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Bernardo Dovizi

Bernardo Dovizi, usually called Cardinal Bibbiena after his Tuscan birthplace, was an Italian cardinal and diplomat under Leo X whose comedy La Calandra shaped Italian theater.

Bernardo Houssay

Bernardo Alberto Houssay was an Argentine physiologist who won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the pituitary's role in sugar metabolism, the first science Nobel for Latin America.

Bernardo Kastrup

Bernardo Kastrup, Dutch philosopher and former computer scientist with two PhDs, developed analytic idealism, leads Essentia Foundation, wrote Why Materialism Is Baloney and The Idea of the World.

Bernardo Leighton

Bernardo Leighton was a Chilean Christian Democratic politician who founded his party, served as a cabinet minister under three presidents, and survived a 1975 assassination attempt in Rome.

Bernardo Navagero

Bernardo Navagero (1507–1565) was a Venetian patrician diplomat who became a cardinal in 1561 and bishop of Verona, co-presiding over the final period of the Council of Trent.

Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme (1778-1842), Chilean independence leader and first Supreme Director (1817-1823), victor with San Martín at Chacabuco and Maipú, proclaimed Chilean independence in 1818 and founded its early state institutions.

Bernardo O'Higgins National Park

Bernardo O'Higgins National Park (Parque Nacional Bernardo O'Higgins) is the largest national park in Chile, created in 1969 in southern Patagonia around the Southern Patagonian Icefield.

Bernardo Provenzano

Bernardo Provenzano (1933–2016), Corleonesi boss and head of Cosa Nostra from 1993 after Totò Riina's arrest; fugitive 43 years, captured 2006 near Corleone, ran the Mafia via pizzini notes, died under 41-bis in Milan.

Bernardo Recamán Santos

Bernardo Recamán Santos, born in Bogotá in 1954, is a Colombian mathematician trained at the University of Warwick whose name is attached to Recamán's sequence.

Bernardo Reyes

Bernardo Reyes Ogazón (1850–1913), Mexican general, governor of Nuevo León, secretary of War, reyista leader, and Porfirian spymaster; killed 9 February 1913 leading the Decena Trágica attack on the National Palace.

Bernardo Rodríguez‐Iturbe

Bernardo Rodríguez-Iturbe, also known as Bernardo Rodriguez-Iturbe, is a Venezuelan nephrologist at the Hospital Universitario de Maracaibo known for work on poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis and salt-sensitive hypertension.

Bernardo Segura

Bernardo Segura (Bernardo Segura Rivera), Mexican race walker born 1970 in San Mateo Atenco; 1996 Olympic 20 km walk bronze medalist, 1994 20,000m track world record holder (1:17:25.6), 1999 World Race Walking Cup winner, disqualified at Sydney 2000 after finishing first. Distinct from walkers Brandon and Jefferson Segura.

Bernardo Silva

Bernardo Silva (Bernardo Mota Veiga de Carvalho e Silva), Portuguese midfielder born 1994 in Lisbon; ex-Benfica youth, Monaco 2016/17 Ligue 1 champion, 460-game Manchester City captain and six-time Premier League winner, joined Real Madrid free in June 2026.

Bernardo Soto Alfaro

Bernardo Soto Alfaro was President of Costa Rica from 1885 to 1889, a liberal reformer who reformed education and peacefully handed over power after the disputed 1889 election.

Bernardo Strozzi

Bernardo Strozzi, called il Prete genovese, was an Italian Baroque painter and etcher born in Genoa around 1581, regarded as the leading Genoese painter of his era.

Bernardus Golf

Bernardus Golf is a Kyle Phillips-designed championship golf resort in Cromvoirt, North Brabant, Netherlands, opened 2018. Hosted the Dutch Open 2021-2022, KLM Open 2023, and the 2026 Solheim Cup, and is a three-time Golfers' Choice Best Golf Club in the Netherlands.

Bernart de Ventadorn

Bernart de Ventadorn (Bernart de Ventador) was a twelfth-century Occitan troubadour, renowned for his cansos on courtly love and his song Can vei la lauzeta mover.

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Bernd (1931-2007) and Hilla Becher (1934-2015), German photographer couple known for typologies, systematic black-and-white grids of disappearing industrial structures; founders of the Düsseldorf photography school.

Bernd Arnold

Bernd Arnold is a German immunologist who spent his career at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, showing that immune tolerance to the body's own tissues also forms outside the thymus.

Bernd Baumgart

Bernd Baumgart (born 1955, Lutherstadt Wittenberg) is a retired East German rower, SC DHfK Leipzig, who won gold in the men's coxed eight at the 1976 Montreal Olympics in 5:58.29; retired 1979, became a sports teacher.

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Bernd Bodenmiller

Bernd Bodenmiller is a biologist who pioneered imaging mass cytometry and, since 2019, has directed the Department of Quantitative Biomedicine at the University of Zurich.

Bernd Bransch

Bernd Bransch (1944-2022), East German footballer, libero and captain of the GDR at the 1974 World Cup; Olympic gold 1976 and bronze 1972; HFC Chemie Halle and Carl Zeiss Jena; DDR Footballer of the Year 1968 and 1974.

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Bernd Bukau

Bernd Bukau, born 1954 in Leipzig, is a German molecular biologist who studies protein folding and quality control through molecular chaperones, leading groups at Heidelberg University's ZMBH and the German Cancer Research Center.

Bernd Cullmann

Bernd Cullmann (1939-2025), West German sprinter and gem cutter from Idar-Oberstein, won 1960 Rome Olympic gold leading off the German 4x100 m relay (39.5, world record) after the US team was disqualified.

Bernd Dittert

Bernd Dittert (born 1961, Genthin) is a German track and road cyclist and coach; Olympic bronze in individual pursuit for East Germany at Seoul 1988 and gold in the 100 km team time trial for unified Germany at Barcelona 1992.

Bernd Duvigneau

Bernd Duvigneau (born 1955, Magdeburg) is an East German sprint kayaker, K4 1000 m Olympic champion at Moscow 1980 and bronze medalist at Montreal 1976, with five K4 world titles.

Bernd Eichwurzel

Bernd Eichwurzel (born 1964, Oranienburg) is a German rower who won Olympic gold in the men's coxed four for East Germany at Seoul 1988 and three world titles (1986, 1987, 1990) with SG Dynamo Potsdam.

Bernd Fakler

Bernd Fakler, born 1964, is a German physiologist who directs the Institute of Physiology II at the University of Freiburg, studying ion channels and their protein complexes in the brain.

Bernd Fischer (mathematician)

Bernd Fischer (1936–2020) was a German mathematician at the University of Bielefeld who discovered five sporadic simple groups, including the three Fischer groups and the Monster.