Bruce Mitchell (8 January 1909 – 1 July 1995) was a South African cricketer who played in 42 Test matches from 1929 to 1949.

The son of a doctor, Mitchell grew up in Johannesburg, where he showed unusual cricket ability as a boy.

He showcased his all-round abilities against Natal in the 1928–29 trial matches and later in a game against Griqualand West he showed his fighting spirit by rescuing his side after the top six batsmen scored no more than 11 runs between them.

In both innings he produced a hundred-run opening stand with Robert Catterall and finished the game with 88 and 61 not out.

In 1930–31, he met England on his own shores, and in the First Test he made a second innings 72 in a low-scoring encounter which South Africa went on to win.

That included an opening stand of 330 with Eric Rowan, which was the highest-ever partnership by a South African pair in England.

Before the Second World War interrupted his career, he played a series against England in which he finished with 466 runs at an average of 58.25, including a century in a losing cause at Kingsmead.

Against Griqualand West he and Alan Melville created a South African seventh-wicket record stand of 299.

Mitchell returned to the UK in 1947 and went one better than his previous tour there by topping the first-class average with 2014 runs at 61.03.