Brink is a German and Dutch surname and means village green. It is also thought to have originally meant "hill with green grass". Notable people with the surname include:
- Alex Brink (born 1985), Canadian Football League quarterback
- André Brink (born 1935), South African novelist
- Andries Brink (1877-1947), South African lieutenant general
- Bernhard Brink (1952), German singer
- Bernhard Egidius Konrad ten Brink (1841-1892), German scholar
- Carol Ryrie Brink (1895-1981), American novelist
- Chris Brink, South African academic
- George Brink (1889-1971), South African lieutenant general
- Jan van den Brink (1915-2006), Dutch politician and banker
- Jörgen Brink (born 1974), Swedish cross-country skier and biathlete
- Jos Brink (1942-2007), Dutch performer and journalist
- Josefin Brink (born 1969), Swedish politician
- Julius Brink (born 1982), German beach volleyball player
- Larry Brink (born 1928), former National Football League defensive lineman
- Robert Brink (born 1924), American violinist, conductor, and educator
- Robert H. Brink (born 1946), American politician
- Robert ten Brink (born 1955), Dutch presenter and actor
- Royal Alexander Brink (1897-1984), plant geneticist and breeder at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
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Famous quotes containing the word brink:
“I introduced her to Elena, and in that life-quickening atmosphere of a big railway station where everything is something trembling on the brink of something else, thus to be clutched and cherished, the exchange of a few words was enough to enable two totally dissimilar women to start calling each other by their pet names the very next time they met.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)