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Peter Brown

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  • Peter Browne (Mayflower Pilgrim)
    Peter Browne (Mayflower Pilgrim)
    Peter Browne, , often modernized as Peter Brown, was a Pilgrim Father, a Mayflower passenger on its 1620 voyage that initiated the settlement of New England, and a signer of the Mayflower Compact, the first document of democratic and republican governance in the future United States of America.-...

    , also spelled Brown, (1594–1633), Pilgrim and English colonist, signer of the Mayflower Compact
  • Peter Brown (Newfoundland politician)
    Peter Brown (Newfoundland politician)
    Peter Brown was a merchant, politician and justice of the peace was elected to the House of Assembly representing the district of Conception Bay on the first general election held in Newfoundland in 1832.Brown, born in Ireland immigrated to Newfoundland where he was a dealer and shopkeeper in the...

     (c. 1797 – 1845), one of Newfoundland's first elected Member of House of Assembly
  • Peter Nicholas Brown (Peter Broun) (1797–1846), first Colonial Secretary of Western Australia (1829–1846)
  • Peter Hume Brown
    Peter Hume Brown
    Peter Hume Brown was a Scottish historian and professor who played an important part in establishing Scottish history as a significant academic discipline...

     (1849–1918), Scottish biographer and historian
  • Peter Brown (VC)
    Peter Brown (VC)
    Peter Brown was a Swedish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...

     (1837–1894), Swedish recipient of the Victoria Cross

  • Pete Brown (golfer)
    Pete Brown (golfer)
    Pete Brown is an American professional golfer who is best known as the first Black American to win a PGA Tour event.Brown was born in Port Gibson, Mississippi and grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. He started in golf as a caddy at the municipal course in his hometown.Brown received his PGA Tour card...

    , PGA Tour golfer
  • Peter Brown (rugby league) New Zealand rugby league footballer
  • Peter Brown (rugby union) (born 1941), Scottish rugby union footballer
  • Peter Brown (Australian rules footballer)
    Peter Brown (Australian rules footballer)
    Peter Brown is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton and St Kilda in the VFL.Brown started his career as a key forward and was at full-forward in Carlton's 1979 VFL Grand Final win over Collingwood. He sought a clearance after the 1980 season and joined St Kilda in 1981 with...

    , Carlton premiership player
  • Pete Brown (American football)
    Pete Brown (American football)
    Samuel Morris Brown also known as Pete Brown was a National Football League player for the San Francisco 49ers. He played collegiately for the Georgia Tech football team. He graduated from Rossville High School in Rossville, GA....

     (born 1930), American football player

  • Peter Hoyt Brown
    Peter Hoyt Brown
    Peter Hoyt Brown is a politician currently holding office as an at-large Council Member in the city of Houston, Texas. He is a candidate for the 2009 Houston Mayoral Race, after current Mayor Bill White vacates the position due to term limits.-Education and professional career:Brown grew up in...

     (born 1936), Council Member, city of Houston
  • Peter Brown (New Zealand politician) (born 1939), New Zealand First MP and former Deputy Party Leader(1996–2008)
  • Peter Brown (South African politician)
    Peter Brown (South African politician)
    Peter McKenzie Brown was a founding member of the South African Liberal Party and succeeded Alan Paton as its national chairman in 1958....

     (1924–2004), founding member of the South African Liberal Party

  • Peter Brown (music industry)
    Peter Brown (music industry)
    Peter Brown is an American businessman, born and educated in England. He currently resides in New York City.-The Beatles:Brown was a personal assistant to Brian Epstein and The Beatles during the 1960s. He was a confidant to the Epstein family, and bore some resemblance to Brian in his looks and...

    , personal assistant to The Beatles and Brian Epstein
  • Pete Brown
    Pete Brown
    Peter Ronald Brown is an English performance poet, lyricist and musical producer.Best known for his collaborations with Jack Bruce, Brown also worked with The Battered Ornaments, formed his own group Pete Brown & Piblokto!, and worked with Graham Bond and Phil Ryan. Brown also writes film scores...

     (born 1940), singer-songwriter from Surrey, England
  • Peter Brown (singer)
    Peter Brown (singer)
    Peter Brown is an artist, songwriter and record producer who was also a pioneer in home recording, having recorded his hits in his bedroom.-Career:...

     (born 1953), singer, songwriter, and producer
  • Pete Brown (jazz musician)
    Pete Brown (jazz musician)
    James Ostend "Pete" Brown was an American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader....

     (1906–1963), American jazz saxophonist

  • Peter Brown (businessman),CEO Monarch Airlines
    Monarch Airlines
    Monarch Airlines is a British charter and scheduled airline based in Luton, England. It is one of the United Kingdom's largest charter airlines, operating to Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, India and Africa, serving mainly leisure destinations. It also operates scheduled flights to many ...

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Historical Figures

  • Peter Browne (Mayflower Pilgrim)
    Peter Browne (Mayflower Pilgrim)
    Peter Browne, , often modernized as Peter Brown, was a Pilgrim Father, a Mayflower passenger on its 1620 voyage that initiated the settlement of New England, and a signer of the Mayflower Compact, the first document of democratic and republican governance in the future United States of America.-...

    , also spelled Brown, (1594–1633), Pilgrim and English colonist, signer of the Mayflower Compact
  • Peter Brown (Newfoundland politician)
    Peter Brown (Newfoundland politician)
    Peter Brown was a merchant, politician and justice of the peace was elected to the House of Assembly representing the district of Conception Bay on the first general election held in Newfoundland in 1832.Brown, born in Ireland immigrated to Newfoundland where he was a dealer and shopkeeper in the...

     (c. 1797 – 1845), one of Newfoundland's first elected Member of House of Assembly
  • Peter Nicholas Brown (Peter Broun) (1797–1846), first Colonial Secretary of Western Australia (1829–1846)
  • Peter Hume Brown
    Peter Hume Brown
    Peter Hume Brown was a Scottish historian and professor who played an important part in establishing Scottish history as a significant academic discipline...

     (1849–1918), Scottish biographer and historian
  • Peter Brown (VC)
    Peter Brown (VC)
    Peter Brown was a Swedish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...

     (1837–1894), Swedish recipient of the Victoria Cross

Sportsmen

  • Pete Brown (golfer)
    Pete Brown (golfer)
    Pete Brown is an American professional golfer who is best known as the first Black American to win a PGA Tour event.Brown was born in Port Gibson, Mississippi and grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. He started in golf as a caddy at the municipal course in his hometown.Brown received his PGA Tour card...

    , PGA Tour golfer
  • Peter Brown (rugby league) New Zealand rugby league footballer
  • Peter Brown (rugby union) (born 1941), Scottish rugby union footballer
  • Peter Brown (Australian rules footballer)
    Peter Brown (Australian rules footballer)
    Peter Brown is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton and St Kilda in the VFL.Brown started his career as a key forward and was at full-forward in Carlton's 1979 VFL Grand Final win over Collingwood. He sought a clearance after the 1980 season and joined St Kilda in 1981 with...

    , Carlton premiership player
  • Pete Brown (American football)
    Pete Brown (American football)
    Samuel Morris Brown also known as Pete Brown was a National Football League player for the San Francisco 49ers. He played collegiately for the Georgia Tech football team. He graduated from Rossville High School in Rossville, GA....

     (born 1930), American football player

Politicians

  • Peter Hoyt Brown
    Peter Hoyt Brown
    Peter Hoyt Brown is a politician currently holding office as an at-large Council Member in the city of Houston, Texas. He is a candidate for the 2009 Houston Mayoral Race, after current Mayor Bill White vacates the position due to term limits.-Education and professional career:Brown grew up in...

     (born 1936), Council Member, city of Houston
  • Peter Brown (New Zealand politician) (born 1939), New Zealand First MP and former Deputy Party Leader(1996–2008)
  • Peter Brown (South African politician)
    Peter Brown (South African politician)
    Peter McKenzie Brown was a founding member of the South African Liberal Party and succeeded Alan Paton as its national chairman in 1958....

     (1924–2004), founding member of the South African Liberal Party

Musicians

  • Peter Brown (music industry)
    Peter Brown (music industry)
    Peter Brown is an American businessman, born and educated in England. He currently resides in New York City.-The Beatles:Brown was a personal assistant to Brian Epstein and The Beatles during the 1960s. He was a confidant to the Epstein family, and bore some resemblance to Brian in his looks and...

    , personal assistant to The Beatles and Brian Epstein
  • Pete Brown
    Pete Brown
    Peter Ronald Brown is an English performance poet, lyricist and musical producer.Best known for his collaborations with Jack Bruce, Brown also worked with The Battered Ornaments, formed his own group Pete Brown & Piblokto!, and worked with Graham Bond and Phil Ryan. Brown also writes film scores...

     (born 1940), singer-songwriter from Surrey, England
  • Peter Brown (singer)
    Peter Brown (singer)
    Peter Brown is an artist, songwriter and record producer who was also a pioneer in home recording, having recorded his hits in his bedroom.-Career:...

     (born 1953), singer, songwriter, and producer
  • Pete Brown (jazz musician)
    Pete Brown (jazz musician)
    James Ostend "Pete" Brown was an American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader....

     (1906–1963), American jazz saxophonist

Businessmen

  • Peter Brown (businessman),CEO Monarch Airlines
    Monarch Airlines
    Monarch Airlines is a British charter and scheduled airline based in Luton, England. It is one of the United Kingdom's largest charter airlines, operating to Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, India and Africa, serving mainly leisure destinations. It also operates scheduled flights to many ...

  • Peter C. Brown, Chairman and CEO of AMC Entertainment, Inc. and Board Member of Embarq
    Embarq
    Embarq Corporation, or EMBARQ was the largest independent local exchange carrier in the United States , serving customers in 18 states and providing local, long distance, high-speed data and wireless services to residential and business customers. It had been formerly the local telephone division ...

     Coroporation
  • Peter T. Brown
    Peter T. Brown
    Peter T. Brown is the Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation . He has worked for the FSF since 2001. He began working as a controller, and was promoted to his current position in 2005 after the departure of Bradley Kuhn...

    , Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation

Others

  • Peter Brown (actor)
    Peter Brown (actor)
    Peter Brown is an American television actor known for his role as Deputy Johnny McKay opposite John Russell in the 1958 Warner Bros. western series Lawman.-Early life:...

    , of Lawman
  • Peter Brown (British artist)
    Peter Brown (British artist)
    Peter Edward Mackenzie Brown is a British Impressionist painter popularly known as "Pete the Street" from his practice of working on location in all weathers...

    , (born 1967)
  • Peter Brown (artist)
    Peter Brown (artist)
    Charles Frederick Peter Brown was a New Zealand born artist of the school of traditional realism.Brown served in the RAF throughout World War II and the drawing and sketching he did while a German prisoner of war from 1943 helped him decide to pursue art seriously as a career...

    , (1921–2005), New Zealand Artist
  • Peter Brown (historian)
    Peter Brown (historian)
    -Life:He was born in Dublin, Ireland to a Protestant family, and was educated at Shrewsbury School and New College, Oxford. He was a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford where he pursued his graduate studies under the direction of Arnaldo Momigliano....

     (born 1935), Irish historian and biographer specializing in Late Antiquity and the study of the cult of Saints
  • Peter Currell Brown
    Peter Currell Brown
    Peter Currell Brown is the author of the cult classic 1965 surrealist novel, Smallcreep's Day.He was born in Colchester, Essex, and went to Colchester Royal Grammar School, which he left at fifteen. His first job working in a factory was the stimulus for Smallcreep's Day. He married in 1962, and...

    , Author
  • Peter J. Brown
    Peter J. Brown
    Peter J Brown was a computer scientist who developed a hypertext system - Guide, and a macro processor ML/1. Until 1999 he was a professor at the University of Kent, UK-External links:...

    , Computer Scientist and developer of the Guide hypertext system, and the ML/1 macro system
  • Peter Brown (Oz)
    Peter Brown (Oz)
    Peter Brown is a major character in the Oz novels of Ruth Plumly Thompson, who continued the series of Oz books after the death of their creator, L. Frank Baum...

    , child protagonist of the Oz books by Ruth Plumly Thompson
  • Pete Brown (writer)
    Pete Brown (writer)
    Pete Brown is an English writer, who has written extensively on the subject of beer and drinking cultures around the world. He has written three books; Man Walks Into a Pub, Three Sheets to the Wind, and Hops and Glory, which were all published by Pan Macmillan.
    Brown was born in Barnsley in...

    , UK writer and expert on drink and drinking culture

See also

  • Peter Browne (disambiguation)