Author:Richard Bruce


 * Richard Isaac Bruce (1840–1926), English colonial officer and administrator serving on India's North West Frontier during the early period of the British Raj
 * Robert Bache Smith (1875–1951), American librettist and lyricist, who used this pseudonym in at least one book
 * Richard Bruce Nugent (1906–1987), openly gay Harlem Renaissance painter
 * Richard Bruce Cheney (b. 1941), American politician and businessman, and 46th vice president of the United States