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Brent (name) Brent is an Old English given name and surname. The place name can be from Celtic languages, Celtic words meaning "holy one" (if it refers to the River Brent), or "high place", literally, "from a steep hill" (if it refers to the villages in Somers ...

, an English given and surname

Place name

;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 Brent () is a London boroughs, borough in north-west London, England. It is known for landmarks such as Wembley Stadium, the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir London, Swaminarayan Temple and the Kiln Theatre. It also contains the Brent Reservoir, W ...

, 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

* Brent (''Planet of the Apes'') *

Corey Brent ''Coronation Street'' is a British soap opera first broadcast on 9 December 1960. The following is a list of characters introduced in 2019, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by series producer Iain MacLeod. The first ch ...

, 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 ''Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs'' is a children's book written by Judi Barrett and illustrated by Ron Barrett. It was first published in 1978 by Atheneum Books, followed by a 1982 trade paperback edition from sister company Aladdin Pap ...

Other uses

* 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 Brent railway station was a stop on the South Devon Railway Company, South Devon Railway; it served the village of South Brent on the southern edge of Dartmoor in Devon, England. History The line through Brent opened on 5 May 1848, but the st ...

, South Devon, England *

Brent sidings Brent sidings was an important marshalling yard and freight facility on the Midland Railway extension to London. History The sidings were situated on both sides of the Midland Main Line between and stations, close to the triangle formed where ...

, railway freight facility in north-west London, England *

Brent Spar Brent Spar, known as Brent "E", was a North Sea oil storage and tanker loading buoy in the Brent oilfield, operated by Shell UK. With the completion of a pipeline connection to the oil terminal at Sullom Voe in Shetland, the storage facil ...

, decommissioned oil storage and tanker loading buoy * National Theatre of Brent, British comedy double-act * River Brent, London, England * Steam tug ''Brent'' (built 1946)

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