Famous People with Name Bruce

Bruce Dwayne Perinchief            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bruce Dwayne Perinchief: is a former Bermudian cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a leg-break bowler. He played three List A matches for Bermuda in the 1996 Red Stripe Bowl, and also played for them in the ICC Trophy in 1994 and 1997.

Bruce Miller            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bruce Miller: is a retired Canadian soccer player who played professionally in the North American Soccer League, and Major Indoor Soccer League. He also earned eight caps with the Canadian national team and coached the Cleveland Crunch to two National Professional Soccer League titles. He now coaches youth soccer in Northern Ohio. Miller played collegiat soccer with Simon Fraser University in 1975 and 1976. SFU reached the NAIA national men's soccer championship finals in 1975 and won the championship 1976. Miller played eight times for Canada. He made his 1975 debut against Cuba at 17 years, 6 months of age which until as recently as the late 1990s was (and still may be) the youngest 'A' international debut of a Canadian. After his retirement from playing, Miller spent six years coaching soccer at the Minnesota Sports Center. Miller was head coach of the Cleveland Crunch of the National Professional Soccer League for 5 and a half seasons.

Bruce Alec Wilson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bruce Alec Wilson: was a NASL and Canadian international soccer player. He played the second most games of any player in the former league, 299 (276 regular season and 23 playoff). He also captained the Canadian team at the 1986 FIFA World Cup finals, the sole time Canada has appeared. He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame. Wilson earned 51 caps for Canada. In 1998, he was selected to a CONCACAF "team of the century", the only Canadian to receive the honour.

Bruce Samuel Seldon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bruce Samuel Seldon: was the World Boxing Association Heavyweight champion from 1995 to 1996. It was after a boxing match between Seldon and Mike Tyson that Tupac Shakur was murdered in a drive-by shooting. Seldon lost his WBA Heavyweight Championship to Mike Tyson in the fir

Bruce Arena            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bruce Arena: is a former coach of the United States men's national soccer team as well as a former professional soccer and lacrosse player. He is the head coach of Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer and a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.Arena then s

Lenny Bruce            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lenny Bruce: was an American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial led to the first posthumous pardon in New York history.Leonard Alfred Schneider was born in Mineola, New York, grew up in nearby Bellmore and attended Wellington C. Mepham High School. His youth was chaotic; his parents divorced when he was five years old and Lenny moved in with various relatives over the next decade. His mother, Sally Marr (née Sadie Kitchenberg), was a stage performer who had an enormous influence on Bruce's career. After spending time working on a farm with a family that provided the stable surroundings he needed, he joined the United States Navy at the age of 17 in 1942, and saw active duty in Europe until his discharge in 1946.

Patrick Henry Bruce            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Patrick Henry Bruce: was an American cubist painter.A descendant of Patrick Henry, Bruce was born in Campbell County, Virginia, the second of four children. His family had once owned a huge plantation, Berry Hill, worked by over 3,000 slaves. Berry Hill is now a resort & conference center outside South Boston, Virginia and is now a National Historic Landmark. Berry Hill Estate originally was part of a 105,000-acre (420 km2) tract granted by the English Crown in 1728 to William Byrd II. The Civil War left the Bruce's wealth greatly diminished. Bruce began taking evening classes at the Art Club of Richmond in 1898, while working in a real estate office during the daytime. His earliest known extant painting dates from 1900.[1]

Carol Bruce            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Carol Bruce: was an American band singer, Broadway star, and film and television actress.Bruce was born Shirley Levy in Great Neck, New York, the daughter of Beatrice and Harry Levy.[1] She began her career as a singer in the late 1930s with Larry Clinton and his band

Dwayne Bruce            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dwayne Bruce: is a professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Sgt. Buddy Lee Parker. Bruce was a trainer at the WCW Power Plant wrestling school.Boot only lasted a short time before Buddy Lee Parker returned, this time as a Military Sergeant. Bruce's final w

Thomas ("Tom") Edwin Bruce Bruce            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Thomas ("Tom") Edwin Bruce Bruce: is a former US swimmer. He attended UCLA and swam in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany; There he won an individual silver in 100m breaststroke, and was part of the team that won gold on the 4x100m medley relay.