Braun

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 [bʁaʊn], except for the "r" equal to the English word "brown". In English, it is often pronounced as "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.

As forename:

Braun Strowman (formerly Braun Stowman), ring name of American professional wrestler Adam Scherr (born 1983)

As surname:

Alexander Braun (1805–77), German botanist
Annette Frances Braun (1884–1978), American entomologist
Ben Braun (born 1953), American college basketball coach
Bob Braun (1929–2001), Cincinnati television personality
Carol Moseley Braun (born 1947), American politician and lawyer
Carl Braun (born 1927), American 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), race car driver
Dagmar Braun Celeste (born 1942), first lady of Ohio
Egidius Braun (*1925), president of the German Soccer Association (1992-201)
Emma Lucy Braun (1889–1971), American botanist and ecologist
Emmy Braun (1826–1904), German cookbook author
Émile Braun (1849–1927) Belgian liberal politician, Mayor of Ghent
Ernest Braun (*1925), British-Austrian technology assessor
Eva Braun (1912–45), longtime companion of Adolf Hitler
Franziska Braun (died 1976), mother of Eva Braun
Friedrich Braun (1862–1942), Russian-German philologist
Gregor Braun (*1955), German bicycle racer
Grzegorz Braun (born 1967), Polish journalist, media director and politician
György Bálint (originally surname Braun; 1919–2020), Hungarian horticulturist, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, journalist, author, and politician who served as an MP.
Győző Braun (1911–1972), Hungarian and British table tennis champion, better known as Viktor Barna
Hanns Braun (1886–1918), German athlete
Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Braun (1862–1934), German surgeon
Hel Braun (1914–1986), German mathematician
Isabella Braun (1815-1886), German writer
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
Lasse Braun (born Alberto Ferrero 1936), Franco-Italian director
Lilian Jackson Braun (1913–2011), American writer
Lily Braun (1865–1916), German feminist writer
Ma Braun (1881–1956), Dutch swimming coach
Marie Braun (1911–1982), Dutch swimmer, daughter of Ma Braun
Matt Braun (born 1932), American writer of Western novels
Matthias Braun, (Czech: Matyáš Bernard Braun; 1684–1738), sculptor and carver
Maurice Braun (1877–1941), American painter
Michael Braun (footballer) (born 1978), Australian rules footballer
Mike Braun (b. 1954), American businessman and politician in Indiana
Otto Braun (1872–1955), German Social Democratic politician and prime minister of Prussia
Otto Braun (communist) (1900–1974), German communist and representative of the Comintern
Ralf Braun (born 1973), German backstroke swimmer
Ralph Braun (1940–2013), American businessman
Rick Braun (born 1955), American jazz trumpet player
Russell Braun, Canadian operatic lyric baritone, son of Victor Braun
Ryan Braun (born 1983), American MVP baseball player
Sabine Braun (born 1965), German athlete
Sanford Braun, better known as Sandy Koufax (born 1935), American Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
Steve Braun (disambiguation), several people
Tamara Braun (born 1971), American actor
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

See also