Braun
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Braun is a common surname, originating from the German word for the color brown. The name is the 22nd most common family name in Germany. Many German emigrants to the United States also changed their name to Brown (see Brown (surname)).
[edit] People
- Alexander Braun (1805–1877), German botanist
- Alfred Braun (1888–1978), German radio pioneer
- Carol Moseley Braun (born August 16, 1947), American politician and lawyer, the first (and to date only) black woman elected to the United States Senate
- Dagmar Braun Celeste (born in 1942, Krems, Austria), the former first lady of Ohio, married to former Ohio governor and U.S. ambassador Richard F. Celeste.
- Egidius Braun (*1925), from 1992 to 2001 President of the German Soccer Association
- Eric Lee Braun (*1978), Canadian composer and performer
- Ernst Braun, 17th century engineer.
- Eva Braun (1912–1945), longtime companion (and ultimately, wife for a night and a day) of Adolf Hitler
- Gregor Braun (*1955), German bicycle racer
- Günter Braun (*1928) and Johanna Braun (*1929), German writers
- Hanns Braun (1886-1918), German Athlete
- Heinrich Braun (1732-1792), School reformer in Bavaria
- Heinz Braun (1938–1986), German painter and actor
- Hildebrecht Braun (*1944), German politician
- Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884–1980), Swiss botanist
- Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918), German physicist and inventor of the Cathode ray tube
- Lasse Braun, (born as Alberto Ferrero in 1936 in Algiers, Algeria) is a Franco-Italian director
- Lily Braun (1865–1916), German feminist writer
- Ludwig Georg Braun (*1943), President of the Deutschen Industrie- und Handelskammertages (German Industry and Commerce Organisation)
- Matthias Braun, (Czech: Matyáš Bernard Braun, February 24, 1684 in Sautens near Innsbruck - February 15, 1738 in Prague) was a sculptor and carver active in the Czech lands
- Max Braun (1892–1945), German journalist
- Noah Braun (*1982), American composer
- Otto Braun (1897–1918), German poet
- Otto Braun (1900–1974), German writer
- Otto Braun (1872–1955), a German Social Democratic politician, and Prime Minister of Prussia 1920–1932
- Rudolf Braun (*1955), German politician
- Russell Braun, a Canadian operatic lyric baritone, son of Victor Braun
- Ryan Braun Professional Baseball Player
- Sabine Braun (*1965), German athlete
- Sylwester Braun (1909-1996), Polish photographer
- Tamara Braun (*Sunday, April 18, 1971), American actress
- Victor Braun, a Canadian-born operatic baritone, father of Russell Braun
- Volker Braun (*1939), German writer
- Wernher von Braun (1912–1977), German-American rocket scientist
[edit] Other
- Braun, a German electronics and appliance company
- B. Braun Melsungen, a German medical supplies and drugs company
