Brown Shoe Company is a footwear company that owns a variety of popular footwear brands in the United States and Canada. Its headquarters is located in Clayton, Missouri, a close suburb of St. Louis, Missouri.

The company was created in St. Louis and was originally named Bryan, Brown & Company after its founders George Warren Brown and Alvin Bryan. The name was changed to Brown Shoe Company in 1893. The George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis was endowed in 1925 by G.W. Brown's widow.

Brown Shoe Company, Inc. is a $2.4 billion footwear company with worldwide operations. The company operates the 1,100-store Famous Footwear chain. It also operates 300 specialty retail stores in the U.S., Canada and China under the Brown Shoe Closet, FX LaSalle and Franco Sarto names, and Shoes.com, the Company's e-commerce subsidiary. Brown Shoe's wholesale divisions own and market leading footwear brands including Naturalizer, LifeStride, Via Spiga, Nickels Soft, Connie and Buster Brown; it also markets licensed brands including Franco Sarto, Etienne Aigner, Dr. Scholl's, Carlos by Carlos Santana and Fergie branded footwear for adults, and Barbie, Nickelodeon character footwear for children.