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Brian Aherne
Brian Aherne, full name William Brian de Lacy Aherne (1902 to 1986), was an Anglo-American stage and screen actor Oscar-nominated for playing Emperor Maximilian in Juarez (1939).
Brian Auger
Brian Auger (born 18 July 1939) is a British Hammond B-3 organist and pianist, leader of the Trinity and Oblivion Express, whose 1968 hit 'This Wheel's on Fire' and the album Closer to It! earned him the title Godfather of Acid Jazz; distinct from the Pierre Auger Observatory.
Brian Austin Green
Brian Austin Green (born Brian Green, 1973) is an American actor, Knots Landing and Beverly Hills, 90210 David Silver for all 10 seasons, ex-husband of Megan Fox, One Stop Carnival rapper, BH90210 and DWTS alum.
Brian Azzarello
Brian Azzarello (born 1962, Cleveland) is an American comics writer, best known for the Eisner-winning Vertigo crime series 100 Bullets with artist Eduardo Risso, plus Wonder Woman, Joker, and Batman work for DC.
Brian Banks (film)
Brian Banks is a 2018 American biographical drama directed by Tom Shadyac and starring Aldis Hodge as a high school football star wrongly convicted of rape who won exoneration with help from the California Innocence Project.
Brian Baumgartner
Brian Bruce Baumgartner (born 1972, Atlanta) is an American actor, Kevin Malone on NBC's The Office (2005–2013), a Daytime Emmy and SAG Award winner, host of An Oral History of The Office, and Cameo's first $1 million celebrity.
Brian Bedford
Brian Bedford (1935-2016), English stage actor and director, Tony winner for The School for Wives (1971), 29 seasons at Canada's Stratford Festival, Broadway Lady Bracknell (2011), voice of Disney's 1973 Robin Hood; not the Bedford town or musician.
Brian Bell
Brian Bell, American guitarist, keyboardist, and backing vocalist of Weezer since the 1994 Blue Album, replacing Jason Cropper; also leads The Relationship, plays Gibson guitars, and uses E-flat Weezer tuning.
Brian Benben
Brian Benben (born 1956, Winchester, Virginia) is an American actor, star of HBO's Dream On as Martin Tupper, later Dr. Sheldon Wallace on Private Practice and Max on Imposters; married to Madeleine Stowe.
Brian Bilston
Brian Bilston is the pseudonym of an Oxford-based English poet and novelist, dubbed the 'poet laureate of Twitter'; author of You Took the Last Bus Home, Diary of a Somebody, and Sounds Made by Humans with The Catenary Wires.
Brian Blessed
Brian Blessed (born 9 October 1936, Mexborough, Yorkshire) is an English actor known for Z-Cars, I, Claudius, Flash Gordon's Vultan, Blackadder, and Star Wars, and for Everest expeditions without oxygen.
Brian Bloom
Brian Bloom (born 1970) is an American actor, voice actor, and screenwriter: young Patsy in Once Upon a Time in America, Dusty Donovan on As the World Turns, Brock Pike in The A-Team, voice of Captain America and B.J. Blazkowicz, and lead Call of Duty writer.
Brian Bonsall
Brian Bonsall (Brian Eric Bonsall, born 1981, Torrance, California) is an American rock musician and former child actor: Andy Keaton on Family Ties (1986-1989), Alexander Rozhenko on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1992-1994), and Preston Waters in Blank Check (1994); retired at 14, later guitarist for The Ataris.
Brian Bovell
Brian Bovell (born 1959, London) is an English actor known for Babylon (Spark), The Bill (DC Rob Thatcher), Gimme Gimme Gimme (Jez), Hollyoaks (Leo Valentine), Andor (Jemboc), and a 1982 London Critics' Circle Theatre Award.
Brian Burkheiser
Brian Burkheiser is the American clean vocalist who co-founded Michigan metalcore band I Prevail in 2013, sang on Lifelines, Trauma and True Power, and left in May 2025 to launch his solo project Scatterbrain.
Brian C. Muraresku
Brian C. Muraresku is an American author and lawyer whose New York Times bestselling 2020 debut, The Immortality Key, argues psychedelics shaped ancient Greek and early Christian ritual.
Brian Cant
Brian Cant (1933–2017), English actor and children's TV presenter, hosted BBC Play School for 21 years from 1964, presented Play Away, and narrated Camberwick Green, Trumpton, and Chigley; received the 2010 Children's BAFTA Special Award.
Brian Cassidy
Brian Cassidy is a Law & Order: SVU character played by Dean Winters from "Payback" (1999) to Season 27: a young SVU detective who transferred to Narcotics, went undercover, dated Benson, became a DA investigator, and revealed childhood abuse by coach Gary Dolan.
Brian Conley
Brian Paul Conley (born 1961, London) is an English comedian, actor, singer and TV presenter; host of The Brian Conley Show, Olivier-nominated for Jolson, EastEnders' Rocky Cotton, and a leading pantomime star.
Brian Connolly
Brian Connolly (Brian Francis Connolly) was a Scottish singer, lead singer of glam rock band the Sweet from 1968 to 1979, singing "Blockbuster" and "Ballroom Blitz".
Brian Cox (actor)
Brian Cox (born 1946, Dundee) is a Scottish stage, film and TV actor, Emmy and Golden Globe winner; first screen Hannibal Lecter in Manhunter (1986) and Logan Roy in Succession, not the physicist of the same name.
Brian d'Arcy James
Brian d'Arcy James (born 1968, Saginaw, Michigan) is an American stage and screen actor, a Northwestern University graduate, five-time Tony nominee (Shrek, Something Rotten!, Into the Woods, Days of Wine and Roses), 2023 Grammy winner, and Matt Carroll in Spotlight; not to be confused with actor James D'Arcy.
Brian David Gilbert
Brian David Gilbert is an American writer, actor, musician, and video producer best known for creating and hosting Unraveled, Polygon's video series answering absurdly complex video game questions.
Brian De Palma
Brian De Palma (born 1940), American film director of Sisters, Carrie, Scarface, The Untouchables, and Mission: Impossible, known for split screen, Hitchcock-influenced suspense, and divisive critical reception.
Brian Dennehy
Brian Manion Dennehy (1938–2020), American stage and screen actor; breakthrough as Sheriff Teasle in First Blood; two Tony Awards for Death of a Salesman and Long Day's Journey Into Night; six Emmy nominations.
Brian Dietzen
Brian Dietzen (born 1977) is an American actor, BFA University of Colorado Boulder, known as Dr. Jimmy Palmer on NCIS since 2004, series regular from 2012, and NCIS co-writer.
Brian Donlevy
Brian Donlevy (Waldo Brian Donlevy, 1901–1972), Irish-born American character actor of tough-guy roles; Oscar-nominated for Beau Geste (1939), starred in The Great McGinty, played Quatermass twice, and led radio/TV's Dangerous Assignment.
Brian Dowling (presenter)
Brian Dowling (born 1978, Rathangan, Kildare) is an Irish TV and radio presenter who won Big Brother 2001 and Ultimate Big Brother 2010, hosted Big Brother on Channel 5 (2011–2013), and anchors Virgin Media's The Six O'Clock Show; married to Arthur Gourounlian, two daughters via surrogacy.
Brian Doyle-Murray
Brian Doyle-Murray (born Brian Murray, 1945, Chicago), American actor, writer, and voice artist, older brother of Bill Murray. Second City and SNL veteran, co-writer of Caddyshack, and voice of SpongeBob's Flying Dutchman; not the South African actor Brian Murray.
Brian Drummond
Brian Drummond (born 1969) is a Canadian voice actor from Vancouver known as the original Ocean dub Vegeta in Dragon Ball Z, Ryuk in Death Note, Dr. Eggman in Sonic Prime, and Knuckles in Sonic Underground.