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Bernard Koopman
Bernard Osgood Koopman (1900–1981) was an American mathematician at Columbia University, known for the Koopman operator, a sufficient-statistics theorem, and founding operations research in the United States.
Bernard L. Koff
Bernard L. Koff (1927–2021) was an American gas turbine engineer who spent about 60 years designing jet engines at General Electric and Pratt & Whitney.
Bernard Lagat
Bernard Lagat (born 1974, Kapsabet, Kenya) is a Kenyan-American five-time Olympian, 1500m/5000m runner with a 3:26.34 PB, 2007 world double champion, and USATF General Manager of Youth Programs since 2026.
Bernard Laidebeur
Bernard Laidebeur (Bernard René Jean Laidebeur, 1942–1991), French sprinter with Stade français; won bronze in the 4x100 m relay at Tokyo 1964 with Genevay, Piquemal, and Delecour; 100 m best 10.42.
Bernard Lavilliers
Bernard Lavilliers, born Bernard Oulion in 1946 in Saint-Étienne, is a French singer-songwriter known since 1975 for fusing poetic chanson with rock, reggae, and salsa.
Bernard Le Mehaute
Bernard Le Méhauté (1927–1997) was a French-American oceanographer and hydrodynamicist, a National Academy of Engineering member and University of Miami professor known for water wave theory and coastal engineering.
Bernard Le Méhauté
Bernard Le Méhauté (1927–1997) was an oceanographer and hydrodynamicist who studied water waves, from breakwater design to explosion-generated waves, and taught at the University of Miami.
Bernard Leach
Bernard Howell Leach (1887-1979), British studio potter trained in Japan, founded the Leach Pottery at St Ives with Shoji Hamada in 1920, wrote A Potter's Book (1940), and is regarded as the father of British studio pottery.
Bernard Lee
Bernard Lee (John Bernard Lee, 1908-1981), English character actor born in Brentford, played M, head of MI6, in the first 11 Eon James Bond films from Dr. No (1962) to Moonraker (1979), opposite Connery, Lazenby, and Moore.
Bernard Leene
Bernard Leene (Bernardus Petrus Leene, 1903-1988), Dutch track cyclist; won 1928 Amsterdam Olympic tandem sprint gold with Daan van Dijk, the first Dutch gold of those Games, and 1936 Berlin tandem silver with Henk Ooms.
Bernard Levin
Bernard Levin (1928-2004), British columnist and broadcaster, wrote satirical political journalism for the Spectator (as Taper), Daily Mail, and The Times 1971-1997, and was star interviewer on That Was The Week That Was; not Meyer Levin or Gerald Levin.
Bernard Lewinsky
Bernard Salomon Lewinsky, Los Angeles radiation oncologist and father of Monica Lewinsky; developed the first freestanding radiation therapy clinics in Los Angeles and co-founded the American Brachytherapy Society's predecessor.
Bernard Lewis
Bernard Lewis (1916–2018), British-born American historian of Islam and the Middle East, Princeton professor, first Western scholar in the Ottoman archives, coined 'clash of civilizations' and advised the Bush administration.
Bernard Liautaud
Bernard Liautaud is a French venture capitalist who has led Balderton Capital in London since 2016 and founded Business Objects, sold to SAP for $6.8 billion in 2008.
Bernard Lo
Bernard Lo is an American bioethicist and internal medicine physician, emeritus professor of medicine at UCSF who led the Greenwall Foundation and chaired National Academy of Medicine committees.
Bernard Loder
Bernard Loder was a Dutch jurist who helped draft the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice and served as its first president, from 1922 to 1924.
Bernard Loiseau
Bernard Loiseau (1951–2003), French chef of La Côte d'Or in Saulieu; won three Michelin stars in 1991 with his light cuisine of essences, first chef listed on the Paris Bourse, died by suicide in 2003 amid Michelin and GaultMillau rating pressure.
Bernard Lovell
Sir Bernard Lovell (1913–2012) was an English physicist and radio astronomer who founded Jodrell Bank Observatory, developed H2S wartime radar, and built its 250-foot telescope.
Bernard Lown
Bernard Lown, born Bernard Latz, was a Lithuanian-born American cardiologist at Harvard who developed direct-current defibrillation, established Boston's first coronary care unit, and shared the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize.
Bernard Lyot
Bernard Lyot (1897–1952) was a French astronomer and optical designer at Meudon and Pic du Midi, best known for inventing the coronagraph and the Lyot filter.
Bernard M. Doro
Bernard M. Doro is a Nigerian politician, pharmacist, and development practitioner appointed Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2025.
Bernard M. Jones
Bernard M. Jones, born in 1979, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Oklahoma since 2019, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Bernard M. Oliver
Bernard M. Oliver (1916–1995) was an American electronics engineer who directed research at Hewlett-Packard, founded HP Laboratories in 1966, led NASA's SETI office, and received the National Medal of Science.
Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud (1914–1986) was an American novelist and short story writer of Jewish life who wrote The Natural, The Assistant, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Fixer.
Bernard MALISSEN
Bernard Malissen is a French immunologist known for work on the T cell receptor and dendritic cells, who directed the Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy from 1995 to 2005.
Bernard Malivoir
Bernard Malivoir(e), French rowing coxswain (1938–1982), won gold in men's coxed pairs at Helsinki 1952 steering Salles and Mercier in 8:28.6; at 14, the youngest gold medalist of those Games; died in a traffic accident.
Bernard Manning
Bernard John Manning (1930–2007) was an English stand-up comedian and owner of Manchester's Embassy Club, famous via 1970s TV's The Comedians, later shunned by broadcasters for racist material; distinct from the 1886 D'Oyly Carte baritone of the same name.
Bernard Marcus
Bernard "Bernie" Marcus (1929–2024) was an American retail entrepreneur who co-founded The Home Depot in 1978 and gave away more than $2 billion through his foundation.
Bernard Marty
Bernard Marty (born 1953) is a French geochemist, professor at the Université de Lorraine, known for work on volatile elements and noble gases in the Earth and Solar System.
Bernard Maurey
Bernard Maurey is a French mathematician in functional analysis, known for the Maurey factorization theorem, the Maurey–Pisier theorem on type and cotype, and, with Timothy Gowers, hereditarily indecomposable Banach spaces.