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Bernstein is a common surname in the
German language German ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and Official language, official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Ita ...
, meaning "amber" (literally "burn stone"). The name is used by both Germans and Jews, although it is most common among people of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. The German pronunciation is , but in English it is pronounced either as or .


Notable people sharing the surname "Bernstein"


A–H

* Aaron Bernstein (1812–1884), German short story writer and historian * Abe Bernstein (1892–1968), American mobster * Abraham Bernstein (disambiguation), several people * Adam Bernstein (born 1960), American film, music video, television director, and screenwriter * Al Bernstein (born 1950), American sportscaster, writer, stage performer, recording artist, and speaker * Al Bernstein (artist), Al Bernstein (born 1949), Austrian contemporary artist * Al Bernstein (born 1950), American boxing commentator * Alan Bernstein (born 1947), Canadian medical researcher * Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil (1936–2010), British television executive and politician and psychologist, doctor of medicine, professor * Alfred Bernstein (1911–2003), American civil rights and union activist * Andrew Bernstein (born 1949), American Objectivist philosopher * Armyan Bernstein, American film producer, director and screenwriter * Arnold Bernstein (1888–1971), German-American shipowner and pioneer of transatlantic car transport * Artie Bernstein (1909–1964), American jazz bassist * Aryeh Leib Bernstein (1708–1788), Chief Rabbi of Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Galicia * Assaf Bernstein (born 1970), Israeli director and screenwriter. * Basil Bernstein (1924–2000), British sociologist and linguist * Benjamin Abram Bernstein (1881–1964), American mathematician * Bernard Bernstein (1908–1990), American economist and public official * Bernard Bernstein (table tennis), Bernard Bernstein (1899–1963), English table tennis player * Byron Bernstein (1989–2020), known as Reckful, Israeli-American Twitch streamer and former professional Esports player * Bonnie Bernstein (born 1970), American sports broadcaster * Carl Bernstein (born 1944), American investigative journalist, Watergate reporter * Charles Bernstein (poet) (born 1950), American poet, father of Felix Bernstein * Charles Bernstein (composer) (born 1943), film and television music composer * Daniel Bernstein, video game and movie composer, and CEO of Sandlot Games * Daniel J. Bernstein (born 1971), American mathematics professor, creator of qmail and djbdns, and plaintiff in ''Bernstein v. United States'' * David Bernstein (executive) (born 1943), English football and business executive * David E. Bernstein (born 1967), American law professor, writer, libertarian * David I. Bernstein, Rabbi at Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem and New York City * Eduard Bernstein (1850–1932), German Social Democrat * Elmer Bernstein (1922–2004), American composer and conductor * Elsa Bernstein (1866–1949), Austrian-German writer and dramatist of Jewish descent * Evan Bernstein (born 1960), Israeli Olympic wrestler * Felix Bernstein (artist) (born 1992), American performance artist, son of Charles Bernstein * Felix Bernstein (mathematician) (1878–1956), German mathematician * F. W. Bernstein (1938–2018), German poet, cartoonist, satirist and academic * Georg Heinrich Bernstein (1787–1860), German orientalist * Harry Bernstein (1910–2011), British-born American author * Heinrich Agathon Bernstein (1828–1865), German naturalist, zoologist and explorer * Henri Bernstein (also Henry-Léon-Gustave-Charles Bernstein, 1876–1953), French playwright * Henry Bernstein (sociologist) (1912–1964), social realist artist, WPA muralist * Herman Bernstein (1876–1935), Jewish American journalist and writer * Hilda Bernstein (1915–2006), South African author, artist, activist against apartheid and for women's rights


I–N

* Ignatius Bernstein (1846–1900), Russian railroad engineer * Ira B. Bernstein (born 1924), American physicist, specializing in theoretical plasma physics * Isadore Bernstein (1876–1944), American screenwriter * J. Sidney Bernstein (1877–1943), Russian-American lawyer, politician, and judge * Jack Bernstein (1899–1945), American boxer * Jake Bernstein (journalist), Jake Bernstein, American Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author * Jake Bernstein (born 1946), American financial businesspeople * Jared Bernstein (born 1955), American economist * Jed Bernstein (born 1955), American executive in the performing arts * Jeremy Bernstein (born 1929), Physicist on Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) * Joseph Bernstein (born 1945), Israeli mathematician * Joseph Milton Bernstein (1908–1975), alleged spy * Josh Bernstein (born 1971), American explorer, author, and television personality * Julius Bernstein (1839–1917), German neurobiologist * Léna Bernstein (1906–1932), German aviator * Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990), American composer, conductor, pianist, author, and teacher * Lionel Bernstein (1920–2002), South African anti-apartheid activist and political prisoner * Ludwig B. Bernstein (1870–1944), Latvian-American sociologist and social worker * Matt Bernstein (born 1982), American football player * Max Bernstein (1854–1925), German art and theatre critic and author * Melanie Bernstein (born 1976), German politician * Michèle Bernstein (born 1932), French writer * Mikhail Bernshtein (1875–1960), Soviet painter and art educator * Miriam Bernstein-Cohen (1895–1991), Israeli actress, director, poet and translator * Morris Louis Bernstein (1912–1962), American abstract expressionist painter * Nikolai Bernstein (1896–1966), Russian neurophysiologist


O–Z

* Ossip Bernstein (1882–1962), Russian chess master * Peretz Bernstein (1890–1971), Zionist activist and Israeli politician * Phil Bernstein, American computer scientist * Rhett Bernstein (born 1987), American soccer player *Ronni Reis, Ronni Reis-Bernstein (born 1966), American tennis player * Roxy Bernstein (born 1972), American sportscaster * Salomon Bernstein (1886–1968), Israeli painter * Samuil Bernstein (1911–1997), Soviet linguist * Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880–1968), Soviet mathematician * Sid Bernstein (editor) (1907–1993), Advertising Age co-founder, Crain publications chairman, Ad Age writer/editor * Sid Bernstein (impresario) (1918–2013), brought the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to America, organized rock concerts * Sidney Bernstein (disambiguation) * Seymour Bernstein (born 1927), American pianist, composer, and teacher. * Theodore Menline Bernstein (1904–1979), American journalist, ''New York Times'' editor * Theresa Bernstein (1890–2002), American artist and painter * Walter Bernstein (1919-2021), American film producer and screenwriter * William J. Bernstein (born 1948), American financial theorist * Zalman Bernstein (1926–1999), American billionaire businessman and philanthropist


From non-English Wikipedias

* (1870–1922), Russian and Soviet psychiatrist, psychotherapist * (born 1927), Romanian Jewish writer, journalist, literary critic and theater editor * (1672–1699), German hymn writer * (1868–?), French and Russian surgeon and medical scientist * (1974–2017), German politician ( CDU ) * (1839–1905), the first Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Chayei Olam in Jerusalem. * (1924–2015), Estonian Soviet art historian, doctor of art history * (1797–1838), German writer * (born 1936), German screenwriter , director , audio book producer and radio writer * (born 1973), Russian-Israeli painter and sculptor * (born 1944), Israeli professor emeritus, sociologist and social historian * (born 1989), American tennis player * (1909–1993), educator, professor, editor and activist * (1910–1990), Chilean diplomat * (1929–1999), German photographer * (1899–1976), Soviet istorik- medievalist , translator from Old French and modern French language * (born 1964), German ancient historian * (1818–1886), German military and administrative officials * (1790–1861), Grand Ducal Hessian General of the Infantry and Minister of War * (?–1670), Domdechant Magdeburg and canon to Naumburg * (born 1924), American Contemporary artist * (born 1955), American screenwriter * (born 1955), officer in the IDF in the reserves with the rank of brigadier general * (1525–1589), Electoral Saxon Privy Council * (1930–2001), German lawyer and university professor * (1836–1909), Russian-Jewish folklorist and linguist * (1919–1992), Soviet and Russian literary critic * (1929–2012), Soviet and Russian translator * Jacob Bernstein-Kohan (1859–1929), Russian doctor and Zionist * (1888–1943), Austrian actress * (1757–1838), Hesse-Darmstadt Lieutenant General * (1747–1835), German physician and professor of medicine * (1842–1894), Russian lawyer, professor of law * (1921–2019), commander of a partisan battalion * (1862–1889), Russian revolutionary , narodolets * (1867–1944 ), French sculptor * (1873–1931), Romanian Jew poet, playwright and editor * (born 1970), Brazilian screenwriter and film director * (1919–1989), leading materials scientists of the USSR * (1886–1918), Russian revolutionary , political figure, Ph.D. * (1911–1984), Soviet oil geologist, teacher * (1911–2002), Soviet literary critic * (1908–1943), Jewish teacher and communist * (1893–1983), Israeli writer , playwright , publisher and public figure * (1862–1934), one of the founders of Rosh Pina * (1892–1956), rabbi and Revisionist public activist * (1861–1927), Russian revolutionary and political activist. * (1836–1891), Russian doctor, physiologist * (1922–1997), Moldovan Soviet translator and journalist * (1876–1938), Russian musicologist, music critic and historian * (1891–1976), German engineer and cryptologist * (1897–1944 or 1945), German political scientist , journalist and community college teacher * (1870–1949), Soviet translator * (born 1939), German historian and publicist * (1869–1942), Jewish poet , novelist and playwright * (1896–1977), German comintern and film official * (born 1985), American jazz and improvisation musician * (1901–1958), Russian civil engineer * (1892–1970), Russian (Soviet) linguist , bibliographer , historian of the theater, one of the founders of OPOZAZ * (1886–1951), Russian and Soviet economist, economic geographer * (1884–1962), literary researcher, writer, editor and Zionist * (1907–1969), Israeli architect * (born 1957), German visual artist and art teacher * (1900–1936), Russian-born Italian mathematician * (1901–1981), German artist


Fictional people

* Rugal Bernstein, a major villain in the ''King of Fighters'' video game series * Adelheid Bernstein, the son of Rugal, making a debut appearance in ''King of Fighters 2003'' * Mr. Bernstein, the business partner of Charles Foster Kane in the 1941 film ''Citizen Kane'' * Judith Bernstein, pseudonym of the character Janine Butcher in the British soap opera ''EastEnders'' * Kudelia Aina Bernstein, a character in the mecha anime series ''Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans''


Places

*Château du Bernstein, a castle in Alsace, France *Bernstein im Burgenland, a village near the Austrian-Hungarian border *Pełczyce, a town in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship (part of Germany until 1945), known in German as ''Bernstein'' *Bernstein (Northern Black Forest), a mountain in Baden-Württemberg, Germany


See also

* * Justice Bernstein (disambiguation) * Berenstein, a variant * Bernstine * Albert Baernstein II (1941–2014), American mathematician * Dan Bern (born 1965), American musician who previously performed under the name ''Bernstein'' * Eric Berne (1910–1970, born Bernstein), American psychiatrist and writer * Burstyn (disambiguation), a Polish and Ukrainian version of the same word


References

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