* Bruce Smathers, former Florida Secretary of State, son of US Senator George Smathers

Smathers resided in exclusive Indian Creek Island off of Miami Beach and was father to two sons, John ( born 1941 ) and Bruce Smathers ( born 1943 ) ( Florida Secretary of State 1975 – 78 ) from his marriage to Townley.

Threatened with demolition in the late 1970s when the new capitol was being built, the historic capitol was saved through citizens ’ action led by Secretary of State Bruce Smathers and then wife Nancy McDowell.

Bruce Lorne Campbell ( born June 22, 1958 ) is an American film and television actor, director, writer, producer and author.

2, with the character of Bill noting that Superman was not born into his alter ego ( Spider-Man was " Peter Parker " first, Batman was born " Bruce Wayne "), using the blanket he was wrapped in as his costume, and Clark Kent is a collage of mankind's less impressive traits meant to blend in with other humans ( as well as a device to pursue Lois Lane's affections ).

Henry Bruce was born at Duffryn, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, the son of John Bruce, a Glamorganshire landowner, by his wife Sarah, daughter of Reverend Hugh Williams Austin.

Mandel Bruce " Mandy " Patinkin (; born November 30, 1952 ) is an award-winning American actor of stage and screen and a tenor vocalist.

* David II of Scotland ( 1324 – 1371 ) King of Scots, son of King Robert the Bruce by his second wife, Elizabeth de Burgh ( d. 1327 ), was born at Dunfermline Palace, Fife.

Roger Bruce Chaffee was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he became an Eagle Scout and graduated from Central High School.

Bruce Schneier (; born January 15, 1963 < ref name = fb >) is an American cryptographer, computer security specialist, and writer.

Bruce Lee ( traditional: 李小龍 ) ( born Lee Jun-fan ; 27 November 1940 – 20 July 1973 ) was a Hong Kongese actor, martial arts instructor, philosopher, film director, film producer, screenwriter, founder of Jeet Kune Do, and the son of Cantonese opera star Lee Hoi-Chuen.

Bruce Lee was born on 27 November 1940 at the Chinese Hospital in San Francisco's Chinatown.

The most irreconcilable of Bruce's Scottish enemies also came: Ingram de Umfraville, a former Guardian of Scotland, and his kinsman the Earl of Angus, as well as others of the MacDougalls, MacCanns and Sir John Comyn of Badenoch, the only son of the Red Comyn, who was born and raised in England and was now returning to Scotland to avenge his father's killing by Bruce at Greyfriars Kirk in Dumfries in 1306.

* Bruce Castor ( born 1961 ), American lawyer and politician

In Hawaii sons Bruce Cartwright ( 1853 – 1919 ) and Alexander Joy Cartwright III ( 1855 – 1921 ) were born.

Walter Bruce Willis ( born March 19, 1955 ), known professionally as Bruce Willis, is a German-born American actor, producer, and musician.

There have been at least seven cases of healthy male infants being reassigned as female due to circumcision damaging their penises beyond repair, including the late David Reimer ( born Bruce Reimer, later Brenda Reimer ), who was the subject of John Money's John / Joan case, an unnamed American child, who was awarded $ 750, 000 by Judge Walter McGovern of the Federal District Court after a military doctor was found guilty of medical malpractice in 1975, and an unnamed child who was circumcised at Northside Hospital, who received an undisclosed amount of money from the hospital.

* Bruce L. Woodbury ( born 1944 ), American politician and lawyer

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

The children's author Mary Grant Bruce was born in the town in 1878.

* Bruce Sterling ( born 1954 ), American science fiction writer

David Bruce Cassidy ( born April 12, 1950 ) is an American actor, singer, songwriter and guitarist.

Bruce Douglas Cockburn OC ( ; born May 27, 1945 ) is a Canadian folk / rock guitarist and singer-songwriter.

Bruce Cockburn was born in 1945 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and spent some of his early years on a farm outside Pembroke, Ontario.

* Blanche Kelso Bruce, the first African American Senator, was born as a slave in Prince Edward County.

Jonathan Bruce Postel (; August 6, 1943 – October 16, 1998 ) was an American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards.

Biblical scholar Bruce M. Metzger notes that in one account of the Osirian cycle he dies on the 17th of the month of Athyr ( approximating to a month between October 28 and November 26 in modern calendars ), is revivified on the 19th and compares this to Christ rising on the " third day " but he thinks " resurrection " is a questionable description.

Even more sign of Edward's distrust occurred when on 10 October 1305, Edward revoked his gift of Gilbert de Umfraville's lands to Bruce that he had made only six months before.

Wire is an English rock band, formed in London in October 1976 by Colin Newman ( vocals, guitar ), Graham Lewis ( bass, vocals ), Bruce Gilbert ( guitar ), and Robert Gotobed ( drums ).

* October 2 – British scientists Moira Bruce and John Collinge, with their colleagues, independently show that the new variant form of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is the same disease as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

* October 17 – J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman ( b. 1862 )

* October 14 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland

Negotiations from this time onwards were between Edward, who returned to England later in the year, and Eric, and excluded the Scots until Edward met with Robert Bruce and some of the Guardians at Salisbury in October 1289.

* October 14 – Edward Bruce, High King of Ireland ( b. 1275 )

The Polanyi Center was established without much publicity in October 1999, initially consisting of two people – Dembski and a like-minded colleague, Bruce L. Gordon, who were hired directly by Sloan without going through the usual channels of a search committee and departmental consultation.

In its February 19, 2010, investigative summary on the 2001 anthrax attacks, the Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed that Bruce Edwards Ivins was inspired by GEB to hide secret codes based upon nucleotide sequences in the anthrax-laced letters he allegedly sent in September and October 2001.

In an October 2005 appearance on Larry King Live, Hamilton revealed she has bipolar disorder, which she said destroyed her marriage to first husband Bruce Abbott, whom she admitted having abused verbally and physically, and eventually sought treatment.

# Isabel Marshal ( 9 October 1200 – 17 January 1240 ), married ( 1 ) Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, whose daughter Isabel de Clare married Robert Bruce, 5th Lord of Annandale, the grandfather of Robert the Bruce ; ( 2 ) Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cornwall

Edward met Robert the Bruce and others at Salisbury in October 1289, which resulted in the Treaty of Salisbury, under which Margaret would be sent to Scotland before 1 November 1290 and any agreement on her future marriage would be delayed until she was in Scotland.

# The Hand of Oberon ( abridged October 1992, unabridged 1999 ) ( last portion of the unabridged version read by Bruce Watson )

* Bruce L. Benson, Florida State University, and Brent D. Mast, American Enterprise Institute, ' Privately Produced General Deterrence ', The Journal of Law and Economics, October 2001

Bruce Weigert Paltrow ( November 26, 1943 – October 3, 2002 ) was an American television and film director and producer.

* Interviews with Sir Georg Solti by Bruce Duffie, May & October, 1988

From late May to early October, a daily passenger-vehicle ferry, the MS Chi-Cheemaun ( Ojibwe for " Big Canoe "), travels between Tobermory on the tip of the Bruce Peninsula and South Baymouth.

* October 26-Iron Maiden plays its first show with Bruce Dickinson as the new lead singer in Bologna, Italy.

* October 4 – Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's The Rising Tour concludes after 120 shows over 14 months, with record-setting sales in U. S. stadiums during the summer and early autumn.

Buckley signed with Columbia Records, home of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, for a three-album, essentially million-dollar deal in October 1992.

Edward the Bruce ( Norman French: Edward de Brus ; Medieval Gaelic: Edubard a Briuis ; Modern Scottish Gaelic: Eideard or Iomhair Bruis ; 1280 – 14 October 1318 ), sometimes modernised Edward of Bruce, was a younger brother of King Robert I of Scotland, who supported his brother in the struggle for the crown of Scotland, then pursued his own claim in Ireland.