- Thomas Brand 3rd Viscount Hampden
Thomas Walter Brand, 3rd Viscount Hampden GCVO KCB CMG (29 January 1869-4 September 1958) was a British peer, the son of the 2nd Viscount Hampden. On 29 April 1899, he married Lady Katharine Mary Montagu-Douglas-Scott (a daughter of the 6th Duke of Buccleuch) and they had eight children. He had previously joined the British Army and rose to the rank of Brigadier General and from 1935 to 1939, he was Colonel of the 10th Royal Hussars. - Henry Brand 1st Viscount Hampden
Henry Bouverie William Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden GCB (24 December 1814-March 14, 1892), speaker of the House of Commons, was the second son of the 21st Baron Dacre, and descended from John Hampden, the patriot, in the female line. The barony of Dacre devolved on him in 1890, after he had been created Viscount Hampden in 1884. He entered parliament as a Liberal in 1852, and for some time was Chief Whip of his party. - Henry Brand 2nd Viscount Hampden
Henry Robert Brand, 2nd Viscount Hampden, GCMG (2 May 1841 - 2 November 1906) was Governor of New South Wales from 1895 to 1899. He succeeded his father Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden on March 14, 1892 as 2nd Viscount Hampden and 24th Baron Dacre. Brand arrived in Sydney, Australia on 21 November 1895, and served an uneventful term. He was the second-last Governor of New South Wales before the Federation of Australia. He left Sydney quietly and returned to London, … - Robert Henry Brand 1st Baron Brand
Robert Henry Brand, 1st Baron Brand was a British civil servant, businessman, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His father Henry Brand, 2nd Viscount Hampden had been Governor of New South Wales, while his grandfather, the 1st Viscount, was speaker of the House of Commons. Brand graduated from New College, Oxford in 1901 and subsequently gained his fellowship at All Souls. From 1902, during the period of reconstruction following the Second Boer War, … - Russell Brand
Russell Edward Brand (born June 4, 1975 in Grays, Essex, England) is an English radio and television personality, comedian, actor, and newspaper columnist. Brand dresses in a flamboyant bohemian fashion describing himself as looking like an "S&M Willy Wonka". Brand's current style consists of black eyeliner, drainpipe jeans, Beatle boots, and long, shaggy, backcombed hair. - Stewart Brand
Stewart Brand (born December 14, 1938 in Rockford, Illinois) is an author, editor, and creator of "The Whole Earth Catalog" and "CoEvolution Quarterly". His intent with the "Whole Earth Catalog" was to enable people to find virtually any sort of information useful to themselves, in the belief that humans would then develop a new, positive and sustainable culture and technology for themselves; in this way, his ideas were forerunners of the Internet. - Elton Brand
Elton Tyron Brand (born March 11, 1979 in Peekskill, New York) is an American All-Star professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association's Los Angeles Clippers and the USA National Team. - Jo Brand
Joanne Brand, known as Jo Brand, (born 3 May 1957, Hastings, East Sussex) is a British comedienne. - Dionne Brand
Dionne Brand (born January 7, 1953) is a Canadian poet, novelist, and non-fiction writer who focuses on issues relating to black women. - Johannes Brand
Sir Johannes Henricus Brand, GCMG (popularly known as Jan Brand and sometimes as John Henry Brand) (6 December, 1823, Cape Town-14 July, 1888, Bloemfontein) was the fourth President of the Orange Free State, from 2 February 1864 to 1888. - Peter J. Brand
Peter James Brand (born 5 April 1967) is a Canadian Egyptologist from Toronto, Ontario. He is also a naturalized American citizen. He completed his PhD in 1998 at the University of Toronto with his dissertation "The Monuments of Seti I: Epigraphic, Historical and Art Historical Analysis". - Neil Brand
Neil Brand is a British writer, composer, and a world-renowned silent film accompanist. He was born in Essex, England on March 18th, 1958, and attended Junction Road Primary School in Burgess Hill where he was affectionately known as, "Bogey Brand". At the age of 18, he went to the University of Wales to study drama. He has appeared in "Switch", a BBC drama for the hearing impaired, as Ted, a bullying businessman. He has worked with the BBC over 60 times, … - Gordon J. Brand
Gordon J Brand (born 6 August, 1955) is an English golfer. Brand turned professional in 1976 and was a full member of the European Tour from 1977 to 1994. He made the top thirty on the Order of Merit a total of seven times. His highest ranking came in 1986 with a career best 5th, in which year he finished as runner-up to Greg Norman in The Open Championship at Turnberry. His sole European Tour victory was the 1989 Volvo Belgian Open, he also won several events in Africa. - Vance D. Brand
Vance DeVoe Brand (born May 9, 1931) is a former NASA astronaut. - Johann Christian Brand
Johann Christian Brand (March 6, 1722 - June 12, 1795) was an Austrian painter (son of the German painter Christian Hilfgott Brand (1694-1756) who taught in Vienna with Karl Aigen) and brother of Friedrich August Brand. Johann Christian Brand influenced ending the baroque era of landscape painting. He died in Vienna. - Myles Brand
Myles Brand (born May 17, 1942) is president of the United States' National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and prior to that served as the sixteenth president of Indiana University. - Charles Brand
Charles Henry Brand, CB, CMG, DSO (4 September 1873 – 31 July 1961) was an Australian Army brigadier-general in World War I. He retired in 1930 as a major-general. - Natan Brand
Natan Brand (1944-1990), an Israeli Born, American classical pianist. Brand began his studies as a child prodigy at the age of seven, with Haim Alexander at the Rubin Academy in Israel, where he later received an Artist's and Teacher's diploma. He made his orchestral debut at the age of eleven. The pianist Nadia Reisenberg, pupil of Josef Hoffman, heard him play, and arranged for him to study at the Mannes College of Music in New York. - Adolf Brand
Adolf Brand (1874-1945) was a German writer, anarchist and pioneer activist for the acceptance of male homosexuality. Born in Berlin on November 14, 1874, Brand became a school teacher briefly before establishing a publishing firm and producing a German homosexual periodical, "Der Eigene" in 1896. This was the first ongoing homosexual publication in the world, and ran until 1931. The name was taken from writings of egoist philosopher Max Stirner, … - Michael Brand
Michael Brand (born November 19, 1973 in Fulda) is a German politician and member of the CDU. - David Brand
Sir David Brand KCMG (1 August 1912-15 April 1979) was Premier of Western Australia from 1959-1971 and a Member of the Legislative Assembly from 1945-1975. He also worked as Opposition Leader (until election in 1959) and Minister for Tourism during his time in politics. Brand was born in Dongara, Western Australia. He first entered State politics in 1945, as the Member for Greenough, after a short career as a shopkeeper which began that same year. - Laurie Brand
Professor Laurie A. Brand is the current director or the University of Southern California School of International Relations. Professor Brand specializes in the international relations of the Middle East, including political economy of the region and inter-Arab relations. She received her B.S. in French from Georgetown University, her M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University, and her Ph.D. in Comparative Politics from the same institution. - Michael Brand
Dr Michael Brand (born 1958) is an art scholar from Australia and director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Throughout his career, Brand has specialised in the art of Asia, in particular Indian art. Dr Brand was born in Canberra, but spent several years in the United States of America while his father was a representative at the International Monetary Fund. He lived in McLean, Virginia in 1971 and 1972, and spent four years studying in Washington, D.C. to complete High School. - Millen Brand
Millen Brand was a bestselling American writer and poet. His novels "Savage Sleep" and "The Outward Room," which addressed mental health institutions, were bestsellers in the 1940s. - Peter Brand
Peter Brand (born 1947) is a United Kingdom general practitioner and Liberal Democrat politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for the Isle of Wight at the 1997 general election, but lost his seat to the Conservatives at the 2001 election. - Paul Wilson Brand
Dr. Paul Brand (1914 - 2003) was a pioneer in developing tendon transfer techniques for use in the hands of those with leprosy, now known as Hansen's Disease. He was also the first to appreciate that it was the insensitivity of the tissues in those with Hansen's Disease that made them susceptible to injury. He contributed extensively to the fields of hand surgery and hand therapy through his publications and lectures, … - Steven Brand
Steven Brand is a Scottish actor. He made his US screen debut in Universal's "The Scorpion King" as Memnon, evil warlord and arch nemesis of Mathayus, played by The Rock. Following the success of his debut movie in the US, Brand’s work has included the HBO series The Mind of the Married Man, Stephen King’s The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, CSI, and more recently starring in the movies Treasure Raiders (2006) with David Carradine, … - Chris Brand
Christopher Richard Brand (born in Preston, England, 1 June 1943) is a British psychological and psychometric researcher who gained media attention for his controversial statements on race and intelligence. He is a graduate of The Queen's College Oxford, and a fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, 1968-70. - Hennig Brand
Hennig Brand(t) (c. 1630 - c. 1710) was a merchant and amateur alchemist in Hamburg, Germany who discovered phosphorus around 1669. The circumstances of Brand's birth are unknown. Some sources describe his origins as humble and indicate that he had been an apprentice glass-maker as a young man. However, correspondence by his second wife Margaretha states that he was of high social standing. - John Brand
John Brand (August 19, 1744 - September 11, 1806) was an English antiquary, born in Washington, County Durham, he was educated at The Royal Grammar School and Lincoln College, Oxford. He wrote "Observations on the popular antiquities of Great Britain: Including the Whole of Mr. Bourne's Antiquitates Vulgares" (1777), generally referred to as "Popular Antiquities". (The incorporated work was the "Popular Antiquities" of Henry Bourne, published 1725, … - Max Brand
Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) was an American fiction author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns. Faust wrote mostly under pen names, and today he is primarily known by one, Max Brand. Others include George Owen Baxter, Martin Dexter, Evin Evans, David Manning, Peter Dawson, John Frederick, and Pete Morland. Faust was born in Seattle and both his parents died soon after. - Joel Brand
Joel Brand (April 25 1906-July 13 1964) was a Hungarian Jew who played a prominent role in trying to save the Hungarian Jewish community during the Holocaust from deportation to the German death camp at Auschwitz. Described by historian Yehuda Bauer as a brave adventurer who felt at home in "underground conspiracies and card-playing circles," Brand teamed up with fellow Zionists in Hungary, in or around 1942, to form the Aid and Rescue Committee, … - Oscar Brand
Oscar Brand (born February 7, 1920, in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a folk singer and songwriter. In his career, spanning over 60 years, he has composed at least 300 songs and released nearly 100 albums. He has played alongside such legends of American folk music as Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, and Pete Seeger. He currently resides in Great Neck, New York. He has been hosting the radio show "Oscar Brand's Folksong Festival" every Saturday at 10 pm, … - John Henry Brand
Sir John Henry Brand (December 6, 1823 - July 14, 1888), president of the Orange Free State, was the son of Sir Christoffel Brand, speaker of the House of Assembly of the Cape Colony. He was born at Cape Town, and was educated at the South African College in that city. Continuing his studies at Leiden, he took the degree of D.C.L. in 1845. He was called to the English bar from the Inner Temple in 1849, … - Nir Brand
Nir Brand (born June 6, 1961) is an Israeli conductor and a musician. - Phoebe Brand
Phoebe Brand was an American actress, who was blacklisted along with her husband, Morris Carnovsky, in the 1950s. She was born on in upstate New York in 1907. She eventually moved to New York City and became an actress, marrying Carnovsky in 1941 (until his death in 1992), and had one child, Stephen Carnovsky. Phoebe and Morris Carnovsky, who was a famed Shakespearean actor, were original members of the legendary Group Theater with one-time Communist director, … - George Brand
George Brand was a convict transported to Western Australia. Born in Perthshire, Scotland around 1820, Brand married Isabella Duncan in January 1840. Over the next seven years they had three sons and one daughter. Brand was working as a carter in 1852 when he was convicted of theft at Edinburgh. Erickson (1983) claims "Brand's occupation as a carter presented opportunities for picking up stray articles. - Madeleine Brand
Madeleine Brand is the co-host of NPR's Day To Day. Brand was born in LA, and has a bachelor's in English from the University of California, Berkeley. - Christoffel Brand
Sir Christoffel Joseph Brand (21 June 1797 Cape Town - 19 May 1875 Cape Town) was a South African jurist, politician and first Speaker of the Cape Parliament. After receiving his initial education in Cape Town, Brand attended the University of Leiden in 1815, where he obtained a doctorate in law in 1820 with a dissertation on the relationship that colonies have to the mother country - "Dissertatio politico-juridica de jure coloniarum". - Steffen Brand
Steffen Brand is a retired German runner who specialized in the 3000 metres steeplechase. His personal best time is 8:14.37 minutes, achieved at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg. This result places him seventh on the German all-time performers list, behind Damian Kallabis, Hagen Melzer, Frank Baumgartl, Rainer Schwarz, Uwe Pflügner and Michael Karst.
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