Brent (disambiguation)
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Place name

  • Brent, Alabama
    Brent, Alabama
    Brent is a city in Bibb County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 4,024.-Geography:Brent is located at 32°56'24.864" North, 87°10'29.935" West .According to the U.S...

  • Brent, Florida
    Brent, Florida
    Brent is a census-designated place in Escambia County, Florida, United States. The population was 22,257 at the 2000 census. It is a principal city of the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

  • Brent Knoll
    Brent Knoll
    Brent Knoll is a village in Somerset, England, which lies on the southern edge of Brent Knoll – a hill with a height of 137 metres that dominates the low surrounding landscape of the Somerset Levels.-History:...

    , a hill in Somerset, England
    • Brent Knoll (village), a village at the foot of the hill
    • East Brent, Somerset
      East Brent, Somerset
      East Brent is a village and civil parish, located on the eastern edge of a hill that dominates the surrounding level countryside—Brent Knoll—close to the M5 motorway, west of Axbridge, in the Sedgemoor district of the county of Somerset, in the south-west of England...

      , another village at the foot of the hill
  • Brent oilfield
    Brent oilfield
    The Brent field is an oil field located in the East Shetland Basin north-east of Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland at the water depth of . The field operated by Shell UK Limited was once one of the most productive parts of the UK's offshore assets but is now nearing the end of its useful...

    , North Sea
  • Brent, Ontario
    Brent, Ontario
    Brent is a community on Cedar Lake on the Petawawa River in northern Algonquin Provincial Park, and is located in geographic Deacon Township in the Unorganized south part of Nipissing District in northeastern Ontario, Canada....

    , a village in Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada
    • Brent crater
      Brent crater
      The Brent crater is an impact crater in both the geographic township of Deacon, Unorganized South Nipissing District and the municipal township of Papineau-Cameron in Nipissing District, northeastern Ontario, Canada, located north of Cedar Lake in northern Algonquin Provincial Park. It is in...

      , a meteor crater named after the village of Brent, Ontario
  • London Borough of Brent
    London Borough of Brent
    In 1801, the civil parishes that form the modern borough had a total population of 2,022. This rose slowly throughout the 19th century, as the district became built up; reaching 5,646 in the middle of the century. When the railways arrived the rate of population growth increased...

    , England
  • South Brent
    South Brent
    South Brent is a large village on the southern edge of Dartmoor, England, in the valley of the River Avon, population 2998 , 8 km north-east of Ivybridge, and next to the Devon Expressway which connects Exeter to the north-east and Plymouth to the west.-History:It was originally a woollen...

    , Devon, England

Surname

  • Bix Brent
    Bix Brent
    Bix Brent was a founding member of The Heathertones who sang on many recordings in the early 1950s...

     (1923-1972), American singer
  • Charles Henry Brent
    Charles Henry Brent
    Charles Henry Brent was an American Episcopal bishop who served in the Philippines and western New York.Born in Canada and educated at Trinity College, Toronto, Brent was originally stationed at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in the South End of Boston, where he served as an associate priest...

     (1862-1929), American bishop
  • Dannielle Brent
    Dannielle Brent
    Dannielle Brent, also known as Danielle Brent is a British actress who played the prisoner Natalie Buxton on the television drama series, Bad Girls.-Biography:Dannielle Brent was accepted into the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts....

     (born 1979), English actress
  • Ebony-Jewel Rainford-Brent
    Ebony-Jewel Rainford-Brent
    Ebony-Jewel Cora-Lee Camellia Rosamond Rainford-Brent is an English woman cricketer. She is the first black woman to play for the England team. She currently plays for Surrey Women....

     (born 1983), English cricketer
  • Elinor Brent-Dyer
    Elinor Brent-Dyer
    Elinor M. Brent-Dyer was a children’s author who wrote over 100 books during her lifetime, the most famous being the Chalet School series.-Short Biography :...

     (1894-1969), British novelist
  • Evelyn Brent
    Evelyn Brent
    Evelyn Brent was an American film and stage actress.-Early life:Born Mary Elizabeth Riggs in Tampa, Florida and known as Betty, she was a child of 10 when her mother Eleanor died, leaving her father Arthur to raise her alone...

     (1899-1975), American actress
  • Gary Brent
    Gary Brent
    Gary Bazil Brent is a Zimbabwean cricketer.Generally speaking, he is an inswinging bowler, with a good slow-arm bowling technique...

     (born 1976), Zimbabwean cricketer
  • George Brent
    George Brent
    George Brent was an Irish film and television actor in American cinema.-Early life:He was born George Brendan Nolan in Raharabeg, County Roscommon on the opposite bank of the River Shannon from the town of Shannonbridge, County Offaly, Ireland, the son of a British Army officer.During the Irish...

     (1899-1979), Irish actor
  • Leslie Brent
    Leslie Brent
    Leslie Baruch Brent , born Lothar Baruch, in Köslin, Germany , to German-Jewish parents, is a British immunologist and zoologist....

     (born 1925), German immunologist
  • Richard Brent (scientist)
    Richard Brent (scientist)
    Richard Peirce Brent is an Australian mathematician and computer scientist, born in 1946. He holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science with a joint appointment in the Mathematical Sciences Institute and the College of Engineering and Computer Science at...

     (born 1946), Australian mathematician and computer scientist
  • Richard Brent (Virginia)
    Richard Brent (Virginia)
    Richard Brent was an American planter, lawyer, and politician from Stafford County, Virginia. He represented Virginia in both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate.-External links:*...

     (1757-1814), American politician
  • Robert Brent
    Robert Brent
    Robert Brent was the first mayor of Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States of America. Brent was born into a prominent Catholic family in Woodstock, Stafford County, Virginia. His mother was Ann Carroll, whose brother John Carroll was the first Catholic Bishop appointed for the...

     (1763-1819), American politician, first mayor of Washington DC

Given name

  • Brent Butt
    Brent Butt
    Brent Butt is a Canadian stand-up comedian actor and writer. He is best known for his role as Brent Leroy on the CTV sitcom Corner Gas, which he also created. The series was an instant hit when it made its debut in 2004....

     (born 1966), Canadian comedian and actor
  • Brent Corrigan
    Brent Corrigan
    Sean Paul Lockhart is a model, actor and gay pornographic actor best known under his stage name Brent Corrigan or his pseudonym Fox Ryder. He is best known for his roles in Schoolboy Crush with Brent Everett and Velvet Mafia with Erik Rhodes...

     (born 1986), stage name of American porn actor Sean Lockhart
  • Brent Jett (born 1958), American astronaut
  • Brent Jones
    Brent Jones
    Brent Michael Jones is a former American Football tight end who played almost his entire career with the San Francisco 49ers from 1987 to 1997. He was selected in the 5th round by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1986 NFL Draft...

     (born 1963), American football player
  • Brent Hartinger
    Brent Hartinger
    Brent Hartinger is an American author and playwright, best known for his novels about gay teenagers.-Early life:Hartinger was born in Washington State. His family moved to Fircrest, Washington when he was an infant. He attended a Catholic grade school and middle school, and a Catholic high...

    , American writer
  • Brent Mayne
    Brent Mayne
    Brent Danem Mayne is a former Major League Baseball catcher who has played with the Kansas City Royals , New York Mets , Oakland Athletics , San Francisco Giants , Colorado Rockies , Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Dodgers...

    , former Major League Baseball player
  • Brent Musburger
    Brent Musburger
    Brent Woody Musburger is an American sportscaster for the ESPN and ABC television networks. Formerly with CBS Sports and one of the original members of their legendary program The NFL Today, Musburger has covered NASCAR, NBA, MLB, NCAA football and basketball games. Musburger has also served as a...

     (born 1939), American journalist and sportscaster
  • Brent Mydland
    Brent Mydland
    Brent Mydland was the fourth keyboardist to play for the American rock band the Grateful Dead. He was with the band for eleven years, longer than any other keyboardist.- Early life :...

     (1952-1990), American keyboardist, member of the Grateful Dead
  • Brent Seabrook
    Brent Seabrook
    Brent Seabrook is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman playing for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League . He was selected 14th overall by the Blackhawks in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft out of the Western Hockey League . He played four seasons of junior with the Lethbridge...

     (born 1985), Canadian ice hockey defenceman for the Chicago Blackhawks
  • Brent Scowcroft
    Brent Scowcroft
    Brent Scowcroft, KBE was the United States National Security Advisor under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush and a Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force. He also served as Military Assistant to President Richard Nixon and as Deputy Assistant to the President for National...

     (born 1925), American general, U.S. National Security Advisor from 1974-1977 and 1989-1993
  • Brent Spiner
    Brent Spiner
    Brent Jay Spiner is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of the android Lieutenant Commander Data in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and four subsequent films. His portrayal of Data in Star Trek: First Contact and of Dr...

     (born 1949), American actor
  • Brent Symonette
    Brent Symonette
    Brent Symonette is a prominent Bahamian businessman, a Member of Parliament for the St. Annes constituency, and the current Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Bahamas. He is a member of the Free National Movement ....

     (born 1954), Bahamian politician
  • Brent Tate
    Brent Tate
    Brent Tate is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who currently plays for the North Queensland Cowboys in the National Rugby League...

     (born 1982), Australian rugby league player
  • R. Brent Tully
    R. Brent Tully
    R. Brent Tully is an astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu, Hawaii.Tully's specialty is astrophysics of galaxies. He, along with J. Richard Fisher, proposed the now-famous Tully-Fisher relation in a paper, A New Method of Determining Distances to Galaxies, published in Astronomy...

    , American astronomer

In fiction

  • David Brent
    David Brent
    David Brent is a fictional character in the BBC television mockumentary The Office, as well as a recurring character in the NBC series of the same name, portrayed by co-writer and director Ricky Gervais. Brent is a white-collar office middle-manager and the principal character of the BBC series...

    , fictional character on the BBC television comedy The Office, played by Ricky Gervais
  • Brent Scopes, a main character from the novel Mount Dragon
    Mount Dragon
    Mount Dragon is a 1996 techno-thriller novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The action primarily follows Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca, two researchers employed by the corporation GeneDyne and stationed at the Mount Dragon facility in New Mexico...

    by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Other

  • Brent Cross tube station
    Brent Cross tube station
    Brent Cross tube station is a London Underground station located on Highfield Avenue in the Golders Green area of north west London. The station is a Grade II listed building....

    , North-west London, England
  • Brent Crude
    Brent Crude
    Brent Crude is the biggest of the many major classifications of crude oil consisting of Brent Crude, Brent Sweet Light Crude, Oseberg, Ekofisk, and Forties . Brent Crude is sourced from the North Sea. The Brent Crude oil marker is also known as Brent Blend, London Brent and Brent petroleum...

    , benchmark classification of oil
  • Brent Goose
    Brent Goose
    The Brant or Brent Goose, Branta bernicla, is a species of goose of the genus Branta. The Black Brant is an American subspecies. The specific descriptor bernicla is from the same source as "barnacle" in Barnacle Goose, which looks similar but is not a close relation.-Appearance:The Brant Goose is...

    , Branta bernicla, known in North America as Brant
  • Brent International School
    Brent International School
    Brent International School is an international co-educational day and boarding school associated with the Episcopal Church in the Philippines. It has campuses in different locations throughout the Philippines: Brent School Manila in Mamplasan, Biñan, Laguna; Brent School Baguio, and Brent School...

    , the Philippines
  • Brent's method
    Brent's method
    In numerical analysis, Brent's method is a complicated but popular root-finding algorithm combining the bisection method, the secant method and inverse quadratic interpolation. It has the reliability of bisection but it can be as quick as some of the less reliable methods...

     in mathematics
  • Brent railway station, South Devon, England
  • Brent sidings
    Brent sidings
    Brent sidings was an important marshalling yard and freight facility on the Midland Railway extension to London.-History:The sidings were situated on both sides of the Midland Main Line between and stations, close to the triangle formed where the Dudding Hill Line left the main line...

    , railway freight facility in north-west London, England
  • Brent Spar
    Brent Spar
    Brent Spar or Brent E, was a North Sea oil storage and tanker loading buoy in the Brent oilfield, operated by Shell UK. With the completion of a pipeline connection to the oil terminal at Sullom Voe in Shetland, the storage facility had continued in use but was considered to be of no further value...

    , decommissioned oil storage buoy
  • National Theatre of Brent
    National Theatre of Brent
    The National Theatre of Brent is a British comedy double-act, in the form of a mock two-man theatre troupe. Patrick Barlow plays Desmond Olivier Dingle, the troupe's founder, Artistic Director and Chief Executive...

    , British comedy double-act
  • River Brent
    River Brent
    The Brent is a river within Greater London which is a tributary of the River Thames. It is 17.9 miles long, running north-east to south-west, and it joins the Thames on the Tideway at Brentford, Hounslow.- Hydronymy and etymology :...

    , London, England
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