Stern is a

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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 "

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Adam Stern Adam James Stern (born February 12, 1980) is a Canadian former Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder who played for the Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, and Milwaukee Brewers from 2005 to 2010. Stern is the second Jewish player from Canada ...

(born 1980), Canadian Major League Baseball player *

Adam Stern (conductor) Adam Oscar Stern (born 1955) is an American conductor. Born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, Stern was trained at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. He received his MFA in conducting in 1977 at the age of t ...

(born 1955), American conductor *

Adolf Stern Adolf Stern (real name: ''Adolf Ernst''; June 14, 1835 – April 15, 1907) 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 histo ...

(1835–1907), German literary historian and poet *

Adolf Stern (chess player) Adolf Stern (25 December 1849, Grünstadt Grünstadt ( pfl, Grinnschdadt) is a town in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany with roughly 13,200 inhabitants. It does not belong to any ''Verbandsgemeinde'' – a kind of colle ...

(1849–1907), German chess player *

Adolphe Stern Adolphe Stern (November 17, 1848 – October 18, 1931) was a Jewish-Romanian lawyer and politician. Life Stern was born on November 17, 1848 in Bucharest, Romania. The son of a jeweler, Stern went to study law in Berlin after finishing high sch ...

(1848–1931), Romanian lawyer and politician * Alan Stern (born 1957), American engineer and planetary scientist *

Albert Stern (violinist) Violinist Albert Ivan Stern was born in New York City. His parents, father Murray Abraham Shmulevitch and mother Grace Sara Stern (née Gold), were both Jewish and born in Poland. Grace Gold immigrated to the US as a child and Murray immigrated ...

, American violinist *

Albert Gerald Stern Sir Albert Gerald Stern (24 September 1878 – 2 January 1966) was a banker who became the Secretary of the Landship Committee during World War I, where his organisational ability assisted the Committee in creating the first British tank. Durin ...

(1878–1966), banker and member of Landships committee *

Anatol Stern Anatol Stern (24 October 1899 in Warsaw – 19 October 1968 in Warsaw) was a Polish poet, writer and art critic. Born 24 October 1899 to an assimilated family of Jewish ancestry, Stern studied at the Polish Studies Faculty of the University ...

(1899–1968), Polish writer *

Andy Stern Andrew L. Stern (born November 22, 1950) is the former president of the Service Employees International Union, and now serves as its President Emeritus. Stern has been a senior fellow at Georgetown University, Columbia University, and is now a ...

(born 1950) American president of the Service Employees International Union *

Avraham Stern Avraham Stern ( he, אברהם שטרן, ''Avraham Shtern''), alias Yair ( he, יאיר; December 23, 1907 – February 12, 1942) was one of the leaders of the Jewish paramilitary organization Irgun. In September 1940, he founded a breakaway m ...

(1907–1942), founder and leader of the "Stern Gang" (Lehi) *

Avraham Stern (politician) Avraham Stern ( he, אברהם יצחק שטרן, 30 October 1935 – 12 May 1997) was an Israeli administrator and politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party (Mafdal) between 1996 and 1997. Biography Avraha ...

(1935–1997), Israeli politician * Bill Stern (1907–1971), American sports announcer in the Radio Hall of Fame *

Casey Stern Casey Stern (born October 17, 1978, in Massapequa, New York) is an American television personality and radio host who currently works for Turner Sports and Sirius XM Radio. Career Stern departed MLB.com's BaseballChannel.tv, formerly MLB Rad ...

(born 1978), American baseball journalist *

Clara Stern Clara Stern (née Joseephy; March 12, 1877 – 1945) was a German developmental psychologist. Biography Clara was born into a wealthy Jewish family and was one of seven children. Her father was a banker named Julius Joseephy and her mother's n ...

(1877–1945), German-American psychologist * Curt Stern (1902–1981), German-born American ''Drosophila'' and human geneticist * Daniel Stern (actor) (born 1957), American television and film actor * Daniel Stern (psychologist) (1934–2012), American psychoanalytic theorist, specialising in infant development *

David Stern (disambiguation) David Stern (1942–2020) was an American lawyer, businessman and commissioner of the National Basketball Association. David Stern may also refer to: *David Stern (academic), American scholar of Hebrew literature *David Stern (businessman) (1820� ...

Edna Stern Edna Stern ( he, עדנה שטרן; born March 6, 1977, in Brussels) is a Belgian-Israeli pianist.
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(born 1977), Belgian-Israeli pianist * Edouard Stern (1954–2005), French banker * Elazar Stern (born 1956), Israeli general *

Elena Stern Elena Stern (born 8 November 1994) is a retired Swiss curler from Zürich. Career Stern first represented Switzerland on the international stage at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics where her team of Michael Brunner, Romano Meier and Lisa Gisle ...

(born 1994), Swiss curler *

Eric Stern (musician) Eric Stern is an American vocalist, accordionist, composer, arranger, and pianist based in Portland, Oregon, best known as the founder and artistic director of the band Vagabond Opera. He also performs as a soloist, as well as with the Eric Stern ...

(born 1971), musician from Portland, Oregon *

Erich C. Stern Erich Cramer Stern (February 8, 1879 – February 18, 1969) was an American politician and lawyer. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Stern graduated from the German-English Academy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Stern received his bachelor's degree from ...

(1879–1969), American lawyer and politician *

Ephraim Stern Ephraim Stern ('','' January 15, 1934 – March 23, 2018) was an Israeli archaeologist and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He specialized in the archaeology of ancient Israel and Judah and Phoenicia,

(1934–2018), Israeli archaeologist *

Frances Stern Frances Stern (1873–1947) was one of the first nutritionists in the United States. In 1918 she founded the Boston Dispensary Food Clinic, which evolved into what is now the Frances Stern Nutrition Center at Tufts Medical Center. Early life and ...

(1873–1947), American nutritionist *

Frederick Claude Stern Sir Frederick Claude Stern (18 April 1884, Knightsbridge, London – 10 July 1967) was a botanist and horticulturalist, known for developing the gardens at Highdown Gardens, for creating several cultivars of garden plants and for his publication ...

(1884–1967), English botanist and horticulturalist * Fritz Stern (1926–2016), German-born American historian of German history, Jewish history and historiography *

Georges Stern Georges Stern (1882 – October 28, 1928), nicknamed "The King of the Derbies"and "King of the Jockeys", was a French jockey. He rode in both England and France. Stern, who was Jewish, was born in France to British parents, who were naturalized i ...

(1882–1928), French jockey *

Gerald Stern Gerald Daniel Stern (February 22, 1925 – October 27, 2022) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. The author of twenty collections of poetry and four books of essays, he taught literature and creative writing at Temple University, Indi ...

(born 1925), American poet *

Gladys Bronwyn Stern Gladys Bronwyn Stern or GB Stern (17 June 1890 – 20 September 1973), born Gladys Bertha Stern in London, England, wrote many novels, short stories, plays, memoirs, biographies and literary criticism. The National Portrait Gallery, London holds ...

(1890–1973), English writer *

Grace Mary Stern Grace Mary Stern (née Dain; July 10, 1925 – May 17, 1998) was an American Democratic politician who served in both houses of the Illinois legislature, but was unsuccessful in her 1982 run for Lieutenant Governor, which would have made her ...

(1925–1998), American politician * Hans Stern (1922–2007), German-born Brazilian jeweler *

Harold P. Stern Harold "Phil" Philip Stern (May 3, 1922 – April 3, 1977) was an American art historian and curator. A scholar of Japanese art, Stern was the Director of the Freer Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian Institution from 1971 to 1977. Career Stern re ...

(1922–1977), American art historian * Hellmut Stern (1928–2020), German violinist * Henry Stern (disambiguation) *

Herman Stern Herman Stern (August 9, 1887 – June 20, 1980) was an American humanitarian, social and economic activist, businessman, visionary and director of the North Dakota Winter Show, and Holocaust rescuer. Early life Born in Brechen, Oberbrechen, ...

(1887–1980), American businessman * Hermann Stern (1878–1952), Austrian lawyer and politician *

Hermann de Stern Hermann de Stern, Baron de Stern (1815–1887) was a German-born British banker and senior partner of the firm of Stern Brothers. Early life and career Stern was born in 1815 in Frankfurt am Main, Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, to the prominent St ...

(1815–1887), German-born British banker. * Howard Stern (born 1954), American radio and TV personality *

Howard K. Stern Howard Kevin Stern (born November 29, 1968) is an American attorney based in California. He was the domestic partner, attorney and agent of the late model Anna Nicole Smith. He became known as a co-star on Smith's 2002–2004 reality television ...

(born 1968), American attorney and unofficial husband of Anna Nicole Smith * Irving Stern (1928-2023), American politician * Isaac Stern (1920–2001), Ukrainian-born American violinist * Itzhak Stern (1901–1969), accountant of Oskar Schindler * Ivo Stern (1889–1961),

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n lawyer, writer, journalist, director and founder of the "Zagreb Radiostation" (now Croatian Radiotelevision) *

Jacques Stern Jacques Stern (born 21 August 1949) is a cryptographer, currently a professor at the École Normale Supérieure. He received the 2006 CNRS Gold medal. His notable work includes the cryptanalysis of numerous encryption and signature schemes, th ...

(born 1949), French computer scientist and cryptologist * Jacques Stern (politician) (1882–1949), French politician *

Jared Stern Jared Stern is an American screenwriter, director and producer. He collaborated with John Whittington on ''The Lego Batman Movie'' (2017) and ''The Lego Ninjago Movie'' (2017). Career Stern began his career by writing the screenplay for '' ...

, American screenwriter * Jean Stern (fencer) (1875–1962), French Olympic champion épée fencer *

Jean Stern (art historian) Jean Stern (born March 28, 1946), Director Emeritus of The Irvine Museum is an art historian and retired museum director who specializes in paintings of the California Impressionist period (1890-1930). Early life Jean Stern was born in Casabla ...

(born 1946), art historian and museum director * Judith S. Stern (1943–2019), American nutritionist * Julius Stern (1820–1883), German musician and educator * Karoline Stern (1800–1887), German opera soprano *

Karl Stern Karl Stern (April 8, 1906 - November 11, 1975) was a German Canadians, German Canadian neurologist and psychiatrist, and a Jewish convert to the Catholic Church. Stern is best known for the account of his conversion in ''Pillar of Fire'' (1951). ...

(1905–1975), German-Canadian neurologist, psychiatrist, theologian and author * Leo Stern (1862–1904), English-German cellist *

Leonard B. Stern Leonard Bernard Stern (December 23, 1922 – June 7, 2011) was an American screenwriter, film and television producer, director, and one of the creators, with Roger Price, of the word game Mad Libs. Life and career Stern was born in New Yor ...

(1923–2011), American television producer, director and writer * Leonard J. Stern (1904–1988), American judge from Ohio *

Leonard N. Stern Leonard Norman Stern (born March 28, 1938) is an American billionaire businessman, and philanthropist. He is the chairman and CEO of the privately owned Hartz Group based in New York City. The company's real estate portfolio was owned and operat ...

(born 1938), American business executive * Leo Stern (1862–1904), English-German cellist * Leo Stern (historian) (1901–1982) Austrian-German political activist, historian and university rector *

Lina Stern Lina Solomonovna Stern (or Shtern; russian: Лина Соломоновна Штерн; 26 August 1878 – 7 March 1968) was a Soviet biochemist, physiologist and humanist whose medical discoveries saved thousands of lives at the fronts of World ...

(1878–1968), biochemist, physiologist and humanist *

Louise Stern Louise Stern (born 1978) is an American writer and artist, and works around ideas of language, communication and isolation. Stern grew up in an exclusively deaf community and is fourth-generation deaf on her father's side, and third-generation d ...

(born 1978), American writer and artist * Manfred Stern (1896–1954), international spy and member of the GRU, Soviet military intelligence * 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 *

Max Emanuel Stern Max Emanuel Stern (9 November 1811 – 9 February 1873), also known as Mendel b'ri Stern (), was a Hungarian-born Hebraist, writer, poet, and translator. Biography Born to Jewish parents in Presburg in 1811, Stern first studied under his father ...

(1811–1873), writer, poet and translator * Melissa Stern, also known as Baby M (born 1986) * Michael Stern (disambiguation) * Mike Stern (born 1953), American jazz guitarist *

Mikhail Stern Mikhail Shaevich Stern (russian: Михаил Шаевич Штерн, 1918 – 17 June 2005) was a Soviet endocrinologist, sexologist and dissident. Biography Stern was born in a Jewish family in a small Ukrainian town of Zhmerynka. In 1944 he ...

(1918–2005), Soviet dissident *

Milton R. Stern Milton R. Stern (August 22, 1928 – July 26, 2011) was an American professor of English and American literature, who specialized in studies of the works of Herman Melville and F. Scott Fitzgerald, best known for his "landmark books" on Melvil ...

(1928–2011), American professor of American literature *

Miroslava Stern Miroslava Šternová Beková (26 February – 9 March 1955), known professionally as Miroslava Stern, was a Czechoslovak-Mexican actress. Biography Born Miroslava Šternová Beková in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Miroslava moved to Mexico as a c ...

(1926–1955), Mexican actress of Czech origin *

Moritz Abraham Stern Moritz Abraham Stern (29 June 1807 – 30 January 1894) was a German mathematician. Stern became ''Ordinarius'' (full professor) at Göttingen University in 1858, succeeding Carl Friedrich Gauss. Stern was the first Jewish full professor at a Germ ...

(1807–1894), German mathematician *

Nicholas Stern Nicholas Herbert Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, (born 22 April 1946 in Hammersmith) is a British economist, banker, and academic. He is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Cli ...

(born 1946), British economist *

Otto Stern :''Otto Stern was also the pen name of German women's rights activist Louise Otto-Peters (1819–1895)''. Otto Stern (; 17 February 1888 – 17 August 1969) was a German-American physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. He was the second most n ...

(1888–1969), German physicist and Nobel laureate *

Paul Stern Paul Stern (4 April 1892 – 12 June 1948) was an Austrian international bridge player and lawyer, who fled to London in 1938. He was a bidding theorist and administrator who contributed to the early growth of the game. He founded the Austrian Br ...

(1892–1948), Austrian diplomat and bridge player *

Philippe Stern Philippe Stern (11 April 1895 – 4 April 1979) was a French art historian. He worked at the Guimet Museum (1929-1965). Literary works * ''Le Bàyon d'Angkor et l'évolution de l'art Khmer'' (), 1927 * ''L'art du Champa Champa (Cham: ...

(1895–1979), French art historian *

Richard Martin Stern Richard Martin Stern (March 17, 1915 in Fresno, California – October 31, 2001 in Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an American novelist. Stern began his writing career in the 1950s with mystery tales of private investigators, winning a 1959 Edgar Aw ...

(1915–2001), American novelist * Robert A. M. Stern (born 1939), architect *

Ronald J. Stern Ronald John Stern (born 20 January 1947) is a mathematician who works on topology, geometry, and gauge theory. He is emeritus professor at the University of California, Irvine. Stern was the first in his family to receive a college education and ...

(born 1947), American mathematician *

Ronnie Stern Ronald Stern (born January 11, 1967) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League for 12 seasons with the Vancouver Canucks, Calgary Flames, and San Jose Sharks. Playing career Stern was born in Sa ...

(born 1967), Canadian ice hockey player *

Rudi Stern Rudolph George Stern (November 30, 1936 – August 15, 2006) was an American multimedia artist most widely known for his work in neon. In his later years, he concentrated on making documentary films. Biography Stern was born in New Haven, Con ...

(1936–2006), American multimedia artist * Sam Stern (born 1990), British celebrity chef *

Samuel Miklos Stern Samuel Miklos Stern (Tab, Hungary, 22 November 1920 – Oxford, 29 October 1969) was a Hungarian– British academic specializing in Oriental studies. Life He was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Hungary, and lost his father at the age of th ...

(1920–1969), Hungarian–British Orientalist * Selma Stern (1890–1981), German historian *

Tom Stern (cinematographer) Thomas Evans Stern, , (born December 16, 1946) is an American cinematographer. He is best known for his work on films directed by Clint Eastwood, having been his primary cinematographer since '' Blood Work'' in 2002. Stern began work as a gaffer ...

(born 1946), American cinematographer *

Tom Stern (filmmaker) Tom Stern is an American actor, director, writer, and producer. Education Stern grew up in Pleasantville, New York and attended Byram Hills High School in Armonk, New York, and then went to film school at Tisch School of the Arts New York Univ ...

(born 1965), film and television writer and director * Vernon M. Stern (1923–2006), American entomologist *

Victor Stern Victor Stern (29 October 1885 – 27 March 1958) was an Austrian philosopher, teacher and communist politician. He was active in communist parties in Austria and Germany until 1923 when he was forced to exile. He settled first in Czechoslovakia a ...

(1885–1958), Austrian philosopher and politician * Vivien Stern, Baroness Stern (born 1941), British expert on criminal justice and penal reform * William Stern (psychologist) (1871–1938), German psychologist, inventor of the concept of IQ * Stern family, a prominent banking family

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Ulrich Stern ''Code Lyoko'' () is a French animated television series created by Thomas Romain and Tania Palumbo and produced by Antefilms Production (season 1) and MoonScoop Group (seasons 2-4) for France 3 and Canal J, with the participation of Conseil Gén ...

, in the French animated television series ''Code Lyoko'' * Jon Stern, Daniel Holden's Justice Row attorney in the television series ''

Rectify ''Rectify'' is an American television drama series exploring the life of a man after he is released from prison after nearly 20 years on death row following a wrongful conviction. It was created by Ray McKinnon and is the first original series f ...

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