People
- Clifford Brown (1930-1956), American jazz trumpeter
- Ernest Brown (dancer) (1916-2009), African-American tap dancer
- Brownie Foreman (1875-1926), Major League Baseball pitcher
- Brownie Ledbetter (1932-2010), political activist
- Brownie McGhee (1915-1996), blues musician
- Brownie Samukai, the Minister of National Defence of Liberia
- Agnes Vernon (1895-1948), American actress
- Brownie Wise (1913-1992), developer of the "party plan" system of marketing for Tupperware
- Michael D. Brown (born 1954), head of Federal Emergency Management Agency referred to as "Brownie" by then-President Bush
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“Then people will come from east and west, from north and south, and will eat in the kingdom of God.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 13:29.
“The people who make wars, the people who reduce their fellows to slavery, the people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, the really evil people in a word—these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)