Famous People with Name Bruno

Bruno Lawrence            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bruno Lawrence: a New Zealand musician and actor, born David Charles Lawrence in Worthing, West Sussex, England. His family migrated to New Zealand in 1946, settling in New Plymouth before moving to Wellington in 1948. He spent most of his life in New Zealand and also worked extensively in Australia. Bruno was a renowned jazz drummer, playing drums in many bands, including Blerta, and The Crocodiles. He also acted in many movies, including Goodbye Pork Pie (1981), Smash Palace (1981), The Quiet Earth (1985) , at the time the highest-grossing New Zealand film, and Bridge to Nowhere (1986).

Bruno Touschek            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bruno Touschek: was an Austrian physicist, a survivor of the Holocaust, and initiator of research on electron-positron colliders.During this period, he worked at the Studiengesellschaft für Elektronengeräte, a company affiliated to Philips, where "drift tubes" - the forerunners of the klystron - were being developed at that time. In 1943, he asked Rolf Wideröe to cooperate with him in building a betatron. When Touschek was arrested by the Gestapo in 1945, Wideroë visited him in prison, and during these meetings they continued to talk about the betatron. In particular, they conceived the idea of radiation damping for electrons circulating in a betatron.

Wilfredo Ruiz Bruno            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Wilfredo Ruiz Bruno: is a retired Uruguayan professional basketball player. In the FIBA World Championship of 1982, playing for Uruguay national basketball team, he was the first scorer of the tournament in average, having 24 points per game. At the Olympic Games in Los Angel

Pierre Antoine Noël Bruno            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Pierre Antoine Noël Bruno: was a French soldier, statesman, historian, and poet. The French generally refer to him as Pierre Daru. In 1793 he became commissary to the army, protecting the coasts of Brittany from projected descents of the British, or of French Royalists. Thrown into prison during the Reign of Terror, on an unsubstantiated charge of friendliness to the Royalists and the British, he was released after the fall of Maximilien Robespierre in the summer of 1794 (during the Thermidorian Reaction, and rose through the ranks until, in 1799, he became chief commissary to the French Revolutionary Army serving under André Masséna in the north of Switzerland.

Sébastien Bruno            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Sébastien Bruno: is a French rugby union footballer who plays as a hooker for Toulon and formerly for France. Born in Nîmes, Bruno joined Sale Sharks from French club Béziers, making his debut against Leicester Tigers in 2004. He made his international debut in 2002 again