Robert Jacques "Bob" Bruss (May 2, 1940, Minneapolis, Minnesota – September 26, 2007, Hillsborough, California) was a real estate attorney and syndicated columnist known as "the Dear Abby of real estate". He was a 1962 business administration graduate of Northwestern University and a 1967 graduate of the University of California's Hastings College of the Law. Bruss died of complications from colon cancer, aged 67. He never married and left no immediate descendants.