Stern (surname)
Stern is a surname which can be of either German/Yiddish or English language origin, though the former case predominates.
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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
- Adam Stern (born 1980), Canadian major league baseball player
- Adam Stern (conductor) (born 1955), American conductor
- 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
- Alfred R. Stern, (1922-2013), American television executive
- Anatol Stern (1899–1968), Polish writer
- Andy Stern (born 1950) American president of the Service Employees International Union
- Avraham Stern (1907–1942), founder and leader of "Stern Gang" (Lehi)
- Avraham Stern (politician) (1935–1997), Israeli politician
- Bill Stern (1907–1971), American sports announcer in Radio Hall of Fame
- Casey Stern (born 1978), American baseball journalist
- Clara Stern (1877–1945), German-American psychologist
- 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) (1934–2012), American psychoanalytic theorist, specialising in infant development
- David Stern (1942–2020), Commissioner of the National Basketball Association
- David Stern (Israeli politician) (1910–2003), Israeli politician
- David Stern (philanthropist/activist), CEO of Equal Justice Works
- David Stern (conductor) (born 1963), American conductor
- David Stern III (1909–2003), newspaper manager who created Francis the Talking Mule
- David D. Stern (born 1956), German-born artist in New York
- David E. Stern (born 1961), Senior Rabbi of Jewish community in Dallas, Texas
- David H. Stern (born 1935) American-born Jewish theologian in Israel
- David M. Stern, writer for The Wonder Years and The Simpsons and brother of actor Daniel Stern
- Edna Stern (born 1977), Belgian-Israeli pianist
- Edouard Stern (1954–2005), French banker
- Elazar Stern (born 1956), Israeli general
- Elena Stern (born 1994), Swiss curler
- Eric Stern (musician) (born 1971), musician from Portland, Oregon
- Erich C. Stern (1879–1969), American lawyer and politician
- Ephraim Stern (1934–2018), Israeli archaeologist
- Felix Stern (1884-1942), German neurologist
- Frances Stern (1873–1947), American nutritionist
- Frederick Claude Stern (1884–1967), English botanist and horticulturalist
- Fritz Stern (1926–2016), German-born American historian of German history, Jewish history and historiography
- Georges Stern (1882–1928), French jockey
- Gerald Stern (born 1925), American poet
- Gladys Bronwyn Stern (1890–1973), English writer
- Grace Mary Stern (1925–1998), American politician
- Hans Stern (1922–2007), German-born Brazilian jeweler
- Harold P. Stern (1922–1977), American art historian
- Hellmut Stern (1928–2020), German violinist
- Henry Stern (born 1983), California State Senator.
- Hermann de Stern (1815–1887), German-born British banker.
- 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
- 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
- Jacques Stern (politician) (1882–1949), French politician
- Jason Stern (drag racer) (born 1982), Runner-up in 2010 World Footbrake Drag Race Challenge.
- Jean Stern (1875–1962), French Olympic champion épée fencer
- Judith S. Stern (1943–2019), American nutritionist
- Julius Stern (1820–1883), German musician and educator
- Karoline Stern (1800–1887), German opera soprano
- Karl Stern (1905–1975), German-Canadian neurologist, psychiatrist, theologian and author
- 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
- Lina Stern (1878–1968), biochemist, physiologist and humanist
- Louise Stern (born 1978), American writer and artist
- Manfred Stern (1896–1954), international spy and member of the GRU, Soviet military intelligence
- 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) (1910–2009), American journalist and philanthropist
- Michael Stern (British 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 Stern (real estate developer) (born 1979), American real estate developer
- Mike Stern (born 1953), American jazz guitarist
- Mikhail Stern (1918–2005), Soviet dissident
- Milton R. Stern (1928–2011), American professor of American literature
- Miroslava Stern (1926–1955), Mexican actress of Czech origin
- Moritz Abraham Stern (1807–1894), German mathematician
- Nicholas Stern (born 1946), British economist
- Otto Stern (1888–1969), German physicist and Nobel laureate, of Stern-Gerlach experiment fame
- Paul Stern (1892–1948), Austrian diplomat and bridge player
- Philippe Stern (1895–1979), French art historian
- Richard Martin Stern (1915–2001), American novelist
- Robert A. M. Stern (born 1939), architect
- Ronald J. Stern (born 1947), American mathematician
- Ronnie Stern (born 1967), Canadian ice hockey player
- Rudi Stern (1936–2006), American multimedia artist
- Sam Stern (born 1990), British celebrity chef
- Samuel Miklos Stern (1920–1969), Hungarian–British Orientalist
- Tom Stern (born 1965), American Film and Television writer/director/producer
- Ulrich Stern, character from Code Lyoko
- Vernon M. Stern (1923–2006), American entomologist
- 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
Variant surnames
- Davor Štern (born 1947), former Minister of Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship in the Croatian Government, businessman and entrepreneur
- Grigory Shtern (1900–1941), Soviet military commander
- Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (born 1962), Jewish early modern historian and philologist
Other uses
- Jon Stern, Daniel Holden's Justice Row attorney in Rectify
- Stern family, a prominent banking family
See also
- Stearn, surname
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