Stern (surname)

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Stern is a surname 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. 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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