Notable American restaurant chefs include Thomas Keller, Charlie Trotter, Grant Achatz, Alfred Portale, Paul Prudhomme, Paul Bertolli, Frank Stitt, Alice Waters, and celebrity chefs like Mario Batali, Alton Brown, Emeril Lagasse, Cat Cora, Michael Symon, Bobby Flay, Ina Garten, Todd English, Sandra Lee, and Paula Deen.

* 1972 – Thomas Wilson Brown, American actor

The city centre is also the location of large department stores, most notably Arnotts, Brown Thomas and Clerys.

* Thomas Banchoff collection of materials relating to Edwin Abbott Abbott at the Brown University John Hay Library

The island's first known sighting by Europeans was on 21 August 1821 by the British ship Eliza Francis ( or Eliza Frances ) owned by Edward, Thomas and William Jarvis and commanded by Captain Brown.

One example is the contrast between birth and death, and birth and berth, and told and toll'd in Thomas Hood's account of the death of Ben the sailor ( which took place at the age of 40, contrasted with his age of zero at birth ) in his humorous poem Faithless Sally Brown:

* 1905 – Thomas Townsend Brown, American scientist ( d. 1985 )

By 1858 attention had swung back to local issues with a land dispute in New Plymouth prompting Governor Thomas Gore Brown to call out its Militia under Captain Charles Brown.

The award was founded by Thomas Disch with assistance from David G. Hartwell, Paul S. Williams, and Charles N. Brown.

Following instructions from London to achieve economies, Governor Thomas Gore Brown ( 1851 – 1856 ) further reduced the civil establishment.

Their defensive secondary was extremely hard hitting and talented, led by safeties Jack Tatum, George Atkinson, cornerback Skip Thomas and cornerback Willie Brown.

Clay and his wife had eleven children ( six daughters and five sons ): Henrietta ( 1800 – 1801 ), Theodore ( 1802 – 1870 ), Thomas ( 1803 – 1871 ), Susan ( 1805 – 1825 ), Anne ( 1807 – 1835 ), Lucretia ( 1809 – 1823 ), Henry, Jr .( 1811 – 1847 ), Eliza ( 1813 – 1825 ), Laura ( 1815 – 1817 ), James Brown ( 1817 – 1864 ), and John ( 1821 – 1887 ).

Thomas Hughes ( like his fictional hero, Tom Brown ) once carved his name onto the hands of the school clock, situated on a tower above the Old Quad.

Notable traders, agents, and refugee Tories among the Cherokee included John Stuart, Henry Stuart, Alexander Cameron, John McDonald, John Joseph Vann ( father of James Vann ), Daniel Ross ( father of John Ross ), John Walker Sr., John McLemore ( father of Bob ), William Buchanan, John Watts ( father of John Watts Jr .), John D. Chisholm, John Benge ( father of Bob Benge ), Thomas Brown, John Rogers ( Welsh ), John Gunter ( German, founder of Gunter's Landing ), James Adair ( Irish ), William Thorpe ( English ), and Peter Hildebrand ( German ), among many others, several attaining the status of minor chiefs and / or members of significant delegations.

The Board further includes: Hal Abelson, Glenn Otis Brown, Michael W. Carroll, Catherine Casserly, Caterina Fake, Davis Guggenheim, Lawrence Lessig, Laurie Racine, Eric Saltzman, Annette Thomas, Molly Suffer Van Houweling, Jimmy Wales, and Esther Wojcicki ( Vice Chair ).

Loyalist leader Thomas Brown raised a division of King's Rangers to contest Patriot control over the Georgia and Carolina interior and instigated Cherokee raids against the North Carolina back-country after the Battle of King's Mountain.

On January 6, 1853, Florida Governor Thomas Brown signed a bill that provided public support for higher education in the state of Florida.

More recently, Simon R. Green included references to " The Philadelphia Experiment " in his book The Spy Who Haunted Me, while Paul Violette's book Secrets of Anti-Gravity Propulsion recounts some mysterious involvement of the physicist Thomas Townsend Brown of the Philadelphia Navy yard.

Notably, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, himself an African American, wrote in Missouri v. Jenkins ( 1995 ) that at the very least, Brown I has been misunderstood by the courts.

* Thomas Hughes: Tom Brown at Oxford

The parcel had been purchased from Thomas Brown by Dr. William Rickman of Millford ( now Kittiewan Plantation ), Elizabeth's husband before 1781.

* Edward Thomas Brown, Bank robber, and Camp Hill Prison escapee

* Ron Thomas as Bobby Brown

On a bitterly cold day in January, 1895, accompanied only by Neal Brown as his deputy, Tilghman left the township of Guthrie and headed for Rock Fort and Dunn's ranch.

Leisurely he climbed on to the wagon next to Neal Brown.

Mando, pleading her cause, must have said that Dr. Brown was the most distinguished physician in the United States of America, for our man poured out his symptoms and drew a madly waving line indicating the irregularity of his pulse.

It was not until we had returned to the city to live, while I was still at Brown and Sharpe's, that I felt the full impact of evangelical Christianity.

In the preamble to the open-meeting statutes, collectively known as the Brown Act, the Legislature declares that `` the public commissions, boards and councils and other public agencies in this state exist to aid in the conduct of the people's business.

Since 1953 California has led the nation in enacting guarantees that public business shall be publicly conducted, but not until this year did the lawmakers in Sacramento plug the remaining loopholes in the Brown Act.

Moreover, the entire state Democratic hierarchy, from Gov. Brown on down to the county chairmen, also participates in this huge operation.

There is evidence that it will be happily received by Gov. Brown and the other constitutional incumbents.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

Wildcat and The Unsinkable Molly Brown were originals, but pretty bad, leaving top honors again to an import -- the jaunty and charmingly French Irma La Douce.

Brown eyes, eyebrow mustache.

Additional promotional activities included organizing the dedication program for Operation Turnkey, the new automated post office, and a conference with representatives of Brown University, Providence College, and University of Rhode Island, and eight electronics concerns regarding the inauguration of a training program for electronics personnel.

Dr. James Brown Fisk, physicist, President of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, was elected to the Board of Trustees.

When the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company reached its 125th year as a going industrial concern during 1958, it became an almost unique institution in the mechanical world.

With its history standing astride all but the very beginnings of the industrial revolution, Brown & Sharpe has become over the years a singular monument to the mechanical foresight of its founder, Joseph R. Brown, and a world-renowned synonym for precision and progress in metalworking technology.

Joseph R. Brown grew up in the bustle and enterprise of New England between 1810 and 1830.

He was early exposed to the mechanical world, and in his youth often helped his father, David Brown, master clock and watchmaker, as he plied his trade.

This enterprise led to a father-and-son combination beginning in 1833, under the name D. Brown & Son, a business which eventually grew into the modern corporation we now call Brown & Sharpe.

In 1838, a devastating fire gutted their small shop and soon thereafter David Brown moved west to Illinois, settling on a land grant in his declining years.

Joseph Brown continued in business by himself, quickly rebuilding the establishment which had been lost in the fire and beginning those first steps which were to establish him as a pioneer in raising the standards of accuracy of machine shop practice throughout the world.

But his business also grew, and we are told that Mr. Brown found it increasingly difficult to devote as much time to his creative thinking as his inclinations led him to desire.

It must have been with some pleasure and relief that on September 12, 1848, Joseph Brown made the momentous entry in his job book, in his characteristically cryptic style, `` Lucian Sharpe came to work for me this day as an apprentice ''.

the company became `` J. R. Brown & Sharpe '', and entered into a new and important period of its development.