Braithwaite (surname)
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Braithwaite or Brathwaite is a surname of English origin. At the time of the British Census of 1881 , the relative frequency of the surname Braithwaite was highest in Westmorland (37.3 times the British average), followed by Cumberland, Yorkshire, Linlithgowshire, Lancashire, County Durham, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Anglesey and Flintshire. Notable people with the surname include:
- Brenda Brathwaite
- Charles Braithwaite
- Darren Braithwaite, British sprinter
- Daryl Braithwaite, Australian singer
- Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Caribbean Poet
- E. R. Braithwaite, one of the first black teachers in Britain to write about his experience
- Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand author
- Fred Brathwaite, Canadian NHL goaltender
- Geoffrey Braithwaite, a fictional character in Julian Barnes's novel "Flaubert's Parrot"
- Jeffrey Braithwaite, a professor in the field of health policy
- John Braithwaite (engineer), English consulting engineer
- Joseph Bevan Braithwaite, English Quaker
- Joseph Gurney Braithwaite
- Junior Braithwaite
- Leonard Braithwaite
- Lilian Braithwaite
- Max Braithwaite
- Pandora Braithwaite, fictional character in the Adrian Mole series
- R. B. Braithwaite, English philosopher
- Ryan Brathwaite (b. 1988), Barbadian athlete in track
- Richard Braithwaite, English poet
- Tony Braithwaite, Barrymore Award winning actor
- Stephen Brathwaite
- Stuart Braithwaite, Scottish musician, guitarist for Mogwai
- Walter Braithwaite, British General
- Wayne Braithwaite, Guyanese professional boxer
- William Charles Braithwaite, Quaker historian
- William Garnett Braithwaite, a British general who served with the New Zealand Military Forces during WWI
- William Stanley Braithwaite, African-American poet, literary critic and scholar
See also
- Braithwaite, a village in Cumbria, England
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