Stern (surname)

Stern is a German and Yiddish family name, from the German word for star. As a Yiddish name, it may also be transliterated as Shtern, in particular, for the names of Russian Jews.

People with the family name

• Abraham Stern (1907-1942), founder and leader of Stern gang (Lehi)
• Adolf Stern (1835-1907), German literary historian and poet
• Adolf Stern (chess player) (1849-1907), German chess player
• Anatol Stern (1899–1968), Polish writer
• Andy Stern (born 1950) American president of the Service Employees International Union
• Bill Stern (1907-1971), American sports announcer in Radio Hall of Fame
• Carola Stern (1925-2006), German journalist
• Casey Stern (born 1978), American baseball journalist
• Curt Stern (1902-1981), German-born American Drosophila and human geneticist
• Daniel Stern, pen name of Marie d'Agoult (1805-1876), author and paramour of Franz Liszt
• Daniel Stern (actor) (born 1957), American television and film actor
• Daniel Stern (psychologist), American psychoanalytic theorist, specialising in infant development
• David E. Stern, Senior Rabbi of Jewish community in Dallas, Texas
• David Joel Stern (born 1942), Commissioner of the National Basketball Association
• David M. Stern, writer for The Wonder Years and The Simpsons and brother of actor Daniel Stern
• David H. Stern (born 1935) American-born messianic Jewish theologian in Israel
• Edouard Stern (1954-2005), wealthy French banker murdered in Geneva
• Elazar Stern (born 1935), Israeli general
• Eric Stern, former executive director of National Stonewall Democrats
• Gerald Stern (born 1925), American poet
• Gladys Bronwyn Stern (1890–1973), English writer
• Hans Stern (died 2007), Brazilian jeweler
• Harold P. Stern (1922-1977), American art historian
• Howard Stern (born 1954), American radio and TV personality
• Howard K. Stern (born 1968), American attorney and unofficial husband of Anna Nicole Smith
• Isaac Stern (1920-2001), Ukrainian-born American violinist
• Itzhak Stern (1901-1969), accountant of Oskar Schindler
• Jacques Stern (born 1949), French computer scientist and cryptologist
• Julius Stern (1820-1883), German musician and educator
• Kurt Stern (1907-1989), German writer
• Mario Rigoni Stern (born 1921), Italian writer
• Melissa Stern, also known as Baby M (born 1986)
• Michael Stern (conductor), (born 1959), American conductor
• Michael Charles Stern (born 1942), British Conservative politician
• Mike Stern (born 1953), American jazz guitarist
• Miroslava Stern (1926-1955), Mexican actress of Czech origin.
• Moritz Abraham Stern (1807-1894), German mathematician
• Nicholas Stern (born 1946), British economist
• Philippe Stern (1895-1979), French art historian
• Otto Stern, German physicist and Nobel laureate, of Stern-Gerlach experiment fame
• Robert A. M. Stern (born 1939), Architect
• Sam Stern (born 1990), British celebrity chef
• Ulrich Stern, character from Code Lyoko
• Vivien Stern, also known as Baroness Stern, British expert on criminal justice and penal reform
• William Stern (1871-1938), German psychologist and inventor of the concept of IQ

See also

• Sternberg, Sternberger
• Morgenstern