Browne is a surname from the French le Brun which become de Brun in Gaelic in the 11th century.
- Adam Browne, Australian writer
- Andrew Browne, Australian rules footballer
- Anthony Browne, sixteenth-century English Knight of the Garter
- Anthony Browne, (author)(b.1946)
- Anthony Browne, (journalist)
- Anthony Browne, (bookseller)(b.1977)
- Anucha Browne, American basketball player Anucha Browne Sanders
- Aurora Browne, Canadian actress and comedian
- Baron Browne, American bassist
- Barrington Browne, Guyanese cricketer
- Bryn Browne, British philosopher
- Bud Browne, film director
- Byron Browne, American baseball player
- Chance Browne, American comic strip artist, son of Dik Browne
- Charles Farrar Browne (1834-1867), American author as Artemus Ward
- Chris Browne American cartoonist. Son of Dik Browne
- Christopher Browne (1970-present) American television producer
- Clinton Browne, South African explorer
- Coral Browne, Australian actress
- Courtney Browne, Barbadian cricketer
- Cyril Browne, Bajan cricketer
- Des Browne, British politician
- Dik Browne, American comic strip artist
- Edward Granville Browne, British orientalist
- Edward Harold Browne, British bishop
- Edward Stevenson Browne, British soldier
- Eliane Browne-Bartroli (1917-1944), British intelligence agent
- Feargal Browne, Irish politician
- Fiona Browne, Scottish swimmer, 2 gold medals at national level
- Garech Browne, Irish arts patron
- George Browne, Russian field marshal
- Hablot Knight Browne, the British illustrator Phiz
- Harry Browne, American investment analyst and political writer
- Henry George Gore-Browne, Irish soldier
- Howard Browne, American writer
- Ivan Browne, singer for The Lemon Pipers
- Jack Nixon Browne, British politician
- Jackson Browne (born 1948), American musician
- James Browne, Scottish man of letters
- James Browne, Scottish engineer
- James Browne, Antiguan long jumper
- E. Janet Browne, British historian of science
- Jann Browne, American country singer
- Jeremy Browne, British politician
- John Browne, one of several people including
- John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley, Group Chief Executive of BP
- John Browne (Fianna Fáil), Irish Fianna Fáil politician and Minister of State
- John Browne (Fine Gael), Irish Fine Gael politician
- John Browne (UK politician), UK Conservative MP for Winchester, 1979 - 1992
- John Browne (composer), died 1505, a composer represented by several pieces in the Eton choirbook
- John Browne (scientist), Canadian medical researcher and endocrinologist
- John C. Browne (physicist), American scientist, former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory
- John T. Browne, Irish-American politician
- Joseph Browne, Fijian civil servant
- Joy Browne, American radio psychologist
- Kale Browne (born 1950), American actor
- Leslie Browne, American ballet dancer
- Mary Browne, American tennis player
- Maximilian Ulysses Reichsgraf von Browne, Austrian general
- Mike Browne, disambiguation
- Mondo Brown, fictional character from Oz
- Lady Moyra Browne, nurse
- Nicholas Browne-Wilkinson, British judge
- Noel Browne (1915-1997), Irish politician and physician
- Olin Browne, American golfer
- Patrick Browne, Irish botanist
- Patti Ann Browne, American broadcaster
- Peter Browne, Irish bishop
- Robert Browne, English founder of the Brownists
- Robert Browne (bishop), Irish bishop
- Rodney Howard-Browne, South African preacher
- Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor
- Rose Browne, American educator
- Sam Browne, one of several people including
- Sam Browne (1824–1901), British general
- Sam Browne (musician), British singer
- Steven Browne (b. 1989), Australian footballer
- Sylvia Browne, American medium
- Tara Browne, British society figure
- Tom Browne, British broadcaster
- Tony Browne, Irish hurler
- Sir Thomas Browne, English author
- Thomas Gore Browne, British colonial administrator
- Ulric Browne, British actor
- Sir Valentine Browne, Knight, English politician and soldier
- Valentine Browne, 4th Earl of Kenmare
- Vanessa Browne-Ward, Australian high jumper
- Vincent Browne, Irish journalist
- Vincent Browne, Irish sculptor
- Walter Browne, American chess player
- Whit Browne (fl. late 20th century), American musician
- William Browne (1588-1643), English poet
- William Alfred Browne
- Major William D. Browne, U.S. Army officer
- William George Browne (1768–1813), British traveller
- William M. Browne, American Confederate politician
- William Phineas Browne, American lawyer and coal industry figure
See also
- Brown (surname)
- Earl of Kenmare, where Browne is the family name
- Viscount Montagu, where Browne is the family name
- Marquess of Sligo, where Browne is the family name
- Baron Oranmore and Browne
