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Brandywine is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Prince George's County, Maryland.

Brandywine occupies the southernmost part of Prince George's County, in the Southern Maryland region, bordering Charles County and the community of Waldorf to the south.

The name Brandywine refers both to the census-designated place and to a much larger ZIP code area, 20613, whose territory overlaps the CDP but extends well beyond it, even into Charles County.

Brandywine was named in the mid-19th century by William H. Early after property he owned, and it is thought to take its name from the Battle of Brandywine of the American Revolutionary War.

The community developed around 1873 along the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad's Pope's Creek line and was the only place on that route to grow into a railroad town.

Brandywine recorded a population of just 1,410 in the 2000 census, then grew rapidly to 6,719 in 2010 and 10,550 in the 2020 census.

The 2020 census counted 3,503 households and 3,629 housing units in Brandywine.

Designated part of Prince George's County's rural tier, Brandywine remains primarily rural in character despite a suburban and commercial center where Maryland Route 5 and U.S. Route 301 merge.

Brandywine Crossing, an 800,000-square-foot shopping center that opened in October 2008, anchors the community's modern commercial development.

Children in Brandywine attend Prince George's County Public Schools, zoned to Brandywine Elementary School, Gwynn Park Middle School, and Gwynn Park High School, the last of which is located in the community.