Ian George Brown (born 20 February 1963) is an English musician and former lead singer of the Madchester band The Stone Roses. Since the band's acrimonious and prolonged break up in 1996, Brown has released five solo albums. He has appeared on several club tours and has performed at the Glastonbury Festival three times since 1998, though he is considered to be mainly an influential artist he has still landed twelve UK top 40 singles.
Ian Brown is a Canadian journalist and author.
He is currently the host of Human Edge and The View From Here on TVOntario, and has hosted programming for CBC Radio One, including Talking Books and Sunday Morning. He has also worked as a business writer at Maclean's and the Financial Post, a feature reporter for The Globe and Mail, and a freelance journalist for other magazines including Saturday Night.
Brown has also published two books, Freewheeling and Man Overboard. He is an occasional contributor to the American public radio program This American Life.
He is married to Globe and Mail film critic Johanna Schneller.
Ian Robert Brown (born August 14, 1965) is a former freestyle swimmer from Australia, who twice represented his native country at the Summer Olympics. He made his debut in 1988. His best Olympic result was the fifth place, four years later in Barcelona, Spain, in the Men's 400m Freestyle.
Ian Brown is artistic director and chief executive of the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. He took up this post in 2002 to succeed Jude Kelly. He was previously artistic director of the TAG Theatre Company in Glasgow (1984-1988) and the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh (1988-1999). He trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
