Meaning of name Bernard

The names of some famous persons by the name Bernard (or its variants) are:

Rod Bernard, born on 12 August, a famous musician. Rod Bernard's background: Rod Bernard helped to pioneer the musical genre known as 'swamp pop', which combined New Orleans-style rhythm and blues, country and western, and Cajun and black Creole music. He is generally considered one of the foremost musicians of this south Louisiana-east Texas idiom, along with such notables as Bobby Charles, Johnnie Allan, Tommy McLain, and Warren Storm.

Emile Bernard, born on 28 April, a famous painter. Emile Bernard's background: Best known as a Post-Impressionist painter who maintained close relations to Van Gogh and Gauguin, and, at a later time, to Cézanne. Most of his notable work was accomplished at a young age, in the years 1886 through 1897. Later Bernard returned to a more or less academic practice, with his own trinity - God, Wagner, Titian - and Tintoretto as an intermediate. Less known is Bernard's literary work, comprising plays, poetry, and art critical as well as art historical statements that contain first hand information on the crucial period of modern art to which Bernard had contributed.

Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell, born on 31 August, a famous astronomer. Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell's background: A British physicist and radio astronomer. He was the first Director of Jodrell Bank Observatory, from 1945 to 1980.