Bruce Thomas Draine (born November 19, 1947, in Kolkata) is an American astrophysicist.

He served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Ghana from 1969 to 1971, where he taught secondary school physics and mathematics.

[2] He is one of the authors (together with Piotr J. Flatau) of the public domain DDSCAT code based on the discrete dipole approximation which has application to light scattering by non-spherical particles and nanophotonics.

In 2004 he won the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics for his "fundamental, pioneering studies of interstellar processes".

[4] In 2007, he was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences for his work in the field of Astrophysics.