Bragg (surname)

Bragg

Language(s)	England
Origin
Word/name	Normandy
Meaning	the boastful person
Other names
Variant form(s)	Frost, Ffrost, Ymffrostgar

Bragg is an English surname of Norman origin, the Welsh equivalent of this surname is Frost or Ffrost deriving from Ymffrostgar and may refer to:

People:

A[]

• Alvin Bragg (born 1973), American politician
• Art Bragg (1930–2018), American sprinter

B[]

• Bernard Bragg (1928–2018), deaf actor, writer, director, poet and artist
• Billy Bragg (born 1957), English folk musician
• Braxton Bragg (1817–1876), Confederate Civil War general for whom Fort Bragg is named

C[]

• Caleb Bragg (1885–1943), American racecar driver, speedboat racer, aviation pioneer and automotive inventor
• Craig Bragg (born 1982), American football wide receiver

D[]

• Darren Bragg (born 1969), former Major League Baseball outfielder
• Don Bragg (1935–2019), American pole vaulter and Olympic gold medalist

E[]

• Edward S. Bragg (1827–1912), American politician, lawyer and Union Army general from Wisconsin

J[]

• Jacob Bragg (born 2000), Australian long-distance runner
• Janet Bragg (1907–1993), aviator and first African-American woman to hold a commercial pilot license
• Jesse Bragg (1887–after 1918), Negro league baseball player
• John Bragg (disambiguation), various people

K[]

• Ken Bragg (born 1950), member of the Arkansas House of Representatives

L[]

• Laura Bragg (1881–1978), American museum director
• Lawrence Bragg (1890–1971), physicist and recipient of the in 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics

M[]

• Marie-Elsa Bragg (born 1964 or 1965), English priest and writer
• Melvyn Bragg (born 1939), English broadcaster and author
• Mike Bragg (born 1946), former National Football League punter

P[]

• Patricia Bragg (born 1929), American author and businesswoman
• Paul Bragg (1895–1976), nutritionist
• Philip Bragg (died 1759), Irish lieutenant-general and Member of Parliament

R[]

• Rick Bragg (born 1959), Pulitzer Prize-winning American author and journalist
• Robert Henry Bragg, Jr. (1919–2017), physicist

S[]

• Stephen Bragg (1923–2014), engineer

T[]

• Thomas Bragg (1810–1872), North Carolina politician and lawyer

W[]

• William Henry Bragg (1862–1942), physicist and recipient of the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics

Fictional characters[]

• Randy Bragg, protagonist of the novel Alas, Babylon