Bruce Waite

{{Short description|Australian rules footballer}}

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| name = Bruce Waite

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|5|22|df=yes}}

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| originalteam = Albury

| height = 192 cm

| weight = 92 kg

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| statsend = 1969

| years1 = 1965–1969

| club1 = Essendon

| games_goals1 = 48 (29)

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Bruce Waite (born 22 May 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the late 1960s.

A ruckman from Albury, Waite often played in a forward pocket for Essendon. He came off the bench as a reserve in Essendon's 1965 VFL Grand Final win over St Kilda to end his debut season in a premiership team.

Waite won the Ovens and Murray Football League best and Fairest award, the Morris Medal in 1972, playing for the Myrtleford Football Club.