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Brown (racial classification)
Brown (racial classification), including pardo in Brazil, the informal brown label for US Latinos and South Asian Americans, and colonial pardo/mestizo ancestry terms; distinct from White and Black categories and defined by phenotype or mixed ancestry.
Brown Advisory Global Managers
Brown Advisory Global Managers is a Baltimore-based private fund manager that files for a family of pooled alternative-investment funds run by Brown Advisory's fund-of-funds adviser.
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., also known as Brown Bros. Harriman, is a private banking partnership founded in 1818 and owned by its 38 general partners.
Brown Derby
The Brown Derby was a chain of four Los Angeles restaurants, founded in 1926 by Herbert Somborn, Wilson Mizner, and Sid Grauman and known for the Cobb salad.
Brown Mogotsi
Brown Mogotsi (Oupa Mogotsi), North West businessman and alleged political fixer tied to Senzo Mchunu and Cat Matlala; testified at the Madlanga Commission and Parliament's ad hoc committee, claiming a Crime Intelligence agent role, and was arrested in May 2026.
Brown Shoe Company
Brown Shoe Company, known since 2015 as Caleres, is an American footwear company founded in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1878, operating Famous Footwear stores and brands like Naturalizer.
Brown University
Brown University (founded 1764 as Rhode Island College) is an Ivy League private research university in Providence, Rhode Island, known for its 1969 Open Curriculum, no distribution requirements, and the Warren Alpert Medical School.
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous Warren ruling that racial segregation in public schools violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause, overturning Plessy v. Ferguson's separate-but-equal doctrine.
Brown-water navy
A brown-water navy, associated with riverine warfare, is a naval force operating in rivers, estuaries, and harbors rather than the open ocean, using small, shallow-draft gunboats and patrol ships.
Brown's Chicken massacre
Brown's Chicken massacre: January 8, 1993 shooting murder of seven employees at a Brown's Chicken & Pasta in Palatine, Illinois; unsolved nine years until DNA on preserved chicken matched Juan Luna; Luna and James Degorski got life sentences.
Brownie (folklore)
Brownie (Scots broonie, Gaelic brùnaidh): shaggy household spirit of Scottish and northern English folklore that does chores at night for a bowl of cream, leaves if given clothes, and becomes a boggart if mistreated.
Brownie points
Brownie points are notional credit earned by doing good deeds or small favors for someone in authority, an American idiom first recorded in the 1940s and often tinged with pejorative irony.
Brownie Wise
Brownie Wise was an American direct-sales executive who built the Tupperware home party system, led its sales operation from 1951 until her dismissal in 1958.
Brownies & Downies
Brownies&downieS is a Dutch inclusive lunch café franchise founded in 2010 by Thijs Swinkels in Veghel, where staff with and without intellectual disabilities work together; about 60 locations, sold to Albron in 2022.
Brownsville Independent School District
Brownsville Independent School District (BISD) is the public school district of Brownsville, Cameron County, South Texas (TEA district 031901, Region 1); accredited by SACS and TEA, rated B overall in 2025 and 2026, led by Superintendent Dr. Timothy E. Cuff since July 2026.
Bruce Antone
Bruce Antone is an American Democratic politician in the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 41st district since 2022 after earlier terms from 2002 to 2006 and 2012 to 2020.
Bruce Babbitt
Bruce Edward Babbitt (born 1938) is an Arizona Democrat who served as attorney general, governor 1978-1987, 1988 presidential candidate, and Clinton's Interior Secretary 1993-2001, known for monuments, Everglades restoration, and ESA reform.
Bruce Berkowitz
Bruce Berkowitz is an American value investor who founded Fairholme Capital Management in Miami in 1997 and leads The Fairholme Fund, named Morningstar's 2010 Fund Manager of the Decade.
Bruce Blakeman
Bruce Blakeman is an American Republican politician serving as Nassau County Executive and the Republican nominee for governor of New York, facing incumbent Kathy Hochul in November 2026.
Bruce Booth, DPhil
Bruce Booth, DPhil, is an American life-science venture capitalist and Atlas Venture partner since 2005 who co-founded biotech firms including Kymera Therapeutics and Nimbus Therapeutics and writes the LifeSciVC blog.
Bruce Buck
Bruce Michael Buck, American lawyer and founding head of Skadden's London office, chaired Chelsea FC from 2004 to 2022 after brokering Roman Abramovich's 2003 takeover, overseeing 18 major men's trophies before stepping down under new ownership.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, born 1946, is an American political scientist, the Julius Silver Professor at NYU, who co-developed selectorate theory and runs a commercial forecasting practice.
Bruce Catton
Bruce Catton (1899-1978), American journalist and Civil War narrative historian, Pulitzer and National Book Award winner for A Stillness at Appomattox, founding editor of American Heritage, author of the Army of the Potomac trilogy and Grant biographies.
Bruce Cheng
Bruce Cheng (郑崇华), born in 1936, is the Taiwanese engineer who founded Delta Electronics in 1971 and built it into the world's largest maker of switching power supplies.
Bruce Clarke
Bruce Clarke is an investment manager who co-founded Arrowstreet Capital, a Boston-based quantitative asset manager, in 1999 and serves as the firm's chairman of the board.
Bruce D. Smith
Bruce D. Smith is an American archaeologist and Smithsonian curator emeritus who established eastern North America as an independent center of plant domestication, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2003.
Bruce D. Smith (American monetary economist)
Bruce D. Smith (1954–2002) was an American monetary economist who built general equilibrium models of money, banking, and growth, teaching at Cornell and the University of Texas.
Bruce Doucette
Bruce A. Doucette, a Littleton, Colorado sovereign citizen who styled himself 'Superior Court Judge of the Continental uNited States of America,' ran fake common-law courts and filed bogus liens against officials; convicted of 34 felony counts in 2018 and sentenced to 38 years.
Bruce Dunlevie
Bruce Dunlevie is an American venture capitalist who co-founded Benchmark Capital in Silicon Valley in 1995, serving as a general partner for three decades of early-stage technology investing.
Bruce E. Hansen
Bruce E. Hansen is an American econometrician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, known for threshold regression, including his highly cited 1999 paper on threshold effects in panels.