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Bert Jansch
Bert Jansch (Herbert Jansch, 1943–2011), Scottish folk guitarist, singer-songwriter, and Pentangle founder. Debut album 1965; "Blackwaterside" arrangement became Led Zeppelin's "Black Mountain Side"; influenced Page, Young, Marr, Drake.
Bert Kreischer
Bert Kreischer (born 1972) is an American shirtless stand-up comedian, podcaster (Bertcast, 2 Bears 1 Cave), and actor famous for "The Machine" Russian train-robbery story, six Netflix specials, the 2023 film The Machine, and the 2026 Netflix series Free Bert.
Bert L de Groot
Bert L. de Groot (born 1971) is a Dutch computational biophysicist who leads the Computational Biomolecular Dynamics group at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen.
Bert L. Vallée
Bert L. Vallee (1919–2010) was a German-born, Luxembourg-raised physician-biochemist at Harvard Medical School, called the father of metallobiochemistry for establishing the biological roles of zinc and trace metals.
Bert Lahr
Bert Lahr (Irving Lahrheim, 1895–1967), American comic actor of vaudeville, burlesque, and Broadway; the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Tony-winning Estragon in Waiting for Godot (1956).
Bert McCracken
Bert McCracken (Robert Edward McCracken, b. 1982, Orem, Utah) is lead singer and lyricist of rock band The Used, formed 2001; platinum 2002 debut, The Canyon, Robbietheused solo project, 25th-anniversary tour.
Bert Mizusawa
Bert Mizusawa is an American politician and retired Army major general who is the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Virginia in 2026, facing incumbent Mark Warner.
Bert Newton
Bert Newton (Albert Watson Newton, 1938-2021), Australian radio and TV entertainer nicknamed Moonface; Kennedy's straight man on In Melbourne Tonight, Don Lane's sidekick, host of Good Morning Australia; four-time Gold Logie winner and record Logies host.
Bert Plaxton
Bert Plaxton (Herbert Alfred Wellington Plaxton, 1901-1970), Canadian ice hockey forward; brother of Hugh, cousin of Rod; won 1928 St. Moritz Olympic gold with Canada, playing two games, scoring two goals; later a lawyer.
Bert Poolman
Bert Poolman is a Dutch biochemist, professor of Biochemistry at the University of Groningen since 1999, known for membrane transport research and building synthetic cells from molecular components.
Bert Romp
Bert Romp (Berend Romp, 1958–2018), Dutch show jumper, team gold at Barcelona 1992 on Waldo E, World Cup wins on Mr Blue, Dutch national jumping coach 2000–2004, died after a horse kick.
Bert Sakmann
Bert Sakmann, born in Stuttgart in 1942, is a German physician and neuroscientist who shared the 1991 Nobel Prize for discoveries about single ion channels in cells.
Bert Schneider
Bert Schneider (Julius Gustav Albert Schneider, 1897–1986) was a Canadian boxer, born in Cleveland, who won welterweight gold at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics for Canada and later turned professional.
Bert Trautmann
Bert Trautmann (Bernhard Carl Trautmann, 1923-2013), German goalkeeper for Manchester City 1949-1964 with 545 appearances; former POW who played the 1956 FA Cup final's last 17 minutes with a broken neck.
Bert van den Berg
Bert van den Berg is a structural biologist who has been Professor in Membrane Protein Structural Biology at Newcastle University since 2013, known for the SecY channel and SusCD structures.
Bert van Marwijk
Bert van Marwijk (Lambertus van Marwijk), Dutch football manager born 1952 in Deventer; won the 2002 UEFA Cup with Feyenoord and led the Netherlands to the 2010 World Cup final, later coaching Saudi Arabia, Australia, and the UAE.
Bert Vogelstein
Bert Vogelstein is an American physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins who first explained how colorectal cancer develops through accumulating gene mutations, and later pioneered liquid biopsy blood tests.
Bert W. O’Malley
Bert Wilson O'Malley (1936–2025) was an American physician-scientist at Baylor College of Medicine, called the founding father of molecular endocrinology and elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Bert Weckhuysen
Bert M. Weckhuysen is a Belgian-born chemist and professor of inorganic chemistry and catalysis at Utrecht University, known for developing operando spectroscopy and winning the 2013 Spinoza Prize.
Bert Williams
Bert Williams (Egbert Austin Williams, 1874–1922) was a Bahamian-born American comedian who led the team Williams and Walker and joined the Ziegfeld Follies in 1910.
Berta Scharrer
Berta Scharrer (1906–1995) was a German-born American scientist who, with her husband Ernst, founded neuroendocrinology, the study of hormone-secreting nerve cells, winning the 1983 National Medal of Science.
Berta Vázquez
Berta Vázquez (Birtukan Tibebe), born 1992 in Kiev, is a Ukrainian-Spanish actress known as Rizos in Vis a vis and Bisila in Palmeras en la nieve; also singer with Museum and poet.
Bertalan Papp
Bertalan Papp (1913–1992), Hungarian sabre fencer, two-time Olympic team gold medalist (London 1948, Helsinki 1952) and world team champion 1953 and 1954; later Honvéd fencing head and film stuntman. Distinct from the UWW Greco-Roman wrestler of the same name.
Bertalan Szemere
Bertalan Szemere (1812–1869) was a Hungarian politician, lawyer, and writer who was Hungary's second prime minister, leading the government during the 1848–49 war of independence.
Bertan Asllani
Bertan Asllani, born 1990 in Skopje, is a Macedonian-born Albanian actor, singer, and composer in Turkish television; known for Yabani (Alaz), Atatürk 1881-1919, and his 2003 Albanian-language debut album.
Bertel Gripenberg
Bertel Gripenberg (1878–1947) was a Finland-Swedish baron and poet, born in Saint Petersburg, whose 1918 Civil War collection Under fanan made him celebrated before postwar re-evaluation.
Bertelsmann
Bertelsmann, formally Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA, is a privately held German media, services, and education group founded in 1835, generating €19.0 billion in revenue in 2025.
Bertelsmann Music Group
Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG), also known as BMG Entertainment, was the music division of Germany's Bertelsmann and a major record company built around the RCA and Arista labels.
Bertha
Bertha Roman Fort, a Flavian-era Roman auxiliary fort at the confluence of the Rivers Almond and Tay near Perth, Scotland; one of the Gask Ridge frontier forts, with Antonine reuse, a 'Discipline of the Emperor' inscription, and evidence for a Roman bridge over the Tay.
Bertha (tunnel boring machine)
Bertha was an Earth Pressure Balance tunnel boring machine built by Hitachi Zosen to excavate the State Route 99 tunnel replacing Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct, finishing in 2017.