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Brian O’Rourke
Brian O'Rourke is an American cardiac physiologist at Johns Hopkins who studies how mitochondria supply energy in heart cells and how its failure causes arrhythmia and heart failure.
Brian Orakpo
Brian Orakpo, former NFL outside linebacker (Washington Redskins 2009-14, Tennessee Titans 2015-18), 13th overall 2009 draft pick from Texas, four Pro Bowls, 66 career sacks, retired December 31, 2018.
Brian Orser
Brian Orser, Canadian figure skater born 1961, two-time Olympic silver medalist (1984, 1988), 1987 world champion, 'Mr. Triple Axel'; later coached Yuna Kim and Yuzuru Hanyu to Olympic gold.
Brian Ortega
Brian Ortega, nicknamed "T-City", is an American UFC featherweight and Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt with 16 wins and 8 submissions, who challenged twice for the title.
Brian P. Anderson
Brian P. Anderson is an American atomic physicist at the University of Arizona who studies Bose-Einstein condensates and received the 2003 Presidential Early Career Award.
Brian P. English
Brian P. English is a Senior Scientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, since 2013, who co-authored lattice light-sheet microscopy, the Janelia Fluor dyes, and protein-retention expansion microscopy.
Brian P. Kavanagh
Brian P. Kavanagh (1962–2019) was an Irish-born Canadian critical care physician and anesthesiologist at Toronto known for research on carbon dioxide and ventilator-induced lung injury.
Brian P. Sorrentino
Brian P. Sorrentino was an American hematologist and gene therapy researcher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, best known for a trial restoring immunity in infants with SCID-X1.
Brian Peck
Brian Richard Peck (born 1960) is an American former actor and dialogue coach, Scuz in The Return of the Living Dead, convicted in 2004 of sexually abusing Drake Bell and a registered California sex offender.
Brian Piccolo
Brian Piccolo (Louis Brian Piccolo) was a Chicago Bears fullback from 1965 to 1969, remembered for his friendship with Gale Sayers and the film Brian's Song.
Brian Pillman
Brian Pillman (1962–1997), American wrestler, ex-Cincinnati Bengal; 'Flyin' Brian' high-flier in WCW and the reality-blurring 'Loose Cannon'; Hollywood Blonds with Steve Austin, Hart Foundation member, died at 35 of heart disease.
Brian Pintado
Brian Daniel Pintado (born 1995, Cuenca, Ecuador) is an Ecuadorian race walker, Paris 2024 Olympic 20km champion in 1:18:55 and mixed relay silver medallist, with a 20km PB of 1:17:54.
Brian Pippard
Brian Pippard, also known as Sir Alfred Brian Pippard, was a British physicist who first mapped a Fermi surface and introduced the superconducting coherence length in 1953.
Brian Poe Llamanzares
Brian Poe Llamanzares (born 1992) is a Filipino congressman, FPJ Panday Bayanihan party-list representative since 2025; son of Senator Grace Poe, grandson of Fernando Poe Jr.; entrepreneur, author of A Sustainable Future, former CNN Philippines reporter.
Brian Poindexter
Brian Poindexter is an American politician and union ironworker who is the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Ohio's 7th congressional district in 2026.
Brian Popko
Brian Popko is an American neuroscientist who studies the myelin sheath and multiple sclerosis; he has been a professor of neurology at Northwestern University since 2020.
Brian Posehn
Brian Posehn (born 1966, Sacramento, California) is an American comedian, actor, voice actor, and writer known for Mr. Show, Just Shoot Me's Kevin Liotta, The Sarah Silverman Program's Brian Spukowski, Bert on The Big Bang Theory and its 2026 spinoff, Comedians of Comedy, Grandpa Metal, and co-writing 45 Deadpool issues.
Brian Price
Brian Price (born 1976, Belleville, Ontario) is a retired Canadian rowing coxswain, three-time Olympian who coxed the men's eight to gold at Beijing 2008 and silver at London 2012, and a three-time world champion.
Brian Quinn (comedian)
Brian "Q" Quinn (born 1976) is an American comedian, actor, and producer, a member of The Tenderloins and star of truTV's Impractical Jokers, a former FDNY firefighter, and co-host of the Tell 'Em Steve-Dave! podcast.
Brian R Calvi
Brian R Calvi is a Drosophila geneticist and professor of biology at Indiana University Bloomington who studies how DNA replication and cell cycle checkpoints are controlled during development.
Brian R. Crane
Brian R. Crane, born 1968 in Winnipeg, is a Canadian chemist at Cornell University who studies the structures and mechanisms of signaling proteins, including bacterial chemotaxis receptors.
Brian R. Edlin
Brian R. Edlin is an American physician and epidemiologist who became Chief Medical Officer of the CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention in 2016.
Brian R. Martinotti
Brian R. Martinotti (born 1961) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of New Jersey since 2016, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Brian Reader (criminal)
Brian Reader, called 'The Guv'nor', was an English career criminal and ringleader of the 2015 Hatton Garden vault burglary and Brink's-Mat gold laundering; jailed in 1986 and 2016, he died in 2023 aged 84.
Brian Redban
Brian Redban (Brian Alan Reichle, born 1974) is an American comedian and podcast producer from Columbus, Ohio, co-creator of Kill Tony, original producer of The Joe Rogan Experience, and founder of the Deathsquad podcast network.
Brian Regan (comedian)
Brian Regan is an American stand-up comedian known for his clean, observational humor. He has maintained a touring career for over three decades and won multiple American Comedy Awards.
Brian Rix
Brian Rix, Baron Rix (1924–2016), English actor-manager famous for Whitehall Theatre farces such as Dry Rot and Reluctant Heroes, later Mencap secretary general, chairman, and president, and a crossbench life peer campaigning for people with learning disabilities.
Brian Robbins
Brian Robbins (born 1963, Brian Levine) is an American producer-director turned executive: co-creator of All That and Kenan & Kel, founder of AwesomenessTV, and head of Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures, and Paramount Global co-CEO.
Brian Robertson (guitarist)
Brian 'Robbo' Robertson, Scottish guitarist born 1956 in Glasgow, Thin Lizzy twin-lead partner to Scott Gorham (Jailbreak, Live and Dangerous), later Motörhead's Another Perfect Day guitarist and Wild Horses founder.
Brian Rumpf
Brian Rumpf is an American Republican politician who has represented New Jersey's 9th district in the General Assembly since 2003 and became its budget officer in 2026.