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Bernard Fitzpatrick
Bernard Fitzpatrick was a Dublin shop owner and businessman who, with Czech crystal maker Charles Bacik, formed the Waterford Glass partnership that revived crystal-making in Waterford, Ireland, in 1947.
Bernard Francis Law
Bernard Francis Law, known as Cardinal Bernard Law, was an American prelate who served as Archbishop of Boston from 1984 to 2002, resigning after the Boston Globe's abuse investigation.
Bernard Gerald Cantor
B. Gerald Cantor (1916–1996) was an American securities broker who founded the bond brokerage that became Cantor Fitzgerald and assembled the world's largest private collection of Rodin sculpture.
Bernard Gilpin
Bernard Gilpin (1517–1583) was an English clergyman and rector of Houghton-le-Spring in County Durham, called the "Apostle of the North" for his winter preaching journeys through northern England.
Bernard Guidonis
Bernard Gui, also known as Bernard Guidonis, was a French Dominican friar who served as inquisitor of Toulouse from 1307, condemning hundreds for heresy, and later became bishop of Lodève.
Bernard John McQuaid
Bernard John McQuaid (1823–1909) was an American Catholic prelate who served as the first Bishop of Rochester, New York, from 1868 until his death in 1909.
Bernard Jordan
Bernard Arthur Jordan (1924–2015), British D-Day veteran, Royal Navy officer, and former mayor of Hove, who escaped his care home in 2014 to attend the Normandy 70th anniversary commemorations, later depicted in The Great Escaper.
Bernard Kardon
Bernard Kardon was an American engineer who co-founded the high-fidelity audio company Harman Kardon with Sidney Harman in 1953, after serving as chief engineer at the David Bogen Company.
Bernard Kerik
Bernard Kerik (1955-2025) was the 40th NYPD police commissioner, leading the department through 9/11 after serving as NYC Correction commissioner; later convicted of tax fraud and false statements, imprisoned, pardoned by Trump in 2020.
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 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 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 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 Montgomery
Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887-1976), British field marshal; Eighth Army commander at El Alamein 1942, Allied ground forces commander in Normandy 1944, and NATO's first DSACEUR 1951-1958.
Bernard O'Reilly
Bernard O'Reilly (1820–1907) was an Irish-born Roman Catholic priest, historian, and devotional author who emigrated to Canada and the United States, best known for The Mirror of True Womanhood (1876).
Bernard of Clairvaux
Bernard of Clairvaux, also known as Saint Bernard de Clairvaux, was a Burgundian monk and abbot of Clairvaux from 1115, a leading figure of the twelfth-century Church.
Bernard Quintin
Bernard Quintin is a Belgian politician of the liberal MR party who serves as federal Minister of Security and the Interior, in charge of Beliris, and is a former diplomat.
Bernard Shaw (journalist)
Bernard Shaw was an American broadcast journalist and CNN's first chief anchor. He is known for covering the 1991 Gulf War from Baghdad and moderating the first African American presidential debate.
Bernard Tapie
Bernard Tapie (1943–2021) was a French businessman, football club owner, and politician who built a fortune buying distressed companies, and was later involved in the Adidas arbitration affair.
Bernard V. Vonderschmitt
Bernard V. Vonderschmitt was an American engineer who co-founded the chipmaker Xilinx in 1984 and pioneered the fabless model of designing chips without owning factories.
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.
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 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.