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Brook (small stream) A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a strea ...

Places

Antarctica

* Cape Brooks

Canada

Brooks, Alberta Brooks is a city in southeast Alberta, Canada in the County of Newell. It is on Highway 1 (Trans-Canada Highway) and the Canadian Pacific Kansas City railway, approximately southeast of Calgary, and northwest of Medicine Hat. The city has an e ...

United Kingdom

* Brooks, Cornwall * Brooks, Powys, a

location In geography, location or place is used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface. The term ''location'' generally implies a higher degree of certainty than ''place'', the latter often indicating an entity with an ambiguous bou ...

United States

* Brooks, Alabama * Brooks, Arkansas * Brooks, California *

Brooks, Georgia Brooks is a town in Fayette County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, it had a population of 568. History Before white settlers came to the area, Creek Indians lived in the Brooks area. The first white settlers to re ...

* Brooks, Iowa * Brooks, Kentucky * Brooks, Maine *

Brooks Township, Michigan Brooks Township is a civil township of Newaygo County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 3,705. Communities *Brooks was established in 1860. It had a post office from 1881 until 1890. Geography A ...

Brooks, Minnesota Brooks is a city in Red Lake County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 117 at the 2020 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. U.S. Highway 59 and Minnesota Highwa ...

* Brooks, Montana *

Brooks, Oregon Brooks is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Marion County, Oregon, Marion County, Oregon, United States. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined Brooks as a census-designated place (CDP). The census ...

Brooks, San Antonio Brooks is a mixed-use community in the southeast portion of the city of San Antonio, Texas, United States. Brooks was created in 2001 by the United States Congress, the State of Texas and the City of San Antonio to redevelop the former Brooks ...

, Texas *

Brooks City-Base Brooks is a mixed-use development that was founded on the former Brooks Air Force Base when the United States Air Force The United States Air Force (USAF) is the Air force, air service branch of the United States Department of Defense. ...

, built on former United States Air Force base near San Antonio, Texas * Brooks, Wisconsin *

Brooks Lake Brooks Lake is a lake in Wright County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the nor ...

, a lake in Minnesota *

Brooks Glacier Brooks Glacier is a glacier in Denali National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. The glacier originates on the east face of Mount Silverthrone at Brooks Gap. The glacier moves northeast, joining Muldrow Glacier between Mount Brooks ...

, Alaska **

Mount Brooks Mount Brooks is a mountain peak in the central Alaska Range in Denali National Park and Preserve. The mountain is part of a ridge extending northeastward from the main Denali massif, which includes Pyramid Peak and Mount Silverthrone. The ridge ...

United States and Canada

Brooks Range The Brooks Range (Gwich’in language, Gwich'in: ''Gwazhał'') is a mountain range in far northern North America stretching some from west to east across northern Alaska into Canada's Yukon Territory. Reaching a peak elevation of on Mount Isto, ...

, mountain range in Alaska and Yukon

People

Brooks (given name) Brooks is a male given name. More commonly, it is also a surname. It may refer to: *Brooks Atkinson (1894–1984), American theater critic * Brooks Bollinger (born 1979), American football player * Brooks Conrad (born 1980), American baseball playe ...

Brooks (surname) The word ''brook'' derives from the Old English ''broc'' and appears in the Medieval predecessors of Brooks (Ate-Broc and Atte-Broc). The surname arrived in North America from England in the mid-seventeenth century. The surname Brooks is recorded ...

Brooks (DJ) Thijs Westbroek (; born 14 April 1995), better known by his stage name Brooks, is a Dutch disc jockey, record producer and electronic musician. He is best known for his collaborations with Martin Garrix ("Byte", " Like I Do") and David Guetta (" ...

, Dutch DJ, producer and musician

Fictional characters

* Brooks Hatlen, in the 1994 film ''

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'', played by James Whitmore * Constance "Connie" Brooks (see ''

Our Miss Brooks ''Our Miss Brooks'' is an American sitcom starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high-school English teacher. It began as a Old Time Radio, radio show broadcast on CBS from 1948 to 1957. When the show was adapted to television (1952–56), it became ...

''), fictional English language teacher * Dustin Brooks, in the TV series ''Power Rangers Ninja Storm'' * Earl Brooks, the title character of ''

Mr. Brooks ''Mr. Brooks'' is a 2007 American psychological thriller film directed by Bruce A. Evans starring Kevin Costner, Demi Moore, Dane Cook, and William Hurt. It was released on June 1, 2007. The film follows the eponymous character, a celebrated ...

'', a film *

Blade (character) Blade (birth name: Eric Cross Brooks;) is a fictional character and antihero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Marv Wolfman and penciller Gene Colan, his first appearance was in the comic book '' T ...

, also known as Eric Brooks in the Marvel Universe ** Blade (New Line Blade franchise character), the New Line Cinema adaptation of Blade, portrayed by Wesley Snipes and Sticky Fingaz, from whom the Eric Brooks name originates

Companies

* Brooks Automation, provider of automation, vacuum and instrumentation solutions *

Brooks Brothers Brooks Brothers Inc. is an American clothing brand founded in 1818 which is the oldest apparel brand in continuous operation in the United States. Originally a family business, it is currently owned as a joint venture between Authentic Brands G ...

, American men's clothier *

Brooks England Brooks England is a bicycle saddle manufacturer originally based in Smethwick, West Midlands, England and now owned by Selle Royal of Italy. It has been making leather goods since 1866, when it was founded in Hockley, Birmingham. In the 1880s ...

, manufacturer of traditional English bicycle saddles * Brooks Instrument, manufacturer of flow control and measurement equipment *

Brooks Locomotive Works The Brooks Locomotive Works manufactured railroad steam locomotives and freight cars from 1869 through its merger into the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) in 1901. History When the New York and Erie Railroad (NY&E) relocated its shops faciliti ...

, an early manufacturer of steam locomotives for the US railroads * Brooks Pharmacy, former pharmacy chain * Brooks Sports, American athletic shoe manufacturer

Education

* Brooks High School (disambiguation) * Brooks College, a defunct for-profit college in California * Brooks College of Health, a college of

University of North Florida The University of North Florida (UNF) is a public university, public research university in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. It is part of the State University System of Florida and is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern ...

* Brooks Institute, a for-profit college in California focusing on visual arts * Brooks School, North Andover, Massachusetts, United States

Other uses

* Brooks (band), a 1970s UK vocal group * Comet Brooks (disambiguation), various comets * Brooks (mango), a late-season mango cultivar originated in Miami, Florida * An early, minor league name for the

Brooklyn Dodgers The Brooklyn Dodgers were a Major League Baseball team founded in 1883 as the Brooklyn Grays. In 1884, it became a member of the American Association as the Brooklyn Atlantics before joining the National League in 1890. They remained in Brook ...

, former Major League Baseball team, now the Los Angeles Dodgers * Brooks (crater), a crater on the southwestern part Mercury * ''

Brooks Brooks may refer to: * Brook (small stream) Places Antarctica * Cape Brooks Canada *Brooks, Alberta United Kingdom * Brooks, Cornwall * Brooks, Powys, a location United States * Brooks, Alabama * Brooks, Arkansas * Brooks, California *Brooks, ...

'', a British slave ship