William Brown

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William Brown (or Browne) may refer to the following (some of whom were also called 'Bill'):

• William Browne (1590?–1645?), English poet
• William Brown (soldier) (18th century), American Revolutionary War soldier
• William Brown (clergyman) (1766–1835), Scottish clergyman and hebraist
• William Brown (admiral) (or Guillermo Brown) (1777–1857), Irish-born Argentine Navy admiral
• Sir William Brown, 1st Baronet of Astrop (1784-1864), British merchant and banker
• William Phineas Browne (1804–1869), American lawyer and coal mining pioneer
• William Brown (sailor) (birth name unknown), Black woman who served in the Royal Navy 1815, disguised as a man
• William Wells Brown (1814–1884), African American writer and abolitionist
• William Brown (congressman), U.S. Representative from Kentucky, 1819–1821
• William H. Brown (1836-1896), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
• William Brown (Manitoba politician), Canadian politician in Manitoba, 1922–1927
• William Jethro Brown (1868–1930), Australian jurist and professor of law.
• Major William D. Browne, U.S. Army officer, famous for re-discovering Nazi membership files in 1945
• William Brown, fictional schoolboy character from Just William
• William Brown (UK politician) (1894–1960), Member of Parliament for Rugby 1942–1950
• William Brown (musician) (1822-1900) Influential pianist
• William Brown (bridge designer) (1928–2005), British bridge designer
• William H. Brown Jr., American television director
• William Brown (tennis), a pro tennis player from the early 1970s
• William G. Brown, Virginia and West Virginia congressman
• William G. Brown, Jr., West Virginia congressman, son of William G. Brown
• William Brown (New Zealand), with business partner John Logan Campbell, the first Europeans to settle Auckland, New Zealand.
• William Brown (ship), an American ship which struck an Iceberg and sank April 19, 1841 while traveling between Liverpool and her home port of Philadelphia.

The variant Bill Brown may refer to the following (some of whom were born 'William'):

• Bill Brown (cricketer) (born 1912), Australian cricketer
• Bill Brown (goalkeeper) (1931–2004), Scots/English goalkeeper
• Bill Brown (football) (born 1938), American football running back
• Bill Brown (critical theory), American author and professor of English at the University of Chicago
• Bill Brown (composer) (born 1969), American composer
• Bill Brown (politician) (born 1973), Canadian city councillor at Dryden, Ontario
• Bill Brown (radio personality) (born 1942), Air Personality on WCBS FM, New York City from 1969 to 2005
• Bill Brown (filmmaker), American filmmaker and author
• Bill Brown (broadcaster), American baseball broadcaster and member of the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame

[edit] See also

• Willie Brown - disambiguation page