Browne is a variant of the English surname Brown (surname), meaning "brown-haired" or "brown-skinned". It may sometimes be derived from French le Brun with similar meaning. The Mac A Brehons clan of Co. Donegal have anglicized as Browne since about 1800. The name has also been used throughout North America as an anglicization of the surname Pardo.
Adam Browne, Australian writer
Andrew Browne, several people
Sir Anthony Browne (died 1548), Standard Bearer of England
Anthony Browne (author) (born 1946), author of children's books
Anthony Browne (UK politics), journalist
Anucha Browne Sanders, American basketball player
Aurora Browne, Canadian actress and comedian
Baron Browne, American bassist
Barrington Browne, Guyanese cricketer
Booker Brown, American football player
Bud Browne, film director
Byron Browne, American baseball player
Chance Browne, American comic strip artist, son of Dik Browne
Charles Farrar Browne (1834–1867), American author
Charles E. Browne, American territorial legislator
Chris Browne, American cartoonist, son of Dik Browne
Christopher Browne (born 1970), American television producer
Coral Browne, Australian actress
Courtney Browne, Barbadian cricketer
Snuffy Browne, Barbadian cricketer
Davey Browne (1986–2015), Australian professional boxer
Des Browne, British politician
Dik Browne, American comic strip artist
Edward Granville Browne, British orientalist
Edward Harold Browne, British bishop
Edward Stevenson Browne, British soldier
Edward Thomas Browne (1866–1937), cnidariologist (researcher on medusae and cessile polyps)
Ernest Browne (1855-1946), Irish tennis player
Eliane Browne-Bartroli (1917–1944), British intelligence agent
Elizabeth Browne, Countess of Worcester, the mistress of Henry VIII and lady-in-waiting to his second wife, Anne Boleyn
Feargal Browne, Irish politician
Garech Browne, Irish arts patron
George Browne (soldier), Russian field marshal
George Joseph Plunket Browne, Bishop of Elphin from 1844 to 1858
Hablot Knight Browne, British illustrator
Harry Browne, American investment analyst and political writer
Henry George Gore-Browne, Irish soldier
Howard Browne, American writer
Ivan Browne, the singer for The Lemon Pipers
Jack Nixon Browne, British politician
Jackson Browne (born 1948), American musician
James Browne (athlete), Antiguan long jumper
James Browne (engineer), Scottish engineer
James Browne (writer), Scottish man of letters
E. Janet Browne, British historian of science
Jann Browne, American country singer
Jeremy Browne, British politician
John Browne, several people
Joseph Browne, several people
Joy Browne, American radio psychologist
Kale Browne (born 1950), American actor
Leslie Browne, American ballet dancer
E. Martin Browne (1900–1980), British theatre director
Mary Browne, American tennis player
Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Austrian field marshal
Michael Browne, several people
Lady Moyra Browne, nurse
Nicholas Browne (1947–2014), British diplomat
Nicholas Browne-Wilkinson, British judge
Noël Browne (1915–1997), Irish politician and physician
Olin Browne (born 1959), American golfer
Pádraig de Brún, Irish churchman, brother of Michael Browne (Cardinal)
Patrick Browne, Irish botanist
Patti Ann Browne, American broadcaster
Peter Browne, several people
Robert Browne, several people
Rodney Howard-Browne, South African preacher
Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor
Rose Browne, American educator
Sam Browne, several people
Seán Browne (1916–1996), Irish politician
Sean K. L. Browne (born 1953), contemporary American sculptor
Stan Browne, Australian rugby league footballer
Steven Browne (born 1989), Australian footballer
Sylvia Browne (1936−2013), American medium
Tara Browne, British socialite
Sir Thomas Browne, English author
Thom Browne, American fashion designer
Thomas Gore Browne, British colonial administrator
Tim Browne, (born 1987), Australian Rugby League player
Tom Browne (broadcaster and actor), British broadcaster
Tony Browne, Irish hurler
Travis Browne, American mixed martial arts fighter
Ulric Browne, British actor
Valentine Browne, several people
Vanessa Ward (née Browne), Australian high jumper
Vincent Browne, Irish journalist
Vincent Browne (sculptor), Irish sculptor
Walter Browne (1949–2015), American chess player
Wayles Browne, American linguist and Slavist
William Browne (poet) (1588–1643), English poet
William A. F. Browne (1805–1885), mental health professional, fellow student of Charles Darwin
William Alfred Browne
Major William D. Browne, U.S. Army officer
William George Browne (1768–1813), British traveller
William Joseph Browne, politician who served with the federal governments of both Newfoundland and Canada
William M. Browne, American Confederate politician
Willie Browne (1936–2004), Republic of Ireland International football player
William Phineas Browne, American lawyer and coal industry figure
William Washington Browne, former American slave, minister, and businessman
