Cruse (name)
Encyclopedia
Cruse is a surname of English
origin.
Variant spellings include: Cruce, Crus, Cruise, Crewes, Crews (disambiguation), and Cruwys (disambiguation).
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
origin.
Variant spellings include: Cruce, Crus, Cruise, Crewes, Crews (disambiguation), and Cruwys (disambiguation).
People with the surname Cruse
- Bruce CruseBruce CruseBruce Andrew Cruse is an Australian former first class cricketer who played for the Tasmanian Tigers from 1985 to 1992. Cruse emigrated to the UK in 1993 and after a number of years at Lancashire County Cricket Club moved to Lords where he works with the ECB as the National Funding and Facilities...
, Australian cricketer - Cindy Cruse-RatcliffCindy Cruse-RatcliffCindy Cruse-Ratcliff is a Dove Award winning singer-songwriter who serves as the senior worship leader at the largest and fastest growing church in the United States, Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas.-Music career:...
, singer-songwriter and the Director of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, United States - Emmanuel Cruse IIEmmanuel Cruse IIEmmanuel Cruse, II is a third generation winemaker and the grandson of winemaker Emmanuel Cruse and son of winemaker Lionel Cruse. Emmanuel Cruse took over as proprietor of the Chateau d'issan in 1998 as the third generation of the Cruse family to own the third growth winery that was included in...
, French winemaker - Freda Cruse AtwellFreda Cruse AtwellFreda Cruse Atwell is a writer and photographer.At the age of 17, Cruse left Arkansas to begin studies at the University of California, San Diego. In San Diego, she met fashion photographer Richard Avedon for whom she worked off and on from 1977 to 1985...
, social psychological theorist, political adviser and author - Harold CruseHarold CruseHarold Wright Cruse was an American academic who was an outspoken social critic and teacher of African-American studies at the University of Michigan until the mid-1980s. The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual is his best-known book....
, social critic and teacher of African-American studies - Henry Cruse MurphyHenry Cruse MurphyHenry Cruse Murphy was an American politician and historian, born in Brooklyn, N. Y. He graduated at Columbia College in 1830, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Brooklyn, where he became city attorney and, in 1842, mayor. The next year he became a member of Congress...
, American politician and historian - Howard CruseHoward CruseHoward Cruse is an American alternative cartoonist known for the exploration of gay themes in his comics.Cruse was raised in Springville, Alabama, the son of a preacher and a homemaker. His earliest published cartoons were in The Baptist Student when he was in high school. His work later appeared...
, American cartoonist - John Howard CruseJohn Howard CruseJohn Howard Cruse was Bishop of Knaresborough from 1965 to 1972.Cruse was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge and studied for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford before curacies at Southall and Folkestone. From 1936 until 1949 he held incumbencies at Harrow and Cambridge, followed by a 16 year...
, Bishop of Knaresborough from 1965 to 1972 - Susan CruseSusan CruseSusan Cruse is a British television actor.She has played DC Julie Hardy in Casualty, and Marie Matthews in EastEnders.-External links:...
, British television actress - Cruse family, a family of Protestant winemakers from the Bordeaux region of France, originally from Holstein (then under the Danish crown, now Germany)
In fiction
- Matt CruseMatt CruseMatt Cruse is the main character and narrator in the Airborn series written by Kenneth Oppel. He is described as a cabin boy in the first book, though he goes on to be first mate of his own ship for a short time in Starclimber and even part of a team going to outer space...
, the main character and narrator in the Airborn series written by Kenneth Oppel