Stern (name)
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Stern is a family name
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
".
Family name
A family name is a type of surname and part of a person's name indicating the family to which the person belongs. The use of family names is widespread in cultures around the world...
which can be of either German/Yiddish or English
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
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
Star
A star is a massive, luminous sphere of plasma held together by gravity. At the end of its lifetime, a star can also contain a proportion of degenerate matter. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the source of most of the energy on Earth...
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People with the family name
- Abraham Stern (1907–42), founder and leader of "Stern Gang" (Lehi)
- Adam SternAdam SternAdam James Stern is a Canadian Major League Baseball outfielder who is presently a free agent.He bats left-handed, and throws right-handed. He was dubbed the "Canadian Babe Ruth" by Cleveland Indians outfielder Trot Nixon. Stern is the second Jewish player from Canada in major league history....
(born 1980), Canadian major league baseball player - Adolf SternAdolf SternAdolf Stern was a German literary historian and poet.He was born in Leipzig. He studied at the universities of Leipzig and Jena, and in 1868 was appointed professor of the history of literature in the Königlich-Sächsischen Polytechnikum of Dresden...
(1835–1907), German literary historian and poet - Adolf Stern (chess player)Adolf Stern (chess player)Adolf Stern was a German chess master.Born into a merchant Jewish family, he was the second child of Jacob Stern and Babette Caroline...
(1849–1907), German chess player - Albert Stern (1878–1966), banker and member of Landships committee
- Anatol SternAnatol SternAnatol Stern was a Polish poet, writer and art critic. Born October 24, 1899 to an assimilated family of Jewish ancestry, Stern studied at the Polish Studies Faculty of the University of Wilno but did not graduate...
(1899–1968), Polish writer - Andy SternAndy SternAndrew L. "Andy" Stern , is the former president of the 2.2 million-member Service Employees International Union , the fastest-growing union in the Americas. SEIU is the second largest union in the United States and Canada after the National Education Association.Stern was elected in 1996 to...
(born 1950) American president of the Service Employees International Union - Bill SternBill SternBill Stern was a U.S. actor and sportscaster who announced the nation's first remote sports broadcast and the first telecast of a Major League Baseball game. In 1984, Stern was part of the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame’s inaugural class which included sportscasting legends Red...
(1907–71), American sports announcer in Radio Hall of Fame - Casey SternCasey SternCasey Stern was a former contestant on ESPN's reality series Dream Job. At the time he was an executive recruiter. Casey currently is a host on Sirius XM radio's MLB Home Plate on XM channel 175 and Sirius 210. He recently departed MLB.com's BaseballChannel.tv, formerly MLB Radio where he was...
(born 1978), American baseball journalist - Curt Stern (1902–81), German-born American Drosophila and human geneticist
- Daniel Stern, pen name of Marie d'AgoultMarie d'AgoultMarie Catherine Sophie de Flavigny, Vicomtesse de Flavigny , was a French author, known also by her married name and title, Marie, Comtesse d'Agoult, and by her pen name, Daniel Stern....
(1805–76), author and paramour of Franz Liszt - Daniel Stern (actor)Daniel Stern (actor)Daniel Jacob Stern is an American film and television actor. He is known for his roles in the Hollywood films C.H.U.D., Diner, City Slickers and the first two Home Alone films, and as the narrator for the television series The Wonder Years.-Early life:Stern was born in Bethesda, Maryland to a...
(born 1957), American television and film actor - Daniel Stern (psychologist)Daniel Stern (psychologist)Daniel N. Stern is a prominent psychiatrist and psychoanalytic theorist, specializing in infant development, on which he has written a number of books - most notably The Interpersonal World of the Infant ....
(born 1934), American psychoanalytic theorist, specialising in infant development - David E. SternDavid E. SternRabbi David Eli Stern is the senior rabbi at Temple Emanu-El of Dallas, the largest synagogue in the South/Southwest United States and the third-largest in the Union for Reform Judaism....
(born 1961), Senior Rabbi of Jewish community in Dallas, Texas - David Joel SternDavid SternDavid Joel Stern is the commissioner of the National Basketball Association. He started with the Association in 1966 as an outside counsel, joined the NBA in 1978 as General Counsel, and became the league's Executive Vice President in 1980. He became Commissioner in 1984 succeeding Larry O'Brien...
(born 1942), Commissioner of the National Basketball Association - David M. SternDavid M. SternDavid M. Stern is an American television screenwriter. Among his first work in television was writing episodes of The Wonder Years in the late 1980s. He then proceeded to write several episodes of The Simpsons in the 1990s. In 2010, he developed the animated television series Ugly Americans...
, writer for The Wonder Years and The Simpsons and brother of actor Daniel Stern - David H. SternDavid H. SternDr. David Harold Stern is an Israel-based theologian. He is the third son of Harold Stern and Marion Levi Stern.Stern's major work is the Complete Jewish Bible, his English translation of the Tanakh and New Testament...
(born 1935) American-born Jewish theologian in Israel - Edouard SternEdouard SternÉdouard Stern was a Jewish banker who lived in France. Born in Paris, he was son of the banker Antoine Jean Elie Stern and Christiane Laroche, and was a personal friend of French President Nicolas Sarkozy...
(1954–2005), French banker - Elazar SternElazar SternElazar Stern is a former general in the Israel Defense Forces and former head of the Israeli Human Resources Directorate. Born in Tel Aviv, Stern attended Bar Ilan University, where he received a B.A. in Economics and Land of Israel Studies. He also received a Master's degree in Business...
(born 1956), Israeli general - Eric SternEric SternEric Stern is the Director of Operations for the Career Development Office at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law . Before re-locating to California, Stern worked at The George Washington School of Law. He is the former Executive Director of the National Stonewall Democrats. Eric...
(born 1975), former executive director of National Stonewall Democrats - Georges Stern (1882-1928), French jockey
- Gerald SternGerald SternGerald Stern is an American poet. His work became widely recognized after the 1977 publication of Lucky Life, which was that year's Lamont Poetry Selection, and of a series of essays on writing poetry in American Poetry Review. He has subsequently been given many prestigious awards for his...
(born 1925), American poet - Gladys Bronwyn SternGladys Bronwyn SternGladys Bronwyn Stern or GB Stern born Gladys Bertha Stern in London, England, wrote many novels, short stories, plays, memoirs, biographies and literary criticism....
(1890–1973), English writer - Grigori ShternGrigori ShternGrigori Mihailovich Shtern 1900, Smila, Kiev Governorate – 28 October 1941) was a Soviet officer in the Red Army and military advisor during the Spanish Civil War. He also served with distinction during the Soviet-Japanese Border Wars and the Winter War....
(1900–41), Soviet military commander - Hans SternHans SternHans Stern was a Brazilian jeweler and businessman. He was dubbed the "king of the colored gems" by the New York Times and acclaimed by the international media.-Early life:...
(1922–2007), German-born Brazilian jeweler - Harold P. SternHarold P. Stern----Harold Philip Stern was an American art historian and curator specializing in Asian art.He worked at Freer Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution and served as its director from 1971 to 1977.- Literary works :...
(1922–77), American art historian - Howard SternHoward SternHoward Allan Stern is an American radio personality, television host, author, and actor best known for his radio show, which was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2005. He gained wide recognition in the 1990s where he was labeled a "shock jock" for his outspoken and sometimes controversial style...
(born 1954), American radio and TV personality - Howard K. SternHoward K. SternHoward Kevin Stern is an American attorney, and a former domestic partner of the late Anna Nicole Smith. On September 28, 2006. Stern and Smith exchanged vows in a legally nonbinding ceremony in Nassau, Bahamas...
(born 1968), American attorney and unofficial husband of Anna Nicole Smith - Isaac SternIsaac SternIsaac Stern was a Ukrainian-born violinist. He was renowned for his recordings and for discovering new musical talent.-Biography:Isaac Stern was born into a Jewish family in Kremenets, Ukraine. He was fourteen months old when his family moved to San Francisco...
(1920–2001), Ukrainian-born American violinist - Itzhak SternItzhak SternItzhak Stern was a Jewish accountant to German industrialist Oskar Schindler. He worked alongside Schindler as the accountant for his enamelware company in Kraków and greatly helped in running the company...
(1901–69), accountant of Oskar Schindler - Jacques SternJacques SternJacques Stern is a cryptographer, currently a professor at the École Normale Supérieure, where he is Director of the Computer Science Laboratory. He received the 2006 CNRS Gold Medal...
(born 1949), French computer scientist and cryptologist - Jean SternJean SternJean Stern, born in France, was a French épée fencer.-Olympic fencing career:Stern was a member of the French fencing team at the 1908 London Olympics, and competed in both the team and individual épée events. During the Games, the French team defeated Denmark , Great Britain , and Belgium to...
, French Olympic champion épée fencer - Julius SternJulius SternJulius Stern was a German musician.Stern was born at Breslau. He received his elementary education in music from the violinist Peter Lüstner, and at the age of nine played at concerts...
(1820–83), German musician and educator - Leonard B. SternLeonard B. SternLeonard Bernard Stern was an American screenwriter, film and television producer, director, and one of the creators, with Roger Price, of the classic word game Mad Libs.-Life and career:...
, (1923–2011), American television producer, director and writer - Leonard N. SternLeonard N. SternLeonard Norman Stern is an American businessman and real estate developer.He is the Chairman and CEO of the privately owned Hartz Group based in New York City...
, (born 1938), American business executive - Leo SternLeo SternLeo Stern was an English cellist, best remembered for being the soloist in the premiere performance of Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor in London in 1896.-Biography:...
(1862–1904), English-German cellist - Mario Rigoni SternMario Rigoni SternMario Rigoni Stern was an Italian author and World War II veteran.His first novel Il sergente nella neve, published in 1953 , draws on his own experience as a Sergeant Major in the Alpini corp during the disastrous retreat from Russia in World War II...
(1921–2008), Italian writer - Melissa Stern, also known as Baby MBaby MBaby M was the pseudonym used In re Baby M, 537 A.2d 1227, 109 N.J. 396 for the infant named Sara Elizabeth Whitehead at her birth, and later named Melissa Stern by her father and adoptive mother....
(born 1986) - Michael Stern (conductor)Michael Stern (conductor)Michael Stern is a noted American symphony conductor. Currently, he serves as the music director and lead conductor of the Kansas City Symphony in Kansas City, Missouri. He is also the founding music director of the IRIS Orchestra in Germantown, Tennessee.- Early life and education :Stern is the...
, (born 1959), American conductor - Michael Charles Stern (born 1942), British Conservative politician
- Mike SternMike SternMike Stern is an American jazz guitarist. After playing for a few years with Blood, Sweat & Tears, he landed a gig with Billy Cobham and then broke through with Miles Davis' comeback band from 1981 to 1983, and again in 1985. Since then, he launched a solo career, releasing more than a dozen albums...
(born 1953), American jazz guitarist - Miroslava SternMiroslava SternMiroslava was a Czechoslovakian-born Mexican film actress who appeared in thirty two films.- Biography :...
(1926–55), Mexican actress of Czech origin - Moritz Abraham SternMoritz Abraham SternMoritz Abraham Stern was a German mathematician. Stern became Ordinarius at Göttingen University in 1858, succeeding Carl Friedrich Gauss. Stern was the first Jewish full professor at a German university....
(1807–94), German mathematician - Nicholas SternNicholas SternNicholas Herbert Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, Kt, FBA is a British economist and academic. He is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics , and 2010 Professor of Collège de...
(born 1946), British economist - Philippe SternPhilippe SternPhilippe Stern was a French art historian.He worked at the Guimet Museum .- Literary works :* Le Bàyon d'Angkor et l'évolution de l'art Khmer , 1927* L'art du Champa et son évolution , 1942...
(1895–1979), French art historian - Otto SternOtto SternOtto Stern was a German physicist and Nobel laureate in physics.-Biography:Stern was born in Sohrau, now Żory in the German Empire's Kingdom of Prussia and studied at Breslau, now Wrocław in Lower Silesia....
, German physicist and Nobel laureate, of Stern-Gerlach experiment fame - Robert A. M. SternRobert A. M. SternRobert Arthur Morton Stern, usually credited as Robert A. M. Stern, is an American architect and Dean of the Yale University School of Architecture....
(born 1939), architect - Sam SternSam SternSam Stern is a British celebrity chef and author. He has written four cookbooks and has a contract for one more. Stern grew up as the youngest of five siblings in Yorkshire, England Stern writes a regular column called "Sam's Super Kids" in First News...
(born 1990), British celebrity chef - 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
- Yohanan Petrovsky-ShternYohanan Petrovsky-ShternYohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is a historian, philologist and essayist, noted in particular for his studies of the institution of Cantonism, his critique of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's controversial two volume-work about Jews in Russia, Two Hundred Years Together, as well as translations of Jorge Luis...
, Jewish Early Modern Historian and philologist