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. The German/Yiddish word Stern means "star".
People
- Adam Stern, Canadian Major League Baseball player
- Adam Stern (conductor), American conductor
- Adolf Stern, German literary historian and poet
- Adolf Stern (chess player), German chess player
- Adolphe Stern, Romanian lawyer and politician
- Alan Stern, American engineer and planetary scientist
- Albert Stern (violinist), American violinist
- Albert Gerald Stern, banker and member of Landships committee
- Anatol Stern, Polish writer
- Andy Stern, American president of the Service Employees International Union
- Avraham Stern, founder and leader of the "Stern Gang"
- Avraham Stern (politician), Israeli politician
- Bill Stern, American sports announcer in the Radio Hall of Fame
- Casey Stern, American baseball journalist
- Clara Stern, German-American psychologist
- Curt Stern, German-born American Drosophila and human geneticist
- Daniel Stern (actor), American television and film actor
- Daniel Stern (psychologist), American psychoanalytic theorist, specialising in infant development
- David Stern (disambiguation)
- Edna Stern, Belgian-Israeli pianist
- Édouard Stern, French banker
- Elazar Stern, Israeli general
- Elena Stern, Swiss curler
- Eric Stern (musician), musician from Portland, Oregon
- Erich C. Stern, American lawyer and politician
- Ephraim Stern, Israeli archaeologist
- Frances Stern, American nutritionist
- Frederick Claude Stern, English botanist and horticulturalist
- Fritz Stern, German-born American historian of German history, Jewish history and historiography
- Georges Stern, French jockey
- Gerald Stern, American poet
- Gladys Bronwyn Stern, English writer
- Grace Mary Stern, American politician
- Guy Stern, German-American educator and writer
- Hans Stern, German-born Brazilian jeweler
- Harold P. Stern, American art historian
- Hellmut Stern, German violinist
- Henry Stern (disambiguation)
- Herman Stern, American businessman
- Hermann Stern, Austrian lawyer and politician
- Hermann de Stern, German-born British banker.
- Howard Stern, American radio and TV personality
- Howard K. Stern, American attorney and unofficial husband of Anna Nicole Smith
- Irving Stern, American politician
- Isaac Stern, Ukrainian-born American violinist
- Itzhak Stern, accountant of Oskar Schindler
- Ivo Stern, Croatian lawyer, writer, journalist, director and founder of the "Zagreb Radiostation"
- Jacques Stern (cryptographer), French computer scientist and cryptologist
- Jacques Stern (politician), French politician
- Jared Stern, American screenwriter
- Jean Stern (fencer), French Olympic champion épée fencer
- Jean Stern (art historian), art historian and museum director
- Jenna Stern, American actress
- Josef Stern, Austrian pastor and beekeeper
- , Austrian author
- Judith S. Stern, American nutritionist
- Julius Stern, German musician and educator
- Karoline Stern, German opera soprano
- Karl Stern, German-Canadian neurologist, psychiatrist, theologian and author
- Leonard B. Stern, American television producer, director and writer
- Leonard J. Stern, American judge from Ohio
- Leonard N. Stern, American business executive
- Leo Stern (musician), English-German cellist
- Leo Stern (historian) Austrian-German political activist, historian and university rector
- Lina Stern, biochemist, physiologist and humanist
- Louise Stern, American writer and artist
- Manfred Stern, international spy and member of the GRU, Soviet military intelligence
- Marcus Stern (journalist), Pulitzer Prize winning reporter
- Marcus Stern (theatre director), associate director of the American Repertory Theater
- Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian writer
- Max Emanuel Stern, writer, poet and translator
- Melissa Stern, also known as Baby M
- Michael Stern (disambiguation)
- Mike Stern, American jazz guitarist
- Mikhail Stern, Soviet dissident
- Milton R. Stern, American professor of American literature
- Miroslava Stern, Mexican actress of Czech origin
- Moritz Abraham Stern, German mathematician
- Nicholas Stern, British economist
- Nicolas Stern, American film producer
- Otto Stern, German physicist and Nobel laureate
- Paul Stern, Austrian diplomat and bridge player
- Philippe Stern, French art historian
- Richard Martin Stern, American novelist
- Ricki Stern, American film director, screenwriter, producer, and author
- Robert Stern (disambiguation)
- * Robert A. M. Stern, American architect, educator, and author
- Ronald J. Stern, American mathematician
- Ronnie Stern, Canadian ice hockey player
- Rudi Stern, American multimedia artist
- Sam Stern, British celebrity chef
- Samuel Miklos Stern, Hungarian–British Orientalist
- Selma Stern, German historian
- Tom Stern (cinematographer), American cinematographer
- Tom Stern (filmmaker), film and television writer and director
- Vernon M. Stern, American entomologist
- Victor Stern, Austrian philosopher and politician
- Vivien Stern, Baroness Stern, British expert on criminal justice and penal reform
- William Stern (psychologist), German psychologist, inventor of the concept of IQ
- William Joseph Stern, British physicist
- Stern family, a prominent banking family
Fictional characters
- Ulrich Stern, in the French animated television series Code Lyoko
- Jon Stern, Daniel Holden's Justice Row attorney in the television series ''Rectify''