Other prominent student activists included Charles McDew, Bernard Lafayette, Charles Jones, Lonnie King, Julian Bond, Hosea Williams, and Stokely Carmichael.

It trained civil rights leader Rosa Parks prior to her historic role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, as well as providing training for many other movement activists including the members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ), Septima Clark, Anne Braden, Martin Luther King, Jr., James Bevel, Rosa Parks, Hollis Watkins, Bernard Lafayette, Ralph Abernathy and John Lewis in the mid-and-late 1950s.

Most of the participants in the Nashville sit-ins were college students, and many, such as Diane Nash, James Bevel, Bernard Lafayette, and C. T.

He became involved in campaigns for civil rights and open housing integration, working and organizing in the early and mid-1960s with the Chicago branch of the Quaker-based American Friends Service Committee along with Kale Williams, civil rights activist Bernard Lafayette, and others.

In early 1963, SNCC organizers Bernard and Colia Lafayette arrived in Selma to begin a voter-registration project in cooperation with the DCVL.

* John Lewis ( born February 21, 1940 ): Became a leader in the American Civil Rights Movement as president of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ) and as a participant with other leaders — such as Diane Nash, James Bevel, and Bernard Lafayette — in the Nashville Student Movement ( 1959 – 62 ).

Among those attending Lawson's sessions were students who would become significant leaders in the Civil Rights Movement, among them: Marion Barry, James Bevel, Bernard Lafayette, John Lewis, Diane Nash, and C. T. Vivian.

Bernard Allan Federko ( born May 12, 1956 ) is a retired professional ice hockey centre who played fourteen seasons in the National Hockey League from 1976 through 1990.

Free ( born Lloyd Bernard Free, 1953 ), American basketball player

Soderbergh was born in Atlanta, the son of Mary Ann ( née Bernard ) and Peter Andrew Soderbergh, who was a university administrator and educator.

In 1888 was born his son Jean-Jacques Bernard, also a dramatist.

* Marie of Hesse-Kassel ( born 6 September 1804 ), daughter of William II, Elector of Hesse and Augusta of Prussia ( ultimately she married Bernard II of Saxe-Meiningen )

Rickman was born in South Hammersmith, London, to a working-class family, the son of Margaret Doreen Rose ( née Bartlett ), a housewife, and Bernard Rickman, a factory worker.

* Bernard Bresslaw ( actor, born in Stepney )

Altman was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Helen ( née Matthews ), a Mayflower descendant from Nebraska, and Bernard Clement Altman, a wealthy insurance salesman and amateur gambler, who came from an upper-class family.

He had been born Bernard William Jewry.

Screen legend Tony Curtis ( 1925 – 2010 ), who was born Bernard Schwartz, named himself for the titular character ; the novel from which this film was adapted was the actor's favorite.

* Bernard Sherman ( born 1942 ), Canadian businessman

Tony Curtis ( born Bernard Schwartz ; June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010 ) was an American film actor whose career spanned six decades, but had his greatest popularity during the 1950s and early 1960s.

Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz in the Bronx, one of three sons of Helen ( née Klein ) and Emanuel Schwartz.

Statesman and financier Bernard M. Baruch ( 1870-1965 ) and labor leader Lane Kirkland were born in Kershaw County, as was the first African-American baseball player in the American League, Larry Doby.

* Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, was born in Harleyford Street in 1887.

* Bernard Lewis ( born 1916 ), historian of Islam and the Middle East, born in Stoke Newington.

* Bernard Miles ( 1907-1991 ), actor, writer and director, was born in Uxbridge.

Writers Edward FitzGerald and Anne Knight were born in Woodbridge, and fellow writer Bernard Barton lived in the town in later life.

Shaffer was born and raised in Fort William ( now Thunder Bay ), Ontario, Canada, the son of Shirley and Bernard Shaffer, a lawyer.

* Bernard Butler ( born 1970 ), musician

* Bernie Mac ( born Bernard McCullough ), comedian and actor

* Bernard Madoff ( born 1938 ), American stock broker who engineered a $ 65 billion Ponzi scheme

* Bernard Rajzman ( born 1957 ), Brazilian volleyball player

In 1951, the Menier family entrusted the château's restoration to Bernard Voisin, who brought the dilapidated structure and the gardens ( ravaged in the Cher River flood in 1940 ) back to a reflection of its former glory.

The December 2, 1940 issue of Life magazine included a photo essay by Bernard Hoffman entitled, " A Small Town's Saturday Night ," depicting farmer Glen Dunn and family on a typical Saturday night in Franklin: Dad getting a hair cut, and the kids seeing a movie at the Artcraft, people at the drugstore, as well as photos of other social spots, such as Nick's Candy Kitchen and the town's " lovers ' lane.

Claud Cockburn married three times: to Hope Hale Davis, with whom he fathered Claudia Cockburn Flanders ( wife of Michael Flanders ); to Jean Ross ( part model for Christopher Isherwood's Sally Bowles of Cabaret fame ), with whom he fathered Sarah Caudwell Cockburn, author of detective stories ; and in 1940 to Patricia Byron ( née Patricia Evangeline Anne Arbuthnot ( 17 March 1914-6 October 1989 ), married firstly on 10 October 1933 to Arthur Cecil Byron, son of Cecil Byron, by whom she had a son Darrell Byron, who died in Ireland aged two, divorcing in 1940, daughter of Major John Bernard Arbuthnot and Olive Blake ), who wrote the book The Years of the Week and also wrote an autobiography, Figure of Eight, with whom he fathered Alexander, Andrew ( husband of Leslie Cockburn ), and Patrick, all three of whom are also journalists.

Hourman ( spelled Hour-Man in his earliest appearances, also referred to as the Hour-Man, and the Hourman ) is the name of three different fictional DC Comics superheroes, the first of whom was created by Ken Fitch and Bernard Baily in Adventure Comics # 48 ( April 1940 ), during the Golden Age of Comic Books.

* Bernard Revel ( 1885 – 1940 ), rabbi and the first president of Yeshiva University

The ethical pot theory and style was popularized by Bernard Leach in his book A Potter's Book published in 1940.

* Bernard Shaw ( journalist ) ( born 1940 ), journalist and longtime CNN anchorman

On 29 May 1940, Brooke was ordered back to Britain to form a new force, and he handed over temporary command of II Corps to Maj-Gen Bernard Montgomery of 3rd Division.

GOC: Lieut-Gen Alan Brooke ( until 30 May 1940 ) Maj-Gen Bernard Montgomery ( acting from 30 May 1940 )

* May-Jun 1940 Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery

* Bernard Warburton-Lee ( 1895 – 1940 ), Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross and the Norwegian War Cross

* The Mystical Theology of Saint Bernard, translated by A. H. C. Downes ( London: Sheed and Ward, 1940 )

Following the armistice of June 1940, architect Bernard Zehrfuss founded a commune of artists in the old town, a project that attracted French sculptor François Stahly and the writer and artist Consuelo de Saint Exupéry.

Captain Bernard Armitage Warburton Warburton-Lee VC ( 13 September 1895 – 10 April 1940 ) was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

He is the author of The Desert Generals, a book that attacked the perceived cult of British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and assessed the roles of his sacked predecessors as commanders in the North Africa campaign, including Richard O ' Connor, who drove the Italians from Cyrenaica in late 1940, and Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck ( whom he called " The Victor of Alamein "), who forced Rommel to a halt at the First Battle of El Alamein, only to be dismissed by Winston Churchill for his pains.

Bernard Shaw ( born May 22, 1940 ) is a retired American journalist and former news anchor for CNN from 1980 until his retirement in March 2001.

* Bernard Revel ( 1885 – 1940 ), future head of RIETS yeshiva and founder / President of Yeshiva College.

The character debuted in More Fun Comics # 52 ( February 1940 ), and was created by Jerry Siegel and Bernard Baily.

The Silver City debuted in More Fun Comics # 52, ( February 1940 ), and was created by Jerry Siegel and Bernard Bailey.

The original form of the Silver City is referred to in More Fun Comics # 52, ( February 1940 ), and was created by Jerry Siegel and Bernard Bailey.

In 1940, editor and historian Bernard DeVoto published another selection in Mark Twain in Eruption, arranged by topic and heavily edited.

* Bernard Keble Sandwell ( 1876 – 1940 ), Canadian newspaper editor