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short form of the given name
Bernhard
Bernhard is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
*Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar (1604–1639), Duke of Saxe-Weimar
*Bernhard, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1901–1984), head of the House of Saxe-Meiningen 1946 ...
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Bernard
Bernard (''Bernhard'') is a French and West Germanic masculine given name. It is also a surname.
The name is attested from at least the 9th century. West Germanic ''Bernhard'' is composed from the two elements ''bern'' "bear" and ''hard'' "brav ...
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List of persons with given name Bernd
The following people share the name Bernd.
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Bernd Brückler
Bernd Brückler (born August 26, 1981 is an Austrian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the Austrian Hockey League (EBEL), the Finnish Liiga, and the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).
Playing career
Brückler started his h ...
(born 1981), Austrian hockey player
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Bernd Eichinger
Bernd Eichinger (; 11 April 194924 January 2011) was a German film producer, director, and screenwriter.
Life and career
Eichinger was born in Neuburg an der Donau. He attended the University of Television and Film Munich in the 1970s and bou ...
(1949–2011), German film producer
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Bernd Heinrich
Bernd Heinrich (born April 19, 1940 in Bad Polzin, Germany), is a professor emeritus in the biology department at the University of Vermont and is the author of a number of books about nature writing and biology. Heinrich has made major contributio ...
(born 1940), biologist and author at the University of Vermont
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Bernd Helmschrot (born 1947), German football player
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Bernd Herzsprung
Bernd Herzsprung (born March 22, 1942 in Hamburg, Germany) is a German television actor.
Herzsprung completed his acting training with Joseph Offenbach and then played in theaters in Hamburg (including the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in '' The Cap ...
(born 1942), German actor
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Bernd Hölzenbein
Bernd Hölzenbein (born 9 March 1946) is a German former professional footballer who played as a striker or winger. At international level, he was a member of the West German team that won the World Cup in 1974. Hölzenbein is best known fo ...
(born 1946), German football player
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Bernd Jeffré
Bernd Jeffré (born 17 March 1964) is a German para-cycling, paracyclist who won the handcycle race at the 2008 Berlin Marathon. He also won a bronze medal in the Cycling at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Men's road time trial H3, road time tr ...
(born 1964), German paraclyclist
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Bernd Klenke (born 1946), German sport sailor
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Bernd Posselt
Bernd Posselt (born 4 June 1956) is a German politician, who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 2014, representing the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) and the European People's Party (EPP). He is currently a member ...
(born 1956), German politician (CSU)
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Bernd Schneider (footballer)
Bernd Schneider (born 17 November 1973) is a German former footballer. He was mainly a midfielder but could play anywhere on the left and right flanks. After retiring in June 2009, he took up an advisory role at his first club, Carl Zeiss Jena ...
(born 1973), German football player
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Bernd Schneider (racing driver)
Bernd Schneider (born 20 July 1964) is a German racing driver. He is a five-time Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters champion, and a Mercedes Brand Ambassador.
Career
Early years
Schneider was named after legendary driver Bernd Rosemeyer, winner of ...
(born 1964), German racecar driver
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Bernd Schröder
Bernd Schröder (born 22 July 1942) is a German football manager. He is best known as the manager of the women's Bundesliga side 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam from 1971 to 2016.
Career
Bernd Schröder was a goalkeeper and played for various clubs ...
(born 1942), German football manager
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Bernd Schuster
Bernd Schuster (born 22 December 1959) is a German former professional footballer of the late 1970s through early 1990s, who won club titles playing for the Spanish sides FC Barcelona (1980–1987) and Real Madrid (1988–1990). He played as a m ...
(born 1959), German football manager and former player
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Bernd Stange
Bernd Walter Stange (born 14 March 1948) is a German football manager who last managed the Syria national team.
During his playing career, he played for Chemie Gnaschwitz, Vorwärts Bautzen, and HSG DHfK Leipzig as a defender.
Playing caree ...
(born 1948), German football manager
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Bernd Stelter
Bernd Stelter (born 19 April 1961 in Unna) is a German comedian, a writer and a television presenter.
Life
As a writer, Stelter has published several books. On German radio and television he has been working as comedian and presenter. In the ...
(born 1961), German comedian
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Bernd Michael Rode
Bernd Michael Rode (July 14, 1946 – August 28, 2022) was an Austrian professor of chemistry at the University of Innsbruck and founder of the Austrian-South-East-Asian Academic University Network (ASEA-UNINET). Prof. Rode retired in 2011 but ...
(born 1946), Austrian chemistry professor
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Bernd Rosemeyer
Bernd Rosemeyer (14 October 1909 – 28 January 1938) was a German racing driver and speed record holder. He is considered one of the greatest racing drivers of all time. Though he was not a member of the Nazi party, he was made a member of the S ...
(1909–1938), German racecar driver
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Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Bernd Alois Zimmermann (20 March 1918 – 10 August 1970) was a German composer. He is perhaps best known for his opera ''Die Soldaten'', which is regarded as one of the most important German operas of the 20th century, after those of Berg. As a ...
(1918–1970), German composer
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Bernd Sturmfels
Bernd Sturmfels (born March 28, 1962 in Kassel, West Germany) is a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and is a director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig sin ...
(born 1962), mathematician teaching at UC Berkeley
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Bernd Leno
Bernd Leno (born 4 March 1992) is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for club Fulham and the Germany national team.
Club career VfB Stuttgart
Having progressed through the youth set up at VfB Stuttgart, in May 2011, L ...
(born 1992), German football player, goalkeeper playing for Arsenal F.C.
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Thomas Anders
Bernd Weidung (born 1 March 1963), known by his stage name Thomas Anders, is a German singer, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the pop duo Modern Talking.
Starting his singing career while still in schoo ...
(born 1963), German singer, lead singer of
Modern Talking
Modern Talking was a German pop music duo consisting of arranger, songwriter and producer Dieter Bohlen and singer Thomas Anders. They have been referred to as Germany's most successful pop duo, and have had a number of hit singles, reaching th ...
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Characters
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Bernd das Brot
Bernd das Brot ( en, Bernd the bread) is a puppet character, star mascot and cult figure of the German children's television channel KI.KA, currently featured in the programs ''Bernd das Brot'', '' Bravo Bernd'', and the KI.KA late night loop pr ...
, German children's television character
*Bernd Doppler, character in TV series
Dark
Darkness, the direct opposite of lightness, is defined as a lack of illumination, an absence of visible light, or a surface that absorbs light, such as black or brown.
Human vision is unable to distinguish colors in conditions of very low lum ...
See also
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Bernt Bernt is a Scandinavian variant of the German masculine given name Berend, which is the Low German form of Bernard (Bernhard). The name Bernhard means "strong bear" (from Old German ''bero'', "bear", and ''harti'', "strong"). Its use in Sweden was ...
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Save Bernd
Bernd is a humor website. The premise of the site is that the website's webmaster
Chris Krohm, will eat Bernd, a pet rabbit, unless he receives €1,000,000 in donations to care for it.
Save Bernd!
The website was created in July 2004 in German ...
, a humor website
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