  We obtain models of chaotic, slow--roll, hybrid and D--term inflation from
the Hanany--Witten brane configuration and its deformations. The deformations
are given by the different orientations of the branes and control the
parameters of the scalar potential such as the inflaton mass, Yukawa couplings
and the anomalous D--term. The different inflationary models are continuously
connected and arise in different limits of the parameter space. We describe a
compactified version of the brane construction that also leads to models of
inflation.
