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Bruce Catton

Bruce Catton (1899-1978), American journalist and Civil War narrative historian, Pulitzer and National Book Award winner for A Stillness at Appomattox, founding editor of American Heritage, author of the Army of the Potomac trilogy and Grant biographies.

Bruce Chatwin

Bruce Chatwin (1940–1989), British writer of In Patagonia, The Viceroy of Ouidah, On the Black Hill, The Songlines, and Utz; former Sotheby's and Sunday Times figure whose fact-and-fiction travel books reshaped travel writing.

Bruce Cheng

Bruce Cheng (郑崇华), born in 1936, is the Taiwanese engineer who founded Delta Electronics in 1971 and built it into the world's largest maker of switching power supplies.

Bruce Chesebro

Bruce Chesebro is an American physician-scientist at NIAID's Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana who led research on prion diseases and retroviral brain diseases from 1979.

Bruce Clark Gates

Bruce Clark Gates is an American chemical engineer at UC Davis known for atomically dispersed catalysts, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007.

Bruce Clarke

Bruce Clarke is an investment manager who co-founded Arrowstreet Capital, a Boston-based quantitative asset manager, in 1999 and serves as the firm's chairman of the board.

Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Cockburn (born 1945, Ottawa) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist whose career runs from the 1970 self-titled debut on True North through 'Wondering Where the Lions Are,' 'If I Had a Rocket Launcher,' 12 Juno Awards, and the Order of Canada.

Bruce Cree

Bruce A. C. Cree is a neurologist and multiple sclerosis researcher at UCSF, where he is Clinical Research Director of the UCSF Multiple Sclerosis Center and led trials of ublituximab and inebilizumab.

Bruce D. Cheson

Bruce D. Cheson is an American hematologist-oncologist who led the NCI's Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program Medicine Section from 1986 to 2002, then held a chair at Georgetown.

Bruce D. Gelb

Bruce D. Gelb is an American pediatric cardiologist and human geneticist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for identifying Noonan syndrome genes.

Bruce D. Hammock

Bruce D. Hammock (1947–2026) was an American entomologist and toxicologist, Distinguished Professor at UC Davis, known for co-discovering soluble epoxide hydrolase and developing its inhibitors as drugs.

Bruce D. Kay

Bruce D. Kay is an American experimental chemical physicist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, known for molecular-beam studies of supercooled liquid water.

Bruce D. Levy

Bruce D. Levy is an American physician-scientist in pulmonary and critical care medicine who studies how lung inflammation resolves, appointed dean of WashU Medicine in 2026.

Bruce D. McCandliss

Bruce D. McCandliss is an American developmental cognitive neuroscientist who studies how children learn to read, and a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

Bruce D. Smith

Bruce D. Smith is an American archaeologist and Smithsonian curator emeritus who established eastern North America as an independent center of plant domestication, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2003.

Bruce D. Smith (American monetary economist)

Bruce D. Smith (1954–2002) was an American monetary economist who built general equilibrium models of money, banking, and growth, teaching at Cornell and the University of Texas.

Bruce D. Trapp

Bruce D. Trapp is an American neuroscientist who chairs Neurosciences at Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute, known for the 1998 finding that axons are injured in multiple sclerosis.

Bruce D. Walker

Bruce D. Walker is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who studies how some people control HIV without medication, as founding director of the Ragon Institute.

Bruce D. Weintraub

Bruce D. Weintraub is an American endocrinologist who directed thyroid research at NIH, co-invented recombinant human TSH (Thyrogen), approved in 1998, and co-founded the biotech firm Trophogen.

Bruce Damer

Bruce Damer, born 1962, is a Canadian-American scientist at UC Santa Cruz and NASA Ames known for the hot spring hypothesis for the origin of life and 1990s virtual worlds.

Bruce Davidson

Bruce Davidson, born 1949 in Newburgh, New York, is an American equestrian who won four Olympic eventing team medals across five Games from 1972 to 1996.

Bruce Davison

Bruce Davison (born 1946, Philadelphia) is an American character actor with over 300 credits, known for Willard (1971), his Oscar-nominated Longtime Companion role, and Senator Kelly in X-Men.

Bruce Demple

Bruce Demple is an American molecular biologist who studies oxidative DNA damage repair and bacterial stress sensing, a professor at Stony Brook University since 2009 after 25 years at Harvard.

Bruce Dern

Bruce MacLeish Dern (born June 4, 1936, Chicago) is an American character actor of over 80 films, known for villains in Marnie, The Cowboys, and Coming Home, with two Oscar nominations and Cannes Best Actor wins for Coming Home and Nebraska.

Bruce Dickinson

Bruce Dickinson (born Paul Dickinson, 1958) is the English lead vocalist of Iron Maiden since 1981, also a solo artist, commercial airline pilot, Cardiff Aviation founder, author, and fencer.

Bruce Dickson

Bruce Dickson (Robert Bruce Dickson, 1931-2023), Canadian ice hockey forward with the Edmonton Mercurys; won gold at Oslo 1952, Canada's last hockey gold until 2002; distinct from the Australian rower of the same name.

Bruce Doucette

Bruce A. Doucette, a Littleton, Colorado sovereign citizen who styled himself 'Superior Court Judge of the Continental uNited States of America,' ran fake common-law courts and filed bogus liens against officials; convicted of 34 felony counts in 2018 and sentenced to 38 years.

Bruce Dunlevie

Bruce Dunlevie is an American venture capitalist who co-founded Benchmark Capital in Silicon Valley in 1995, serving as a general partner for three decades of early-stage technology investing.

Bruce Dunn

Bruce Dunn is a Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at UCLA, on the faculty since 1980, known for pseudocapacitive energy storage research in transition metal oxides.

Bruce E. Engelmann

Bruce E. Engelmann is an American computational-mechanics software engineer, a Fellow at Cadence Design Systems, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018 for simulation software.