Famous People with Name Bernard

Bernard Lance Cairns            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bernard Lance Cairns: is a former all-rounder who played for the New Zealand cricket team, and is the father of New Zealand cricketer Chris Cairns.

Bernard William Smith            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bernard William Smith: an Australian art historian, art critic and academic.Educated at the University of Sydney and at the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, University of London; completed a PhD at the Australian National University; taught in the NSW Department of Education, 1935-1944, and then served as an education officer for the Art Gallery of NSW country art exhibitions programme, 1944-1952.He was a lecturer, then senior lecturer, in the University of Melbourne's Fine Arts Department, 1955-1963, and art critic for The Age newspaper, Melbourne, 1963-1966. Subsequently he was the founding Professor of Contemporary Art and Director of the Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney, 1967-1977. He was the president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1977-1980. Currently, he is a professorial fellow in the department of Art History at the University of Melbourne. He is a recipient, Chevalier, of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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.