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Brian Hodgers

Brian Hodgers is an American politician and Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives from the 32nd district, elected in a June 2025 special election.

Brian Hoskins

Sir Brian Hoskins, born 1945, is a British meteorologist and Professor of Meteorology at the University of Reading, known for work on potential vorticity, storm-tracks, and the Hadley Cell.

Brian Houghton Hodgson

Brian Houghton Hodgson (1801–1894) was a British administrator and scholar who served the East India Company in Nepal, acting as Resident at Kathmandu from 1829 to 1843.

Brian Hoyer

Brian Hoyer (born 1985) is a former NFL quarterback, undrafted from Michigan State in 2009; career backup and occasional starter for 10 teams, notably the Patriots and Browns, 10,899 passing yards, one Super Bowl.

Brian Hurwitz

Brian Hurwitz is a British physician and medical humanities scholar, Emeritus Professor of Medicine and The Arts in the Department of English at King's College London.

Brian Huskey

Brian Huskey (born 1968, Charlotte, North Carolina) is an American character actor, comedian, and writer, a UCB improviser and Naked Babies founding member, known for Veep's Leon West, Regular Sized Rudy on Bob's Burgers, People of Earth, and Mr. Neighbor's House.

Brian Hyland

Brian Hyland (born 1943) is an American pop singer, also known for bubblegum pop, whose "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" hit US number 1 in 1960 and "Sealed with a Kiss" peaked UK number 3 in 1962.

Brian I. Rini

Brian I. Rini is an American medical oncologist who leads kidney cancer clinical research as Chief of Clinical Trials at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, joining in 2020 from Cleveland Clinic.

Brian Ichter

Brian Ichter is an American robotics researcher who co-founded San Francisco's Physical Intelligence in 2024 to build foundation models that control robots, after research at Google DeepMind.

Brian J. Davis

Brian J. Davis, born Brian Jordan Davis in 1953, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

Brian J. Enquist

Brian J. Enquist is an American plant biologist and macroecologist at the University of Arizona, known for Metabolic Scaling Theory and for leading BIEN, a global plant biodiversity data network.

Brian J. Kirby

Brian J. Kirby is an American mechanical engineer at Cornell University whose research spans microfluidics and nanoscale electrokinetics, including capturing circulating tumor cells from blood; he received a 2006 PECASE award.

Brian J. Lipworth

Brian J. Lipworth, also known as Brian Lipworth, is a British physician-scientist in respiratory medicine who holds the Chair of Allergy and Respiratory Medicine at the University of Dundee.

Brian J. McCarthy

Brian J. McCarthy was a molecular biologist whose 1980 Cell papers showed that Drosophila actin and tubulin gene families are scattered across chromosomes, defining dispersed multigene families.

Brian J. Nankivell

Brian J. Nankivell is an Australian transplant nephrologist at Westmead Hospital in Sydney, known for his 2003 New England Journal of Medicine study of chronic allograft nephropathy.

Brian J. Palik

Brian J. Palik is an American forest ecologist with the USDA Forest Service's Northern Research Station in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, known for retention forestry and black ash wetland research.

Brian J. Reid

Brian J. Reid, born in 1946, is a retired physician-scientist in Seattle who founded the Seattle Barrett's Esophagus Study, defining how Barrett's esophagus progresses to esophageal adenocarcinoma.

Brian J. Smith

Brian J. Smith, born 1981 in Dallas, Texas, is an American Juilliard-trained actor known as Lt. Matthew Scott in Stargate Universe, Will Gorski in Sense8, and Tony-nominated Gentleman Caller in The Glass Menagerie.

Brian J. Soden

Brian J. Soden is an American atmospheric scientist and professor at the University of Miami who uses satellite observations and climate models to study water vapor feedback and hurricanes.

Brian J. Staskawicz

Brian J. Staskawicz, born 1952, is an American plant biologist at UC Berkeley known for molecular work on plant immunity, CRISPR disease-resistant crops, and the 2025 Wolf Prize in Agriculture.

Brian J. White

Brian J. White (Brian Joseph White, born 1975, Boston) is an American actor and producer, former NFL Patriots football and NLL Blazers lacrosse player, son of Celtics star Jo Jo White, known for The Shield, Stomp the Yard, Ray Donovan, and Ambitions.

Brian J.G. Pereira

Brian J.G. Pereira, also known as B J Pereira, is an American nephrologist whose 1991 research showed organ transplantation transmits hepatitis C, and later a biotech executive.

Brian J.P. Huntly

Brian J.P. Huntly is a British clinical scientist, Professor of Leukaemia Stem Cell Biology at the University of Cambridge, known for showing which genes create leukemia stem cells.

Brian Jack

Brian Jack is an American politician and Republican US Representative for Georgia's 3rd Congressional District since 2025, previously a longtime Trump aide and White House Political Director.

Brian Jacobs

Brian Jacobs is an American venture capitalist who co-founded Emergence Capital in 2003, made an early bet on Intacct, and left in 2019 to found Moai Capital.

Brian Jacques

Brian Jacques (1939-2011), English author of the Redwall children's fantasy series set at Redwall Abbey; former Liverpool truck driver whose vivid prose began as stories for blind schoolchildren.

Brian Job

Brian Gregory Job (1951-2019), American breaststroke swimmer; 1968 Olympic bronze medalist in the 200 m breaststroke, 1971 Pan Am Games gold medalist in the medley relay, and 200 m breaststroke world record holder (2:23.5).

Brian Johns

Brian Johns (Brian Lawrence Johns), Canadian swimmer born 1982 in Regina, Saskatchewan; three-time Olympian (Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008) and short course 400 m IM world record holder (4:02.72, 2003).

Brian Johnson

Brian Johnson, also known as Brian Francis Johnson, is an English singer born in 1947 in Gateshead, England, lead vocalist of AC/DC since 1980, formerly of Geordie.

Brian Johnston

Brian Johnston (1912–1994), 'Johnners', English BBC cricket commentator, first BBC cricket correspondent (1963), Test Match Special humorist famous for the 1991 leg-over giggles, Down Your Way presenter, Military Cross holder.