Cruse (surname)

Cruse is a surname of English origin.

There are many variant spellings, including Crewes, Crewis, Crews, Cruce, Cruise, Cruize, Crus, Cruwys, De Cruce and De Cruze.

People

• Bruce Cruse (born 1967), Australian cricketer
• Cindy Cruse-Ratcliff (born Cindy Cruse in 1963), singer-songwriter and the Director of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, United States
• Colin Cruse (born 1951), former Australian rules footballer
• Emmanuel Cruse (born 1968), French winemaker, a member of the Cruse family (see below)
• Harold Cruse (1916–2005), social critic and teacher of African-American studies
• Heloise Bowles Cruse (1919–1977), original author of the popular American syndicated newspaper column "Hints from Heloise"
• Hieronymous Cruse (Jeronimus Croase) (died 1687), a soldier and explorer for the Dutch East India Company in South Africa
• Howard Cruse (1944–2019), American cartoonist
• Howard Cruse (bishop) (1908–1979), Anglican Bishop of Knaresborough from 1965 to 1972
• Jack Cruise (1915–1979), Irish comedian & actor
• Thomas Cruse (1857–1943), United States Army brigadier general awarded the Medal of Honor
• Vicki Cruse (1967–2009), American aerobatic pilot and administrator
• Cruse family, a family of Protestant winemakers from the Bordeaux region of France

Fictional characters

• Matt Cruse, the main character and narrator in the Airborn novel series written by Kenneth Oppel

See also

• Cruise (name)
• Cruse (disambiguation)

References

External links

• The Cruse/Cruwys one-name study