Brooks
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Brooks is the name of several places:
- Brooks, Alberta is a town in Canada.
- Brooks, Maine is a town in USA.
- Brooks, Oregon is a town in the USA.
- (See also Brooksville.)
Brooks is (or was) the name of various real and fictional people:
- Albert Brooks, a comedian, actor, and director.
- Constance "Connie" Brooks, a fictional English teacher and main character in the radio/TV situation comedy Our Miss Brooks.
- Frederick P. Brooks, the father of IBM's OS/360 and the author of The Mythical Man-Month.
- James L. Brooks, a producer, writer, and film director.
- Mel Brooks, a producer, writer, and director of farces and parodies in which he occasionally acts.
- The Brooks Brothers, founders of a famous men's clothing store.
- Brooks Hatlen was a character in Steven King's novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption and the related movie The Shawshank Redemption (where the character was played by James Whitmore).
- Brooks Sports, Inc. is an athletic shoe manufacturer