Famous People with Name Bruno

Bruno Lawrence            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bruno Lawrence: a New Zealand musician and actor, born David Charles Lawrence in Worthing, West Sussex, England. His family migrated to New Zealand in 1946, settling in New Plymouth before moving to Wellington in 1948. He spent most of his life in New Zealand and also worked extensively in Australia. Bruno was a renowned jazz drummer, playing drums in many bands, including Blerta, and The Crocodiles. He also acted in many movies, including Goodbye Pork Pie (1981), Smash Palace (1981), The Quiet Earth (1985) , at the time the highest-grossing New Zealand film, and Bridge to Nowhere (1986).

Bruno Touschek            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bruno Touschek: was an Austrian physicist, a survivor of the Holocaust, and initiator of research on electron-positron colliders.During this period, he worked at the Studiengesellschaft für Elektronengeräte, a company affiliated to Philips, where "drift tubes" - the forerunners of the klystron - were being developed at that time. In 1943, he asked Rolf Wideröe to cooperate with him in building a betatron. When Touschek was arrested by the Gestapo in 1945, Wideroë visited him in prison, and during these meetings they continued to talk about the betatron. In particular, they conceived the idea of radiation damping for electrons circulating in a betatron.

Dylan Bruno            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dylan Bruno: While working as a model for Calvin Klein, Bruno made his television acting debut in 1995 on the NBC series High Sierra Search and Rescue. He made his film acting debut in Naked Ambition in 1997. In 1998, he had small roles in Saving Private Ryan and When

Billi Bruno            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Billi Bruno: an American child actress who plays Jim Belushi and Courtney Thorne-Smith's daughter, Gracie, on the ABC sitcom According to Jim.At age of three, when her two sisters auditioned for acting roles, she would go with her sisters. She memorized their lines often before them. She pleaded with the casting agent if she could say her lines now. Her parents then finally gave in to her precocious proclivities. She then got her big break role for Gracie on ABC's According to Jim.

Pasquale Bruno            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Pasquale Bruno: a former Italian footballer who played as a defender for a number of clubs in his homeland, Heart of Midlothian in Scotland and Wigan Athletic in England. He is currently a football analyst for Italian television.Bruno, controversially named the animal was famed for his commitment, aggression and occasional outrageous outbursts on the pitch, started his career with his home-town side U.S. Lecce in 1979. The defender moved north to Como in 1983 and then four years later joined Juventus. While with the Bianconeri he won a UEFA Cup medal, Juventus defeating Fiorentina in the 1989-90 Final, and a Coppa Italia winners medal the same season.

Giordano Bruno            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Giordano Bruno: was an Italian philosopher best-known as an early proponent of heliocentrism and the infinity of the universe. In addition to his cosmological writings, he also wrote extensive works on the art of memory, a loosely-organized group of mnemonic techniques a

Gioia Bruno            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gioia Bruno: is a popular music singer, most noted as a member of the vocal group Exposé.Bruno was born in Bari, Italy. She was raised in New Jersey. At the age of 16, she started singing in night clubs with bands, after being encouraged by her friend David Fields to