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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)).

In German, Braun is pronounced like "brown," as in Dr Wernher von Braun. In English, it is commonly pronounced like "brawn," as in Carol Mosely Braun. Pronunciation is an individual choice and is hard to guess unless one is in a position to hear the person's name spoken.

People

• Alexander Braun (1805–77), German botanist
• Bob Braun (1929-2001), Cincinnati television personality
• Carol Moseley Braun (born 1947), American politician and lawyer, the first (and to date only) black woman elected to the United States Senate
• Carl Braun born 1927, American former professional basketball player and coach
• Carl Braun, (1886-1960), German opera singer, bass
• Carl Braun (1822 - 1891), Austrian obstetrician (knighted to Carl Ritter von Fernwald Braun)
• Colin Braun (1988), NASCAR driver for Roush Fenway Racing
• Dagmar Braun Celeste (born in 1942, Krems, Austria), 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
• Emile Braun (1849-1927) Belgian liberal politician, Mayor of Ghent.
• Eva Braun (1912–45), longtime companion (and ultimately, wife for a night and a day) of Adolf Hitler
• Gregor Braun (*1955), German bicycle racer
• Hanns Braun (1886-1918), German athlete
• Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Braun (1862-1934), German surgeon
• Jayme Caetano Braun (1924–99), Brazilian folk musician, composer and poet
• Justin Braun (born 1987), American ice hockey player
• 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), Franco-Italian director
• Lilian Jackson Braun (born 1913), American writer
• Lily Braun (1865–1916), German feminist writer
• Matt Braun (born 1932), American writer of Western novels
• Matthias Braun, (Czech: Matyáš Bernard Braun, February 24, 1684, in Sautens - February 15, 1738, in Prague) sculptor and carver active in the Czech lands
• Michael Braun (born 1978), Australian rules footballer
• Otto Braun (1872–1955), German Social Democratic politician, and Prime Minister of Prussia 1920–32
• Ralf Braun (born 1973), German backstroke swimmer
• Rick Braun, smooth jazz trumpet player
• Russell Braun, Canadian operatic lyric baritone, son of Victor Braun
• Ryan Braun (born 1983), American baseball player
• Sabine Braun (born 1965), German athlete
• Sandy Koufax, originally named Braun, professional baseball pitcher
• Tamara Braun (born 1971), American actress
• Timothy Braun (born 1975), American writer
• Victor Braun, Canadian-born operatic baritone, father of Russell Braun
• Volker Braun (1939), German writer
• Wernher von Braun (1912–77), German-American rocket scientist

Other

• Braun (company), a German electronics and appliance company
• B. Braun Melsungen, a German medical supplies and drugs company
• Braun's Fashions, the former name of clothing retailer Christopher & Banks
• Carl Braun camera-werk, slide projector and camera maker
• Braun Racing, a NASCAR team
• C. F. Braun, an American engineering company, designed petroleum and chemical processing facilities. Acquired by KBR.

See also

• Brawn (disambiguation)
• Brown (surname)
• Browne

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Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

German

Braun

Proper noun

Braun

1. Brown (surname meaning "brown")

From Wikispecies

Ernst-Ludwig Braun (Braun)

Entomologist, Germany