Charles Philip Brown (10 November 1798 – 12 December 1884) was a British official of the East India Company.

[1][2]Janamaddi Hanumath Sastri, who has researched Brown's life, established a library in Kadapa in his memory.

His father David Brown was a manager of an orphanage and a missionary and scholar in many languages including Sanskrit.

Charles Brown moved back to England in 1812 after his father's death, to obtain training from Haileybury College for a civil service position in India.

Moved to Guntur at the beginning of the famine of 1832–3, he employed active methods, while dealing with sceptical superiors in Madras.

During his stay in London from 1835, he was employed by Horace Hayman Wilson in cataloguing South Indian language manuscripts from the East India House Library.

Friedrich August Rosen encouraged his work on Telugu prosody, and had Brown's essay on it published in the Asiatic Journal.

He also collected poems of Sumathi Satakam and Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Academy published it in 1973 acknowledging him.

Brown mentioned that the purpose of the commentary was to make the poems to be understood clearly without oral instructions.

The 1906 Linguistics Survey of India does not credit Brown for change in alphabets or making it easy for pronunciation.