Brian Murray (born September 10 1937) is a South African actor and theatre director.

Murray was born Brian Bell in Johannesburg, the son of Mary Dickson (née Murray) and Alfred Bell, a professional golfer. Murray made his Broadway debut in the play All in Good Time in 1965. Two years later he was cast as one of the leads in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, earning the first of three Tony Award nominations for his performance. Murray made his directorial debut with the 1973 revival of The Waltz of the Toreadors. His directing credits include Hay Fever (1985), Arsenic and Old Lace (1986), Blithe Spirit, and The Show Off (1992). Murray's film credits include Bob Roberts and City Hall. On television he has appeared in Kojak, Another World, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Murray resides in New York City. He is filming My Dog Tulip, scheduled for release in 2008.

Brian Murray (born 1985 in Patrickswell, County Limerick) is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Patrickswell and with the Limerick senior inter-county team. He is the goalkeeper on both teams.

Rear Admiral Sir Brian Stewart Murray KCMG, AO, KStJ (December 26, 1921 - 1991) was Governor of Victoria from March 1982 until 1985.

Murray was a retired Royal Australian Navy admiral married to a former nun. He was nominated by Victorian Premier Liberal Lindsay Thompson. Labor Premier John Cain demanded his resignation in 1985 after Murray accepted a free trip to the United States with his wife from Continental Airlines. They retired to a vineyard at Murrumbateman, outside Canberra.

It was however during his incumbency that there was some modernising of the role and functions within Government House. On 18 April 1984, the Governor announced that Queen Elizabeth had approved a change in his flag: “From this day, the Governor's Personal Standard will be the State Flag of Victoria with the blue of the flag being replaced by gold. The new Standard will be flown at Government House and on vehicles conveying the Governor. The old Standard used by all Victorian Governors has been, since 1870, the Union Jack with the Badge of the State emblazoned in the centre thereof”.

When Sir Brian died he was accorded the honour of a state funeral complete with Royal Australian Navy escort and full Navy honours.

This wonderfully witty, enormously talented, classically-trained theatre actor has yet to find THE film project to transition into twilight screen stardom; yet, at age 70 plus, there is still a glimmer of hope for Brian Murray if one fondly recalls the late-blooming adulation bestowed upon such illustrious and mature stage stars Judi Dench, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. Born Brian Bell in September of 1937 in Johannesburg, South Africa, the Shakespearean titan attended King Edward VII School while there. It must have been a sign. He made his stage bow in 1950 as Taplow in "The Browning Version" and continued on the South African stage until 1957. Though he made his film debut fairly early in his career with League of Gentlemen, The (1960) and showed strong promise and presence in Angry Silence, The (1960), his first passion was, and is, the theatre and instead chose to join the Royal Shakespeare Company where his impressively youthful gallery of credits included those of Romeo, Horatio in "Hamlet", Cassio in "Othello" Edgar in "Lear" and Lysander in "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Eventually Broadway (off- and on-) took notice of this mighty thespian and utilized his gifts quite well over the years. A three-time Tony nominee (for "Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead", "The Little Foxes" and "The Crucible"), not to mention a recipient of multiple Obie ("Ashes" and "The Play About the Baby") and Drama Desk ("Noises Off", "Travels with My Aunt" and "The Little Foxes") awards, this lofty veteran continues to mesmerize live audiences with a wide range of parts, both classical and contemporary. Two of his later roles, that of Sir Toby Belch in "Twelfth Night" and Claudius in "Hamlet", were taken to TV and film. A more recent movie project was a nice change of pace -- voicing the flamboyant role of John Silver in the animated feature, Treasure Planet (2002).