The English language name Bruce arrived in Scotland with the Normans, from the place name Brix, Manche in Normandy, France, meaning "the willowlands". Initially promulgated via the descendants of king Robert the Bruce (1274−1329), it has been a Scottish surname since medieval times; it is now a common given name. The variant ''Lebrix'' and ''Le Brix'' are French language, French variations of the surname.

Actors

* Bruce Bennett (1906–2007), American actor and athlete * Bruce Boxleitner (born 1950), American actor * Bruce Campbell (born 1958), American actor, director, writer, producer and author * Bruce Davison (born 1946), American actor and director * Bruce Dern (born 1936), American actor * Bruce Gray (1936–2017), American-Canadian actor * Bruce Greenwood (born 1956), Canadian actor and musician * Bruce Herbelin-Earle (born 1998), English-French actor and model * Bruce Jones (actor), Bruce Jones (born 1953), English actor * Bruce Kirby (actor), Bruce Kirby (1925–2021), American actor * Bruce Lee (1940–1973), martial artist and movie star * Bruce Lester (1912–2008), English actor * Bruce McCulloch (born 1961), Canadian actor and comedian * Bruce McGill (born 1950), American actor * Bruce Payne, English actor * Bruce Spence (born 1945), New Zealander-Australian actor * Bruce Willis (born 1955), American actor

Musicians

* Bruce Abel (1936–2021), American singer * Bruce Cockburn (born 1945), Canadian guitarist, singer-songwriter, and author * Bruce Dickinson (born 1958), English singer, songwriter, writer, and brewer * Bruce Guthro (born 1961), Canadian singer-songwriter * Bruce Hornsby (born 1954), American singer-songwriter and pianist * Bruce Johnston (born 1942), American musician, singer, songwriter, arranger, and record producer * Bruce Kulick (born 1953), American musician * Bruce Levingston, American concert pianist * Bruce Molsky, (born 1955), American multi-instrumentalist and singer * Bruce Springsteen (born 1949), American singer-songwriter, and musician * Bruce Welch (born 1941), English guitarist, songwriter, and producer

Sports

* Bruce Arena (born 1951), American national soccer coach * Bruce Arians (born 1952), American football head coach * Bruce Bennett (Canadian football), Bruce Bennett (1943–2021), American football player * Bruce Bochte (born 1950), American baseball player * Bruce Bochy (born 1955), American retired baseball team manager and player * Bruce Bolden (born 1963), American basketball player * Bruce Bowen (born 1971) American basketball player * Bruce Boudreau (born 1955), Canadian hockey player and coach * Bruce Carter (American football) (born 1988), American football player * Bruce Chen (born 1977), Panamanian professional baseball pitcher * Bruce Claridge (died 1999), Canadian football player * Bruce Dalrymple (born 1964), American basketball player * Bruce Dombolo (born 1985), French footballer * Bruce Fleisher (born 1948), American professional golfer * Bruce Gamble (1938-1982), Canadian professional ice hockey goalie * Bruce Grobbelaar (born 1957), Zimbabwean football goalkeeper and manager * Bruce Hector (born 1994), American football player * Bruce Holmes (born 1965), American football player * Bruce Irons (surfer), Bruce Irons (born 1979), American surfer * Bruce Irvin (born 1987), American football player * Bruce Jankowski (born 1949), American football player * Bruce Jenner (now Caitlyn Jenner; born 1949), Olympic gold medalist, auto racer, businessperson, television personality * Bruce Kent (cyclist) (1928–1979), New Zealander cyclist * Bruce LaSane (born 1967), American football player * Bruce Manson (born 1956), American tennis player * Bruce McCray (born 1963), American football player * Bruce McLaren (1937–1970), New Zealander race car driver and designer, Founder of McLaren * Bruce McPhail (1937–2020), New Zealander rugby union player * Bruce Pandolfini (born 1947), American chess author, teacher, and coach * Bruce Reid (born 1963) is a former Australian Test cricketer * Bruce Reid Sr. (1929–1955), Footscray VFL footballer * Bruce Reid Jr. (born 1955), Footscray and Carlton VFL footballer * Bruce K. Reid (1950–1970), South Melbourne VFL footballer * Bruce Reid (doctor) (1946–2020), Hawthorn VFL footballer and Essendon club doctor * Bruce Seldon (born 1967), American boxing heavyweight and world champion * Bruce Smith (halfback) (1920–1967), American football player * Bruce Smith (Australian footballer) (born 1944), Australian rules footballer * Bruce Smith (cricketer) (born 1946), New Zealand cricketer * Bruce Smith (Canadian football) (1949–2013), Canadian football player * Bruce Smith (luger) (born 1958), Canadian luger * Bruce Smith (rugby union) (born 1959), New Zealand rugby union player * Bruce Smith (born 1963), American football player * Bruce Sutter (1953–2022), American baseball pitcher * Bruce Tasker (born 1987), bobsledder

Other professions

* Bruce Allen (disambiguation), multiple people * Bruce Angrave (1914–1983), British poster artist, illustrator and author * Bruce Bawer (born 1956), American author and cultural critic * Bruce Berman (born 1952), American film producer * Bruce G. Blair (1947–2020), American nuclear security expert, research scholar, author, and TV producer * Bruce W. Carr (1924–1998), American flying ace during World War II * Bruce W. Carter (1950–1969), American Marine killed during the Vietnam War, awarded Medal of Honor * Bruce Conner (1933–2008), American artist and filmmaker * Bruce Forsyth (1928–2017), English TV host and entertainer * Bruce Fuchs, American immunologist and health science administrator * Bruce Gray (sculptor), Bruce Gray (1956–2019), American sculptor * Bruce Kent (1929–2022), British political activist and priest * Bruce Lander (born 1946), Judge of the Federal Court of Australia * Bruce George Peter Lee (born 1960), prolific British serial killer, arsonist, and mass murderer * Bruce Lerman, American cardiologist; Chief of the Division of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory at Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Presbyterian Hospital * Bruce Lindahl (1953–1981), American serial killer * Bruce Marks (born 1957), American politician * 2010-2017 Toronto serial homicides#Perpetrator, Thomas Donald Bruce McArthur (born 1951), Canadian serial killer; better known as Bruce McArthur * Bruce McCall (born 1935), Canadian author and illustrator * Bruce Mendenhall (born 1951), American suspected serial killer * Bruce Morrow ("Cousin Brucie"), American radio personality * Bruce Montgomery (disambiguation), multiple people * Bruce Nauman (born 1941), American artist * Bruce Nestande (1938–2020), American politician * Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, American mass murderer and perpetrator of the 2009 Covina massacre * Bruce Parry (born 1969), English explorer, author, indigenous rights advocate and documentarian * Bruce Perens, computer programmer, open source founder * Bruce Rauner (born 1957), American businessman and politician * Bruce Reid (politician) (1935–2020), Australian Liberal Party politician * Bruce Ritchie (born 1965), British property developer * Bruce Rockowitz (born 1958/59), American businessman * Bruce Sterling, American science fiction writer * Bruce Schneier (born 1963), cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist and writer * Bruce Thorburn, from the Hooley Dooleys * Bruce Vento (1940–2000), American politician * Bruce Weber (photographer), Bruce Weber (born 1946), American fashion photographer and filmmaker * Bruce Webster, American software engineer, educator, and author * Bruce West (artist), Bruce West (1939–2021), American artist * Bruce Westerman (born 1967), American politician * Bruce Western, Bruce Prichart Western (born 1964), American sociologist * Bruce Wilcox (born 1951), American programmer

Fictional characters

* Bruce, one of the Delightful Children From Down The Lane on ''Codename: Kids Next Door'' * Bruce, a great white shark in ''Finding Nemo'' * Bruce, a replica of the shark from the 1975 film ''Jaws (film), Jaws'' displayed at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the nickname given by the film crew to the prop sharks * The Bruces, from the ''Monty Python'' Bruces sketch * Bruce Banner, the alter ego of the ''Hulk'' * Bruce Ben-Bacharach, the main character's manager in ''Lady Dynamite'' * "''The'' Bruce Dickinson", from the ''SNL'' More Cowbell sketch * Bruce Hyena, a supporting character in the Geronimo Stilton book franchise * Bruce Irvin, a Muay Thai kickboxer and fictional character from the ''Tekken'' series * Bruce McKenzie, effeminate minor character in ''Family Guy'' * Bruce Nolan, a reporter who is offered a chance to be God for a week in ''Bruce Almighty'' * Bruce Sato, from the cartoon ''M.A.S.K. (TV series), M.A.S.K.'' * Bruce Wayne, a billionaire and the secret identity of Batman * Bruce, a penguin-like species on the virtual pet website Neopets. It was named after Bruce Forsyth.

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