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Bruce Grobbelaar

Bruce David Grobbelaar (born 1957, Durban) is a Zimbabwean former goalkeeper, Liverpool's first choice from 1981 to 1994 with 628 appearances and 13 trophies including the 1984 European Cup, later acquitted in the 1990s match-fixing trials.

Bruce Guthrie

Bruce Guthrie is a professor of general practice at the University of Edinburgh whose 2012 Lancet study showed multimorbidity is common and starts earlier in deprived areas.

Bruce H. Hendricks

Bruce H. Hendricks is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of South Carolina since 2014, after twelve years as a magistrate judge.

Bruce H. Lipshutz

Bruce H. Lipshutz is an American organic chemist and professor at UC Santa Barbara known for green chemistry, including aqueous micellar catalysis and the surfactant TPGS-750-M.

Bruce H. Mahan

Bruce H. Mahan (1930–1982) was an American physical chemist who spent his career at UC Berkeley, pioneering the study of ion-molecule reactions and ion recombination.

Bruce H. Mann

Bruce H. Mann, Carl F. Schipper Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, American legal historian of law, debt, and bankruptcy in early America; author of Neighbors and Strangers and Republic of Debtors; husband of Senator Elizabeth Warren; ASLH president 2011-2013.

Bruce H. Price

Bruce H. Price is an American neurologist and neuropsychiatrist, chief of neurology at McLean Hospital since 1994, known for work on memory dysfunction and behavioral neurology.

Bruce H. Stewart

Bruce H. Stewart, fully Bruce Hubbard Stewart, was an American urologist at the Cleveland Clinic who showed that a blood test with CT could diagnose pheochromocytoma without angiography.

Bruce Hapke

Bruce Hapke is an American planetary scientist at the University of Pittsburgh known for the Hapke reflectance model of light scattering from airless planetary surfaces.

Bruce Harlan

Bruce Harlan was an American diver who won the 1948 Olympic gold medal in 3 meter springboard and silver in platform diving, and later coached at Michigan.

Bruce Harrell

Bruce Harrell, Seattle attorney and former three-term City Council president, served as Seattle's mayor from 2022 to January 2026 on a One Seattle agenda, created the CARE crisis-response department, and lost the 2025 mayoral election to Katie Wilson 49.47% to 50.20%.

Bruce Hart (wrestler)

Bruce Hart (born 1951), Canadian second-generation wrestler, booker, trainer, and promoter; second-oldest son of Stu and Helen Hart, longtime Stampede Wrestling leader (1985-1989, revival 1999), and author of Straight from the Hart (2011).

Bruce Hayes

Bruce Hayes (Lawrence Bruce Hayes), American swimmer born 1963 in Sarasota, Florida; 1984 Olympic gold medalist anchoring the US 4x200 freestyle relay to a 7:15.69 world record, beating Michael Gross's West Germany by 0.04 seconds; first Olympic swimming gold medalist to compete at the Gay Games (1990).

Bruce Highway

The Bruce Highway is Queensland's longest road, a 1,673-kilometer highway from Brisbane to Cairns serving coastal centers including Townsville, Mackay, and Rockhampton, with major safety and flood resilience upgrades underway.

Bruce Hood (developmental psychologist)

Bruce Hood is a developmental psychologist at the University of Bristol who studies how infants attribute minds and hidden essences, and argues the self is a constructed illusion.

Bruce Hornsby

Bruce Hornsby (born 1954, Williamsburg, Virginia), American singer-pianist-songwriter, also known as leader of Bruce Hornsby and the Range and Grateful Dead collaborator. Known for the 1986 No. 1 hit The Way It Is, three Grammy Awards, and genre-spanning bluegrass, jazz, and classical work.

Bruce J. Baum

Bruce J. Baum is an American dental researcher and protein chemist at the NIH who developed the first salivary-gland gene therapy tested in humans, for radiation-induced dry mouth.

Bruce J. Berne

Bruce J. Berne was an American theoretical chemist at Columbia University, a National Academy of Sciences member known for molecular simulation methods like RESPA and REST.

Bruce J. Gantz

Bruce J. Gantz is an American otolaryngologist and neurotologist at the University of Iowa who pioneered cochlear implantation, developed the hybrid short-electrode implant, and led the only NIH-funded cochlear implant research center.

Bruce J. Hinds III

Bruce J. Hinds III is an American materials scientist known for carbon nanotube membranes and programmable transdermal drug delivery, including a smart nicotine skin patch.

Bruce Johnston

Bruce Johnston (Bruce Arthur Johnston), American singer-songwriter, keyboardist, bassist, and producer; Beach Boys member 1965 to 2026 (with a mid-1970s hiatus), first sang on "California Girls," sang on Pet Sounds, wrote "I Write the Songs" for Barry Manilow, and left the touring band in 2026.

Bruce Johnston (criminal)

Bruce Alfred Johnston Sr. (1939–2002), Pennsylvania crime boss, led the Johnston Gang burglary ring in Chester County and was convicted in 1980 of six first-degree murders, inspiring the film At Close Range.

Bruce Jones (actor)

Bruce Jones (born 1953, real name Ian Roy Jones) is an English actor who played Les Battersby on Coronation Street (1997–2007), starred in Raining Stones and The Full Monty, and made a 2024 pro-wrestling debut.

Bruce Karsh

Bruce Karsh is an American investor who co-founded Oaktree Capital Management with Howard Marks in 1995 and serves as its Co-Chair and Chief Investment Officer.

Bruce Kendall

Bruce Kendall (Anthony Bruce Kendall), born 1964 in Papakura, New Zealand, is an Olympic boardsailor: bronze at Los Angeles 1984, gold at Seoul 1988, fourth at Barcelona 1992, brother of gold medallist Barbara Kendall, later a coach and MBE.

Bruce Kingsbury

Bruce Steel Kingsbury (1918–1942), Australian private of the 2/14th Battalion, AIF, awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for firing his Bren gun from the hip at the Battle of Isurava, Kokoda Track, on 29 August 1942, the first VC on Australian-administered territory.

Bruce Kirby (actor)

Bruce Kirby (Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu, 1925–2021), American character actor, father of Bruno Kirby; played Sgt. Kramer on Columbo, DA Bruce Rogoff on L.A. Law, and Pop Ryan in Crash.

Bruce Kovner

Bruce Kovner is an American investor who founded the macro hedge fund Caxton Associates in 1983, growing it to $10 billion before retiring in 2011.

Bruce Kulick

Bruce Kulick (born 1953, Brooklyn) is an American guitarist, KISS lead guitarist 1984–1996, later UNION co-founder and Grand Funk Railroad guitarist 2000–2023, with solo albums Audio Dog, Transformer, and BK3.

Bruce L. Evatt

Bruce L. Evatt is an American hematologist who led CDC hematology research from 1978 to 2004 and played a central role in identifying AIDS as a blood-borne disease in hemophilia.