Bruce Wilson (10 May 1941 – 3 January 2006) was an Australian journalist, best known as a commentator on rugby union.

He was known mostly for his sports journalism, throughout his five-decade career writing articles on cricket and rugby events with The Herald, The Sun and the Herald Sun, mostly as a foreign correspondent. He also travelled to areas such as the Middle East and South Vietnam as part of his journalism career.

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Wilson died from cancer on 3 January 2006,[1] and is survived by his fourth wife, Clare Hardman, whom he met and married in London, and his two surviving children: Seven Network broadcaster and journalist Jim Wilson and Women's Day Queensland correspondent and writer Lizzie Wilson. His other daughter, News Limited sports journalist and radio/television personality Rebecca Wilson, died in October 2016.

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  1. ^ Reed, Ron (4 January 2006). "Legendary scribe files last copy". Herald Sun. Archived from the original on 7 January 2006. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
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