Famous People with Name Bernard

Bernard Patrick O'Dowd            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bernard Patrick O'Dowd: was an Australian activist, educator, poet, journalist, and author of several law books and poetry books. O'Dowd worked as an assistant-librarian and later Chief Parliamentary Draughtsman in the Supreme Court at Melbourne for 48 years; [1] he was also a co-publisher and writer for the radical paper Tocsin. Bernard O'Dowd lived to age 87.Bernard O'Dowd was born in 1866 at Beaufort, Victoria, as the eldest son of Irish migrants.[1] O'Dowd had been a child prodigy who read Milton's "Paradise Lost" at age 8.[1] He had been employed as a head teacher at a Catholic School in Ballarat, but he was dismissed for heresy.[1] He then opened up his own school in Beaufort. In the year 1886, at age 20, he moved to Melbourne, where in 1887, he gained employment as an assistant-librarian in the Supreme Court Library, working with the Victorian colonial and State government until 1935, and retiring as Chief Parliamentary Draughtsman.[1][2]

Bernard Cohen            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bernard Cohen: an Australian novelist. He was born in Lansing, Michigan in the United States, and emigrated to Australia when he was nine months old.He won the 1996 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award, three times Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian novelist, winner of a 2001 Arts Council England Writer's Award.He currently directs The Writing Workshop, which runs creative writing programs for children in Sydney, and via the internet.

Bernard Sulzberger            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bernard Sulzberger: is an Australian professional racing cyclist, currently riding for Fly V Australia presented by Successful Living.

Bernard Considine            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bernard Considine: was an Australian sportsman who played first-class cricket for Victoria and Tasmania as well as Australian rules football with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Considine, an Old Paradian, played regularly for Hawthorn from Round 7 in the 1952 VFL season. He managed just three senior appearances the next season and ended his league career with 16 games and seven goals. As a right arm fast bowler, Considine took 25 wickets at 29.44 from eight first-class matches. His best bowling performance was figures of 6/85 which were taken when he represented Victoria against Western Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in a Sheffield Shield match. The Ararat born paceman played one match for Tasmania, in 1954/55, against the Marylebone Cricket Club and his three top order wickets were Denis Compton, Len Hutton and Reg Simpson.

Bernard Ukeiwé            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bernard Ukeiwé: was a New Caledonian politician. The son of former senator Dick Ukeiwé, he was at one time a member of the New Caledonia national football team. A Kanak, he was against independence from France.