# Bernadette

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

## 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 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)