Brent
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Brent may refer to:
- Brent (name), an English given and surname
Place name
[edit]- In the United States
- Brent, Alabama
- Brent, Florida
- Brent, Georgia
- Brent, Missouri, a ghost town
- Brent, Oklahoma
- In the United Kingdom
- Brent, Cornwall
- Brent Knoll, a hill in Somerset, England
- Brent Knoll (village), a village at the foot of the hill
- East Brent, another village at the foot of the hill
- London Borough of Brent, England
- Brent (electoral division), Greater London Council
- South Brent, Devon, England
- Elsewhere
- Brent, Ontario, a village in Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada
- Brent crater, a meteor crater named after the village of Brent, Ontario
- Brent oilfield, North Sea
In fiction
[edit]- Brent (Planet of the Apes)
- Corey Brent, fictional character on the ITV soap opera Coronation Street
- David Brent, fictional character on the BBC television comedy The Office
- Stefan Brent, fictional character on the ITV soap opera Coronation Street
- Brent Scopes, fictional character from the novel Mount Dragon
- Brent McHale, fictional character from the animated film Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Other uses
[edit]- Brent Cross tube station, North-west London, England
- Brent Cross Shopping Center, a mall in Northern London, close to the terminus to the M1 Highway
- Brent Crude, benchmark classification of oil
- Brent goose (Branta bernicla), known in North America as brant
- Brent International School, the Philippines
- Brent's method, a root-finding algorithm
- Brent railway station, South Devon, England
- Brent sidings, railway freight facility in north-west London, England
- Brent Spar, decommissioned oil storage and tanker loading buoy
- National Theatre of Brent, British comedy double-act
- River Brent, London, England
- Steam tug Brent (built 1946)