Stern (name)

Stern is a German family name, from the German word for star.

People with the family name

* Abraham Stern (1907-1942), founder and leader of Stern gang (Lehi)
* Adolf Stern (1835-1907), German literary historian and poet
* Adolf Stern (chess player) (1849-1907), German chess player
* Anatol Stern (1899–1968), Polish writer
* Andy Stern (born 1950) American president of the Service Employees International Union
* Bill Stern (1907-1971), American sports announcer in Radio Hall of Fame
* Carola Stern (1925-2006), German journalist
* 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 (born 1957), American television and film actor
* Daniel N Stern (psychologist), American psychoanalytic theorist, specialising in infant development
* David E. Stern, Senior Rabbi of Jewish community in Dallas, Texas
* David 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
* David H. Stern (born 1935) American-born messianic Jewish theologian in Israel
* Edouard Stern (1954-2005), wealthy French banker murdered in Geneva
* Elazar Stern (born 1935), Israeli general
* Eric Stern, former executive director of National Stonewall Democrats
* Gerald Stern (born 1925), American poet
* Gladys Bronwyn Stern (1890–1973), English writer
* Hans Stern (died 2007), Brazilian jeweler
* Harold P. Stern (1922-1977), American art historian
* 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
* Jacques Stern (born 1949), French computer scientist and cryptologist
* Julius Stern (1820-1883), German musician and educator
* Kurt Stern (1907-1989), German writer
* Mario Rigoni Stern (born 1921), Italian writer
* Melissa Stern, also known as "Baby M" (born 1986)
* Michael Stern (conductor), (born 1959), American conductor
* Michael Charles Stern (born 1942), British Conservative politician
* Mike Stern (born 1953), American jazz guitarist
* Miroslava Stern (1926-1955), Mexican actress of Czech origin.
* Moritz Abraham Stern (1807-1894), German mathematician
* Nicholas Stern (born 1946), British economist
* Philippe Stern (1895-1979), French art historian
* Otto Stern, German physicist and Nobel laureate, of Stern-Gerlach experiment fame
* Robert A. M. Stern (born 1939), Architect
* Sam Stern (born 1990), British celebrity chef
* Ulrich Stern, character from "Code Lyoko"
* Vivien Stern, also known as Baroness Stern, British expert on criminal justice and penal reform
* William Stern (1871-1938), German psychologist and inventor of the concept of IQ

See also

* Sternberg, Sternberger
* Morgenstern