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Brach Myers

Brach Myers is an American Republican politician and businessman who represents Louisiana's 23rd Senate district, having first been elected to the Louisiana House in 2023.

Bracket

Bracket: paired grouping symbols, parentheses ( ), square brackets [ ], braces { }, and angle brackets ⟨ ⟩, used in writing, mathematics, and programming; first recorded in Colluccio Salutati's 1399 manuscript De nobilitate legum.

Bracket Capital

Bracket Capital is a private investment firm in West Hollywood, California, founded in 2017 by Jihan Bowes-Little and Yalda Aoukar, investing in later-stage technology companies.

Bracket SVI Late Stage, LP

Bracket SVI Late Stage, LP is a private equity fund managed by Bracket Ventures Management, LLC, through which Bracket Capital invests in later-stage technology companies.

Brad Bekkedahl

Brad Bekkedahl is an American politician who serves as a Republican member of the North Dakota Senate, representing District 1 in Williston since 2014 and serving as President pro tempore.

Brad Bolzon

Brad Bolzon is a Canadian life-science venture investor who serves as Chairman and Managing Director of Versant Ventures, a biotech firm with $5.5 billion under management.

Brad Buckley

Brad Buckley is an American veterinarian and Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 54, first elected in 2018 and chairing the Public Education Committee.

Brad Carson

Brad Carson (born 1967), Cherokee Nation member and Oklahoma Democrat, was U.S. Representative for the 2nd District (2001-2005), Army General Counsel and 31st Under Secretary of the Army, and the 21st president of the University of Tulsa (2021-2025).

Brad Colbert

Brad Colbert is a retired U.S. Reconnaissance Marine who served in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and was portrayed by Alexander Skarsgård in HBO's Generation Kill.

Brad Evans (political philosopher)

Brad Evans is a political philosopher and Professor of Political Violence & Aesthetics at the University of Bath, author of twenty books and founder of Histories of Violence.

Brad Finstad

Brad Finstad, born in 1976, is the Republican U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 1st congressional district since 2022, after serving three terms in the Minnesota Legislature.

Brad Fritts

Brad Fritts is an American Republican politician who represents Illinois House District 74, elected in 2022 and reportedly the youngest legislator ever elected to the Illinois General Assembly at 22.

Brad Gerstner

Brad Gerstner is an American technology investor who founded Altimeter Capital in 2008; the crossover firm manages $20 billion, led Snowflake's Series C, and he co-hosts the BG2 podcast.

Brad Halbrook

Brad Halbrook is an American politician and Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 107th district, based in Shelbyville, Illinois, known for advocating gas tax and property tax relief.

Brad Hudson

Brad Hudson is an American Republican politician representing Missouri's 33rd Senate district since 2025, after serving in the Missouri House from 2019 to 2025 and as Stone County Assessor.

Brad Hutto

Brad Hutto is an American Democratic politician who has represented the Orangeburg area in the South Carolina Senate since 1996 and serves as Minority Leader.

Brad Katsuyama

Brad Katsuyama (Bradley Katsuyama) is a Canadian financial executive who, while at Royal Bank of Canada, identified high-frequency traders front-running large orders, then co-founded IEX, the Investors Exchange, in 2012.

Brad Keywell

Brad Keywell, born 1969, is an American technology entrepreneur from Chicago who co-founded Groupon and founded Uptake Technologies, an industrial AI software company serving operators in 21 countries.

Brad Knott

Brad Knott (born 1986) is the Republican U.S. representative for North Carolina's 13th Congressional District since 2025, a former assistant U.S. attorney and Pat McCrory staffer who won the 2024 open seat after a Trump-endorsed runoff victory over Kelly Daughtry.

Brad Lander

Brad Lander, progressive NYC comptroller 2022–2025 and Brooklyn council member first elected in 2009, was arrested by ICE in 2025 and acquitted in 2026, then unseated Rep. Dan Goldman in the June 23, 2026 Democratic primary for New York's 10th Congressional District with 58,047 votes.

Brad Little

Brad Little is an American politician and the 33rd Governor of Idaho, a Republican serving since 2019 who previously served as Idaho's 37th Lieutenant Governor and in the Idaho Senate.

Brad M. Barber

Brad M. Barber, known as Brad Barber, is an American behavioral finance researcher and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, known for studies of individual investors.

Brad Meyer

Brad Meyer is an American politician and the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Indiana's 9th district in 2026, a former Navy civilian engineer who has not held public office.

Brad Overcash

Brad Overcash is an American politician and Republican member of the North Carolina State Senate, representing District 43; he was elected in 2024 and took office in 2025.

Brad Parscale

Brad Parscale, American digital strategist; digital director of Trump's 2016 campaign and 2020 campaign manager until July 2020; later Campaign Nucleus founder and Salem Media Group chief strategy officer from January 2025.

Brad Pfaff

Brad Pfaff is an American Democratic politician from Onalaska, Wisconsin, who represents the 32nd district in the Wisconsin State Senate and has sponsored legislation on AED access and stadium concession prices.

Brad Raffensperger

Brad Raffensperger, Georgia's 29th Secretary of State (Republican, since January 2019), engineer and founder of Tendon Systems, refused Trump's 2021 request to find 11,780 votes, won 2022 re-election, and ran for governor in 2026.

Brad Schneider

Bradley Scott Schneider, known as Brad Schneider, is an American Democratic politician and businessman who has represented Illinois's 10th congressional district in the U.S. House since 2017.

Brad Sherman

Brad Sherman, Democratic U.S. Representative for California's 32nd District since 1997, former California Board of Equalization chair, UCLA and Harvard Law graduate, CPA, and Congress's leading cryptocurrency skeptic.

Brad Sigmon

Brad Keith Sigmon, American murderer executed by firing squad in South Carolina on March 7, 2025, the first U.S. firing-squad execution in 15 years; killed David and Gladys Larke in 2001 and chose the firing squad over lethal injection and electrocution.