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 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 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 Chirac (born 1933), French politician, wife of former French President Jacques Chirac
 * Bernadette Eberlain, German dermatologist, allergologist, and researcher.
 * Bernadette Després (born 1941), French illustrator and comic book artist
 * Bernadette Dupont (born 1936), French politician
 * Bernadette Graf (born 1992), Austrian judoka
 * Bernadette Hall (born 1948), New Zealand playwright and poet
 * Bernadette Farrell (born 1957), British hymnographer and composer
 * 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