Brent (disambiguation)
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Brent is an English place name and surname.
Brent may also refer to:
Place name
- Brent, Alabama
- Brent, Florida
- Brent, Missouri, a ghost town
- Brent Knoll, a hill in Somerset, England
- Brent Knoll (village), a village at the foot of the hill
- East Brent, Somerset, another village at the foot of the hill
- Brent oilfield, North Sea
- Brent, Ontario, a village in Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada
- Brent crater, a meteor crater named after the village of Brent, Ontario
- London Borough of Brent, England
- South Brent, Devon, England
Surname
- Bix Brent (1923–1972), American singer
- Charles Henry Brent (1862–1929), American bishop and episcopal saint
- Dannielle Brent (born 1979), English actress
- Ebony-Jewel Rainford-Brent (born 1983), English cricketer
- Elinor Brent-Dyer (1894–1969), British novelist
- Evelyn Brent (1901–1975), American actress
- Gary Brent (born 1976), Zimbabwean cricketer
- George Brent, Virginian (d. 1694), planter and legislator
- George Brent (1899-1979), Irish actor
- George William Brent (1821–1872), American politician
- Giles Brent (1604–1672), English aristocrat turned colonist, acting Governor of Province of Maryland (colony), 1643–44, in absence of Gov. Leonard Calvert, traveling to England to consult with older brother Cecilus Calvert (1605–1675), second Lord Baltimore, and Lord Proprietor of Maryland; brother of Margaret Brent
- Giles Brent (1652–1679), Virginia planter and rebel
- Leslie Brent (born 1925), German immunologist
- Margaret Brent (1601–1671), American/Maryland lawyer, religious leader and planter and women's rights advocate
- Richard Brent (scientist) (born 1946), Australian mathematician and computer scientist
- Richard Brent (politician) (1757–1814), American politician
- Robert Brent (1763–1819), American politician, first mayor of Washington DC
- William Lee Brent (1931–2006), hijacker and civil rights activist
- William Leigh Brent (1784–1848), American politician
Given name
- Brent Butt (born 1966), Canadian comedian and actor
- Brent Corrigan (born 1986), stage name of American porn actor Sean Lockhart
- Brent Jett (born 1958), American astronaut
- Brent Jones (born 1963), American football player
- Brent Hartinger (born 1971), American writer
- Brent Hinds (born 1974), American singer for the heavy metal band Mastodon
- Brent Johnson (disambiguation), multiple people
- Brent Kite (born 1981), Australian Rugby League player
- Brent Mayne (born 1968), former Major League Baseball player
- Brent Morin (born 1986), American comedian and actor
- Brent Musburger (born 1939), American journalist and sportscaster
- Brent Mydland (1952–1990), American keyboardist, member of the Grateful Dead
- Brent Petrus (born 1975), American football player
- Brent Seabrook (born 1985), Canadian ice hockey defenceman for the Chicago Blackhawks
- Brent Scowcroft (born 1925), American general, U.S. National Security Advisor from 1974–1977 and 1989–1993
- Brent Spiner (born 1949), American actor
- Brent Symonette (born 1954), Bahamian politician
- Brent Tate (born 1982), Australian Rugby League player
- R. Brent Tully (born 1943), American astronomer
- Brent Pierce (born 1969), Canadian Curler from Vancouver,BC
In fiction
- David Brent, fictional character on the BBC television comedy The Office, played by Ricky Gervais
- Brent Scopes, a main character from the novel Mount Dragon by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
- Brent McHale, character from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Other
- Brent Cross tube station, North-west London, England
- Brent Crude, benchmark classification of oil
- Brent goose, Branta bernicla, known in North America as brant
- Brent International School, the Philippines
- Brent's method, a root-finding algorithm
- Brent railway station, South Devon, England
- Brent sidings, railway freight facility in north-west London, England
- Brent Spar, decommissioned oil storage and tanker loading buoy
- National Theatre of Brent, British comedy double-act
- River Brent, London, England
See also
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