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Bernard Flood Burke

Bernard Flood Burke (1928–2018) was an American radio astronomer at MIT and the Carnegie Institution who co-discovered radio emission from Jupiter in 1955 and pioneered very long baseline interferometry.

Bernard Fox (actor)

Bernard Fox (Bernard Mitchell Lawson, 1927–2016), Welsh character actor known as Dr. Bombay on Bewitched and Colonel Crittendon on Hogan's Heroes; appeared in A Night to Remember, Titanic, and The Mummy.

Bernard Francis Law

Bernard Francis Law, known as Cardinal Bernard Law, was an American prelate who served as Archbishop of Boston from 1984 to 2002, resigning after the Boston Globe's abuse investigation.

Bernard G. Forget

Bernard G. Forget (1939–2015) was an American hematologist and geneticist at Yale School of Medicine whose molecular work on thalassemia and globin genes helped found molecular medicine.

Sep 19, 2026

Bernard Gerald Cantor

B. Gerald Cantor (1916–1996) was an American securities broker who founded the bond brokerage that became Cantor Fitzgerald and assembled the world's largest private collection of Rodin sculpture.

Bernard Gilpin

Bernard Gilpin (1517–1583) was an English clergyman and rector of Houghton-le-Spring in County Durham, called the "Apostle of the North" for his winter preaching journeys through northern England.

Bernard Gold

Bernard Gold, known professionally as Ben Gold, was an American electrical engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory who co-authored the first treatise on digital signal processing in 1969.

Oct 20, 2026

Bernard Gravier

Bernard Gravier (1881-1923), French épée fencer, Olympic team épée gold medalist at London 1908 with Gaston Alibert and Alexandre Lippmann; his only Olympic appearance.

Bernard Guidonis

Bernard Gui, also known as Bernard Guidonis, was a French Dominican friar who served as inquisitor of Toulouse from 1307, condemning hundreds for heresy, and later became bishop of Lodève.

Bernard Guyer

Bernard Guyer is an American pediatrician and perinatal epidemiologist, Zanvyl Krieger Professor emeritus at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who published over 300 works on child health.

Bernard H. Kear

Bernard H. Kear is an American materials scientist at Rutgers University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979 for his work on gas-turbine alloys.

Bernard Halpern

Bernard Halpern (Naftali Halpern, 1904–1978) was a French pharmacologist and immunologist, born in what is now Ukraine, who discovered the first synthetic antihistamines usable in human medicine, including Antergan and promethazine.

Bernard Herrmann

Bernard Herrmann (Max Herman, 1911–1975), American composer and conductor; scored Citizen Kane, nine Hitchcock films including Psycho and Vertigo, and Taxi Driver; won one Oscar for The Devil and Daniel Webster.

Bernard Hill

Bernard Hill (1944-2024), English actor; Yosser Hughes in Boys from the Blackstuff, Captain Smith in Titanic, King Theoden in Lord of the Rings; only actor in two 11-Oscar films.

Bernard Hinault

Bernard Hinault, 'le Blaireau' (the Badger), French cyclist born 1954 in Yffiniac; five-time Tour de France winner (1978–1985), three-time Giro winner, two-time Vuelta winner, last French Tour champion.

Bernard Hirschel

Bernard Hirschel is a Swiss infectious-diseases physician and HIV researcher, born in 1946, who headed the HIV/AIDS unit of the Geneva University Hospitals from 1989.

Bernard Hopkins

Bernard Hopkins, the Executioner and the Alien, American boxer born 1965 in Philadelphia; record 20 straight middleweight title defenses, undisputed champion 2001-2005, oldest world champion at 48, retired 2016 at 55-8-2.

Sep 20, 2026

Bernard J. Gersh

Bernard J. Gersh (B.J. Gersh) is a South African-born cardiologist who has spent most of his career at the Mayo Clinic, studying atrial fibrillation and coronary disease.

Bernard J. Poiesz

Bernard J. Poiesz is an American hematologist-oncologist and immunologist at SUNY Upstate Medical University, first author of the 1980 paper reporting HTLV-1, the first human retrovirus.

Bernard J. S. Cahill

Bernard J. S. Cahill (1866–1944) was a London-born American architect and cartographer who designed San Francisco cemetery buildings and invented the octahedral Butterfly Map, published in 1909.

Sep 20, 2026

Bernard J. Wood

Bernard J. Wood is a British experimental petrologist and geochemist at the University of Oxford, known for models of trace element partitioning and Earth's core formation.

Bernard John McQuaid

Bernard John McQuaid (1823–1909) was an American Catholic prelate who served as the first Bishop of Rochester, New York, from 1868 until his death in 1909.

Bernard Jordan

Bernard Arthur Jordan (1924–2015), British D-Day veteran, Royal Navy officer, and former mayor of Hove, who escaped his care home in 2014 to attend the Normandy 70th anniversary commemorations, later depicted in The Great Escaper.

Sep 19, 2026

Bernard Kardon

Bernard Kardon was an American engineer who co-founded the high-fidelity audio company Harman Kardon with Sidney Harman in 1953, after serving as chief engineer at the David Bogen Company.

Bernard Kerik

Bernard Kerik (1955-2025) was the 40th NYPD police commissioner, leading the department through 9/11 after serving as NYC Correction commissioner; later convicted of tax fraud and false statements, imprisoned, pardoned by Trump in 2020.

Bernard Kettlewell

Bernard Kettlewell, also Henry Bernard Davis Kettlewell, was a British doctor, geneticist, and lepidopterist whose 1950s peppered moth experiments became the best-known demonstration of natural selection.

Bernard King

Bernard King, born 1956 in Brooklyn, is an American retired NBA small forward (1977-1993) and 2013 Hall of Famer; 1984-85 scoring champion at 32.9 ppg, 60-point Christmas game, four-time All-Star.

Bernard Kippelen

Bernard Kippelen is a French-American electrical engineer and Joseph M. Pettit Professor at Georgia Tech, known for organic optoelectronics and a 2012 Science paper on low-work-function electrodes for organic devices.

Bernard Kirtman

Bernard Kirtman is an American theoretical and computational chemist at UC Santa Barbara since 1965, known for the finite oligomer method for nonlinear optical properties of conjugated polymers.