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Brian Jones
Brian Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969): English multi-instrumentalist who founded the Rolling Stones in 1962, named them after Muddy Waters' "Rollin' Stone", led their early blues sound, was dismissed in June 1969, and died weeks later; death ruled misadventure.
Brian Jones (California politician)
Brian Jones is an American Republican politician who was Minority Leader of the California State Senate from 2022, after serving in the Assembly from 2010 to 2016.
Brian Jordan Alvarez
Brian Jordan Alvarez (born 1987) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker, creator and star of FX's English Teacher and the 2016 web series The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo, with roles in Will & Grace, Jane the Virgin, and M3GAN.
Brian Jungen
Brian Jungen (born 1970) is a Canadian sculptor of Dane-zaa and Swiss heritage known for turning Nike sneakers and plastic chairs into masks and whale skeletons.
Brian Justin Crum
Brian Justin Crum, American singer and actor from San Diego, Broadway performer (Wicked, Next to Normal, We Will Rock You) and fourth-place finisher on America's Got Talent 2016, whose Creep cover drew 100 million views and whose Show Me Love hit number two on a Billboard dance chart.
Brian K. Kaspar
Brian K. Kaspar is an American neuroscientist and gene therapy researcher at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, known for developing Zolgensma, the gene therapy for spinal muscular atrophy.
Brian K. Kennedy
Brian K. Kennedy is an American aging researcher and Distinguished Professor at the National University of Singapore, known for the 2014 Cell paper linking aging to chronic disease.
Brian K. Kobilka
Brian K. Kobilka, born 1955 in Little Falls, Minnesota, is an American physician-scientist at Stanford who determined the first high-resolution crystal structures of a G-protein-coupled receptor, sharing the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Brian K. Shoichet
Brian K. Shoichet, also known as Brian Shoichet, is an American computational structural biologist at UCSF who develops molecular docking to find new drug-like ligands.
Brian K. Vaughan
Brian K. Vaughan, born 1976 in Cleveland, Ohio, is an American comic book writer and screenwriter known for creator-owned series including Saga and Y: The Last Man.
Brian Kavanagh (New York politician)
Brian Kavanagh is an American Democratic politician who represented Lower Manhattan in the New York State Senate, chaired its Housing Committee, and is leaving office in 2026.
Brian Keith
Brian Keith (Robert Alba Keith, 1921-1997), American film, television, and stage actor; Marine veteran 1941-45; Uncle Bill on Family Affair with three Emmy nominations, Judge Hardcastle, The Parent Trap, and Theodore Roosevelt in The Wind and the Lion.
Brian Kelly (American football coach)
Brian Kelly, born 1961, is an American college football coach whose stops included Grand Valley State, Central Michigan, Cincinnati, Notre Dame, and LSU before his 2025 firing.
Brian Kemp
Brian Kemp is the 83rd governor of Georgia (since January 2019), Republican, former Georgia secretary of state 2010-18 and state senator 2003-07; won the closest governor's race in over 50 years in 2018, was re-elected in 2022, and feuded with Trump over the 2020 results.
Brian Kendrick
Brian Kendrick (Brian David Kendrick, once Leonardo Spanky) is an American professional wrestler best known for his WWE tag team reign with Paul London and for WWE's cruiserweight division.
Brian Kennett
Brian L. N. Kennett is an Australian seismologist, Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, best known for the IASP91 and AK135 reference Earth models used worldwide.
Brian Kernighan
Brian Kernighan, born 1942, is a Canadian computer scientist who spent 30 years at Bell Labs working on Unix, coined the name "Unix," and co-authored The C Programming Language.
Brian Kerwin
Brian Kerwin, born in 1949 in Chicago, is an American actor known for playing Ed in Torch Song Trilogy on Broadway and film, and Steve Heidebrecht in August: Osage County.
Brian Kibler
Brian Kibler, "The Dragonmaster", is an American Magic: The Gathering Hall of Famer (2010) who won Pro Tour–Austin 2009, holds three Grand Prix titles, designed WoW TCG, Ascension, and SolForge, and became a leading Hearthstone streamer and commentator.
Brian Kidd
Brian Kidd (born 1949, Collyhurst, Manchester), English forward and coach; scored in Manchester United's 1968 European Cup final, Ferguson's assistant 1991-98, Blackburn manager 1998-99, Manchester City assistant 2009-2021.
Brian Kidd Ridley
Brian Kidd Ridley was a British theoretical physicist who co-predicted the transferred-electron effect behind Gunn diodes, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1994.
Brian Kilmeade
Brian Kilmeade, Fox & Friends co-host since 1998 and host of The Brian Kilmeade Show and One Nation; New York Times bestselling history author; apologized in 2025 for a 'just kill 'em' remark.
Brian Knobbs
Brian Knobbs (Brian Yandrisovitz, born 1964) is an American retired professional wrestler, one half of The Nasty Boys with Jerry Sags, a WWF and three-time WCW tag team champion and record three-time WCW Hardcore Champion.
Brian Koo
Brian Koo (구본웅) is a venture investor from the founding family of South Korea's LG and LS Group who co-founded Formation 8 Partners in 2011.
Brian Koppelman
Brian Koppelman, American screenwriter and showrunner, co-creator of Showtime's Billions and Super Pumped with David Levien, and co-writer of Rounders and Ocean's Thirteen.
Brian Krause
Brian Jeffrey Krause (born 1969, El Toro, California) is an American actor known as Leo Wyatt on Charmed (1998–2006, 150+ episodes), Return to the Blue Lagoon, and Sleepwalkers; also producer, director, and Charmed rewatch podcast host.
Brian Krzanich
Brian Krzanich, born around 1960, is an American engineer who served as Intel's sixth chief executive officer from 2013 to 2018, later leading CDK Global.
Brian L. Kotzin
Brian L. Kotzin is an American immunologist and rheumatologist known for lupus research, including the first identification of a lupus-susceptibility gene in mice, and leadership at Amgen and Nektar Therapeutics.
Brian L. Roberts
Brian L. Roberts is an American business executive, Chairman and Co-CEO of Comcast Corporation, who joined in 1981 and led the acquisitions of AT&T Broadband, NBCUniversal, and Sky.
Brian L. Strom
Brian L. Strom is an American pharmacoepidemiologist, one of the founders of the field, who served as inaugural Chancellor of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences from 2013 to 2025.