Bruin

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Bruin is a folk term used for brown bears (from the Dutch bruin meaning brown). Bruin or Bruins or BRUIN may refer to the following:

Surname

Bruin and Bruins are Dutch surnames that can be equivalent to Brown (surname) or be patronymic (Bruin/Bruijn was a form of Bruno).

Bruin

• Jan Bruin (born 1969), Dutch footballer
• Joseph Bruin (1809-1882), American slave trader
• Will Bruin (born 1989), American soccer player

Bruins

• Bruno Bruins (born 1963), Dutch politician
• Derk-Elsko Bruins (1923–86), Dutch-German decorated member of the Waffen SS
• Hanke Bruins Slot (born 1977), Dutch politician
• Jan Bruins (1940–97), Dutch motorcycle road racer
• Luigi Bruins (born 1987), Dutch footballer
• Mary Bruins Allison (born 1903), American doctor and missionary
• Récardo Bruins Choi (born 1985), Dutch-Korean racecar driver
• Regina Bruins (born 1986), Dutch racing cyclist
• Theo Bruins (1929–93), Dutch pianist and composer

De Bruin

• See De Bruin, De Bruijn, De Bruyn

Places

• Lake Bruin, ox-bow lake of the Mississippi River located in northeastern Louisiana
  • Lake Bruin State Park
• Bruin, Kentucky, United States
• Bruin, Pennsylvania, United States
• Bruin's Slave Jail, building in Alexandria, Virginia

Sports teams

• Ayr Bruins, defunct ice hockey team
• Bellevue University's athletic teams are called the Bruins
• Belmont University's athletic teams are called the Bruins
• Boston Bruins, an American NHL hockey team
• UCLA Bruins, mascot of the sports teams of the University of California, Los Angeles
• Providence Bruins, an American AHL hockey team affiliated with the above NHL team
• George Fox University has a Bruin as the school mascot
• Salt Lake Community College's athletic teams are called the Bruins
• Bob Jones University's athletic teams are called the Bruins
• Piedmont International University's athletic teams are called the Bruins
• Kellogg Community College's athletic teams are called the Bruins
• Chilliwack Bruins former Canadian major junior ice hockey team
• New Westminster Bruins were a junior ice hockey team from the Western Hockey League
• Clallam Bay H.S., Clallam Bay, WA, USA High School leading sports team

Other

• Oud bruin, Belgian beer
• Heineken Oud Bruin, Dutch beer
• Yamaha Bruin 350, utility all-terrain vehicle
• Brown University Interactive Language, a programming language
• Rasmus Klump, a comic strip published as Bruin
• Bruin, a brown bear in the Reynard cycle fables

See also

• List of Bruin mascots
• Ursine