Browning

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Browning may refer to:

• Browning (chemical process), the chemical process of browning food
• Browning (slang), a light skinned woman of African or East Indian descent. A term that is used in Jamaica.
• Browning (partial cooking), the cooking process that removes excessive fat from meat and changes its color to a light brown.
• Bluing (steel) or browning, a process to darken the metal on firearms
• A brand of guns by firearm inventor John Browning
• Browning Arms Company, initially marketing the sporting designs of John Browning
  • Browning BDM, a semi-automatic pistol developed in the 1990s
  • M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle

Places:

• Browning, Illinois, USA
• Browning, Montana, USA
• Browning, Wisconsin, USA
• Browning Hill, in Brown County, Indiana; sometimes called Browning Mountain

People:

• Robert Browning, English poet
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poetess
• John Browning, American firearms inventor
• Val A. Browning, American firearms inventor and industrialist (son of John Browning)
• Alan Browning, English actor
• Christopher Browning, American historian focusing on the Holocaust
• Emily Browning, Australian actress
• Frederick Browning, English World War II lieutenant general
• George Victor Browning, Anglican Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn
• Greg Browning, Australian field hockey player
• Jonathan Browning, the American pioneer and firearms inventor (father of John Browning)
• Kurt Browning, Canadian skater
• Kurt S. Browning, Florida politician
• Martin Browning, Professor of economics
• Miles Browning, American World War II rear admiral
• Tod Browning, horror movie pioneer

• H. Browning Ross, Olympian and father of long distance running in the United States