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)

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    “The King [Charles II] after the Restoration accused the poet, Edmund Waller, of having made finer verses in praise of Oliver Cromwell than of himself; to which he agreed, saying, that Fiction was the soul of Poetry.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

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    on the bitter stem of your nectared
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    about your brown shoulders laughing.”
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