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The English language name '''Bruce''' arrived in Scotland with the Normans, from the place name Brix of the [[Manche]] ''[[Departments of France|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 language|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 Crampton]], Australian professional golfer
* [[Bruce Davison]] (born 1946), American actor
* [[Bruce Derlin]] (born 1961), New Zealand tennis player
* [[Bruce Dern]], American actor
* [[Bruce Devlin]], Australian professional golfer
* [[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 McLaren]], New Zealand race car driver and founder of the [[McLaren]] team.
* [[Bruce McGill]] (born 1950), American actor
* [[Bruce Metzger]], American theological writer and scholar
* [[Bruce Patman]], Character in the Sweet Valley Series
* [[Bruce Perens]], co-founder of the [[Open Source Initiative]]
* [[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
== See also ==
* [[Bruce (surname)]]
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