Famous People with Name Bernard

Bernard Cyril Freyberg            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bernard Cyril Freyberg: arguably New Zealand's most famous soldier and military commander, also served as Governor-General of New Zealand.He became an officer in the British Army in World War I, during which he won the Victoria Cross and became one of the British Empire's most highly decorated soldiers.

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.

Albert Bernard            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Albert Bernard: is a Belgian Olympic fencer. He competed in the team épée event at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Marc Jean-Bernard            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Marc Jean-Bernard: is a French/American Philosopher,Classical musician and musicologist especially dedicated to Aesthetic Theory, Philosophy of Music and Hermeneutics of Culture. His theoretical contributions (written in French, English and Spanish) to Philosophy of Music present the particularity to synthesize hermeneutical, analytical and cognitive methodologies. Marc Jean-Bernard internally associates theoretical investigation to artistic/educative praxis and concrete institutional action.

Ali Bernard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ali Bernard: is a female wrestler who earned a bye in women's freestyle wrestling qualifying her to compete against 2004 bronze medal-winner Katie Downing, whom she defeated in two matches at the 2008 qualifying match in Las Vegas; that feat earned her a spot to compe

Yohann Bernard            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Yohann Bernard: is a breaststroke swimmer from France. Bernard won the bronze medal in the men's 200 metres breaststroke event at the 1999 European Championships in Istanbul. He represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, where he fin

Selwyn St. Bernard            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Selwyn St. Bernard: is a Trinidad and Tobago rugby union and rugby league footballer. As a rugby union player, his position is as a flanker. He first played at Caribs, in Trinidad, moving then to England, where he represented Gateshead Thunder, in rugby league, and Basingsto