Bruce Hayward

Bruce William Hayward
Hayward standing beside Ferdinand von Hochstetter's Sketch of the Geological Formation of the Auckland District (circa 1859) at the Auckland Museum Research Library (2024)
NationalityNew Zealander
Alma materUniversity of Auckland
Scientific career
FieldsGeologist, marine ecology
ThesisLower Miocene geology of the Waitakere Hills, west Auckland, with emphasis on the paleontology (1975)
Doctoral advisorPhilippa Black, Graham Gibson, Peter Ballance

Bruce William Hayward MNZM FRSNZ (born 1950) is a New Zealand geologist, marine ecologist, and author. He is known as a leading expert on living and fossil foraminifera.