Brill (surname)
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Brill is a fairly uncommon family name, most seen in the Dutch language
. People with the surname Brill include:
Dutch language
Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
. People with the surname Brill include:
- Abraham BrillAbraham BrillAbraham Arden Brill was an Austrian psychiatrist. He was born in Austria, and graduated from New York University, in 1901, M.D. Columbia University, 1903. He had arrived in the United States alone at the age of 13.After studies with C. G...
, Austrian-born American psychiatrist and disciple of Jung - Charlie BrillCharlie BrillCharlie Brill is an American actor.His first motion picture was in The Beast of Budapest. He also appeared in Blackbeard's Ghost, The Amazing Dobermans and Off the Wall....
, American actor - Debbie BrillDebbie BrillDebbie Brill OC is a Canadian high jump athlete who was the first North American woman to clear 6 feet, at age 16. Her unique reverse jumping style was called the "Brill Bend"...
, Canadian high-jump athlete - Diane Brill, cosmetics merchant and manufacturer
- Dusty Brill, drummer
- E. J. Brill, founder of Brill Publishers, a Dutch publishing company based in Leiden
- Eric BrillEric BrillEric Brill is a computer scientist specializing in natural language processing. He is famous for his Brill tagger, a supervised part of speech tagger. Another widely cited research paper of Brill introduced a machine learning technique now known as transformation-based learning...
, computer scientist- Brill TaggerBrill TaggerThe Brill tagger is a method for doing part-of-speech tagging. It was described by Eric Brill in his 1993 PhD thesis . It can be summarized as an "error-driven transformation-based tagger". It is...
, one of Eric Brill's more notable inventions
- Brill Tagger
- Fran BrillFran BrillFrances Joan "Fran" Brill , is an American actress and puppeteer, best known for her roles on Sesame Street.Brill was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Linette and Joseph M. Brill. Her father was a physician...
, voice actress and puppeteer best known for work on Sesame Street - Hermann BrillHermann Brillthumb|Dr. Hermann BrillDr. Hermann Louis Brill was a German doctor of law and a politician .- Biography :...
, German politician who opposed the rise of Nazism - J. G. Brill, founder of J. G. Brill and Company
- Jehiel Brill, Russian journalist
- John Frederick BrillJohn Frederick BrillJohn Frederick Brill was an English soldier and painter who created the Bardia Mural. A photograph of John Brill painting his mother can be found here. On 1 July 1942, the Axis launched an attack with the target being the capture of Alexandria, which was to become known as the First battle of El...
, World War II mural artist - Alexander von BrillAlexander von BrillAlexander Wilhelm von Brill was a German mathematician.Born in Darmstadt, Hesse, he attended University of Giessen where he earned his doctorate under supervision of Alfred Clebsch. He held a chair at the University of Tübingen, where Max Planck was among his students.-External links:...
, co-creator with Max Noether of Brill-Noether theory, a branch of mathematics - Paul and Mattheus BrillPaul and Mattheus BrillPaul and Matthijs Bril were brothers, both born in Antwerp, who were landscape painters who worked in Rome after earning papal favor.-Biography:...
, 16th century Dutch landscape painters - Peter E. Brill, New York-area criminal defense attorney
- Steven Brill (law writer)Steven Brill (law writer)Steven Brill is the founder of CourtTV and American Lawyer magazine. He also founded the failed Verified Identity Pass, Inc., the New York-based company that operated the Clear airport security fast-pass. The service abruptly shut down June 23, 2009, without any notice to the company's 260,000...
, the founder of American Lawyer magazine, Court TV, Contentville, and Brill's Content - Steven Brill (scriptwriter)Steven Brill (scriptwriter)Steven Brill is an American actor, film producer, director, and screenwriter. He directed and co-wrote Little Nicky and directed Mr. Deeds, Without A Paddle, Heavyweights and Drillbit Taylor. He has had cameo roles in all three Mighty Ducks movies, and appeared in The Wedding Singer, Mr...
, actor, director, and screenwriter of films such as the Mighty Ducks films - William BrillWilliam BrillWilliam Lloyd Brill DSO, DFC & Bar was a senior officer and bomber pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force . Born in the Riverina district of New South Wales, he was a farmer and a member of the Australian Militia before joining the RAAF as an air cadet in 1940...
, Royal Australian Air Force officer
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Brue- | Bruel Brüel Brüel is a town in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated 24 km northeast of Schwerin.... |
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Bri- | Bril Bril Bril is a surname, and may refer to;*Ben Bril, Dutch boxer*Joel Bril, pen name of Joel Löwe*Matthaeus Bril, Flemish painter*Paul Bril, Flemish painter, brother of Matthaeus... |
Brill Brill Brill is a village and civil parish in Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England, close to the boundary with Oxfordshire. It is about north-west of Long Crendon and south-east of Bicester... |
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