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Bernard van Orley
Bernard van Orley, also Barend or Bernaert van Orley, was a Netherlandish painter and tapestry designer in Brussels who served as court painter to Margaret of Austria.
Bernard Vauquois
Bernard Vauquois (1929–1985) was a French mathematician and computer scientist who led machine translation research at Grenoble from 1961 until his death, known for the Vauquois triangle.
Bernard W. Agranoff
Bernard W. Agranoff (1926–2022) was an American neurochemist and physician at the University of Michigan, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1991, known for work on lipid signaling and memory.
Bernard W. Balleine
Bernard W. Balleine is a behavioral neuroscientist who directs the Decision Neuroscience Laboratory at UNSW Sydney, known for distinguishing the brain circuits behind goal-directed actions and habits.
Bernard Widrow
Bernard Widrow (1929–2025) was an American electrical engineer and Stanford professor who developed the LMS algorithm and built ADALINE and MADALINE, among the earliest learning neural networks.
Bernard Williams, III
Bernard Williams, III (Bernard Rollen Williams, III, born 1978, Baltimore) is an American sprinter, Olympic 4x100m relay gold medalist in 2000 and 200m silver medalist in 2004, with personal bests of 9.94 and 20.01 seconds.
Bernard Wood (palaeoanthropologist)
Bernard Wood, also known as Bernard A. Wood, is a British palaeoanthropologist, University Professor of Human Origins at George Washington University, known for the Koobi Fora cranial remains.
Bernard Zinman
Bernard Zinman is a Canadian clinician-scientist at the University of Toronto and Mount Sinai Hospital who led the DCCT and EMPA-REG OUTCOME diabetes trials and entered the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2026.
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Bernard-Henri Lévy (BHL), French philosopher and essayist, ENS normalien, editor at Grasset who named the nouveaux philosophes in 1976; author of La Barbarie à visage humain and L'Idéologie française; Libya intervention advocate, Le Monde board member 2010-2022, pro-Israel, frequently criticized for factual errors.
Bernardas Brazdžionis
Bernardas Brazdžionis, pen name Vytė Nemunėlis, was a Lithuanian poet and editor, a classic of Lithuanian literature who lived in exile in the United States from 1949.
Bernardim Ribeiro
Bernardim Ribeiro, full name Duarte Bernardim Ribeiro, was a Portuguese Renaissance poet and prose writer, born in Torrão around 1480 to 1490, best known for the pastoral novel Menina e Moça.
Bernardine Cemetery, Vilnius
The Bernardine Cemetery (Bernardinų kapinės) is a classicist cemetery founded in 1810 in the Užupis district of Vilnius, the city's second oldest, devastated under Soviet rule and restored since independence.
Bernardine Dohrn
Bernardine Dohrn (Bernardine Rae Dohrn), born 1942, American activist, Weather Underground leader, SDS national secretary, FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive, later Northwestern law professor and children's rights advocate.
Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Evaristo is a British writer whose work spans fiction, verse fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other shared the 2019 Booker Prize with Margaret Atwood's winning novel, making.
Bernardine of Siena
Bernardine of Siena (Bernardino da Siena, 1380–1444) was an Italian Franciscan missionary preacher who led the Observant reform, popularized the IHS monogram, and was canonized in 1450.
Bernardino Caballero
Bernardino Caballero was a Paraguayan military leader and politician, president of Paraguay from 1880 to 1886, known as the Centauro de Ybycuí, who founded the Colorado Party in 1887.
Bernardino de Sahagún
Bernardino de Sahagún was a Spanish Franciscan missionary and ethnographer who arrived in Mexico in 1529 and compiled the Florentine Codex, an encyclopedic account of Aztec culture.
Bernardino Ochino
Bernardino Ochino (1487–1564/5), born in Siena, was an Italian Capuchin vicar-general and celebrated preacher who fled the Roman Inquisition in 1542 and spent his last twenty-two years as a Protestant reformer, dying in exile in Moravia.
Bernardo A. Huberman
Bernardo A. Huberman is an Argentine-born physicist and complex-systems researcher who originated the ecology of computation and wrote The Laws of the Web (MIT Press, 2001).
Bernardo Arévalo
Bernardo Arévalo is a Guatemalan politician, diplomat, and sociologist who has served as President of Guatemala since 2024; he is the son of former president Juan José Arévalo.
Bernardo Atxaga
Bernardo Atxaga, pen name of Joseba Irazu Garmendia (born 1951), is a Spanish writer who works entirely in Basque; his collection Obabakoak (1988) brought Basque literature its widest audience.
Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci (1941–2018), Italian film director and poet, father Attilio; directed The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, and The Last Emperor, which won nine Oscars including Best Director in 1988.
Bernardo Bitti
Bernardo Bitti (1548–1610) was an Italian Jesuit painter and sculptor from Camerino who reached Lima in 1575 and introduced Mannerism to Peru, helping found the Cuzco school.
Bernardo Carpio
Bernardo Carpio, also known as Bernardo del Carpio, is a legendary hero of Spanish epic and Tagalog folklore, a giant of immense strength imprisoned between two mountains near Montalban.
Bernardo Carvalho
Bernardo Carvalho is a Brazilian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist known for Nove noites (2002) and Mongólia (2003), which build detective-like investigations around travel, archives, and unstable narration.
Bernardo Cockburn
Bernardo Cockburn is a computational mathematician and Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota, known for hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin methods and a 2024 Frontiers of Science Award.
Bernardo de Balbuena
Bernardo de Balbuena (1562–1627) was a Spanish cleric and poet who served as bishop of Puerto Rico and wrote La grandeza mexicana (1604) and the epic El Bernardo (1624).
Bernardo de Gálvez
Bernardo de Gálvez (1746–1786), Spanish governor of Louisiana, secretly aided American revolutionaries, captured Baton Rouge, Mobile, and Pensacola, served as viceroy of New Spain, and died in Mexico City.
Bernardo de Irigoyen
Bernardo de Irigoyen (1822–1906) was an Argentine lawyer, diplomat, and politician who served twice as foreign minister and negotiated the 1881 boundary treaty with Chile before governing Buenos Aires Province.
Bernardo de Monteagudo
Bernardo de Monteagudo was an Argentine lawyer and revolutionary who took part in the independence of the Río de la Plata, Chile, and Peru, drafting Chile's 1818 act of independence.