Society and history

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 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 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 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 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. 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 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%.

Oct 10, 2026

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 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 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 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 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 Lehrmann

Bruce Lehrmann, former Australian political adviser to Senator Linda Reynolds, whose aborted 2022 rape trial and failed 2024 defamation suit against Network Ten led to a civil finding he raped Brittany Higgins, upheld on appeal in 2025.

Bruce Levine (immunologist)

Bruce Levine is an American cancer gene therapy researcher at the University of Pennsylvania who co-invented Kymriah, the first FDA-approved gene therapy, and co-founded Tmunity Therapeutics.

Bruce M. Davis

Bruce M. Davis (1942–2026) was an American murderer and Manson Family lieutenant convicted in 1972 of the 1969 killings of Gary Hinman and Donald Shea.

Bruce Morrow

Bruce Morrow, known as Cousin Brucie (born Bruce Meyerowitz), American radio disc jockey; WABC New York evening host 1961–1974, Beatles introducer at Shea Stadium 1965, later WCBS-FM, SiriusXM, and WABC.

Bruce R. McConkie

Bruce R. McConkie (1915–1985) was an American apostle of the LDS Church who served in the Quorum of the Twelve from 1972 and wrote Mormon Doctrine.

Bruce Rauner

Bruce Rauner, Republican private equity investor and 42nd governor of Illinois (2015-2019), defeated Pat Quinn in 2014; his term featured a record 736-day budget impasse and a 2018 loss to J.B. Pritzker.

Bruce Reynolds

Bruce Richard Reynolds (1931-2013), nicknamed "Napoleon", was the English career criminal who masterminded the 1963 Great Train Robbery, stealing £2,631,684 from a Glasgow-London mail train, then spent years on the run before a 25-year sentence.

Oct 10, 2026

Bruce Sacerdote

Bruce Sacerdote is an American economist, the Richard S. Braddock 1963 Professor at Dartmouth College, known for research on peer effects and Hurricane Katrina evacuees.

Bruce Shand

Bruce Middleton Hope Shand (1917-2006), British Army major with the 12th Royal Lancers, twice Military Cross winner, Dunkirk veteran, German POW 1942-45, wine merchant, and father of Queen Camilla.

Bruce Starr

Bruce Starr is an American Republican politician serving as Minority Leader of the Oregon State Senate, chosen by Senate Republicans in September 2025 after returning to the chamber in 2025.

Bruce Tarr

Bruce Tarr is an American Republican politician who has represented the First Essex and Middlesex District in the Massachusetts Senate since 1994 and serves as its Minority Leader.

Bruce Westerman

Bruce Westerman, born 1967, is a Republican U.S. Representative for Arkansas's 4th congressional district since 2015, chairing the House Committee on Natural Resources and previously serving in the Arkansas General Assembly.

Sep 21, 2026

Bruce Western

Bruce Western, born 1964, is an Australian-born sociologist who studies poverty, inequality, and U.S. incarceration, taught at Princeton, Harvard, and Columbia, and became Russell Sage Foundation president in 2025.

Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co.

Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co. is a New York private equity firm, founded in 1995 by three former Citicorp Venture Capital colleagues, investing in consumer companies.

Bruegel (think tank)

Bruegel is a Brussels-based European economics think tank founded in 2005 after a Franco-German initiative, funded by EU governments and corporations, governed by a board chaired by Jean-Claude Trichet, and ranked second among non-US think tanks in 2013.

Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (ಬೃಹತ್ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ಮಹಾನಗರ ಪಾಲಿಕೆ)

Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP, ಬೃಹತ್ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ಮಹಾನಗರ ಪಾಲಿಕೆ) was Bengaluru's municipal corporation, 2008-2025, with 243 wards; dissolved September 2025 into five corporations under the Greater Bengaluru Authority.

Bruker

Bruker Corporation is an American-headquartered manufacturer of high-end scientific instruments, including NMR and mass spectrometers and X-ray systems, founded in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1960 by physicist Günther Laukien.