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Bernie Willis
Bernie Willis, also known as Bernard Willis, is an American politician serving as a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives from Ohio's 74th district.
Bernie Xiong
Bernie Xiong is a Chinese software engineer who co-founded the travel booking platform Klook in Hong Kong in 2014 and serves as its chief technology officer.
Bernward
Bernward (c. 960–1022) was bishop of Hildesheim from 993 until 1022, a former imperial chaplain and tutor to Otto III, and a canonized Catholic saint.
Berny Jacques
Berny Jacques is an American politician who has served as a Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives from District 59, covering Largo and Seminole, since 2022.
Berossus
Berossus (Bēl-rē'ûšunu), Babylonian priest of Bel and historian, late 4th–early 3rd century BCE, wrote the Greek three-book Babyloniaca dedicated to Antiochus I; it survives only in fragments via Polyhistor, Josephus, and Eusebius.
Berry College
Berry College: private liberal arts college in Mount Berry, Georgia, founded by Martha Berry in 1902; 27,000-acre campus; LifeWorks paid student work program; ninth president Sandeep Mazumder since July 2025.
Berry Genomics
Berry Genomics (贝瑞基因, formerly 贝瑞和康) is a Chinese genetic-testing company founded in 2010 that pioneered non-invasive prenatal testing in China and listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2017.
Bersaglieri
Bersaglieri: Italian light-infantry corps founded 18 June 1836 by Alessandro La Marmora under King Carlo Alberto; marksmen-runners famed for mobility, Porta Pia 1870, cyclist units, six regiments today.
Berserker
Berserker (Old Norse berserkr) means a frenzied Scandinavian warrior of the Viking Age and earlier, known from sagas, skaldic poetry and law codes. Distinct from ulfheðnar, wolf-skin warriors; linked to Odin; source of 'go berserk' via Scott (1822).
Bersih
Bersih (Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections, Gabungan Pilihanraya Bersih dan Adil) is Malaysia's electoral-reform civil-society coalition, founded 2006, which held five yellow-shirted mass rallies (2007–2016) demanding clean elections and clean government, contributing to BN's 2018 electoral defeat.
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.
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.
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.
Bertha Lutz
Bertha Lutz (1894–1976) was a Brazilian biologist and feminist leader who founded the Federação Brasileira pelo Progresso Feminino in 1922 and served as a federal deputy from 1936 to 1937.
Berthold
Berthold (died 24 July 1198) was a Cistercian abbot of Loccum who became the second bishop of Livonia (1196–1198), organized the first armed crusade to Livonia, and was killed in battle near present-day Riga.
Berthold Haller
Berthold Haller, also Berchtold Haller (1492 to 1536), was a Protestant reformer who led Bern to the Reformation through preaching, the 1528 Bern Disputation, and the city's reform edict.
Berthold Laufer
Berthold Laufer (1874–1934) was a German-born American anthropologist and sinologist, Curator of Anthropology at Chicago's Field Museum from 1908, whose monographs on jade, Chinese ceramics, and printing remained standard references.
Bertie Ahern
Bertie Ahern (Parthalán Ó hEachthairn, born 1951), Irish Fianna Fáil leader and Taoiseach 1997–2008, signed the 1998 Good Friday Agreement; resigned in 2008 amid the Mahon tribunal inquiry into his finances and left Fianna Fáil in 2012.
Bertil Ohlin
Bertil Ohlin was a Swedish economist and professor at the Stockholm School of Economics who won the 1977 Nobel Memorial Prize for the theory of international trade.
Bertin
Bertin, also Bertinus, was a Columbanian monk trained at Luxeuil who led the monastery of Sithiu at Saint-Omer, France, in the seventh century; the abbey there took his name.
Bertram Growth Capital
Bertram Growth Capital is the family of growth-equity funds raised by Bertram Capital Management, a Foster City, California private equity firm founded by Jeffrey Drazan in 2006.
Bertram Otto Bardenhewer
Bertram Otto Bardenhewer (1851–1935) was a German Catholic priest and professor of New Testament exegesis at Munich, best known as a patrologist, or scholar of the Church Fathers.
Bertram Ramsay
Admiral Sir Bertram Home Ramsay (1883-1945), British Royal Navy officer, organized the Dunkirk evacuation (Operation Dynamo, 338,226 troops rescued) and commanded Allied naval forces for D-Day (Operation Neptune); killed in a 1945 air crash.
Bertrand competition
Bertrand competition is an oligopoly model in which firms compete by setting prices rather than quantities, named after Joseph Bertrand, who introduced it in an 1883 review of Cournot.
Bertrand d'Ogeron
Bertrand d'Ogeron (1613–1676) was a French naval officer and colonial administrator who governed Tortuga and Saint-Domingue from 1665 to 1675, laying the foundations of the French colony later known as Haiti.
Bertrand du Guesclin
Bertrand du Guesclin (c. 1320–1380), Breton captain and Constable of France under Charles V, victor of Cocherel (1364), kingmaker in Castile for Henri de Trastamare, leader of the French reconquest of the 1370s, buried at Saint-Denis.
Bertrand Pancher
Bertrand Pancher is a French politician who has led the centrist party Utiles since 2023, after serving as a deputy of the Meuse and twice mayor of Bar-le-Duc.
Bertrand Piccard
Bertrand Piccard, Swiss psychiatrist and explorer, made the first non-stop balloon circumnavigation (1999, Breitling Orbiter 3) and first solar-powered round-the-world flight (2016, Solar Impulse 2), then founded the Solar Impulse Foundation and leads the Climate Impulse hydrogen plane project.
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, was a British philosopher and logician who co-founded analytic philosophy, co-wrote Principia Mathematica, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950.
Beryl A. Howell
Beryl A. Howell, born Beryl Alaine Howell, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Columbia, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2010.