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Bruno Kirby

Bruno Kirby (born Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu Jr., 1949–2006) was an American character actor, son of actor Bruce Kirby, known for The Godfather Part II, Good Morning, Vietnam, When Harry Met Sally..., and City Slickers.

Bruno Klaholz

Bruno P. Klaholz is a CNRS Research Director at the IGBMC near Strasbourg who studies the ribosome by cryo-electron microscopy, mapping its structure and more than 230 RNA modifications.

Bruno Lage

Bruno Lage (Bruno Miguel Silva do Nascimento), Portuguese football manager; won the 2018/19 Primeira Liga with Benfica in his first head-coach job, managed Wolves 2021-22, Botafogo 2023, and Benfica again 2024-25 before the Qarabag defeat.

Bruno Langley

Bruno Langley, born 1983 in Devon, is a British actor known for playing Todd Grimshaw, Coronation Street's first openly gay character, from 2001 to 2017; axed and convicted of sexual assault in 2017.

Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour (1947-2022), French philosopher, anthropologist, and sociologist of science; co-developer of actor-network theory with Callon and Law; author of Laboratory Life, We Have Never Been Modern, and Facing Gaia; Holberg 2013, Kyoto 2021.

Bruno Lawrence

Bruno Lawrence, born David Charles Gilbert Lawrence (1941–1995), was an English-born New Zealand drummer, composer, and screen actor known for Smash Palace, Utu, The Quiet Earth, and BLERTA.

Bruno Lemaître

Bruno Lemaître is a French immunologist whose 1996 Cell paper showed that the Toll receptor controls innate immunity in Drosophila, paving the way for Toll-like receptors.

Bruno Mars

Bruno Mars (Peter Gene Hernandez, born 1985, Honolulu), also frontman of Silk Sonic with Anderson .Paak. American pop/R&B singer-songwriter-producer: 16 Grammys from 36 nominations, 24K Magic swept the 60th Grammy Awards, fourth album The Romantic released February 2026.

Bruno Mars discography

Bruno Mars discography: four solo studio albums (Doo-Wops & Hooligans 2010, Unorthodox Jukebox 2012, 24K Magic 2016, The Romantic 2026), Silk Sonic's An Evening with Silk Sonic, EPs, and ten Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles.

Bruno Mars Live

Bruno Mars Live covers the concert career of Bruno Mars (Peter Gene Hernandez), covering the 24K Magic World Tour, Las Vegas residencies, Super Bowl halftime shows, and the record-setting 78-date Romantic Tour with the Hooligans.

Bruno Martins Indi

Bruno Martins Indi (Rolando Maximiliano Martins Indi, born 1992, Lisbon) is a Dutch defender raised in Rotterdam; Feyenoord, Porto, Stoke, AZ, Sparta Rotterdam; 36 Netherlands caps, 2014 World Cup third place.

Bruno Massot

Bruno Massot (born 1989, Caen) is a French-German retired pair skater. With Aljona Savchenko for Germany he won 2018 Olympic pairs gold (235.90) and the 2018 Worlds, setting a free-skate world record of 159.31.

Bruno Mauricio de Zabala

Bruno Mauricio de Zabala (1682–1736) was a Spanish military officer and colonial administrator who founded Montevideo in 1726 and governed the Río de la Plata from 1717.

Bruno Müller

Bruno Müller (Robert Emil Bruno Müller, 1902–1975), German rower of Ruderverein Hellas Berlin; with Kurt Moeschter won Olympic gold in the coxless pairs at Amsterdam 1928 in 7:06.4 and German titles 1927–29; insurance agent.

Bruno Munari

Bruno Munari (1907–1998) was an Italian artist, designer, and writer active in painting, industrial design, and children's publishing, and a leading figure of twentieth-century Italian art and design.

Bruno Mussolini

Bruno Mussolini (1918–1941), third son of Benito Mussolini, was an Italian bomber pilot in Ethiopia, Spain, and World War II; he commanded the 274ª Squadriglia and died in a Piaggio P.108B crash at Pisa on 7 August 1941.

Bruno Pontecorvo

Bruno Pontecorvo (1913–1993) was an Italian nuclear physicist and student of Enrico Fermi who first proposed neutrino oscillations and defected to the Soviet Union in 1950.

Bruno Retailleau

Bruno Retailleau is a French politician who has led Les Républicains since 2025 and was designated in 2026 as the party's candidate for the 2027 presidential election.

Bruno Reversade

Bruno Reversade is a French developmental geneticist who leads a human embryology laboratory at A*STAR in Singapore, known for work on morphogen gradients and hereditary identical twinning.

Bruno Rossi

Bruno Rossi (1905–1993) was an Italian-American experimental physicist who invented the first electronic coincidence circuit in 1929, measured cosmic radiation's two components, discovered the magnetopause, and pioneered X-ray astronomy at MIT.

Bruno S. Bauer

Bruno S. Bauer is an American plasma physicist, professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, who received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 1997.

Bruno S. Frey

Bruno S. Frey, born 1941 in Basel, is a Swiss economist known for motivation crowding theory, happiness economics, and public choice, and he directs CREMA in Zurich.

Bruno Sammartino

Bruno Sammartino (1935–2018), Italian-American wrestler, longest-reigning WWE/WWWF Champion at 2,803 days (1963–71), two-time champion totaling 4,040 days, 187 Madison Square Garden sellouts, WWE Hall of Fame 2013.

Bruno Sander

Bruno Sander (1884–1979) was an Austrian geologist and professor at Innsbruck who founded petrofabric analysis, the science of rock fabrics, with his 1930 textbook Gefügekunde der Gesteine.

Bruno Schulz

Bruno Schulz (1892–1942) was a Polish prose writer and graphic artist of Jewish origin, known for the short story collections The Cinnamon Shops and Sanatorium under the Hourglass.

Bruno Scrosati

Bruno Scrosati (1937–2024) was an Italian electrochemist at Sapienza University of Rome who pioneered rechargeable lithium batteries, including the 1980 rocking-chair cell that became the prototype of the lithium-ion battery.

Bruno Senna

Bruno Senna (Bruno Senna Lalli, born 1983, São Paulo) is a Brazilian racing driver, nephew of Ayrton Senna; ex-F1 driver with HRT, Renault, and Williams, 2017 WEC LMP2 champion with Rebellion, ex-Mahindra Formula E driver, now McLaren ambassador.

Bruno Silva-Santos

Bruno Silva-Santos is a Portuguese immunologist and Full Professor at the University of Lisbon known for research on gamma-delta T cells and their use in cancer immunotherapy.

Bruno Spire

Bruno Spire is a French physician-scientist and INSERM research director in Marseille who studies HIV prevention and led the behavioral research of the IPERGAY PrEP trial.

Bruno Streckenbach

Bruno Streckenbach (1902–1977), SS-Gruppenführer, headed RSHA Office I (Personnel), commanded Einsatzgruppe I in Poland 1939, was first BdS in Kraków, organized Einsatzgruppen training at Pretzsch, and died untried in Hamburg.