Bernard as First Name

Bernard Malamud            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Bernard Malamud: was an author of novels and short stories. Along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, he was one of the great American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel The Natural was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford.

Bernard Waber            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Bernard Waber: is an American children's author most famous for the books The House on East 88th Street (1962), Lyle, Lyle Crocodile (1965) and the subsequent books in the Lyle series. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Henry and Pauline Waber. Although he started a degree in finance at the University of Pennsylvania, he left school to enroll in the army at the onset of World War II. From 1942 to 1945, Waber served the United States Army as a staff sergeant. Immediately following the end of the war, he returned to his studies at the Philadelphia College of Art. Waber graduated and earned his degree in 1951.

Bernard Greenhouse            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Bernard Greenhouse: is a well-known cellist and one of the founding members of the Beaux Arts Trio. He started his professional studies with Felix Salmond at Juilliard when he was eighteen. After four years of study with Salmond, Greenhouse proceeded to move on to studies with Emanuel Feuermann, Diran Alexanian, Raya Garbousova and Pablo Casals.

Bernard Lewis            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Bernard Lewis: is a British-American historian, Orientalist, and political commentator. He is the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He specializes in the history of Islam and the interaction between Islam and the West, and is especially famous in academic circles for his works on the history of the Ottoman Empire.Lewis is a widely-read expert on the Middle East, and James L. Abrahamson describes him as the West’s leading interpreter of that region. His advice has been frequently sought by policymakers, including the current Bush administration. In the Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing Martin Kramer, whose Ph.D. thesis was directed by Lewis, considered that, over a 60-year career, he has emerged as "the most influential postwar historian of Islam and the Middle East."

Bernard Sumner            Origin/Culture/Country: British
Bernard Sumner: Sumner was a founding member of Joy Division, a post punk band formed in 1977. The band enjoyed moderate commercial success, and is widely considered one of the most influential bands of the era. Primarily known as the band's lead guitarist (his main guitars were a Gibson SG and a Shergold Custom Masquerader) Sumner also played keyboards for synth parts. The band's most popular songs included "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and "Atmosphere". In May 1980 the band's vocalist,

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Bernard as Last Name

Pierre Bernard            Origin/Culture/Country: French
Pierre Bernard: is a French former professional football (soccer) player.

Olivier Bernard            Origin/Culture/Country: French
Olivier Bernard: is a French footballer who is currently without a club after leaving Newcastle United on 16 May 2007.Bernard made his name during his first spell with Newcastle after joining from Lyon. He had an evolving career with the Magpies between 2000 and 2005 even though he was at Darlington on loan in the 2000–01 season.

Paul Bernard            Origin/Culture/Country: Scottish
Paul Bernard: a former professional footballer, playing in midfield. He played for Oldham, Aberdeen (whom he joined for a club-record £1m in 1995), Barnsley, Plymouth Argyle, St Johnstone and Drogheda United. Soon after joining the Dons, he helped them to win the 1995-96 Scottish Football League Cup. He was also capped twice for Scotland during the 1995 Kirin Cup.

Günter Bernard            Origin/Culture/Country: Germany
Günter Bernard: a former German football player. He is the son of Robert Bernard (*March 10, 1913, † 1990), who was a German international football player himself.A member of the 1966 FIFA World Cup squad of West Germany, Günter Bernard joined SV Werder Bremen in the founding year of Bundesliga from boyhood outfit Schweinfurt 05, for whom he had played top-tier matches in the Oberliga Süd since 1958. He stayed loyal to Bremen until his retirement in 1974 and was the clubs first-choice in their surprise Bundesliga winning campaign in 1965. He altogether played 287 times on that level for the North Germans.

Robert Bernard            Origin/Culture/Country: Germany
Robert Bernard: was a former German football player.Robert Bernard was the son of Jakob Bernard, an esteemed footballer in the postwar area of World War I in Schweinfurt, and the father of Günter Bernard, who was part of the runner-up squad of Germany at the 1966 FIFA World Cup and a Bundesliga winner with Werder Bremen in 1965.