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Browne is a variant of the English surname Brown (surname), meaning "brown-haired" or "brown-skinned". It may sometimes be derived from French le Brun with similar meaning. The Mac A Brehons clan of Co. Donegal have anglicized as Browne since about 1800. The name has also been used throughout North America as an anglicization of the surname Pardo.

  • Adam Browne, Australian writer
  • Andrew Browne, several people
  • Sir Anthony Browne (died 1548), Standard Bearer of England
  • Anthony Browne (author) (born 1946), author of children's books
  • Anthony Browne (UK politics), journalist
  • Anucha Browne Sanders, American basketball player
  • Aurora Browne, Canadian actress and comedian
  • Baron Browne, American bassist
  • Barrington Browne, Guyanese cricketer
  • Booker Brown, American football player
  • Bud Browne, film director
  • Byron Browne, American baseball player
  • Chance Browne, American comic strip artist, son of Dik Browne
  • Charles Farrar Browne (1834–1867), American author
  • Charles E. Browne, American territorial legislator
  • Chris Browne, American cartoonist, son of Dik Browne
  • Christopher Browne (born 1970), American television producer
  • Coral Browne, Australian actress
  • Courtney Browne, Barbadian cricketer
  • Snuffy Browne, Barbadian cricketer
  • Davey Browne (1986–2015), Australian professional boxer
  • Des Browne, British politician
  • Dik Browne, American comic strip artist
  • Edward Granville Browne, British orientalist
  • Edward Harold Browne, British bishop
  • Edward Stevenson Browne, British soldier
  • Edward Thomas Browne (1866–1937), cnidariologist (researcher on medusae and cessile polyps)
  • Ernest Browne (1855-1946), Irish tennis player
  • Eliane Browne-Bartroli (1917–1944), British intelligence agent
  • Elizabeth Browne, Countess of Worcester, the mistress of Henry VIII and lady-in-waiting to his second wife, Anne Boleyn
  • Feargal Browne, Irish politician
  • Garech Browne, Irish arts patron
  • George Browne (soldier), Russian field marshal
  • George Joseph Plunket Browne, Bishop of Elphin from 1844 to 1858
  • Hablot Knight Browne, British illustrator
  • Harry Browne, American investment analyst and political writer
  • Henry George Gore-Browne, Irish soldier
  • Howard Browne, American writer
  • Ivan Browne, the singer for The Lemon Pipers
  • Jack Nixon Browne, British politician
  • Jackson Browne (born 1948), American musician
  • James Browne (athlete), Antiguan long jumper
  • James Browne (engineer), Scottish engineer
  • James Browne (writer), Scottish man of letters
  • E. Janet Browne, British historian of science
  • Jann Browne, American country singer
  • Jeremy Browne, British politician
  • John Browne, several people
  • Joseph Browne, several people
  • Joy Browne, American radio psychologist
  • Kale Browne (born 1950), American actor
  • Leslie Browne, American ballet dancer
  • E. Martin Browne (1900–1980), British theatre director
  • Mary Browne, American tennis player
  • Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Austrian field marshal
  • Michael Browne, several people
  • Lady Moyra Browne, nurse
  • Nicholas Browne (1947–2014), British diplomat
  • Nicholas Browne-Wilkinson, British judge
  • Noël Browne (1915–1997), Irish politician and physician
  • Olin Browne (born 1959), American golfer
  • Pádraig de Brún, Irish churchman, brother of Michael Browne (Cardinal)
  • Patrick Browne, Irish botanist
  • Patti Ann Browne, American broadcaster
  • Peter Browne, several people
  • Robert Browne, several people
  • Rodney Howard-Browne, South African preacher
  • Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor
  • Rose Browne, American educator
  • Sam Browne, several people
  • Seán Browne (1916–1996), Irish politician
  • Sean K. L. Browne (born 1953), contemporary American sculptor
  • Stan Browne, Australian rugby league footballer
  • Steven Browne (born 1989), Australian footballer
  • Sylvia Browne (1936−2013), American medium
  • Tara Browne, British socialite
  • Sir Thomas Browne, English author
  • Thom Browne, American fashion designer
  • Thomas Gore Browne, British colonial administrator
  • Tim Browne, (born 1987), Australian Rugby League player
  • Tom Browne (broadcaster and actor), British broadcaster
  • Tony Browne, Irish hurler
  • Travis Browne, American mixed martial arts fighter
  • Ulric Browne, British actor
  • Valentine Browne, several people
  • Vanessa Ward (née Browne), Australian high jumper
  • Vincent Browne, Irish journalist
  • Vincent Browne (sculptor), Irish sculptor
  • Walter Browne (1949–2015), American chess player
  • Wayles Browne, American linguist and Slavist
  • William Browne (poet) (1588–1643), English poet
  • William A. F. Browne (1805–1885), mental health professional, fellow student of Charles Darwin
  • William Alfred Browne
  • Major William D. Browne, U.S. Army officer
  • William George Browne (1768–1813), British traveller
  • William Joseph Browne, politician who served with the federal governments of both Newfoundland and Canada
  • William M. Browne, American Confederate politician
  • Willie Browne (1936–2004), Republic of Ireland International football player
  • William Phineas Browne, American lawyer and coal industry figure
  • William Washington Browne, former American slave, minister, and businessman

Usage examples of "browne".

Browne, whose face was once more wrinkling with mirth, poured out for himself a glass of whisky while Freddy Malins exploded, before he had well reached the climax of his story, in a kink of high-pitched bronchitic laughter and, setting down his untasted and overflowing glass, began to rub the knuckles of his left fist backwards and forwards into his left eye, repeating words of his last phrase as well as his fit of laughter would allow him.

Mr Browne, whose face was once more wrinkling with mirth, poured out for himself a glass of whisky while Freddy Malins exploded, before he had well reached the climax of his story, in a kink of high-pitched bronchitic laughter and, setting down his untasted and overflowing glass, began to run the knuckles of his left fist backwards and forwards into his left eye, repeating words of his last phrase as well as his fit of laughter would allow him.

This remark drew some sort of exclamatory protest from every other person in the room save Browne.

Chang, the successor, though not, of course, the immediate successor, of Li-Sieh-tai, who was concerned in the murder of Margary and the repulse of the expedition under Colonel Horace Browne in 1875.

The folly of it was seen in the murder of Margary and the repulse of Colonel Horace Browne, whose expedition was driven back at Tsurai within sight of Manyuen.

That had taken calm professionalism, and Browne was beginning to think that there was something going on here, something much bigger than the disappearance of those college kids.

Browne McGarand got back to the propane truck at 11:30, after spending the afternoon and early evening asleep in a motel room.

Once out on the roof, he looked around and then remembered where he had seen that hose before: on the green-and-white propane truck driven by Browne McGarand, which was now parked in the corner of the roof deck.

Before it arrived, Beauregard Browne would have arranged for it to be reconsigned to Sydney.

Other cases of anal discharge of the product of extrauterine conception are recorded by Winthrop, Woodbury, Tuttle, Atkinson, Browne, Weinlechner, Gibson, Littre, Magruder, Gilland, and many others.

General Browne suddenly start, and assume an attitude of the utmost surprise, not unmixed with fear, as his eyes were suddenly caught and riveted by a portrait of an old lady in a sacque, the fashionable dress of the end of the seventeenth century.

General Browne suddenly start, and assume an attitude of the utmost, surprise, not unmixed with fear, as his eyes were caught and suddenly riveted by a portrait of an old lady in a sacque, the fashionable dress of the end of the seventeenth century.

Browne, who throughout the trial had glared at Maitland with an unfriendliness which must have been apparent to everyone, now lowered blacker than ever, it seemed to me.

Mary Browne could be Exhibit A for any Afrocentric curriculum that wanted to claim ancient Egypt as its own.

Sir Thomas Browne, in full crushed Levant morocco, the backstrips tooled in gilt with wonderful ingenuity and grace.