Bruce Judge

{{short description|New Zealand hockey player}}

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| name = Bruce Judge

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| nationality = New Zealand

| sport = Field hockey

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1942|4|3|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Timaru, New Zealand

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Bruce Judge (born 3 April 1942) is a New Zealand field hockey player and businessman. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ju/bruce-judge-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418100558/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ju/bruce-judge-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Bruce Judge Olympic Results |accessdate=1 October 2019}}

In 1986, the New Zealand Rich List estimated Judge's personal fortune to be at least $250 million. This made him, at the time, the fifth richest New Zealander.{{Cite book |last=Hunt |first=Graeme |title=Hustlers, Rogues & Bubble Boys: White-Collar Mischief in New Zealand |publisher=Reed |year=2001 |isbn=0 7900 0821 1 |location=Auckland, New Zealand |pages=59–61 |language=English}}

His companies, Judge Corp and Ariadne, were 'iconic symbols of the 1987 sharemarket boom and crash'.{{Cite web |date=2023-11-21 |title=Bruce Judge re-emerges from corporate exile |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/bruce-judge-re-emerges-from-corporate-exile/YSQH5XVRO7S5WWIGVFCDVAYS5I/ |access-date=2023-11-20 |website=The New Zealand Herald |language=en-NZ}} When Judge Corp collapsed, it had debts around $350m. Although Bruce Judge was investigated, he was never officially charged with any offence.{{Cite web |date=2023-11-21 |title=Bruce Judge re-emerges from corporate exile |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/bruce-judge-re-emerges-from-corporate-exile/YSQH5XVRO7S5WWIGVFCDVAYS5I/ |access-date=2023-11-20 |website=The New Zealand Herald |language=en-NZ}}