Brennan is an Irish surname which is an Anglicised form of two different Irish language

Irish language

Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...

 surnames—Ó Braonáin and Ó Branáin.

The Gaelic surname Ó Braonáin, means "descendant of Braonán". The personal name Braonán is derived from a word which means "moisture", "drop". The Gaelic surname Ó Branáin, means "descendant of Branán". The personal name Branán means "little raven".http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Brennan-family-history.ashx Brennan

Brennan (given name)

Brennan and Braonán are a masculine given names. The given name Brennan is considered to be mainly an Irish or Gaelic name. The name is derived from the Irish surname Brennan, which in one form appears in Irish as Ó Braonáin, meaning "descendant of Braonán". The Gaelic personal name Braonán is...

is also a given name.

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• Barbara Brennan
  Barbara Brennan
  Barbara Ann Brennan is an American author, spiritual healer, businesswoman and teacher working in the field of energy healing...
  
   (born 1939), an American author and spiritual healer
• Bishop Brennan, a fictional character from the television series Father Ted
• Brian Brennan
  Brian Brennan
  Brian Michael Brennan is a former professional American football player who was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the fourth round of the 1984 NFL Draft...
  
   (born 1962), a former professional American football player
• Bridin Brennan
  Brídín Brennan
  Brídín Ní Bhraonáin , professionally known as Brídín Brennan, is an Irish pop singer from Dobhar , Gaoth Dobhair, County Donegal. She is the sister of Moya Brennan and Enya and has also toured with family-band Clannad.-Upbringing:...
  
   (born 1974), an Irish pop singer

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• T. Casey Brennan
  T. Casey Brennan
  Terrance Casey Brennan is an American comic book writer.During the 1970s, he wrote for Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror-comics anthologies Creepy and Eerie, and Vampirella...
  
   (born 1948), an American comic book writer
• Christopher Brennan
  Christopher Brennan
  Christopher John Brennan was an Australian poet and scholar.-Biography:Brennan was born in Sydney, to Christopher Brennan , a brewer, and his wife Mary Ann , née Carroll, both Irish immigrants....
  
   (1870–1932), Australian poet and scholar
• Ciarán Brennan
  Ciarán Brennan
  Ciarán Brennan is an Irish singer, songwriter, producer and instrumentalist from Gweedore, Co Donegal...
  
   (born 1954), an Irish singer and musician
• Colt Brennan
  Colt Brennan
  Colton "Colt" James Brennan is an American football quarterback. He was drafted by the Washington Redskins in the sixth round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He played college football at Hawaii....
  
   (born 1983), an American football player

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• Daniel Brennan, Baron Brennan
  Daniel Brennan, Baron Brennan
  Daniel Joseph Brennan, Baron Brennan, KCSG, QC is a life peer and barrister.Brennan was educated at St. Bede's Grammar School, Bradford, and graduated with a Bachelor of Law degree from Manchester University, where subsequently he was awarded an honorary Doctorate in 2000...
  
  
• Dean Brennan
  Dean Brennan
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  , Irish footballer
• Denis Brennan
  Denis Brennan
  Denis Brennan in Enniscorthy, County Wexford) is an Irish Catholic bishop. He has been Bishop of Ferns since 23 April 2006. He is the first native of Wexford to have risen to be a bishop in almost 70 years.- Biography :...
  
  
• Don Brennan (Coronation Street Character)
• Don Brennan (Cricketer)
  Don Brennan (Cricketer)
  Donald Vincent Brennan was an English cricketer, who played in two Tests in 1951. For his county Yorkshire he was their regular wicket-keeper between 1947 and 1953, taking a total of 380 dismissals in those seven seasons. A poor batsman, he averaged 10.52 in first-class cricket with only a single...
  
  
• Duncan Brannan, voice actor sometimes credited as Duncan Brennan

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• Eddie Brennan
  Eddie Brennan
  Eddie Brennan is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Graigue-Ballycallan and has been a member of the Kilkenny senior inter-county team since 2000.-Biography:...
  
  
• Edward A. Brennan
  Edward A. Brennan
  Edward A. Brennan was a former Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer , Sears, Roebuck and Co....
  
  
• Eileen Brennan
  Eileen Brennan
  Eileen Brennan is an American actress of film, television, and theater. Brennan is best known for her role as Doreen Lewis in Private Benjamin for which she received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She reprised the role in the TV adaption and won a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy...
  
  , actress
• Enya Brennan, the singer Enya
  Enya
  Enya is an Irish singer, instrumentalist and songwriter. Enya is an approximate transliteration of how Eithne is pronounced in the Donegal dialect of the Irish language, her native tongue.She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad before leaving to...
  
  

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• Geoffrey Brennan
  Geoffrey Brennan
  Geoffrey Brennan is an Australian philosopher. He is currently a professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a professor of political science at Duke University...
  
  , professor of philosophy
• Gerard Brennan
  Gerard Brennan
  Sir Francis Gerard Brennan, AC, KBE, QC , is an Australian lawyer, judge and 10th Chief Justice of Australia. He is father to Jesuit priest and lawyer Frank Brennan....
  
  , Justice and later Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia

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• J. Keirn Brennan
  J. Keirn Brennan
  J. Keirn Brennan was an American songwriter. He joined ASCAP as a charter member in 1914 and collaborated with many notable songwriters...
  
   (1873–1948), American songwriter
• James Alexander Brennan
  James Alexander Brennan
  James Alexander Brennan was an American songwriter.. , The New York Times Sometimes identified as Jas. H. Brennan, he collaborated with lyricist Jack Caddigan on several songs published by Leo Feist and O.E. Story...
  
   (1885–1956), American songwriter
• Jack Brennan
  Jack Brennan
  John "Jack" Vincent Brennan is a retired American United States Marine Corps Reserve officer and political aide. He is best known as President Richard Nixon's post-resignation chief of staff.-Early life:...
  
  , a military aide to President Richard M. Nixon.
• Jack Brennan (1863–1914), American baseball player
• For Larry Niven
  Larry Niven
  Laurence van Cott Niven / ˈlæri ˈnɪvən/ is an American science fiction author. His best-known work is Ringworld , which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics...
  
  's SF Known Space
  Known Space
  Known Space is the fictional setting of some dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by author Larry Niven. It has also in part been used as a shared universe in the Man-Kzin Wars spin-off anthologies sub-series....
  
   character, see Protector
  Protector (novel)
  Protector is a 1973 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe. It was nominated for the Hugo in 1974, and placed fourth in the annual Locus poll for that year....
  
  
• James F. Brennan
  James F. Brennan
  James F. Brennan is an American politician. He is a member of the New York State Assembly, representing the 44th Assembly District . He is a Democrat and also represents the Working Families Party.-Biography:...
  
  
• James Herbert Brennan
  James Herbert Brennan
  J. H. "Herbie" Brennan is a lecturer and the author of over one hundred fiction and non-fiction books for adults, teens, and children.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jared Brennan
  Jared Brennan
  Jared Brennan is a professional Australian rules footballer currently playing with the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League.-Early life:...
  
  
• Jim Brennan
  Jim Brennan
  Jim Brennan is a retired Canadian soccer player. During his playing career he gained experience playing extensively in Europe and North America, most notably with Bristol City, Nottingham Forest, Norwich City and Toronto FC.He also played 49 times for the Canadian national team, was...
  
   is a Football (soccer) player
• John G. Brennan
  John G. Brennan
  John G. Brennan , a.k.a. Johnny B., is an American actor, film writer, and voice actor. He is a member of the Jerky Boys prank call duo, with Kamal Ahmed, who formed in 1989 and split up in 2001, but reformed in 2006...
  
  
• John O. Brennan
  John O. Brennan
  John O. Brennan is chief counterterrorism advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama; officially his title is Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and Assistant to the President...
  
   Former NCTC Director, CEO of TAC
• Joseph Brennan (basketball)
  Joseph Brennan (basketball)
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   (1900–1989), American basketball player
• Joseph Brennan (civil servant)
  Joseph Brennan (civil servant)
  Joseph Brennan was a senior Irish civil servant born in Bandon, County Cork, Ireland on 18 November 1887.In 1909 he entered Christ Church, Cambridge where he studied mathematics and then switched to classics. In successive years he obtained a first in Latin and Greek...
  
  
• Joseph Brennan (Irish politician)
• Joseph Brennan (politician)
  Joseph Brennan (politician)
  Joseph Edward Brennan is an American Democratic Party politician from Maine. He served as the 70th Governor of Maine, he is currently a commissioner on the Federal Maritime Commission....
  
  
• Joseph Charles Brennan
  Joseph Charles Brennan
  Joseph Charles Brennan VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
  
  
• Joseph Payne Brennan
  Joseph Payne Brennan
  Joseph Payne Brennan was an American writer of fantasy and horror fiction, and also a poet. He lived most of his life in New Haven, Connecticut, and worked at the Yale Library for over 40 years....
  
   (1918–1990), American poet/author; WWII Veteran, ETO

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• Kathleen Brennan
  Kathleen Brennan
  Kathleen Brennan is an American musician, songwriter, record producer and artist. She was born in Johnsburg, Illinois, as noted by her husband and musical collaborator Tom Waits, in the song of the same name. Brennan and Waits met in 1980 during the filming of the Francis Ford Coppola film One from...
  
  , American musician
• Kevin Brennan (comedian)
  Kevin Brennan (comedian)
  Kevin Brennan is a stand-up comedian and former writer for Saturday Night Live. He frequently performs at the Comedy Cellar and the Comic Strip Live in Manhattan...
  
   (born 1960), American comedian
• Kevin Brennan (politician)
  Kevin Brennan (politician)
  Kevin Denis Brennan is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Cardiff West since 2001, and was a Minister of State at both the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department for Children, Schools and Families before the 2010 general election...
  
   (born 1959), British Labour Party politician and MP
• Killian Brennan
  Killian Brennan
  Killian Brennan is an Irish football player currently playing in the League of Ireland for Bohemians.-Early career:...
  
  
• Kip Brennan
  Kip Brennan
  Kip Brennan is a hockey enforcer who is currently playing with the Vityaz Chekhov in the Kontinental Hockey League...
  
  

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• Lee Brennan, singer
• Les Brennan
  Les Brennan
  Leslie Brennan is an Australian former rugby league player for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the New South Wales Rugby League competition. He holds the record for the third most number of tries in a NSWRL season, scoring 29 tries in 1954...
  
  , Australian rugby league footballer
• Louis Brennan
  Louis Brennan
  Louis Brennan was an Irish-Australian mechanical engineer and inventor.Brennan was born in Castlebar, Ireland, and moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1861 with parents...
  
  , 19th century inventor

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• M. C. Brennan
  M. C. Brennan
  M. C. "Cait" Brennan is an American rock vocalist, screenwriter and filmmaker.- Early life :Brennan was born in Phoenix, Arizona, the daughter of noted session and touring musician Ron Dobbins...
  
  
• Maeve Brennan
  Maeve Brennan
  Maeve Brennan , was an Irish short story writer and journalist. She moved to the United States in 1934 when her father was appointed to the Irish Legation in Washington. She was an important figure in both Irish diaspora writing and in Irish writing itself...
  
  
• Margaret Brennan
  Margaret Brennan
  Margaret Brennan is an anchor and reporter for Bloomberg television. ‘InBusiness with Margaret Brennan’ airs from 10 am-noon ET. The daily program focuses on the global markets and the interconnection of geopolitical, economic and consumer trends...
  
  
• Martin Brennan (engineer)
  Martin Brennan (engineer)
  Martin Brennan is a computer engineer who developed pioneering personal computers such as the Loki and the Atari Jaguar video game console....
  
  
• Martin Brennan (Irish politician)
  Martin Brennan (Irish politician)
  Martin Brennan was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician, who was elected three times to Dáil Éireann.A medical doctor, Brennan was first elected at the 1938 general election to the 10th Dáil for the Sligo constituency. He was returned to the 11th Dáil 1943 general election, and the following year he...
  
  
• Matt Brennan
  Matt Brennan
  Matt Brennan is a retired Fianna Fáil politician from the north west of Ireland who was a Teachta Dála for the constituency of Sligo-Leitrim....
  
  
• Michael Brennan (field hockey player)
  Michael Brennan (field hockey player)
  Michael Brennan OAM is a field hockey midfielder from Australia, who was a member of the team that won gold at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Four years earlier, when Sydney hosted the Summer Games, he finished in third spot with The Kookaburras , as the Men's National Team is...
  
  
• Michael Brennan (Fine Gael)
  Michael Brennan (Fine Gael)
  Michael Brennan was an Irish politician who served as a Teachta Dála for fifteen years for the Roscommon constituency....
  
  
• Michael Brennan (Progressive Democrats)
  Michael Brennan (Progressive Democrats)
  Michael Brennan is a former Irish politician from Adare in County Limerick who served as a member of Seanad Éireann.Brennan was a Fianna Fáil member of Limerick County Council for over 20 years, and seved as chairman of the council in 2000...
  
  
• Michael F. Brennan
  Michael F. Brennan
  Michael F. Brennan is a Maine politician. Brennan, a Democrat, served as State Senator from 2002-2006 and Senate Majority Leader and a 2008 Democratic candidate for Maine's 1st congressional district. On May 15, 2011 Brennan announced his candidacy in the Portland, Maine mayoral election...
  
  
• Mitch Brennan
  Mitch Brennan
  Mitch Brennan is an Australian former rugby league footballer and coach. A Queensland State of Origin representative three-quarter, he played club football during the 1970s and 80s in Queensland for Souths and Redcliffe and in New South Wales for South Sydney, Canberra and St. George, with whom he...
  
  , Australian rugby league footballer
• Moya Brennan
  Moya Brennan
  Moya Brennan, born Máire Ní Bhraonáin , also known as Máire Brennan , is an Irish folk singer, songwriter, harpist, and philanthropist who began performing professionally in 1970, when her family formed the band Clannad, and is now widely considered as the "First Lady of Celtic Music"...
  
  , singer and the sister of Enya

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• Neal Brennan
  Neal Brennan
  Neal Brennan is an American writer, stand-up comedian, director, and producer. He is best known for co-creating the Comedy Central series Chappelle's Show.Brennan and Dave Chappelle met when both were aspiring stand-ups...
  
  , American writer, stand-up comedian, television director and producer
• Nick Brennan
  Nick Brennan
  Nick Brennan is a British cartoonist who works mainly for D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. He started drawing for the company in 1993, drawing a revival of Peter Piper From The Dandy, revived from The Magic Comic, but looking nothing like Watkins' creation, instead sporting an elvis-like hairdo and purple...
  
  
• Nicky Brennan

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• Patricia Brennan
  Patricia Brennan
  Patricia Anne Brennan AM was an Australian medical doctor and a prominent campaigner for the ordination of women in the Anglican Church of Australia....
  
  
• Patricia Flatley Brennan
  Patricia Flatley Brennan
  Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, was the Lillian L. Moehlman Bascom Professor, School of Nursing and College of Engineering, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Currently Chair of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering in the College of Engineering, Dr...
  
  
• Patrick Brennan (Garda)
  Patrick Brennan (Garda)
  Patrick Brennan was an Irish Sinn Féin politician, and Teachta Dála in the 2nd Dáil. He was re-elected to the 3rd Dáil as a pro-Treaty Sinn Féin TD.He was later Assistant Commissioner of the Gárda Siochána.-External links:*...
  
  
• Paudge Brennan
  Paudge Brennan
  "Paudge" Brennan was an Irish Fianna Fáil Party politician who sat for 25 years as a TD for Wicklow, was briefly a Senator....
  
  
• Paul Brennan
  Paul Brennan
  The Irish artist is a teacher at Willow Tree Primary School located in West LondonPaul Brennan is a traditional musician from County Down, Northern Ireland who has lived in London for a number of years.Brennan co-founded the Belfast School of Piping...
  
  
• Paul Brennan (musician)
• Peter J. Brennan
  Peter J. Brennan
  Peter Brennan was United States Secretary of Labor under Presidents Nixon and Ford. He served between February 2, 1973 and March 15, 1975...
  
  
• Pól Brennan
  Pól Brennan
  Pól Brennan is an Irish singer, songwriter and producer. He is the brother of Enya and Moya Brennan. He is a member of the family band Clannad, and co-wrote the hit song "Theme from Harry's Game". He left the group in 1990, but rejoined in 2011...
  
  

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• Reed Brennan, a fictional character from the book series Private
  Private (novel series)
  Private is a series of young-adult novels by American author Kate Brian, beginning with 2006's inaugural entry of the same name. The books chronicle the rise of ambitious teenager Reed Brennan, the series' narrator, as she becomes a member of her new school's elite dorm—composed of a glamorous yet...
  
  
• Robert Brennan
  Robert Brennan
  Robert Emmet Brennan was an American businessman who built the infamous penny stock brokerage firm, First Jersey Securities. The firm specialized in promoting "Pump and dump" penny stocks to unsuspecting investors, many of them elderly, who lost their entire investments when the stocks inevitably...
  
  
• Ralph Brennan
  Ralph Brennan
  Ralph Brennan is a New Orleans-based restaurateur and head of The Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group.A former CPA with Price Waterhouse & Company, Brennan entered the family business in the early 1980s as one of a group of eight third-generation cousins active in the United States restaurant industry. ...
  
  

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• Scott Brennan (disambiguation)
• Séamus Brennan
  Séamus Brennan
  Séamus Brennan was a senior Irish Fianna Fáil politician and a Teachta Dála for Dublin South. He served as a Minister of State, Minister for Tourism and Transport , Minister for Tourism, Transport and Communications , Minister for Education , Minister for Transport , Minister for Social and...
  
  , Irish politician
• Sean Brennan, singer in London After Midnight (band)
  London After Midnight (band)
  London After Midnight is a project formed in the 1990s by songwriter and instrumentalist Sean Brennan. It is active to the present day....
  
  
• Shay Brennan
  Shay Brennan
  Seamus Anthony "Shay" Brennan was an English-born Irish footballer in the 1960s. He was a full back for Manchester United....
  
  
• Stephen Brennan
  Stephen Brennan
  Stephen Brennan is an Irish professional football player who currently plays for Bray Wanderers.Brennan played schoolboy football for south Dublin side St Josephs Boys AFC before joining English Premiership side Newcastle United in 1999. In November 2000 he was won the FAI's Republic of Ireland...
  
  

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• Temperance "Bones" Brennan, a fictional character from the television series Bones
• Thomas Brennan (Irish Land League)
  Thomas Brennan (Irish Land League)
  Thomas Brennan , born in Beauparc, County Meath, was a founder and joint first secretary of the Irish National Land League....
  
   (1853–1912), Irish politician
• Thomas Brennan (Fianna Fáil) (died 1953), Irish politician
• Thomas E. Brennan
  Thomas E. Brennan
  Thomas E. Brennan is the founder of Thomas M. Cooley Law School, the 81st Justice and Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, an attorney, and former jurist and educator in the U.S. state of Michigan.-Early life:...
  
   (born 1929), American jurist, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court
• Thomas Francis Brennan
  Thomas Francis Brennan
  Thomas Francis Brennan was an American Catholic bishop who served as the first Catholic bishop of Dallas from 1891 to 1893....
  
   (1853–1937), American Catholic bishop; 1st Catholic bishop of Dallas 1891–1893
• Tom Brennan (politician)
• Tom Brennan (basketball coach), American sportscaster and former University of Vermont basketball coach
• Tom Brennan (basketball), basketball player for Villanova University and the Philadelphia Warriors
• Tom Brennan (baseball)
  Tom Brennan (baseball)
  Thomas Martin Brennan is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball. He pitched from 1981-1985 for the Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers....
  
  , 1980s baseball player
• Tom Brennan (ice hockey)
  Tom Brennan (ice hockey)
  Thomas Ernest Brennan was a professional ice hockey right winger who played twelve National Hockey League games over parts of two seasons for the Boston Bruins.-External links:...
  
   (1922–2003), American ice hockey player for Boston Bruins

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• Walter Brennan
  Walter Brennan
  Walter Brennan was an American actor. Brennan won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor on three separate occasions, which is currently the record for most wins.-Early life:...
  
  , actor
• William J. Brennan, Jr.
  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  William Joseph Brennan, Jr. was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1956 to 1990...
  
  , 20th century justice on the U.S. Supreme Court