Famous People with Name Bruce

Bruce Duperouzel            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bruce Duperouzel: is a former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda and Footscray in the VFL. Duperouzel started his career at WANFL club Claremont, playing 86 games in his five seasons and winning their 1971 Fairest and best award. While in Western Australia he represented his state in five first-class cricket matches.

Bruce William Neill            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bruce William Neill: was an Australian cricket player, who played for the Tasmanian Tigers. He was a right-handed batsman who only represented the team briefly in the 1977/78 season.

Bruce Richard Doolan            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bruce Richard Doolan: was an Australian cricket player, who played for the Tasmanian Tigers. His career was from 1972 until 1978. Doolan was a left-handed batsman and wicket-keeper. He was a member of the Tasmanian Tigers team which played in the state's first ever Sheffield Shield match in 1977, and was a member of the 1978-79 Gillette Cup winning side.

Bruce Robert Blair            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bruce Robert Blair: is a New Zealand cricketer. He played 14 One Day Internationals for New Zealand in the 1980s. After retiring from playing, Blair went onto coach Northern Districts from 2001 to 2006. He is currently a coaching services advisor at the New Zealand Academy o

Bruce Philip Martin            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bruce Philip Martin: is a New Zealand cricketer who plays for the Northern Districts in the State Championship and Northland in the Hawke Cup, he is a slow left-arm orthodox spin. He was born in Whangarei and attended school in Kerikeri in the Bay of Islands. Although Martin

Mary Grant Bruce            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Mary Grant Bruce: also known as Minnie Bruce, was an Australian children's author and journalist. While all her thirty-seven books enjoyed popular success in Australia and overseas, particularly in the United Kingdom, she was most famous for the Billabong series, focussing on the adventures of the Linton family on Billabong Station in Victoria and in England and Ireland during World War I.Her writing was considered influential in forming concepts of Australian national identity, especially in relation to visions of the Bush. It was characterised by fierce patriotism, vivid descriptions of the beauties and dangers of the Australian landscape, and humorous, colloquial dialogue celebrating the art of yarning. Her books were also notable and influential through championing of what Bruce held up as the quintessentially Australian Bush values of independence, hard physical labour (for women and children as well as men), mateship, the ANZAC spirit and Bush hospitality against more decadent, self-centred or stolid urban and British values. Her books simultaneously celebrated and mourned the gradual settlement, clearing and development of the Australian wilderness by Europeans.

Robert Bruce            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Robert Bruce: was a Scottish-born professional wrestler and talent agent in Auckland, New Zealand.Bruce retired from wrestling due to injuries to his back and elbows, and decided to form a talent agency in 1978 when he realised that there was no such company in New Zea

Callum Bruce            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Callum Bruce: is a New Zealand rugby union player. Bruce formally played for the Super 14 team Highlanders. He now plays for the Super 14 team Chiefs. Although his normal position is second five-eighth, Bruce has also covered first five-eighth for the Highlanders when

Stanley Melbourne Bruce            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Stanley Melbourne Bruce: was an Australian politician and diplomat, and the eighth Prime Minister of Australia. He was the second Australian granted an hereditary peerage of the United Kingdom, but the first whose peerage was formally created. He was the first incumbent Prime Min

Henry Adam Bruce            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Henry Adam Bruce: was an Australian politician of Queensland.In 1932, he was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for The Tableland. In that year he was appointed Secretary of Public Works; in 1938 he was also made Secretary of Public Instruct