Bruce
The English language name Bruce arrived in Scotland with the Normans,[1] from the place name Brix, Manche in Normandy, France, meaning "the willowlands". Initially promulgated via the descendants of king Robert the Bruce (1274−1329), it has been a Scottish surname since medieval times; it is now a common given name.
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Meaning | the willowlands |
| Popularity | see popular names |
The variant Lebrix and Le Brix are French variations of the surname.
Actors
- Bruce Bennett (1906–2007), American actor and athlete
- Bruce Boxleitner (born 1950), American actor
- Bruce Campbell (born 1958), American actor, director, writer, producer and author
- Bruce Davison (born 1946), American actor and director
- Bruce Dern (born 1936), American actor and intellectual
- Bruce Gray (1936–2017), American-Canadian actor
- Bruce Greenwood (born 1956), Canadian actor and musician
- Bruce Herbelin-Earle (born 1998), English-French actor and model
- Bruce Jones (born 1953), English actor
- Bruce Kirby (1925–2021), American actor
- Bruce Lee (1940–1973), martial artist and movie star
- Bruce Lester (1912–2008), English actor
- Bruce McCulloch (born 1961), Canadian actor and comedian
- Bruce McGill (born 1950), American actor
- Bruce Payne, English actor
- Bruce Spence (born 1945), New Zealander-Australian actor
- Bruce Willis (born 1955), American actor
Musicians
- Bruce Abel (1936–2021), American singer
- Bruce Cockburn (born 1945), Canadian guitarist, singer-songwriter, and author
- Bruce Dickinson (born 1958), English singer, songwriter, writer, and brewer
- Bruce Guthro (born 1961), Canadian singer-songwriter
- 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 Springsteen (born 1949), American singer-songwriter, and musician
Sports
- 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 Boudreau (born 1955), Canadian hockey player and coach
- 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 Dalrymple (born 1964), American basketball player
- Bruce Dombolo (born 1985), French footballer
- Bruce Fleisher (born 1948), American professional golfer
- Bruce Gamble (1938-1982), Canadian professional ice hockey goalie
- Bruce Grobbelaar (born 1957), Zimbabwean football goalkeeper and manager
- Bruce Hector (born 1994), American football player
- Bruce Holmes (born 1965), American football player
- Bruce Irons (born 1979), American surfer
- Bruce Irvin (born 1987), American football player
- Bruce Jankowski (born 1949), American football player
- Bruce Jenner (now Caitlyn Jenner; born 1949), Olympic gold medalist, auto racer, businessperson, television personality
- Bruce LaSane (born 1967), American football player
- Bruce Manson (born 1956), American tennis player
- Bruce McCray (born 1963), American football player
- Bruce McLaren (1937–1970), New Zealander race car driver and designer
- Bruce McPhail (1937–2020), New Zealander rugby union player
- Bruce Pandolfini (born 1947), American chess author, teacher, and coach
- Bruce Seldon (born 1967), American boxing heavyweight and world champion
- Bruce Smith (halfback) (1920–1967), American football player
- Bruce Smith (Australian footballer) (born 1944), Australian rules footballer
- Bruce Smith (cricketer) (born 1946), New Zealand cricketer
- Bruce Smith (Canadian football) (1949–2013), Canadian football player
- Bruce Smith (luger) (born 1958), Canadian luger
- Bruce Smith (rugby union) (born 1959), New Zealand rugby union player
- Bruce Smith (born 1963), American football player
- Bruce Sutter (born 1953), American professional baseball pitcher
Other professions
- Bruce Allen (disambiguation), multiple people
- Bruce Angrave (1914–1983), British poster artist, illustrator and author
- Bruce Bawer (born 1956), American author and cultural critic
- Bruce Berman (born 1952), American film producer
- Bruce W. Carr (1924–1998), American flying ace during World War II
- Bruce W. Carter (1950–1969), American Marine killed during the Vietnam War, awarded Medal of Honor
- Bruce Conner (1933–2008), American artist and filmmaker
- Bruce Durie (born 1954), Scottish genealogist, broadcaster and author
- Bruce Forsyth (1928–2017), English TV host and entertainer
- Bruce Fuchs, American immunologist and health science administrator
- Bruce Gray (1956–2019), American sculptor
- Bruce Lander (born 1946), Judge of the Federal Court of Australia
- Bruce George Peter Lee (born 1960), prolific British serial killer, arsonist, and mass murderer
- Bruce Lerman, American cardiologist; Chief of the Division of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory at Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Presbyterian Hospital
- Bruce Lindahl (1953–1981), American serial killer
- Bruce Marks (born 1957), American politician
- Thomas Donald Bruce McArthur (born 1951), Canadian serial killer; better known as Bruce McArthur
- Bruce McCall (born 1935), Canadian author and illustrator
- Bruce Mendenhall (born 1951), American suspected serial killer
- Bruce Morrow ("Cousin Brucie"), American radio personality
- Bruce Montgomery (disambiguation), multiple people
- Bruce Nauman (born 1941), American artist
- Bruce Nestande (1938–2020), American politician
- Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, American mass murderer and perpetrator of the 2009 Covina massacre
- Bruce Parry (born 1969), English explorer, author, indigenous rights advocate and documentarian
- Bruce Perens, computer programmer, open source founder
- Bruce Rauner (born 1957), American businessman and politician
- Bruce Ritchie (born 1965), British property developer
- Bruce Rockowitz (born 1958/59), American businessman
- Bruce Sterling, American science fiction writer
- Bruce Schneier (born 1963), cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist and writer
- Bruce Thorburn, from the Hooley Dooleys
- Bruce Vento (1940–2000), American politician
- Bruce Weber (born 1946), American fashion photographer and filmmaker
- Bruce Webster, American software engineer, educator, and author
- Bruce West (1939–2021), American artist
- Bruce Westerman (born 1967), American politician
- Bruce Prichart Western (born 1964), American sociologist
- Bruce Wilcox (born 1951), American programmer
Fictional characters
- Bruce, one of the Delightful Children From Down The Lane on Codename: Kids Next Door
- Bruce, a great white shark in Finding Nemo
- Bruce, a replica of the shark from the 1975 film Jaws displayed at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the nickname given by the film crew to the prop sharks
- The Bruces from the Monty Python Bruces sketch
- Bruce Banner, the alter ego of the Hulk
- Bruce Ben-Bacharach, the main character's manager in Lady Dynamite
- "The Bruce Dickinson", from the SNL More Cowbell sketch
- Bruce Irvin, a Muay Thai kickboxer and fictional character from the Tekken series
- Bruce McKenzie, effeminate minor character in Family Guy
- Bruce Nolan, a reporter who is offered a chance to be God for a week in Bruce Almighty
- Bruce Sato, in the cartoon M.A.S.K. (TV series)
- Bruce Wayne, a billionaire and the secret identity of Batman
- Bruce, a penguin-like species on the virtual pet website Neopets. It was named after Bruce Forsyth.[2]
See also
- Bruce (surname), people with surname Bruce
- Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, a Canadian nuclear reactor facility
- Bruce, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of the Belconnen district of Canberra
- All pages with titles beginning with Bruce
References
- Campbell, Mike. "Meaning, origin and history of the name Bruce". Behind the Name. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
- "Old Neopets | Neopets History | Book of Ages". bookofages.jellyneo.net. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
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