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Bruce E. Hansen

Bruce E. Hansen is an American econometrician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, known for threshold regression, including his highly cited 1999 paper on threshold effects in panels.

Bruce E. Hillner

Bruce E. Hillner is an American physician-researcher in oncology at Virginia Commonwealth University, known for cost-effectiveness analysis of cancer care and the 2011 NEJM article "Bending the Cost Curve in Cancer Care."

Bruce E. Johnson

Bruce E. Johnson is an American medical oncologist and lung cancer researcher at Dana-Farber and Harvard, who led trials of dabrafenib plus trametinib and served as ASCO president in 2017.

Bruce E. Kemp

Bruce E. Kemp, born 1946 in Sydney, is an Australian biochemist at St Vincent's Institute in Melbourne, a Royal Society Fellow known for kinase autoregulation and AMPK.

Bruce E. Landon

Bruce E. Landon is an American physician and health services researcher, professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School who studies payment reform and Medicare.

Bruce E. Logan

Bruce E. Logan is an American environmental engineer at Pennsylvania State University whose laboratory developed microbial fuel cells that convert wastewater into electricity and hydrogen.

Bruce E. Lyon

Bruce E. Lyon is a behavioral and evolutionary ecologist, Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Cruz, known for decades of research on American coots and conspecific brood parasitism.

Bruce E. Rittmann

Bruce E. Rittmann is an environmental engineer at Arizona State University known for pioneering biofilm fundamentals and inventing the membrane biofilm reactor, which removes contaminants from drinking water.

Bruce E. Sands

Bruce E. Sands is an American gastroenterologist and clinical researcher in inflammatory bowel disease, chief of gastroenterology at Mount Sinai since 2010 after Harvard and Massachusetts General.

Bruce E. Tabashnik

Bruce E. Tabashnik is an American entomologist at the University of Arizona known for documenting and managing insect resistance to Bt crops, and a National Academy of Sciences member.

Bruce Eames

Bruce Eames is a quantitative trader who co-founded Quantlab, a Houston proprietary high-frequency trading firm, in 1998 with Wilbur "Ed" Bosarge Jr., holding a 24 percent ownership stake.

Bruce Edward Gnade

Bruce Edward Gnade is an American materials scientist and emeritus professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.

Bruce Edwards Ivins

Bruce Edwards Ivins, USAMRIID anthrax vaccine researcher at Fort Detrick, was named by the FBI and DOJ as sole perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax letters; he died by acetaminophen overdose in July 2008 before charges, and the case closed February 19, 2010.

Bruce Elmegreen

Bruce Gordon Elmegreen (born 1950) is an American astrophysicist who spent almost 40 years at IBM Research and is known for work on triggered star formation.

Bruce F. Wollenberg

Bruce F. Wollenberg is an American power systems engineer and University of Minnesota professor emeritus who co-wrote the standard text Power Generation, Operation and Control.

Bruce Fairbairn

Bruce Fairbairn (1949-1999), Canadian record producer and trumpeter from Vancouver; produced Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet, Aerosmith's Pump, AC/DC's The Razors Edge; Juno-winning founder of the Little Mountain Sound production school.

Bruce Fegley

Bruce Fegley, Jr. is an American cosmochemist and Professor Emeritus of Earth and planetary sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, known for experimental studies of chemistry in the early solar system and planetary atmospheres.

Bruce Fink

Bruce Fink (1861–1927), American lichenologist and first professor of botany at Miami University; author of The Lichen Flora of the United States (1935, posthumous) and advocate of classifying lichens among the fungi.

Bruce Forsyth

Sir Bruce Forsyth (Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson, 1928–2017), British variety entertainer and game-show host of The Generation Game and Play Your Cards Right, Palladium star and Strictly co-host.

Bruce Foxton

Bruce Foxton (born 1955, Woking, England) is the bassist of The Jam (1977–1982), 18 UK hits and four No 1s, later Stiff Little Fingers and From the Jam; announced Parkinson's diagnosis in 2026.

Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape

Bruce Austin Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape (1888–1981), Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet; destroyed the Scharnhorst at North Cape 1943, commanded the British Pacific Fleet, signed Japan's surrender, and was First Sea Lord 1948–1951.

Bruce Furie

Bruce Furie (1944–2025) was an American hematologist and physician-scientist, Professor of Medicine Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and former Chief of Hemostasis and Thrombosis at Beth Israel Deaconess, known for discoveries in blood coagulation and thrombosis.

Bruce Furniss

Bruce MacFarlane Furniss (born 1957), American swimmer, 1976 Montreal double Olympic gold medalist in the 200 m freestyle and 4x200 m relay, both in world-record times; ten world records, ISHOF 1987.

Bruce G. Buchanan

Bruce G. Buchanan is an American computer scientist known for pioneering rule-based expert systems and machine learning through the DENDRAL and MYCIN projects at Stanford.

Bruce G. Collipp

Bruce G. Collipp was an American naval architect and offshore engineer at Shell Oil, credited as the father of the semisubmersible drilling rig, patented in 1961.

Bruce G. Johnston

Bruce G. Johnston was an American structural engineer and educator known for steel column strength research, who founded the Column Research Council and edited the Guide to Stability Design Criteria for Metal Compression Members.

Bruce Gilliat

Bruce Gilliat is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Alexa Internet with Brewster Kahle in San Francisco in 1996; Amazon bought the web navigation and traffic-ranking company in 1999 for about $250 million.

Bruce Glover

Bruce Herbert Glover (1932–2025), American character actor, father of Crispin Glover; played Bond assassin Mr. Wint in Diamonds Are Forever and Duffy in Chinatown.

Bruce Golden

Bruce Golden is a venture capitalist who has been a partner at Accel since 1997, best known for leading the firm's investments in Qlik and Responsys.

Bruce Greenwood

Bruce Greenwood (Stuart Bruce Greenwood, born 1956) is a Canadian actor known for JFK in Thirteen Days, Captain Pike in Star Trek, Dr. Randolph Bell in The Resident, and Roderick Usher in The Fall of the House of Usher.