Bernal is a Spanish given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Bernard. Bernal may refer to:

People with the name

Given name

* Bernal de Bonaval, 13th century Galician troubadour *

Bernal de Foix, 1st Count of Medinaceli Bernal de Foix, 1st Count of Medinaceli ( es, Mosén Bernardo de Bearne y Foix, primer conde de Medinaceli; d. 1381), also known as "the Bastard of Bearn", was a military officer in the Crown of Castile, a region that is now part of Spain. Life an ...

, Spanish military officer * Bernal Díaz del Castillo (c. 1492 – 1581), Spanish conquistador

Middle name

Ralph Bernal Osborne Ralph Bernal Osborne of Newtown Anner House, County Tipperary, MP (26 March 1808 – 4 January 1882), born and baptised with the name of Ralph Bernal, Jr., was a British Liberal politician. Life He was the eldest son of London Sephardic Spanis ...

(1808–1882), British Liberal politician

Surname

A

Agostino Bernal Agostino Bernal (born at Magallon in Aragon in 1587; died at Saragossa, 13 September 1642) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian. Life He entered the Society of Jesus in 1603 when sixteen years old. A classical scholar, he taught humanities and rheto ...

, Spanish Jesuit theologian *

Agustín Bernal Agustín Bernal (born Romualdo Bucío Bucío; 1959 in the town of El Cahulote in Parácuaro, Michoacán – 8 January 2018) was a Mexican actor, film director, writer, and producer, mostly known for his frequent appearances in Mexican urban weste ...

, Mexican film actor *

Alejandro Bernal Alejandro Bernal Ríos (born 3 June 1988) is a Colombian footballer who plays for Atlético Bucaramanga. He usually plays as a defensive midfielder. Honours Club Independiente Santa Fe * Copa Colombia (1): 2009 Atlético Nacional *Categorí ...

, Colombian football player *

Andy Bernal Andrew Bernal (born Andrés Bernal; 16 May 1966 in Canberra, Australia) is a former professional football defender, and later football agent and personal manager for David Beckham. In 2021 he wrote and released his autobiography Riding Shotgun � ...

, Australian football player

C

* Cassie Bernall (1981–1999), student killed in the Columbine High School massacre *

César Bernal César Enrique Bernal Ávila (born 14 February 1995) is a Mexican professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Defender (association football), defender. He made his professional debut with Santos Laguna during a Copa MX victory ...

(born 1995), Mexican footballer *

Chesús Bernal Chesús Gregorio Bernal Bernal (8 January 1960 – 22 March 2019) was a Spanish academic and politician. He was a professor at the University of Zaragoza, specialising in Romance languages. In 1986, he co-founded the Chunta Aragonesista (CHA), and ...

(1960–2019), Spanish professor and politician

D

Darío Yazbek Bernal Darío Yazbek Bernal (born 30 November 1990) is a Mexican actor, known for playing Julián in '' The House of Flowers'' on Netflix. Early life Yazbek is the son of Sergio Yazbek and Patricia Bernal; his siblings are the actors Tamara Yazbek Be ...

(1990), Mexican actor * David "Elsewhere" Bernal (1979), American popping dancer *

Delfina Bernal Delfina Bernal (born 1941 in Barranquilla, Colombia) is a Colombian painter and multimedia artist. Life Delfina Bernal studied painting and sculpture at the Escuela de las Bellas Artes in Barranquilla, Colombia. She studied with the institute's d ...

(born 1941), Colombian painter and multimedia artist *

Diana Bernal Diana Rosalía Bernal Ladrón de Guevara is a Mexican jurist and politician who has served in the lower house of the Mexican Congress. Bernal studied law at the Ibero-American University (''Universidad Iberoamericana''). In the early 1980s sh ...

, Mexican politician

E

* Egan Bernal, Colombian road cyclist

G

* Gabriel Bernal, Mexican boxer * Gael García Bernal (born 1978), Mexican film actor

H

* Heraclio Bernal, Mexican bandit

I

* Ignacio Bernal (1910–1992), Mexican anthropologist and archaeologist * Ishmael Bernal (1938–1996), Filipino filmmaker

J

* Jair Bernal (born 1968), Colombian road cyclist * Jesús Aparicio-Bernal, Spanish politician * Jesús Mosquera Bernal, Spanish actor * John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971), Irish-born biophysicist, crystallographer, historian of science, and British Communist * Jorge Bernal, Mexican football player * José Bernal (1925–2010), Cuban-American artist * José Daniel Bernal (born 1973), Colombian road cyclist * José León Bernal (born 1995), Spanish football player * Joyce E. Bernal, Filipina director *

Juan Bernal Ponce Juan Bernal Ponce (17 July 1938 in Valparaíso, Chile – 19 January 2006 in San José, Costa Rica) was a Chilean architect, artist, and university professor who spent half of his life in Costa Rica. Early life He left in 1974 after a brief ...

, Costa Rican architect * Julio Ernesto Bernal, Colombian road cyclist

K

* Kris Bernal, Filipina actress

L

* Laura Bernal (195?–2020), Argentine diplomat *

Lorena Bernal Lorena Bernal Pascual (born 12 May 1981) is an Argentine-Spanish actress, television host, and model. Early life Bernal was born in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. She moved to San Sebastián, Spain, when she was a year old, and studied at ...

, Argentinian-Spanish beauty queen and actress * Lorenzo Bernal del Mercado, Spanish captain *

Luz Marina Bernal Luz Marina Bernal Parra (born 1960) is a Colombian peace and human rights activist, a founding member of the group ( es, Madres de Soacha, links=no). She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016 and has been a champion of the struggle of wo ...

(born 1960), Colombian human rights activist

M

* Marcelino Bernal, Mexican football player * Martin Bernal (1937–2013), British scholar of modern Chinese political history * Miguel Bernal Jiménez (1910–1956), Mexican composer, organist, pedagogist and musicologist

P

Paulino Bernal Paulino Bernal (June 22, 1939 – September 10, 2022) was an American accordion player and Christian evangelist. He was a member of the Texano Tex-Mex group Conjunto Bernal. In 1972, Paulino converted from the apostolic Christian Evangelical and ...

, American accordion player

R

* Ralph Bernal, British Whig politician *

Rodrigo Bernal Rodrigo Bernal González (born June 6, 1959 in Medellín) is a Colombian botanist who specialises in the palm family. Bernal was a faculty member at the Institute of Natural Sciences, National University of Colombia until 2007. He received his P ...

(born 1959), Colombian botanist * Rogelio Bernal Andreo (born 1969), Spanish-American astrophotographer

S

* Sergio Bernal, Mexican football player *

Susan Bernal Susan Andrea Bernal López (born 1982) is a Colombian materials scientist who is Professor of Structural Materials at the University of Leeds. Her research considers design, development and characterisation of novel cements. She was awarded th ...

, Colombian materials scientist

V

Victor Bernal Victor Hugo Bernal (October 6, 1953 – September 2, 2006) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for one season. Bernal was drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 6th round of the 1975 Major League Baseball Draft. He played for the San ...

, Major League Baseball pitcher

Geography

Peña de Bernal Peña de Bernal (; English: ''Bernal's Boulder'' or ''Bernal Peak'') is a monolith, one of the tallest in the world. It is located in San Sebastián Bernal, a small town in the Mexican state of Querétaro. It is one of the most touristic sites ...

, monolith in Mexico **

Bernal, Querétaro San Sebastián Bernal, better known as Bernal (; from Basque ''Vernal'', "place of stones or boulders"), is a colonial village in the Mexican state of Querétaro. It was founded in 1642 by Spanish soldier Alonso Cabrera. Bernal is located 40 m ...

, Mexico ( San Sebastián Bernal), site of the Peña de Bernal *

Bernal, Argentina Bernal is a city located in the northeast of Quilmes in the province of Buenos Aires, approximately 10 miles south of the city of Buenos Aires. It is the second largest and most populated city in the Partido of Quilmes. Bernal borders Avellaneda P ...

Bernal, New Mexico Bernal is an unincorporated community in San Miguel County, New Mexico ) , population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano) , seat = Santa Fe , LargestCity = Albuquerque , LargestMetro = Tiguex , Offic ...

, United States *Bernal, a location in

Serafina, New Mexico Serafina is an unincorporated community located in San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States. The community is located along Interstate 25, south-southwest of Las Vegas. Serafina has a post office A post office is a public facility and ...

, United States * Bernal Heights, neighborhood of San Francisco, United States **

Bernal Heights Summit Bernal Heights Summit ( ) or Bernal Heights Hill is a hill in the San Francisco, California neighborhood of Bernal Heights. Upper elevations are part of Bernal Heights Park, which is managed by the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department. At i ...

, a nearby hill *

Bernal District Bernal District is one of six districts of the province of Sechura in Peru. Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática The Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI) ("National Institute of Statistics and Informatics") is ...

, Peru *

Bernal Islands The Bernal Islands are a group of four mainly snow-covered islands and a number of rocks lying in Crystal Sound, about east of the south end of Lavoisier Island, Biscoe Islands. They were mapped from surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies ...

, sub-group of the Biscoe Islands, Antarctica * Bernal/Singleton Transfer Location, bus station in Dallas, Texas. United States * Bernal Subbasin, an aquifer in California, United States * Augustin Bernal Park, a park in Pleasanton, California, United States

Other

Bernal Lecture The Bernal Lecture was an annual lecture on the social function of science organised by the Royal Society of London and endowed by Professor John Desmond Bernal. It was last delivered in 2004, after which it was merged with the Wilkins Lecture and ...

(endowed by John Desmond Bernal), organised by the Royal Society of London * Bernal sphere (named after John Desmond Bernal), a type of space habitat *''

Bernal v. Fainter ''Bernal v. Fainter'', 467 U.S. 216 (1984), is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Equal Protection Clause prohibited the state of Texas from barring noncitizens from applying for commission as a notary public. B ...

'', 1984 US Supreme Court case