Braun is a common surname, originating from the German word for the color brown. The name is the 22nd most common family name in Germany. Many German emigrants to the United States also changed their name to Brown (see Brown (surname)). In German, Braun is pronounced like "brown," as in Dr Werner von Braun. In English, it is commonly pronounced like "brawn," as in Carol Mosely Braun. Pronunciation is an individual choice and is hard to guess unless one is a position to hear the person's name spoken.
People
- Alexander Braun (1805–77), German botanist
- Carol Moseley Braun (born August 16, 1947), American politician and lawyer, the first (and to date only) black woman elected to the United States Senate
- Dagmar Braun Celeste (born in 1942, Krems, Austria), former first lady of Ohio, married to former Ohio governor and U.S. ambassador Richard F. Celeste.
- Egidius Braun (*1925), from 1992 to 2001 President of the German Soccer Association
- Eva Braun (1912–45), longtime companion (and ultimately, wife for a night and a day) of Adolf Hitler
- Gregor Braun (*1955), German bicycle racer
- Hanns Braun (1886-1918), German athlete
- Jayme Caetano Braun (1924–99), Brazilian folk musician, composer and poet
- Justin Braun (1987), American ice hockey player
- Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918), German physicist and inventor of the Cathode ray tube
- Lasse Braun, (born as Alberto Ferrero in 1936 in Algiers, Algeria) Franco-Italian director
- Lily Braun (1865–1916), German feminist writer
- Matt Braun, (1932), American writer of Western novels
- Matthias Braun, (Czech: Matyáš Bernard Braun, February 24, 1684, in Sautens - February 15, 1738, in Prague) sculptor and carver active in the Czech lands
- Otto Braun (1872–1955), German Social Democratic politician, and Prime Minister of Prussia 1920–32
- Rick Braun, smooth jazz trumpet player
- Russell Braun, Canadian operatic lyric baritone, son of Victor Braun
- Ryan Braun (1983), Professional Baseball Player and 2007 National League Rookie of the Year
- Sabine Braun (1965), German athlete
- Sandy Koufax, originally named Braun, professional baseball pitcher
- Tamara Braun (April 18, 1971), American actress
- Timothy Braun
- Victor Braun, Canadian-born operatic baritone, father of Russell Braun
- Volker Braun (1939), German writer
- Wernher von Braun (1912–77), German-American rocket scientist
Other
- Braun (company), a German electronics and appliance company
- B. Braun Melsungen, a German medical supplies and drugs company
