Stern (surname)
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Stern is a family name which can be of either German/Yiddish or English language origin, though the former case predominates.
The English version of the surname was used as a nickname for someone who was strict, austere, harsh or stern in character.[1] The German/Yiddish word Stern means "star".
People with the family name
- Avraham Stern (1907–42), founder and leader of "Stern Gang" (Lehi)
- Adam Stern (conductor) (born 1955), American conductor
- Adam Stern (born 1980), Canadian major league baseball player
- Adolf Stern (1835–1907), German literary historian and poet
- Adolf Stern (chess player) (1849–1907), German chess player
- Albert Stern (violinist)
- Albert Gerald Stern (1878–1966), banker and member of Landships committee
- Anatol Stern (1899–1968), Polish writer
- Andy Stern (born 1950) American president of the Service Employees International Union
- Bill Stern (1907–71), American sports announcer in Radio Hall of Fame
- Casey Stern (born 1978), American baseball journalist
- Curt Stern (1902–81), German-born American Drosophila and human geneticist
- Daniel Stern, pen name of Marie d'Agoult (1805–76), author and paramour of Franz Liszt
- Daniel Stern (actor) (born 1957), American television and film actor
- Daniel Stern (psychologist) (born 1934), American psychoanalytic theorist, specialising in infant development
- David E. Stern (born 1961), 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 Jewish theologian in Israel
- Edna Stern (born 1977), Belgian-Israeli pianist
- Edouard Stern (1954–2005), French banker
- Elazar Stern (born 1956), Israeli general
- Eric Stern (politician) (born 1975), politician and director at University of California, Berkeley
- Eric Stern (musician), musician from Portland, Oregon
- Eric A. Stern, Senior Counselor to the Governor of Montana, Brian Schweitzer
- Ephraim Stern (born 1934), Israeli archaeologist
- Georges Stern (1882–1928), French jockey
- Gerald Stern (born 1925), American poet
- Gladys Bronwyn Stern (1890–1973), English writer
- Grigori Shtern (1900–41), Soviet military commander
- Hans Stern (1922–2007), German-born Brazilian jeweler
- Harold P. Stern (1922–77), 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 (1901–69), accountant of Oskar Schindler
- Ivo Stern (1889–1961), Croatian lawyer, writer, journalist, director and founder of the "Zagreb Radiostation" (now Croatian Radiotelevision)
- Jacques Stern (born 1949), French computer scientist and cryptologist
- Jean Stern, French Olympic champion épée fencer
- Julius Stern (1820–83), German musician and educator
- Leonard B. Stern (1923–2011), American television producer, director and writer
- Leonard J. Stern (1904-1988), American judge from Ohio
- Leonard N. Stern (born 1938), American business executive
- Leo Stern (1862–1904), English-German cellist
- Louise Stern (born 1978), American writer and artist
- Marcus Stern (journalist) (born 1953), Pulitzer Prize winning reporter
- Marcus Stern (theatre director), associate director of the American Repertory Theater
- Mario Rigoni Stern (1921–2008), Italian writer
- Melissa Stern, also known as Baby M (born 1986)
- Michael Stern (conductor) (born 1959), American musician
- Michael Stern (educator) (1922–2002), founder of the Waterford Kamhlaba United World College
- Michael Stern (journalist) (c. 1910–2009), American journalist and philanthropist
- Michael Stern (politician) (born 1942), British Conservative Party politician
- Michael Stern (born 1947), American writer in team Jane and Michael Stern
- Michael Stern (Jamaican politician), Jamaica Labour Party politician
- Michael Charles Stern (born 1942), British Conservative politician
- Mikhail Stern (1918–2005), Soviet dissident
- Mike Stern (born 1953), American jazz guitarist
- Miroslava Stern (1926–55), Mexican actress of Czech origin
- Moritz Abraham Stern (1807–94), German mathematician
- Nicholas Stern (born 1946), British economist
- Otto Stern, German physicist and Nobel laureate, of Stern-Gerlach experiment fame
- Paul Stern, Austrian diplomat and bridge player
- Philippe Stern (1895–1979), French art historian
- Richard Martin Stern, American novelist
- Robert A. M. Stern (born 1939), architect
- Sam Stern (born 1990), British celebrity chef
- Tom Stern (born 1965), American Film and Television writer/director/producer
- Ulrich Stern, character from Code Lyoko
- Vivien Stern (born 1941), also known as Baroness Stern, British expert on criminal justice and penal reform
- William Stern (psychologist) (1871–1938), German psychologist, inventor of the concept of IQ
- Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Jewish Early Modern Historian and philologist
Variant surnames
- Davor Štern (born 1947), former Minister of Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship in the Croatian Government, businessman and entrepreneur
References
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