Famous People with Name Bruce

Bruce Alfred Bolton            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bruce Alfred Bolton: Bolton was a right-handed opening batsman and a useful leg-spin bowler who played for almost 10 years for Canterbury in New Zealand domestic cricket and then, after a year's break, for a further five seasons for Wellington.

Bruce Anthony Reid            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bruce Anthony Reid: He represented Australia in Test cricket between December 1985 and December 1992 and in One Day Internationals between January 1986 and March 1992. He played 27 Test matches for Australia taking 113 Test wickets at an average of 24.63 runs per wicket. He also played 61 one-day-internationals taking 63 ODI wickets. Reid played for Western Australia in the Sheffield Shield.

Bruce Colin Francis            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bruce Colin Francis: is a former Australian cricketer who played in 3 Tests in 1972.

Bruce Donald Morrison            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bruce Donald Morrison: Morrison, who bowled right arm medium pace but was a left handed tail-end batsman[1] first appeared for his local side, Hutt Valley, in an away game at Nelson in the Hawke Cup (25-27 December 1951) [2].

Bruce Dooland            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bruce Dooland: As his figures show, he was a fine bowler and a useful batsman. His Test career was cut short when, after Doug Ring and Colin McCool were preferred as the leg spin bowlers in the 1948 Australian touring party to England, he came to England to play in the Lancashire League and then qualified by residence to play for Nottinghamshire.

William Bruce            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

William Bruce: was an Australian cricketer who played in 14 Tests between 1885 and 1895.

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