Bruce
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This article is about the name. For other uses, see Bruce (disambiguation).
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Bruce |
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| Gender | Male |
| Meaning | the willowlands |
| Popularity | Popular names page |
| Wikipedia articles | All pages beginning with Bruce |
The English language name Bruce arrived in Scotland with the Normans, from the place name Brix of the Manche département in Normandy, France, meaning "the willowlands". Initially promulgated via the descendants of King Robert I of Scotland (Robert the Bruce) (1274-1329), it has been a Scottish surname since medieval times; it is now a common given name.
The variant Lebrix and Le Brix are French variations of the surname.
Some notable people named Bruce:
- Bruce Arena (born 1951), American soccer coach
- Bruce Biddle (born 1949), New Zealand road cyclist
- Bruce Bochy, Major League Baseball manager
- Bruce Bowen (born 1971), American professional basketball player, small forward for the San Antonio Spurs
- Bruce Boxleitner (born 1950), American actor
- Bruce Brooks, American author
- Bruce Campbell (born 1958), American actor best-known for starring role in Evil Dead trilogy
- Bruce Chatwin, British novelist and travel writer
- Bruce Cockburn Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter
- Bruce Davison (born 1946), American actor
- Bruce Derlin (born 1961), New Zealand tennis player
- Bruce Dern, American actor
- Bruce Dickinson, British singer best-known as the lead singer in the heavy metal band Iron Maiden
- Bruce Forsyth, British television personality
- Bruce Froemming, a Major League Baseball Umpire.
- Bruce Greenwood, Canadian actor
- Bruce Grobbelaar, retired Zimbabwe soccer goalkeeper
- Bruce Hornsby, singer-songwriter from Williamsburg, VA
- J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the White Star Line and survivor of the Titanic disaster
- Bruce Jenner, American athlete/olympian, Olympic Hall of Famer
- Bruce Johnston, member of the Beach Boys joining in 1965 after Glen Campbell (substituting on stage for Brian Wilson) left
- Bruce Lee, Chinese-American martial artist and martial arts actor
- Bruce Lietzke, US golfer
- Bruce McGill (born 1950), American actor
- Bruce Metzger, American theological writer and scholar
- Bruce Patman, Character in the Sweet Valley Series
- Bruce Roberts, Zambian cricketer
- Bruce Schneier, a security technologist and author
- Bruce Seldon, American boxer who held the WBA Heavyweight title from 1995 to 1996
- Bruce Shelley, American computer game designer
- Bruce Smith, All star NFL defensive end who currently holds the record for most career quarterback sacks with 200
- Bruce Springsteen, American singer and songwriter
- Bruce Taylor (disambiguation)
- Bruce Tuckman, education researcher and psychologist who proposed the forming-storming-norming-performing model of team development
- Bruce Tulloh (born 1935), English long-distance runner
- Bruce Vilanch, comedian
- Bruce Wayne, Batman's secret identity
- Bruce Willis, American actor and sixth highest-grossing movie star of all time
