Bernard B. Fall (November 19, 1926 – February 21, 1967) was a war correspondent, political scientist, and historian whose reporting focused on Indochina during the 1950s and 1960s. Born in Austria, he moved with his family to France as a child after the Anschluss. He started fighting for the French Resistance at the age of 16 and later for the French Army during World War II. In 1951, he first came to the United States for graduate studies at Syracuse University, returning and making his residence there. He taught at Howard University for most of his career and made regular trips to Southeast Asia to learn about changes and their societies. He predicted the failures of France and the United States in their wars in Vietnam because of their tactics and lack of understanding of the societies. He was killed by a landmine in South Vietnam while he was accompanying US Marines on a patrol in 1967.

Anatomy of a Crisis: The Laotian Crisis of 1960–1961. Garden City, New York: Doubleday. 1969. OCLC 1686. Last Reflections on a War. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company. 1967. OCLC 1225688. Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu. Lippincott. 1966. OCLC 2571399. The Two Vietnams: A Political and Military Analysis. 1963. OCLC 411218. Viet-Nam Witness, 1953–66 (1966) Street without Joy: Indochina at War, 1946–54. Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackpole. 1961. OCLC 00951887. The Viet-Minh Regime (1954) Le Viet Minh 1945–1960. Paris: Armand Colin. 1960. Ho Chi Minh on Revolution; Selected Writings 1920–66. Editor. Praeger, 1967

The medical library at the main civilian hospital in Da Nang was named The Bernard B. Fall Memorial Medical Library in his honor. French Liberation Medal (1945) Fulbright Scholar (1950) United States Department of Defense Certificate of Appreciation (1961) George Polk Award in Journalism (1966) Guggenheim Fellowship for further research in Vietnam (1966)