Bradstreet
family name
Bradstreet is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Anne Bradstreet, early American writer of Puritan prose and poetry
Jeff Bradstreet, American physician and founder of the Good News Doctor Foundation
John Bradstreet, British officer in the French and Indian War
Simon Bradstreet, husband of Anne and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1679 to 1686
Thomas D. Bradstreet (1841–1915), American politician from Connecticut
Tim Bradstreet, American artist and commercial illustrator
James Bradstreet Greenough, American classical scholar
Fictional characters:
Inspector Bradstreet, a fictional police officer appearing in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels
See also
Bradstreet Observatory of Eastern University in St.
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