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Bernadette is a French name, a female form of the name Bernard, which means "brave bear". Notable persons with the name include:

Contents

• People
• Film
• Fictional characters
• Music
• See also

People

• Bernadette (singer) (born 1959), Dutch singer
• Bernadette Allen (born 1956), American foreign service officer and ambassador
• Bernadette Banner (born 1994/1995), American-English dress historian and YouTuber
• Bernadette Beauvais (born 1949), French politician
• Bernadette Beck (born 1994), English actress, entrepreneur, philanthropist and stunt woman
• Bernadette Bowyer (born 1966), Canadian field hockey player
• Bernadette Carroll (1944–2018), American singer, member of the Angels in the 1960s
• Bernadette Castro (born 1944), American businesswoman
• Bernadette Cattanéo (1899–1963), French trade unionist and militant communist
• Bernadette Caulfield, American television producer
• Bernadette Charleux, French polymer chemist
• Bernadette Chirac (born 1933), French politician, wife of former French President Jacques Chirac
• Bernadette Clement, Canadian politician
• Bernadette Collins, British strategy engineer from Northern Ireland
• Bernadette Cooper, American singer
• Bernadette Coston (born 1989), South African field hockey player
• Bernadette Després (1941–2024), French illustrator and comic book artist
• Bernadette Drummond, New Zealand professor of dentistry
• Bernadette Dupont (born 1936), French politician
• Bernadette Eberlein (born 1964), German dermatologist, allergologist, and researcher
• Bernadette Farrell (born 1957), British hymnographer and composer
• Bernadette Graf (born 1992), Austrian judoka
• Bernadette Hall (born 1948), New Zealand playwright and poet
• Bernadette Kelly (born 1964), British civil servant
• Bernadette Lafont (1938–2013), French actress
• Bernadette Luciano, New Zealand language and culture academic
• Bernadette Mayer (1945–2022), American poet, writer, and visual artist
• Bernadette McDonald (born 1951), Canadian author
• Bernadette Devlin McAliskey (born 1947), Irish political activist
• Bernadette Meehan (born 1975), American diplomat and nonprofit organization executive
• Bernadette Menu (1938–2023), French Egyptologist
• Bernadette Meyler, American law academic
• Bernadette Moriau, French nun whose recovery from a spinal problem was declared a miracle
• Bernadette Nolan (1960–2013), Irish singer and actress
• Bernadette O'Farrell (1924–1999), Irish actress
• Bernadette Pajer, American author
• Bernadette Peters (born 1948), American actress and singer
• Bernadette Quigley (born 1960), American actress
• Bernadette Romulo-Puyat (born 1971), Filipino government official
• Bernadette Roberts (1931–2017), American nun
• Bernadette Sanou Dao (born 1952), Burkinabé author and politician
• Bernadette Sands McKevitt (born 1958), Irish politician
• Bernadette Sanchez (born 1953), American politician
• Bernadette Schild (born 1990), Austrian ski racer
• Bernadette Seacrest, American vocalist
• Bernadette Sembrano (born 1976), Filipino television reporter, newscaster, and host
• Bernadette Smith, Canadian politician
• Bernadette Strachan (born 1962), English author
• Bernadette Soubirous (1844–1879), also known as Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, French Marian visionary
• Bernadette Speach (born 1948), American composer and pianist
• Bernadette Stanislaus (born 1954), American actress and writer known as Bernadette Stanis and Bern Nadette Stanis
• Bernadette Szőcs (born 1995), Romanian table tennis player
• Bernadette Van Roy (born 1948), Belgian middle-distance runner

Film

• Bernadette (film), 2023 biography-comedy with Catherine Deneuve as the wife of French President Chirac

Fictional characters

• Bernadette Fox, the titular character in the novel Where'd You Go, Bernadette and its film adaptation
• Bernadette Harvey, in The Magdalene Sisters
• Bernadette McGloughlin, one of the titular characters from the Irish film The Commitments
• Bernadette Rostenkowski, on the American television series The Big Bang Theory
• Bernadette Taylor, in the British television series EastEnders
• Bernadette, in the animated television series Bob and Margaret
• Bernadette Thompson, in the 2014 film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Music

• "Bernadette", a single by The Four Tops from the album Reach Out (1967)
• "Bernadette", a single by IAMX from the album Volatile Times (2011)

See also

• Bernadotte (disambiguation)
• Bernadetta (disambiguation)
• Bernette, people with this name

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