Rick "Grizzly" Brown (April 4, 1960 – January 2, 2002) was an American powerlifter, strength athlete and professional Strongman competitor from Berkeley, California.
[1] Brown held a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest biceps, over 25 inches (cold, not pumped).
After retiring from the sport of strongman in 1987, he secured a position with the Berkeley Unified School District as a campus monitor and later a school safety officer where he served as a mentor, as a youth counselor on drug abuse and father figure to hundreds of students first at Berkeley High School in 1987.
In 1994, he met his wife, Jennifer, at Willard Middle School where they were both employed; in 1997 they joined in marriage at the "Wedding Court" at Willard Middle School.
Brown died on January 2, 2002, in Berkeley, California, aged 41 and survived by his wife and three sons.