Brandeau
Brandeau is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Esther Brandeau (born 1718), first Jew in Canada * Margaret Brandeau, American management scientist and engineer See also * Brando (other) *Suikoden IV is a role-playing video game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo and published by Konami exclusively for the PlayStation 2 video game console and is the fourth installment of the ''Suikoden'' video game series. It was released in Au ...

Margaret Brandeau
Margaret Louise Brandeau is an American management scientist and engineer whose research applies operations research to decision-making in public health, and has made contributions to optimize health care systems. The main focus of her work is on the development of applied mathematical and economic models to support health policy decisions. She is the Coleman F. Fung Professor in the Stanford University School of Engineering, and also holds a courtesy affiliation with the Stanford University School of Medicine. With Edward H. Kaplan, Brandeau is the editor of the book ''Modeling the AIDS Epidemic: Planning, Policy, and Prediction'' (Raven Press, 1994). She has also studied strategies for responding to the opioid epidemic in the United States, and the question of whether eating organic food has health benefits. Education Brandeau earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1977 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). After continuing at MIT for a master's degree i ...
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Esther Brandeau
Esther Brandeau ( ''flor.'' in Canada 1738–39) is notable in the history of the Jews in Canada as the first Jew to set foot in the country, travelling from France to New France. She was born around 1718, probably at Saint-Esprit-lès-Bayonne (near Bayonne), in the diocese of Dax. Jews in France were subject to waves of expulsion, and women's lives were limited by gender roles, which some tried to evade by cross-dressing. Brandeau reinvented herself as Jacques La Fargue, a Roman Catholic boy, and became a sailor on the ''St-Michel'', a ship bound from Bordeaux for the Port of Quebec. At that time, Canada was the only colony of the New World never reported to have been visited by a Jew. After a brief masquerade, Esther's religion and sex were both discovered. As a non-Catholic in a legally Catholic country, she was arrested on the orders of Gilles Hocquart, Intendant of New France, and taken to the ''Hôpital Général'' in Quebec City. Hocquart was initially under the impres ...
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Brando (other)
Brando may refer to: People * Brando, a surname borne by, among others: ** Marlon Brando (1924–2004), American actor ** Cheyenne Brando (1970–1995), daughter of Marlon Brando ** Christian Brando (1958–2008), son of Marlon Brando ** Miko C. Brando, son of Marlon Brando and Michael Jackson's one-time friend, bodyguard, and assistant * Brando Badoer (born 2006), Italian racing driver * Brando Benifei (born 1986), Italian politician * Brando Eaton (born 1986), American actor * Brando Huang (born 1981), Taiwanese actor and TV host * Brandon Kelly Ulloa, American writer, known as Brando Skyhorse * Brando Pacitto (born 1996), Italian actor * Brando Quilici, Italian filmmaker * Brando Va'aulu (born 1987), rugby player from New Zealand * Marlon Lamont McClain II, American singer and songwriter, known as Brando Places *Brändö, a municipality in Finland * Brändö, Helsinki, a part of the city of Helsinki * Brändö, Vaasa, a part of the city of Vaasa, Finland *Brando, Haute- ...
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