Bright is a given name. Notable people with the given name include: Given name * Bright Addae, Ghanaian footballer * Bright Allotey, Ghanaian footballer * Bright Edomwonyi, Nigerian footballer * Bright Enobakhare, Nigerian footballer * Bright Esieme, Nigerian footballer * Bright Gyamfi, Ghanaian footballer *

Bright Igbinadolor Bright Igbinadolor (born 16 December 1980) is a Nigerian international footballer who plays professionally in Myanmar for Southern Myanmar United, as a midfielder. Career Igbinadolor has played professionally in Nigeria, Spain, Switzerland, Fin ...

, Nigerian footballer *

Bright Matonga Bright Matonga is a Zimbabwean politician. He was the Deputy Information Minister in the cabinet of president Robert Mugabe. In the 2008 parliamentary election, as a member of the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front, he was elect ...

, Zimbabwean politician * Bright Nxumalo, Swazi footballer * Bright Phiri, Zimbabwean cricketer *

Bright Rwamirama Bright Kanyontore Rwamirama is a Ugandan politician, Member of Parliament and retired army officer. He is the minister for animal industry in the Ugandan cabinet. He was appointed to that position on 1 June 2006. In the cabinet reshuffle of 16 ...

, Ugandan politician *

Bright Samuel Bright Osayi-Samuel (born 31 December 1997) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a right-back or winger for club Birmingham City and the Nigeria national team. Early life Osayi-Samuel was born in Okija, Nigeria, then moved w ...

, English footballer *

Bright Sheng Bright Sheng (; born December 6, 1955) is a Chinese-born American composer, pianist and conductor. Sheng has earned many honors for his music and compositions, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001; he also was a two-time Pulitzer Prize final ...

, Chinese-American composer * Bright Silas, Nigerian footballer *

Bright Simons Bright Simons is a Ghanaian social innovator, entrepreneur, writer, social and political commentator. He is the vice-president, in charge of research at IMANI Centre for Policy and Education. He is also the founder and president of Mpedigree, mPed ...

, Ghanaian social innovator *

Bright Sodje Bright Ojamohare Sodje (born 21 April 1966) is a retired dual-code rugby player, who played for rugby league clubs; the Wakefield Trinity (Wildcats), Hull Kingston Rovers, and the Sheffield Eagles in England as well as rugby union for Wakefiel ...

, English rugby player * Bright Tetteh Ackwerh, Ghanaian artist * Bright Williams, New Zealand veteran * Bright Wireko-Brobby, Ghanaian politician Middle name *

Edgar Bright Wilson Edgar Bright Wilson Jr. (December 18, 1908 – July 12, 1992) was an American chemist. Wilson was a prominent and accomplished chemist and teacher, recipient of the National Medal of Science in 1975, Guggenheim Fellowships in 1949 and 1970, the ...

, American chemist *

Edgar Bright Wilson (politician) Edgar Bright Wilson (1874–1953) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as the Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1901 to 1903. Early life Edgar Brighton Wilson was born in 1874. His father, James A. Wilson, was ...

, American politician *

Edward Bright Vedder Edward Bright Vedder (June 28, 1878 – January 30, 1952) was a United States Army, U.S. Army physician, a noted researcher on deficiency diseases, and a medical educator. He studied beriberi, a deficiency disease affecting the peripheral ner ...

, American physician * Georgia Bright Engel, American actress *

Harold Bright Maynard Harold Bright Maynard (Oct. 18, 1902 - Mar. 10, 1975) was an American industrial engineer, consulting engineer at the Methods Engineering Council, and management author. He is known as the "Broadway counsel for industries, railroads, state govern ...

, American engineer *

Helen Bright Clark Helen Bright Clark (1840–1927) was a British women's rights activist and suffragist. The daughter of a radical Member of Parliament, Clark was a prominent speaker for women's voting rights and at times a political realist who served as a main ...

, British activist * James Bright Morgan, American politician *

Joan Bright Astley Joan Bright Astley, OBE (27 September 1910 – 24 December 2008), born Penelope Joan McKerrow Bright, was a British intelligence officer and organizer during World War II. She organized the Special Information Centre (SIC) for Winston Church ...

, British military writer * John Bright Banister, British physician * Joy Bright Hancock, American veteran *

Margaret Bright Lucas Margaret Bright Lucas (14 July 1818 – 4 February 1890) was a British Temperance movement in the United Kingdom, temperance activist and Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, suffragist. She served as president of the British Women's Tempera ...

, British temperance activist *

Nathaniel Bright Emerson Nathaniel Bright Emerson (July 1, 1839 Waialua, Oahu – July 16, 1915, at sea) was a medical physician and author of Hawaiian mythology. He was the son of Protestant missionaries John S. Emerson and Ursula Newell Emerson, and father of artist ...

, American physician *

Priscilla Bright McLaren Priscilla Bright McLaren (8 September 1815 – 5 November 1906) was an English activist who served and linked the anti-slavery movement with the women's suffrage movement in the nineteenth century. She was a member of the Edinburgh Ladies' Emanc ...

, British activist * Thomas Bright Crosse, British politician Nickname *

Vachirawit Chivaaree Vachirawit Chivaaree (; born 27 December 1997), professionally recognised as Bright Vachirawit or Bright (), is a Thai actor, singer and entrepreneur. He is known for his role in the film '' Love You To Debt'', '' Congrats My Ex!'', in series '' ...

("Bright"), Thai actor, singer, model and entrepreneur.

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