Bernie (given name)
Bernie is a given name, most often a shortened form of Bernard and Bernadette.
Notable people with the given name include:
People
- Bernie Agrons, American politician
- Bernie Allen, American baseball player
- Bernie Anderson Jr., silent film music composer
- Bernie H. Ashman, American astrologer and author
- Bernie Babcock, real name Julia Burnelle Smade Babcock, American author
- Bernie Barrantes, Filipino drag performer
- Bernie Bickerstaff, American former National Basketball Association head coach
- Bernie Collins, British strategy engineer from Northern Ireland
- Bernie Carbo, American baseball player
- Bernie Casey, American actor, poet, and professional football player
- Bernie de Le Cuona, British entrepreneur
- Bernie Dieter, German cabaret artist
- Bernie Dwyer, Irish journalist, filmmaker and political activist
- Bernie Ebbers, Canadian businessman, founder and former chief executive officer of WorldCom
- Bernie Ecclestone, British sports entrepreneur
- Bernie Erickson, American football player
- Bernie Fedderly, Canadian drag racing crew chief
- Bernie Federko, Canadian hockey player
- Bernie Geoffrion, Canadian National Hockey League Hall-of-Fame player and coach
- Bernie Goetz, American vigilante
- Bernie Jaye, British comics creator and editor
- Bernie Kopell, American actor
- Bernie Kosar, American former National Football League quarterback
- Bernie Lim, American physician and community organiser
- Bernie Leahy, American football player
- Bernie Lewis, Welsh former footballer
- Bernie Malone, Irish politician
- Bernie Mac, American comedian, actor, and voice actor
- Bernie Madoff, American convicted scammer and businessman
- Bernie Mangiboyat, American musician and founder of the band The Fifth
- Bernie Murphy, Irish hurler
- Bernie Murray, is a Northern Irish sportswoman
- Bernie Nolan, Irish actress and singer
- Bernie Opper, American basketball player
- Bernie O'Neill (bowls), is a Northern Irish international laws bowler
- Bernie O'Rourke, Irish linguist
- Bernie Palmer, Canadian photographer
- Bernie Parent, Canadian National Hockey League goaltender
- Bernie Portenski, New Zealand long-distance runner
- Bernie Perryman, American politician
- Bernie Quinlan, Australian footballer
- Bernie Ripoll, Australian politician
- Bernie Haynes Robynson, American printmaker, illustrator
- Bernie Roth, American curler
- Bernie Sanders, American senator and presidential candidate
- Bernie Sherlock, Musical artist
- Bernie Szőcs, Romanian table tennis player
- Bernie Taupin, longtime lyricist for Elton John
- Bernie Tiede, American mortician and convicted murderer
- Bernie Wagenblast, American journalist and voice-over artist
- Bernie Williams, Puerto Rican former Major League Baseball player
- Bernie Willock, Canadian cyclist and businessman
- Bernie Wijesekara, Sri Lankan Sinhala sports journalist
- Bernie Wolfe (hockey), Canadian NHL hockey player
- Bernie Worrell, American keyboardist and composer
Fictional characters
- Bernie (Doonesbury), a comic strip character
- Bernie, a Beanie Baby St. Bernard produced by Ty, Inc.
- Bernie Abrahms, on the soap opera General Hospital
- Bernie Barges, one of the main protagonists of the animated TV series Watch My Chops
- Bernie Crane, supporting character in GTA IV
- Bernie Kropp, a minor character in the 2004 Pixar film The Incredibles
- Bernie Lumen, a supporting character in the 2023 Pixar film Elemental
- Bernie McGloughlin, one of the titular characters in the Irish film The Commitments
- Bernie Steinberg, one of the main characters of the 1972–1973 television series Bridget Loves Bernie
- Bernie White, a character in the 2016–2017 Millarworld comic book series Reborn
- Bernadette Taylor, a character from a TV soap opera, EastEnders