Bernays

Bernays is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Adolphus Bernays (1795–1864), professor of German in London; brother of Isaac Bernays and father of:
 * Lewis Adolphus Bernays (1831–1908), public servant and agricultural writer in Australia; son of Adolphus Bernays
 * Edward Bernays (1891–1995), the "father of public relations"; great-grandson of Isaac Bernays and father of:
 * Anne Bernays (born 1930), American novelist; daughter of Edward Bernays and American novelist Doris E. Fleischman
 * Isaac Bernays (1792–1849), German rabbi; brother of Adolphus Bernays and father of:
 * Jakob Bernays (1824–1881), German classical linguist
 * Michael Bernays (1834–1897), German literature historian
 * Karl Ludwig Bernays (1815–1876), Marxist journalist
 * Marie Bernays (1883–1939), German politician and educator
 * Martha Bernays (1861–1951), wife of Sigmund Freud; granddaughter of Isaac Bernays by his son Berman
 * Paul Bernays (1888–1977), Swiss mathematician born in London; great-grandson of Isaac Bernays
 * Robert Bernays (1902–1945), Liberal MP; great-grandson of Adolphus Bernays
 * Thekla M. Bernays (1856–1931), women's suffrage's activist, author and lecturer