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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. 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
  • Anatol Stern (1899–1968), Polish writer
  • Andy Stern (born 1950) American president of the Service Employees International Union
  • Avraham Stern (1907–42), founder and leader of "Stern Gang" (Lehi)
  • Avraham Stern (politician) (1935–97), Israeli politician
  • 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 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 (died 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 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
  • Edna Stern (born 1977), Belgian-Israeli pianist
  • Edouard Stern (1954–2005), French banker
  • Elazar Stern (born 1956), Israeli general
  • Eric Stern (musician), musician from Portland, Oregon
  • Erich C. Stern (1879-1969), American lawyer and politician
  • Ephraim Stern (born 1934), Israeli archaeologist
  • 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 (1922–77), American art historian
  • 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 (1901–69), 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
  • Jacques Stern (politician) (1882–1949), French politician
  • Jean Stern, French Olympic champion épée fencer
  • Judith S. Stern, American nutritionist
  • 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 (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
  • 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
  • Rudi Stern (1936-2006), American multimedia artist
  • 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

    • Variant surnames

  • Davor Štern (born 1947), former Minister of Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship in the Croatian Government, businessman and entrepreneur
  • Grigori Shtern (1900–41), Soviet military commander
  • Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Jewish Early Modern Historian and philologist

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