Stephen James Meridith Brown (born 24 September 1881 in Holywood, County Down, Ireland, died on the 8th of May 1962, in Kilcrony, Wicklow, Ireland) was an Irish Catholic Jesuit priest, writer, bibliographer and librarian.
He founded the Central Catholic Library (Irish: Leabharlann an Chreidimh) in Dublin.
[2] He served on the Hospital Library Council and as Director of the Academy of Christian Art.
While involved with the Central Catholic Library and other, mainly library-based, activities, he was also a prolific writer of books, bibliographies and articles of all kinds up to the end of his life.
[1] In September 1960, Fr Brown became incapacitated as the result of a serious road accident in London.