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Bernard Boursicot
Bernard Boursicot, French diplomat and Beijing embassy accountant, had a decades-long affair with opera singer Shi Pei Pu, passed secrets to China, and was convicted of espionage in 1986.
Bernard Bresslaw
Bernard Bresslaw (1934–1993), English comic actor of The Army Game and 14 Carry On films, 6 ft 7 in tall, RADA-trained, also played Varga in Doctor Who and the Cyclops in Krull.
Bernard Brodie (pharmacologist)
Bernard Brodie (1907–1989) was an American pharmacologist who founded and led the Laboratory of Chemical Pharmacology at NIH, and whose work on serotonin and drug metabolism helped found psychopharmacology.
Bernard Budiansky
Bernard Budiansky (1925–1999) was an American applied mathematician and mechanician who spent his career at Harvard, making decisive contributions to shell buckling, plasticity, and micromechanics.
Bernard Butler
Bernard Butler, born 1970 in Stamford Hill, London, is an English guitarist, songwriter, and producer: Suede co-founder until 1994, McAlmont & Butler's "Yes", solo album People Move On, Duffy's Rockferry, and the Mercury-shortlisted 2022 Jessie Buckley album.
Bernard C. Rossier
Bernard C. Rossier, born 1941 in Lausanne, is a Swiss physiologist and emeritus professor at the University of Lausanne who led the group that cloned the epithelial sodium channel.
Bernard C. Webber
Bernard Challen Webber, also known as Bernie Webber, was a US Coast Guard boatswain's mate who rescued 32 crewmen from the tanker Pendleton off Chatham, Massachusetts, in 1952.
Bernard Chaitman
Bernard R. Chaitman is an American cardiologist at Saint Louis University School of Medicine known for research on ischemic heart disease and exercise stress testing.
Bernard Charlès
Bernard Charlès is a French business executive and mechanical engineer who led Dassault Systèmes as CEO from 1995 to 2022, pioneering digital mock-up and product lifecycle management.
Bernard Chevallier
Bernard Marie Chevallier (1912–1997), French army officer and equestrian; won individual eventing gold at the 1948 London Olympics on Aiglonne with 4 points; later an FEI judge and general; distinct from the historian Bernard Chevallier (1943–2024).
Bernard Coard
Bernard Coard (Winston Bernard Coard, born 1944), Grenadian educator and politician, Deputy Prime Minister under Maurice Bishop 1979-1983, author of the 1971 ESN schools pamphlet, deposed Bishop in October 1983, imprisoned 26 years as one of the Grenada 17, released 2009.
Bernard Cohen (nuclear physicist)
Bernard Cohen (1924–2012) was an American nuclear physicist and University of Pittsburgh professor known for his studies of radon and lung cancer and his challenge to the linear no-threshold model of radiation risk.
Bernard Cornwell
Bernard Cornwell (born 1944), British historical novelist, creator of Sharpe and of Uhtred of Bebbanburg in The Last Kingdom; over 55 novels, 20 million copies sold, TV adaptations starring Sean Bean and Alexander Dreymon.
Bernard Cribbins
Bernard Cribbins (1928–2022), English actor, comedian, singer and voice artist OBE; star of The Railway Children, Jackanory, The Wombles narrator, and Doctor Who's Tom Campbell and Wilfred Mott.
Bernard D. Davis
Bernard D. Davis (1916–1994) was an American bacteriologist and molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School, a pioneer of bacterial genetics known for work on streptomycin and bacterial mutants.
Bernard D. Goldstein
Bernard D. Goldstein is an American environmental toxicologist and public health physician, emeritus dean at the University of Pittsburgh and a former EPA research administrator.
Bernard Dadié
Bernard Dadié (1916–2019) was an Ivorian novelist, playwright, poet, and folklorist regarded as the father of Ivorian literature, whose Climbié (1956) was the first Ivorian novel.
Bernard De Bruyne
Bernard De Bruyne is a Belgian interventional cardiologist at the Cardiovascular Center Aalst who developed fractional flow reserve and led the FAME trials showing FFR-guided stenting improves outcomes.
Bernard de la Tour
Bernard de la Tour, also Bernard de la Tour d'Auvergne, was a French cardinal of the Avignon papacy, created cardinal deacon of Sant'Eustachio by Pope Clement VI in 1342.
Bernard de Massy
Bernard de Massy is a French geneticist at CNRS and the Institut de Génétique Humaine in Montpellier, known for showing that PRDM9 specifies meiotic recombination hotspots.
Bernard de Montfaucon
Bernard de Montfaucon, also known as Dom Bernard de Montfaucon, was a French Benedictine monk and antiquarian who founded Greek palaeography with Palaeographia graeca (1708) and wrote L'Antiquité expliquée (1719).
Bernard Derrida
Bernard Derrida, born 1952 in Algeria, is a French theoretical physicist known for the random energy model of spin glasses and exact solutions of the asymmetric exclusion process.
Bernard Dujon
Bernard Dujon (born 1947) is a French molecular geneticist, professor emeritus at Sorbonne Université and Institut Pasteur, known for discovering mobile introns and the first homing endonuclease.
Bernard Ebbers
Bernard Ebbers (1941–2020), known as Bernie Ebbers, was a Canadian-born American executive who co-founded and led WorldCom and was convicted in 2005 of a $9 billion accounting fraud.
Bernard Edwards
Bernard Edwards (1952-1996) was an American bassist, songwriter, and producer who co-founded Chic with Nile Rodgers; his Good Times bassline launched Rapper's Delight and inspired Another One Bites the Dust.
Bernard Escudier
Bernard J. Escudier is a French medical oncologist at Gustave Roussy in Villejuif who led the phase III trials introducing sorafenib, bevacizumab, and nivolumab–ipilimumab into kidney cancer treatment, winning the 2022 ESMO Lifetime Achievement Award.
Bernard F. Erlanger
Bernard F. Erlanger was an American immunochemist at Columbia University who developed methods for raising antibodies against small molecules like DNA nucleosides, after serving as a technical adviser on the Manhattan Project.
Bernard F. Schutz
Bernard F. Schutz (born 1946) is an American-born theoretical physicist known for the standard-siren method of measuring cosmic distances, and founding director of the Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam.
Bernard Fisher (American surgeon)
Bernard Fisher (1918–2019) was an American surgeon and clinical researcher at the University of Pittsburgh whose randomized trials ended routine radical mastectomy for breast cancer.
Bernard Fitzpatrick
Bernard Fitzpatrick was a Dublin shop owner and businessman who, with Czech crystal maker Charles Bacik, formed the Waterford Glass partnership that revived crystal-making in Waterford, Ireland, in 1947.