting on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War and was killed in the Battle of Brunete in 1937.George Brown...
(1906–1937), Irish born Manchester communist who was killed in the Spanish Civil War
Sports
- George Brown (American football) (1923–2008), American football player
- George Brown (basketball)George Brown (basketball)George Raff Brown is a retired American basketball player.He played for Cass Technical High School He played collegiately for Wayne State University....
(born 1935), American basketball player - George Brown (boxer), American welterweight boxer
- George Brown (coach)George Brown (coach)-External links:*...
, American football coach - George Brown (cricketer)George Brown (cricketer)George Brown was an English cricketer who played in 7 Tests from 1921 to 1923. George Brown was born in Cowley, Oxfordshire, the son of Edwin Brown and Sarah Ann...
(1887–1964), English cricketer - George Brown (footballer born 1883)George Brown (footballer born 1883)George Gerald Brown was an association footballer who played in the Football League for Stoke where he made eight appearances. He also played for Norwich City, Millwall Athletic, Gainsborough Trinity and Sheffield United....
, English footballer - George Brown (footballer born 1903) (1903–1948)
- George Brown (footballer born 1907), Scottish international footballer
- George Brown (footballer born 1928)George Brown (footballer born 1928)George Brown is a former Scottish footballer. He won the 1955 Scottish Cup with Clyde. He was born in Airdrie.Died 22nd October 2011 survived by his wife Maureen and family. Funeral service from Coatdyke Congregational Church to Glenmavis Cemetery, North Lanarkshire.-References:*, Post War...
, Scottish footballer - George Brown (ice hockey)George Brown (ice hockey)George Allan Brown was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba.-Playing career:...
(born 1912), hockey player - George Brown (rugby league)George Brown (rugby league)George Brown is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s, who at representative level has played for England, and at club level for Batley.-International honours:...
, rugby league footballer of the 1940s, for England, and Batley - George Brown (soccer) (born 1935), U.S. soccer player
- George V. BrownGeorge V. BrownGeorge V. Brown of Hopkinton, Massachusetts championed the development of various sports and sporting events in the United States, most notably the Boston Marathon and amateur ice hockey....
(1880–1937), championed the development of various U.S. sports, notably the Boston marathon - George Brown (Sussex cricketer)George Brown (Sussex cricketer)George Brown was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1819 to 1838....
(1783–1857), English professional cricketer
Other people
- George Brown (admiral)George Brown (Admiral)George Brown was an American naval officer. He was born in Indiana, and entered the navy as a midshipman on February 5, 1849. He subsequently served aboard the USS Cumberland and USS St...
(1835–1913), American admiral
- George Brown (bishop)George Brown (bishop)George Brown 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...
(c. 1438–1515), Scottish churchman - George Brown (British Army officer) (1790–1865), British soldier in the Peninsular War and the Crimean War
- George Brown (executioner)George Brown (executioner)George Brown was an English executioner from 1911 to 1919. He was from Ashton-under-Lyne, near Manchester.Brown was an assistant hangman for nearly a decade. He was appointed in 1910, and his first execution was that of William Palmer on 18 July 1911, where he assisted John Ellis...
, English executioner, 1911–1919 - George Brown (financier)George Brown (Financier)George Brown was an Irish-American investment banker and railroad entrepreneur. He emigrated from Ulster to Baltimore, Maryland, at the age of 15 in 1802....
(1787–1859), American banker and railroad founder - George Brown (inventor)George Brown (inventor)George Brown was a Scottish arithmetician, and inventor of two incomplete mechanical calculating machines now kept at the National Museum of Scotland...
(1650–1730), Scottish inventor - George Brown (missionary)George Brown (missionary)George Brown was an English Methodist missionary and ethnographer.- Early life and education :George Brown was born at Barnard Castle, Durham, England, the son of George Brown, barrister, and his wife Elizabeth, née Dixon, sister of the wife of Rev. Thomas Buddle, missionary in New Zealand...
(1835–1917), English missionary to Fiji, Samoa - George Brown (musician) (born 1949), drummer for Kool & the Gang
- George Brown (scholar)George Brown (scholar)George Hardin Brown is an American scholar of medieval studies. The focus of his scholarship includes Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Saxon literature, especially the work of the Venerable Bede. Brown has had a long academic career at many renowned institutions and has studied under other notable scholars in...
, scholar of Anglo-Saxon literature - George Brown (union official)George Brown (Union official)George Browne was at one time the president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. In 1943 he was tried and convicted for extortion, as his real loyalties were to the Chicago Outfit, with conspirator Willie Bioff.-References:...
, president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes c.1940 - George Douglas BrownGeorge Douglas BrownGeorge Douglas Brown was a Scottish novelist, best known for his highly influential realist novel The House with the Green Shutters , which was published the year before his death at the age of 33.-Life and work:...
(1869–1902), Scottish novelist - George Harold Brown (1908–1987), American developer of color television
- George Lindor BrownGeorge Lindor BrownSir George Lindor Brown 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 preference....
(1903–1971), English physiologist and Secretary of the Royal Society - George Loring BrownGeorge Loring BrownGeorge Loring Brown 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, but soon went to Europe, residing principally in Italy for years...
(1814–1889), American landscape painter - George Mackay BrownGeorge Mackay BrownGeorge Mackay Brown , was a Scottish poet, author and dramatist, whose work has a distinctly Orcadian character...
(1921–1996), Scottish poet, author, and dramatist - George Malcolm BrownGeorge Malcolm BrownSir George Malcolm Brown, FRS was one of the most respected geologists of the second half of the Twentieth century...
(1925–1997), geologist - George R. BrownGeorge R. BrownGeorge Rufus Brown was a prominent Houstonian entrepreneur. Brown led Brown & Root Inc. to become one of the largest construction companies in the world and helped to foster the political career of Lyndon B. Johnson. The George R. Brown Convention Center and the George R...
(1898–1983), American entrepreneur - George Scratchley BrownGeorge Scratchley BrownGeorge Scratchley Brown was a United States Air Force general who served as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In this capacity, he served as the senior military adviser to the President of the United States, the National Security Council and the Secretary of Defense...
(1918–1978), Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - G. Spencer-BrownG. Spencer-BrownGeorge Spencer-Brown is a polymath best known as the author of Laws of Form. He describes himself as a "mathematician, consulting engineer, psychologist, educational consultant and practitioner, consulting psychotherapist, author, and poet.".-Life:Spencer-Brown passed the First M.B...
(born 1923), English mathematician - George Stayley BrownGeorge Stayley BrownGeorge Stayley Brown was a ship owner, historian and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Yarmouth township in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1863 to 1866 as a Reformer....
(1827–1915), ship owner, historian and political figure in Nova Scotia - George Williams BrownGeorge Williams BrownGeorge Williams Brown PhD, LLD, FRSC , was a Canadian historian and editor. Born on April 3, 1894 in Glencoe, Middlesex County, Ontario and died on October 19, 1963 in Ottawa, Ontario.- Early life and education :...
(died 1963), educator and editor - Igor GouzenkoIgor GouzenkoIgor Sergeyevich Gouzenko was a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. He defected on September 5, 1945, with 109 documents on Soviet espionage activities in the West...
(1919–1982), given the alias George Brown by the Government of Canada
Institutions
- George Brown CollegeGeorge Brown CollegeGeorge Brown College is a public, fully accredited college of applied arts and technology with three full campuses in downtown Toronto, Ontario...
, applied arts and technology college in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
See also
- George Browne (disambiguation)
- Georg Stanford BrownGeorg Stanford BrownGeorg Stanford Brown is an Afro-Cuban-American actor and director, perhaps best known as one of the stars of the ABC police television series The Rookies from 1972–76...
, Cuban-American actor and director - George Broun (disambiguation)