Braun is a common surname, originating from the German word for the color brown. The name is the 22nd most common family name in Germany. Many German emigrants to the United States also changed their name to Brown (see Brown (surname)). In German, Braun is pronounced , except for the "r" equal to the English word "brown". In English, it is often pronounced as "brawn", as in 'Carol Moseley Braun'. Pronunciation is an individual preference and is hard to guess unless one is in a position to hear the person's name spoken. As forename: Braun Strowman (formerly Braun Stowman), ring name of American professional wrestler Adam Scherr (born 1983) As surname: Alexander Braun (1805–1877), German botanist Anna Maria Braun (born 3 July 1979), German business executive and lawyer Annette Frances Braun (1884–1978), American entomologist Arthur Michael Braun (1910–1989), American politician and businessman Ben Braun (born 1953), American college basketball coach Bob Braun (1929–2001), Cincinnati television personality Carol Moseley Braun (born 1947), American politician and lawyer Carl Braun (basketball) (1927–2010), American basketball player and coach Carl Braun (bass) (1886–1960), German opera singer, bass Carl Braun (obstetrician) (1822–1891), Austrian obstetrician (knighted to Carl Ritter von Fernwald Braun) Christian Braun (born 2001), American basketball player Colin Braun (born 1988), race car driver Dagmar Braun Celeste (born 1942), first lady of Ohio Egidius Braun (1925–2022), president of the German Soccer Association (1992-201) Émile Braun (1849–1927), Belgian liberal politician, Mayor of Ghent Emma Lucy Braun (1889–1971), American botanist and ecologist Emmy Braun (1826–1904), German cookbook author Ernest Braun (1925–2015), British-Austrian technology assessor Eva Braun (1912–1945), longtime companion of Adolf Hitler Franziska Braun (died 1976), mother of Eva Braun Friedrich Braun (1862–1942), Russian-German philologist Gregor Braun (born 1955), German bicycle racer Grzegorz Braun (born 1967), Polish journalist, media director and politician György Bálint (originally surname Braun; 1919–2020), Hungarian horticulturist, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, journalist, author, and politician who served as an MP. Győző Braun (1911–1972), Hungarian and British table tennis champion, better known as Viktor Barna Hanns Braun (1886–1918), German athlete Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Braun (1862–1934), German surgeon Hel Braun (1914–1986), German mathematician Helena Braun (1903–1990), German soprano Helge Braun (born 1972), German politician Isabella Braun (1815–1886), German writer Jayme Caetano Braun (1924–1999), Brazilian folk musician, composer and poet Jerzy Braun (disambiguation), several people Johanna Braun (1929–2008), German writer Jürgen Braun (born 1961), German politician Justin Braun (born 1987), American ice hockey player Karl Ferdinand Braun