Oliver Brown

Oliver Brown or Ollie Brown may refer to:

  • Oliver Brown (civil rights), plaintiff in the case Brown v. Board of Education
  • Oliver Brown (baseball) (1849–1932), 19th century baseball player
  • Oliver Brown (footballer) (1908–1953), English footballer, also known as Buster Brown, active in the 1930s
  • Ollie Brown (baseball), Major League Baseball player, born in 1944
  • Ollie E. Brown, American drummer and record producer, half of duo Ollie & Jerry
  • Oliver Brown, son of John Brown (abolitionist)

Famous quotes containing the words oliver and/or brown:

    ““A man,” said Oliver Cromwell, “never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.” Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular genius, and hence their dangerous attraction for men. For the like reason they ask the aid of wild passions, as in gaming and war, to ape in some manner these flames and generosities of the heart.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.”
    —Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921)