Famous People with Name Bruce

Bruce Leslie McLaren            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bruce Leslie McLaren: was a race-car designer, driver, engineer and inventor.His name lives on in Team McLaren which has been one of the most successful in Formula One championship history, with McLaren cars and drivers winning a total of 20 world championships.

Bruce Craig Beetham            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bruce Craig Beetham: was an academic and politician from New Zealand, whose career spanned the 1970s and early 1980s.A lecturer at Hamilton's University of Waikato and at the Hamilton Teacher's Training College, he was elected leader of the Social Credit Party (which he had j

Bruce Petty            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bruce Petty: is one of Australia’s best known political satirists and cartoonists. He is a regular contributor to Melbourne's The Age newspaper. He is married to Australian award-winning novelist, Kate Grenville; they live in Balmain, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wal

Bruce Hungerford            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bruce Hungerford: was a pianist born in Korumburra, Victoria, Australia.Bruce Hungerford was originally named Leonard Hungerford. In an undated manuscript he recounts "When it came to naming me my parents were torn between 'Bruce' and 'Leonard.' I think they really wanted Bruce, but I was such a puny specimen that they hardly felt I fitted the name of the Warrior King of Scotland. Then a day or two before I was to be christened, my grandfather journeyed down to see me. He was a Scotsman to the backbone and after taking one look at me said sadly, "This is no 'Bruce', and so the die was cast, at any rate for my first 35 years." He changed his name to Bruce in 1958.

Bruce William Biddle            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bruce William Biddle: is a former road cyclist from New Zealand, who was a professional rider from 1974 to 1979.He represented his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, where he came fourth in the men's individual road race. Although Jaime Huelamo

Stanley Bruce            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Stanley Bruce: an Australian politician and diplomat

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