Famous People with Name Bruce

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.

Bruce Malcolm Laird            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bruce Malcolm Laird: is a former Western Australian and Australian cricketer.

Bruce Richard Taylor            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bruce Richard Taylor: scored 105 and took 5-86 for New Zealand on Test debut against India at Calcutta in 1964-65, the only man to have completed this feat. Taylor, who had never scored a first-class century before, came in at No. 8 and slammed 105 in 158 minutes with 14 fours and three sixes and helped Bert Sutcliffe (151 not out) add 163 for the seventh wicket. He also scored New Zealand's fastest Test century in 1969, his record was broken by Daniel Vettori in 2005.

Bruce Yardley            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bruce Yardley: He was an off-spin bowler who took 126 Test wickets. In 1981/82 he took his Test-best of 7/98 against the West Indies at Sydney. He and fellow West Australian Bruce Reid are the only two bowlers to take 100 wickets for Australia without playing in a Test in England.

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.

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