Brook

A brook is a small river or natural stream of fresh water. It may also refer to:

People

• Brook (surname)
• People with the given name Dennis, or nickname
  • Brook Benton (1931–1988), American singer and songwriter
  • Brook Mahealani Lee (born 1971), former Miss USA and Miss Universe (1997) from Hawaii, U.S.
  • Brook Lopez, American basketball player
  • Brook Taylor (1685–1731), English mathematician of Taylor series fame
  • Brook, a persona of Mary J. Blige
  • Brook, a fictional character in the manga and anime One Piece

Places

• Brook, Carmarthenshire, Wales
• Brook, Indiana, United States
• Brook, Isle of Wight, England
• Brook, Kent, England
• Brook, Surrey, England
• Brook Islands, Australia
• Brook House Immigration Removal Centre, a detention centre near Gatwick Airport, England

Computing

• Brook, a programming language for GPU programming based on C
• Brook+, an explicit data-parallel C compiler
• BrookGPU, a framework for GPGPU programming

Other uses

• Brook (One Piece), a fictional skeleton from the anime and manga One Piece
• Brook Advisory Centres, a British contraceptive services organisation

See also

• Brock (disambiguation)
• Brock (surname)
• Brooke (disambiguation)
• Brooks (disambiguation)
• Bruck (disambiguation)
• The Brook (disambiguation)