Stern (surname)

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.^[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
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) (1935–97), Israeli politician
Bill Stern (1907–1971), American sports announcer in Radio Hall of Fame
Casey Stern (born 1978), American baseball journalist
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) (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 (1922–1977), American art historian
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 (1901–69), 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
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, 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 (1926–1955), 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
Ronnie Stern (born 1967), Canadian ice hockey player
Rudi Stern (1936–2006), American multimedia artist
Sam Stern (born 1990), British celebrity chef
Samson P. Stern (born 1993), Used car salesman / Director's Club
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 (1900–1941), Soviet military commander
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Jewish early modern historian and philologist

Other uses

Jon Stern, Daniel Holden's Justice Row attorney in Rectify
Stern family, a prominent banking family

References

↑ "Surnames: Stern". Behind the Names.

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[Behind_the_Name-1] "Surnames: Stern". Behind the Names.