Bruce

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

Bruce Altman (born 1955), American actor

Bruce Baillie (1931–2020), American filmmaker

Bruce Bennett (1906–2007), American actor and athlete

Bruce Berman (born 1952), American film producer

Bruce Boa (1930–2004), Canadian actor

Bruce Boxleitner (born 1950), American actor

Bruce Campbell (born 1958), American actor, director, writer, producer and author

Bruce Conner (1933–2008), American artist and filmmaker

Bruce Davison (born 1946), American actor and director

Bruce Dern (born 1936), American actor

Bruce Forsyth (1928–2017), English television host and entertainer

Bruce Glover (1932–2025), American actor

Bruce Gowers (1940–2023), English television director and producer

Bruce Gray (1936–2017), American-Canadian actor

Bruce Greenwood (born 1956), Canadian actor

Bruce Helford (born 1952), American TV writer and producer

Bruce Herbelin-Earle (born 1998), English-French actor and model

Music

Bruce Abel (1936–2021), American singer

Bruce C. Allen (died 2009), American guitarist in The Suburbs

Bruce Barth (born 1958), American jazz pianist and composer

Bruce Cockburn (born 1945), Canadian guitarist, singer-songwriter, and author

Bruce Corbitt (1962–2019), American heavy metal vocalist

Bruce Dickinson (born 1958), English singer, songwriter, writer, and brewer

Bruce Guthro (born 1961), Canadian singer-songwriter

Bruce Hart (songwriter) (1938–2006), American songwriter and screenwriter

Bruce Hornsby (born 1954), American singer-songwriter and pianist

Bruce Johnston (born 1942), American musician, singer, songwriter, arranger, and record producer

Bruce Kulick (born 1953), American musician

Bruce Levingston, American concert pianist

Bruce Molsky, (born 1955), American multi-instrumentalist and singer

Bruce Montgomery, pen name Edmund Crispin, English crime writer and composer

Bruce Montgomery (musical director) (1927–2008), composer, artist, conductor, and director from Philadelphia

Other arts and entertainment

Bruce Allen (manager), Canadian manager of musical artists

Bruce Angrave (1914–1983), English poster artist, illustrator and author

Bruce Bawer (born 1956), American author and cultural critic

Bruce Hart (wrestler) (born 1950), Canadian professional wrestler

Bruce Gray (sculptor) (1956–2019), American sculptor

Bruce McCall (1935–2023), Canadian author and illustrator

Bruce Montgomery, pen name Edmund Crispin, English crime writer and composer

Bruce Moon (born c. 1951), American art therapist

Bruce Morrow (born 1935 or 1937), American radio personality born Bruce Meyerowitz

Bruce Nauman (born 1941), American multi-media artist

Bruce Petty (1929–2023), Australian political satirist, sculptor and cartoonist

Bruce Sterling, American science fiction writer

Bruce Wands (1949–2022), American digital artist and educator

Bruce Weber (photographer) (born 1946), American fashion photographer and filmmaker

Bruce West (artist) (1939–2021), American sculptor

Business

Bruce Rauner (born 1957), American businessman and politician

Bruce Ritchie (born 1965), English property developer

Bruce Rockowitz (born 1958/59), American businessman

Crime and the law

Bruce Lander (born 1946), Federal Court of Australia judge

Bruce George Peter Lee (born 1960), English serial killer and arsonist

Bruce Lindahl (1953–1981), American serial killer

Bruce Mendenhall (born 1951), American suspected serial killer

Bruce McArthur (born 1951), Canadian serial killer

Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, American mass murderer and perpetrator of the 2009 Covina massacre

Military

Bruce W. Carr (1924–1998), American World War II flying ace

Bruce W. Carter (1950–1969), American Marine killed in the Vietnam War, awarded the Medal of Honor

Politics

Bruce F. Allen (1917–1986), American politician

Bruce Baird (1942–2026), Australian politician

Bruce Blakeman (1955–present), American politician

Bruce Fanjoy, Canadian politician

Bruce Haigh (1945–2023), Australian political commentator and diplomat

Bruce Harrell (born 1958), American politician

Bruce Kent (1929–2022), English political activist and priest

Bruce Laingen (1922–2019), American diplomat

Bruce Marks (politician) (born 1957), American politician

Bruce Nestande (1938–2020), American politician

Bruce Rauner (born 1957), American businessman and politician

Bruce Reed (born 1960), American political advisor and non-profit administrator

Bruce Reid (politician) (1935–2020), Australian politician

Bruce Russett (1935–2023), American political scientist

Bruce Vento (1940–2000), American politician

Bruce Westerman (born 1967), American politician

Bruce A. White, American politician

Science, technology and medicine

Bruce Allen (physicist) (born 1959), American physicist

Bruce G. Blair (1947–2020), American nuclear security expert, research scholar, author, and TV producer

Bruce Chorpita (born 1967), American clinical psychologist

Bruce Fuchs, American immunologist and health science administrator

Bruce Irons (engineer) (1924–1983), Canadian engineer and mathematician

Bruce Lerman, American cardiologist

Bruce Perens, computer programmer, open source founder

Bruce Schneier (born 1963), cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist and writer

Bruce Webster, American software engineer, educator, and author

Bruce Western (born 1964), American sociologist

Bruce Wilcox (born 1951), American programmer

Sports

Bruce Allen (American football) (born 1956), American football executive

Bruce Allen (drag racer), American drag racer

Bruce Arena (born 1951), American national soccer coach

Bruce Arians (born 1952), American football head coach

Bruce Bennett (1943–2021), American football player

Bruce Bochte (born 1950), American baseball player

Bruce Bochy (born 1955), American retired baseball team manager and player

Bruce Bolden (born 1963), American basketball player

Bruce Bowen (born 1971) American basketball player

Bruce Boudreau (born 1955), Canadian hockey player and coach

Bruce Branch (born 1978), American football player

Bruce Carter (American football) (born 1988), American football player

Bruce Chen (born 1977), Panamanian professional baseball pitcher

Bruce Claridge (died 1999), Canadian football player

Bruce Curry (born 1956), American former professional boxer

Bruce Dalrymple (born 1964), American basketball player

Other

Bruce (kea), a male kea studied for his accommodation of a beak disability

Bruce R. McConkie (1915–1985), American LDS Church leader and author

Bruce Parry (born 1969), English explorer, author, indigenous rights advocate and documentarian

Fictional characters

The Bruces, from the Monty Python Bruces sketch

Bruce Banner, the alter ego of the Hulk

Bruce Wayne, the alter ego of Batman

Bruce Nolan, Bruce Almighty