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Sonia Mary Brownell, better known as Sonia Orwell, was the second and last wife of writer George Orwell, whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair. Sonia is believed to be the model for Julia, the heroine of Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Herbert Brownell Jr. was an attorney and a Republican Party organizer. From 1953 to 1957, he was the United States Attorney General in the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Janet Scudder was an American sculptor.
Kelly David Brownell is a clinical psychologist and scholar known for his work on obesity and food policy. Dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University through the 2018 academic year, Brownell is also the university's Robert L. Flowers Professor of Public Policy, and Director of its World Food Policy Center. Prior to joining the Duke University faculty, Brownell served as Director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale, where he also held positions as Professor of Psychology; Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health; Chair of the Department of Psychology; and Head of Silliman College.
Brownell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Bradley Robert Brownell is an American college basketball coach and the current head basketball coach at Clemson University. Prior to coming to Clemson, he held the same position at Wright State and UNC Wilmington. He is currently in his 9th season at Clemson.
Thomas Church Brownell was founder of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church from 1852 until his death.
William Brownell Goodwin was an American football player and coach. He served as the first head football coach at the University of Washington, coaching from 1892 to 1893 and compiling a record of 2–4–1.
Blaine Allison Brownell is an American university teacher, administrator, and specialist in U.S. urban, southern, and twentieth-century history, and was the 12th president of Ball State University. Author or co-author of seven books and over twenty-five articles, he has served as tenured full professor at four universities.
The Diocese of George is a diocese in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.
Air Commodore Raymond James Brownell, was a senior officer in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and a First World War flying ace. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Brownell was working as a clerk with a firm of accountants when he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on the outbreak of the First World War. He served during the Gallipoli Campaign before transferring to the Western Front. Awarded the Military Medal for his actions during the Battle of Pozières, he was accepted for a transfer to the Royal Flying Corps in 1917. Brownell undertook flight training in the United Kingdom. Commissioned as a second lieutenant, he was posted for operational service over the Western Front in September 1917. Moving with his squadron to Italy, he was awarded the Military Cross and credited with shooting down 12 aircraft by war's end. Taking his discharge in 1919, Brownell returned to Australia.
William Joseph Donlon is an American college basketball coach, currently the head coach at UMKC.
Mia Brownell is an American painter whose work has been described by the Boston Globe art critic Cate McQuaid as "a 21st-century take on the 17th-century genre, pulled off with thrilling technique -- a postmodern fruit cocktail that marries today's fascination with genetics and the building blocks of life with old-style painterly seduction."
Her Strange Wedding is a lost 1917 American drama silent film directed by George Melford and written by Charles Maigne and George Middleton. The film stars Fannie Ward, Jack Dean, Tom Forman and William Elmer. The film was released on June 25, 1917, by Paramount Pictures.
William Brownell was an American professional basketball player and coach. Brownell played in the National Basketball League for the Toledo Jim White Chevrolets in 1941–42 and the Cleveland Chase Brassmen in 1943–44. He averaged 2.0 points per game in five career games played. While playing for Cleveland, Brownell also served as their head coach for the final one-third of the season after Vito Kubilus was relieved of the role.
George Brownell was an American politician who served one term in the Michigan House of Representatives immediately after adoption of the state's first constitution.
Matilda Auchincloss Brownell was an American Impressionist painter and portraitist.
