Stern (disambiguation)
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Stern may mean: in English stern –adjective, -er, -est. 1. firm, strict, or uncompromising: stern discipline. 2. hard, harsh, or severe: a stern reprimand. 3. rigorous or austere; of an unpleasantly serious character: stern times. 4. grim or forbidding in aspect: a stern face.
- stern, the poop or rear part of a ship or boat
- or by analogy the rear-end of a person or animal
- the word for star in German
- in other languages, including Dutch, it is the name for the seabird species Tern, a more logical derivation from its Latin ornithological name sterna
Stern is also part of the name of several organisations etc.:
- Stern (gaming company)
- Stern, a weekly news magazine in Germany (1948—)
- Stern (monofilament line company)
- Stern School of Business at New York University
- Davidstern or Star of David; see Magen David
- The Stern gang was a term used by the British for the Lehi group led by Abraham Stern
- Der Schweigende Stern or Silent Star is an East German science fiction film
- Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change
Stern is also a surname :
- 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 (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 (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 (1957- ), American television and film actor
- Daniel N. Stern, psychologist expert in the mother-infant relationship
- David Stern (1956-), American, German born artist
- David Stern (1963-), American, conductor[1], son of Isaac Stern
- David Stern (1942- ), Commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA)
- David Stern (1823-1874), brother-in-law and business partner of Levi Strauss
- David M. Stern, writer for The Wonder Years and The Simpsons and brother of actor Daniel Stern
- David H. Stern (1935- ) American-born messianic Jewish theologian in Israel
- Edouard Stern (1954-2005), wealthy French banker murdered in Geneva
- Elazar Stern (1935- ), Israeli general
- Eric Stern, former executive director of National Stonewall Democrats
- Gerald Stern (1925- ), American poet
- Gladys Bronwyn Stern (1890–1973), English writer
- Harold P. Stern (1922-1977), American art historian
- Horst Stern (1922- ), German journalist, novelist and naturalist
- Howard Stern (1954- ), American radio and TV personality
- Howard K. Stern, 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 (1949- ), French computer scientist and cryptologist
- Jonasz Stern (1904–1988), Polish painter
- Julius Stern (1820-1883), German musician and educator
- Kurt Stern (1907-1989), German writer
- Leo(pold Lawrence) Stern (1862-1904), English cellist
- Mario Rigoni Stern (1921- ), Italian writer
- Melissa Stern, also known as Baby M (1986- )
- Michael Stern (conductor), (1959- ), American conductor
- Michael Charles Stern (1942- ), British Conservative politician
- Mike Stern (1953- ), American jazz guitarist
- Moritz Stern (1807-1894), German mathematician
- Nicholas Stern (1946- ), British economist
- Philippe Stern (1895-1979), French art historian
- Otto Stern, German physicist and Nobel laureate, of Stern-Gerlach experiment fame
- Sam Stern (1990- ), British celebrity chef
- 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
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