Brun-Otto Bryde (born 12 January 1943) is a German legal scholar and a former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.
Following his first state exam in law 1966 and his second one in 1969 he did his doctoral degree in Hamburg in 1971.
He was a visiting professor two times at the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1989 and 1994 as well.
Bryde was also a member of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
He was the first judge of the Federal Constitutional Court to be elected on the proposal of the Green party.