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Bernard Sumner
Bernard Sumner, born 1956 in Salford, is a British singer, guitarist and producer who co-founded Joy Division, fronted New Order after Ian Curtis's death, formed Electronic with Johnny Marr, and built the band's early sequencers.
Bernard Takawira
Bernard Takawira (1948–1997) was a Zimbabwean stone sculptor from Nyanga, younger brother of John Takawira, and a leading first-generation figure of Zimbabwe's stone sculpture movement, winning Zimbabwe Heritage in 1988.
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.
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 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.
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 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 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.
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.
Berner (rapper)
Berner, born Gilbert Anthony Milam Jr. (1983), is a San Francisco rapper and cannabis entrepreneur, Taylor Gang signee, and co-founder and CEO of the Cookies cannabis brand.
Bernhard Brink
Bernhard Brink, born 1952 in Nordhorn, is a German schlager singer and television presenter whose biggest single, "Liebe auf Zeit", reached number 13 in 1977.
Bernhard Schlink
Bernhard Schlink (born 1944, Bielefeld) is a German novelist and retired professor of public law, formerly a judge on the NRW Constitutional Court. Known for the Selb crime trilogy and Der Vorleser (The Reader, 1995), the first German number-one New York Times bestseller, filmed in 2008.
Bernhard Severin Ingemann
Bernhard Severin Ingemann (1789–1862) was a Danish Romantic poet and hymn writer, best known for his children's songs, hymns, and historical novels about medieval Danish kings.
Bernice Summerfield
Bernice Summerfield (Benny), fictional archaeology professor created by Paul Cornell in the 1992 Doctor Who novel Love and War; later led Virgin's Doctor-free New Adventures and Big Finish's first licensed audio range, played by Lisa Bowerman since 1998.
Bernie (2011 film)
Bernie (2011) is Richard Linklater's mockumentary dark comedy, starring Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Matthew McConaughey, about mortician Bernie Tiede's 1996 murder of widow Marjorie Nugent in Carthage, Texas, adapted from Skip Hollandsworth's Texas Monthly article and later tied to Tiede's 2014 release and 2016 resentencing.
Bernie Casey
Bernie Casey (Bernard Terry Casey, 1939–2017) was an NFL wide receiver for the 49ers and Rams who became a painter, poet, and actor, playing Felix Leiter in Never Say Never Again.
Bernie Kopell
Bernie Kopell (born 1933), American character actor known as KAOS agent Siegfried on Get Smart and Dr. Adam Bricker on all 250 episodes of The Love Boat; also That Girl, Lancelot Link, and stage work.
Bernie Leadon
Bernie Leadon (Bernard Matthew Leadon III, born 1947, Minneapolis) is an American multi-instrumentalist and Eagles founding member; played on the band's first four country-rock albums, left in 1975, replaced by Joe Walsh, and released the solo album Too Late to Be Cool in 2025.
Bernie Mac
Bernie Mac (Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, 1957–2008), Chicago stand-up comedian and actor; Kings of Comedy tour, The Bernie Mac Show (2001–2006), Ocean's Eleven films; died of pneumonia.
Bernie Marsden
Bernie Marsden (Bernard John Marsden) was an English rock and blues guitarist, born in 1951, who co-founded Whitesnake and co-wrote the hit "Here I Go Again".
Bernie Nolan
Bernie Nolan (Bernadette Therese Nolan, 1960–2013), Irish singer and actress, lead vocalist of The Nolans on "I'm in the Mood for Dancing", later Diane Murray in Brookside and Sgt Sheelagh Murphy in The Bill; died of breast cancer aged 52.
Bernie Taupin
Bernie Taupin (born 1950) is the English lyricist and visual artist who has written the words for Elton John's songs since 1967, including Your Song, Rocket Man, and Candle in the Wind '97; the duo's method, honors, and solo careers distinguish him from any other songwriter of the same name.
Bernie Worrell
Bernie Worrell (George Bernard Worrell Jr., 1944–2016), the "Wizard of Woo," was a founding keyboardist and musical director of Parliament-Funkadelic, later worked with Talking Heads, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.
Bernie Wrightson
Bernie Wrightson (1948–2017), American horror comic artist who co-created DC's Swamp Thing with Len Wein in House of Secrets #92 (1971), drew its first ten issues, and illustrated Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1983).
Berniece Baker Miracle
Berniece Baker Miracle, born Berniece Inez Gladys Baker, was an American author and older half-sister of Marilyn Monroe who co-wrote the 1994 memoir My Sister Marilyn.
Bernstein Prize
The Bernstein Prize (פרס ברנשטיין) is an Israeli literary prize for writers at the start of their careers, awarded since 1978 from Mordechai Bernstein's bequest and administered by the Book Publishers Association of Israel.