Bern (disambiguation)

Bern (or Berne) is the capital of Switzerland.

Bern or Berne may also refer to:

Places

Germany

  • Berne, Germany, a town in Lower Saxony
  • Berne, Hamburg, former village which became a quarter of Hamburg

Italy

  • Verona, Italy, a city called Bern in Middle High German

Netherlands

  • Bern (Netherlands), a hamlet in Gelderland

Switzerland

  • Canton of Bern, of which Bern is the capital
  • Bern (district), the city's administrative district in the Canton of Bern

United States

People

  • Bern, a nickname or short form for the given names Bernard, Bernadette, and Bernadine
  • Zvi Bern (born 1960), American theoretical physicist
  • Dietrich von Bern (454–526), the German name of Theodoric the Great), king of the Ostrogoths
  • Eric Berne (1910–1970), Canadian psychiatrist
  • Josef Berne (1904–1964), Russian-born American writer, film director and producer
  • Suzanne Berne (born 1961), American novelist
  • Tim Berne (born 1954), American jazz saxophonist and composer

Other uses

  • Bern Convention (or Berne Convention), shorthand for the Berne Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, also known as the Bern Convention (or Berne Convention), a binding international legal instrument in the field of Nature Conservation
  • Berne Convention, shorthand for the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, an international agreement governing copyright

See also

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