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Brent is an English place name and surname.
Brent may also refer to:
Place name
- In the United States
- Brent, Alabama
- Brent, Florida
- Brent, Georgia
- Brent, Missouri, a ghost town
- Brent, Oklahoma
- In the United Kingdom
- Brent, Cornwall
- 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
- London Borough of Brent, England
- South Brent, Devon, England
- Elsewhere
- Brent, Ontario, a village in Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada
- Brent crater, a meteor crater named after the village of Brent, Ontario
- Brent oilfield, North Sea
Surname
- Bix Brent (1923–1972), American singer
- Charles Henry Brent (1862–1929), Canadian-born missionary bishop of the Philippines and Episcopal Church (USA) saint
- Dannielle Brent (born 1979), English actress
- Earl K. Brent (1914–1977), American songwriter and composer
- 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 (Captain) (d. 1699), Virginia planter and legislator
- George Brent (1899-1979), Irish actor
- George William Brent (1821–1872), Virginia politician
- Giles Brent (Colonel) (1604–1672), English aristocrat turned colonist; brother of Margaret Brent; husband of Mary Kittamaquund; uncle of George Brent (Captain)
- Giles Brent (1652–1679), Virginia planter, key figure in Bacon's rebellion
- Jon Brent, Zimbabwean cricketer
- Joseph Brent(born 1976), American musician
- Joseph Lancaster Brent (1826-1925), Confederate officer and American politician
- 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), Virginia politician
- Robert Brent (1763–1819), American politician, first mayor of Washington DC
- William Brent Jr. (1783-1848), Virginia politician and American diplomat
- William Lee Brent (1931–2006), hijacker and civil rights activist
- William Leigh Brent (1784–1848), Maryland and Louisiana 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
- Brent (Planet of the Apes)
- 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
- Brent, a character played by deceased actor Frank da Vinci in Star Trek: The Original Series. (He also played Vinci).
Other uses
- Brent Cross tube station, North-west London, England
- Brent Cross Shopping Center, a mall in Northern London, close to the terminus to the M1 Highway
- 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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