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Bernstein is a Jewish surname meaning "amber". The German pronunciation is [ˈbɛʁnʃtaɪn], but in English it is often /ˈbɜːrnstiːn/. Notable people with this surname include:

Contents

A–H

  • Aaron Bernstein (1812–1884), German short story writer and historian
  • Adam Bernstein (born 1960), American film, music video and television director and screenwriter
  • Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil (1939–2010), British television executive and politician
  • Al Bernstein (born 1950), American boxing commentator
  • Andrew Bernstein (born 1949), Objectivist philosopher
  • Artie Bernstein (1909–1964), American jazz bassist
  • Basil Bernstein (1924–2000), British sociologist and linguist
  • Benjamin Abram Bernstein (1881–1964), American mathematician
  • Bonnie Bernstein (born 1970), sports broadcaster
  • Carl Bernstein (born 1944), American investigative journalist, Watergate reporter
  • Charles Bernstein (born 1950), American poet, father of Felix Bernstein
  • Charles Bernstein (composer) (born 1943), film and television music composer
  • Daniel Bernstein, video game and movie composer, and CEO of Sandlot Games
  • Daniel J. Bernstein (born 1971), American mathematics professor, creator of qmail and djbdns, and plaintiff in Bernstein v. United States
  • David Bernstein (executive) (born 1943), English football and business executive
  • David E. Bernstein (born 1967), American law professor, writer, libertarian
  • David I. Bernstein, Rabbi at Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem and New York City
  • Dennis Bernstein, producer and co-host
  • Eduard Bernstein (1850–1932), German Social Democrat
  • Edward M. Bernstein, Las Vegas personal injury attorney
  • Elmer Bernstein (1922–2004), American composer
  • Evan Bernstein (born 1960), Israeli Olympic wrestler
  • Felix Bernstein (performance artist) (born 1992), American performance artist, son of Charles Bernstein
  • Felix Bernstein (mathematician) (1878–1956), German mathematician
  • Harry Bernstein (1910-2011), British-born American author
  • Henri Bernstein (also Henry-Léon-Gustave-Charles Bernstein, 1876–1953), French playwright
  • Henry Bernstein (sociologist) (1912–1964), social realist artist, WPA muralist
  • Herman Bernstein (1876–1935), Jewish American journalist and writer
  • Hilda Bernstein (1915–2006), South African author, artist, activist against apartheid and for women's rights

    • I–N

  • Isadore Bernstein (1876–1944), American screenwriter
  • Jared Bernstein (born 1955), American economist
  • Jed Bernstein (born 1955), American executive in the performing arts
  • Jeremy Bernstein (born 1929), Physicist on Project Orion (nuclear propulsion)
  • Joe Bernstein (boxer) (1877–1931), one of the first great boxers to emerge from New York's Lower East Side
  • Joe Bernstein (American football) (1893–1967), professional football player
  • Joe Bernstein (poker player) (1899–1975), poker player and road gambler
  • Joseph Bernstein (born 1945), Israeli mathematician
  • Joseph Milton Bernstein (1908-1975), alleged spy
  • Josh Bernstein (born 1971), American explorer, author, and television personality
  • Julius Bernstein (1839–1917), German neurobiologist
  • Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990), American composer, conductor, pianist and teacher
  • Lionel Bernstein (1920–2002), South African anti-apartheid activist and political prisoner
  • Matt Bernstein (born 1982), American football player
  • Max Bernstein (1854–1925), German art and theatre critic and author
  • Michèle Bernstein (born 1932), French writer
  • Morris Louis Bernstein (1912–1962), American abstract expressionist painter
  • Nikolai Bernstein (1896–1966), Russian neurophysiologist

    • O–Z

  • Ossip Bernstein (1882–1962), Russian chess master
  • Peretz Bernstein (1890–1971), Zionist activist and Israeli politician
  • Peter L. Bernstein (1919–2009), author, economist, educator
  • Phil Bernstein, Computer scientist specializing in database research
  • Richard Bernstein (born 1944), US journalist
  • Richard B. Bernstein (born 1956), US historian
  • Richard K. Bernstein (born 1934), American physician
  • Robert Bernstein (comics) (1919-1988), comic book writer
  • Robert L. Bernstein (born 1923), publisher and human rights activist
  • Robert Root-Bernstein (born 1953), professor of life sciences
  • Robert A. Bernstein (born 1961), American attorney and politician
  • Samuil Bernstein (1911–1997), Soviet linguist
  • Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880–1968), Soviet mathematician
  • Sidney "Sid" Bernstein (1918–2013), American music producer and promoter
  • Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein (1899–1993), British media baron
  • Sidney Norman Bernstein (1911–1992), American chess master
  • Seymour Bernstein (born 1927), American pianist, composer, and teacher.
  • Steven Bernstein (musician) (born 1961), American trumpeter and composer
  • Theodore Menline Bernstein (1904-1979), American journalist, New York Times editor
  • Theresa Bernstein (1890–2002), American artist and painter
  • Walter Bernstein (born 1919), blacklisted American screenwriter
  • William J. Bernstein (born 1948), financial theorist

    • Fictional people

  • Rugal Bernstein, a major villain in the King of Fighters video game series
  • Adelheid Bernstein, the son of Rugal, making a debut appearance in King of Fighters 2003
  • Mr. Bernstein, the business partner of Charles Foster Kane in the 1941 film Citizen Kane
  • Judith Bernstein, pseudonym of the character Janine Butcher in the British soap opera EastEnders
  • Kudelia Aina Bernstein, a character in the mecha anime series Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans

    • Places

  • Bernstein im Burgenland, a village near the Austrian-Hungarian border
  • Pełczyce, a town in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship, which was part of Germany until 1945 and is known as Bernstein in German (and Bersztén in Kashubian)

    • References

    Bernstein Wikipedia
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