Brown
Brown refers to colors produced by mixing small intensities of red and green light. It is a darker form of orange and yellow.
An example of a brown color in the RGB color space has intensities [150, 75, 0] on a 0 to 255 scale. On a browser that supports visual formatting in Cascading Style Sheets, the following box should appear in this color:
The Sturmabteilung (SA) was known as brown shirts from the color of their uniform.
Brown is a short name for the U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka 347 US 483 1954, which desegregated public schools in the United States of America. See also Jim Crow.
Brown is also the surname of several famous people including
- Arthur Brown -- British rock and roll singer
- Bobby Brown -- U.S. rhythm and blues singer
- Capability Brown -- English landscape gardener
- Charles Brown -- U.S. blues singer
- Charles Brockden Brown -- U.S. novelist
- Charles Wreford Brown -- former captain of the England Soccer Team
- Clarence Brown -- U.S. movie director
- Clifford Brown -- U.S. jazz trumpeter
- David M. Brown -- U.S. astronaut
- Dee Brown -- U.S. novelist and historian
- Derren Brown -- British psychological illusionist
- Eric Brown -- science fiction author
- Ford Madox Brown -- English painter
- Fredric Brown -- science fiction and mystery author
- Gordon Brown -- British Labour politician
- H. Rap Brown -- U.S. civil rights activist
- Henry B. Brown -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- James Brown -- U.S. soul singer
- Jerry Brown -- former Governor of California
- John Brown -- U.S. abolitionist
- John Brown -- Scottish servant of Queen Victoria
- John Brown -- British preacher
- Julie Brown -- U.S. actress and singer
- Junior Brown -- U.S. country singer
- Les Brown -- big band leader
- Lew Brown -- U.S. lyricist
- Margaret Brown -- Titanic survivor aka Molly Brown
- Melanie Brown -- British singer aka Scary Spice
- Peter Brown -- singer
- Robert Brown -- Botanist (Brownian motion)
- Rosemary Brown -- spirit medium
- Rosemary Brown -- Canadian politician
- Ruth Brown -- U.S. singer
- Steve Brown -- British composer
- Theo Wade Brown -- British designer and eccentric
- Thomas Brown -- Scottish philosopher
- Thomas Edward Brown -- British poet
- Thomas Townsend Brown -- U.S.physicist
- Tom Brown -- U.S. jazz trombonist aka Red Brown
Charlie Brown is a cartoon character.
Mrs Brown is a 1997 movie about Queen Victoria and her Scottish servant, John Brown.
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter is a 1968 movie starring Herman's Hermits.
Brown is also short for Brown University, an American Ivy League university.
