title: Bruen
text: # Bruen
  
  Bruen is a surname. People with this surname include:
  
  * Jack Bruen (1949-1997), American basketball coach
  * Francis Bruen (died 1867), Member of the UK Parliament for Carlow 1835–1837, 1839
  * Henry Bruen:
     * Henry Bruen (1741–1795), Irish politician, Member of the Parliament of Ireland for Jamestown 1783–1790 and County Carlow 1790–1795
     * Colonel Henry Bruen (1789–1852), Irish politician, Member of the UK Parliament for County Carlow 1812–1831, 1835–1837, 1840–1852
     * his son Henry Bruen (1828–1912), MP for County Carlow 1857–1880
  * Ken Bruen (born 1951), Irish writer
  * John Bruen (1560–1625), English Puritan squire
  