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 (born 1980), Canadian Major League Baseball player
 * Adam Stern (conductor) (born 1955), American conductor
 * Adolf Stern (1835–1907), German literary historian and poet
 * Adolf Stern (chess player) (1849–1907), German chess player
 * Adolphe Stern (1848–1931), Romanian lawyer and politician
 * Alan Stern (born 1957), American engineer and planetary scientist
 * Albert Stern (violinist), American violinist
 * Albert Gerald Stern (1878–1966), banker and member of Landships committee
 * Anatol Stern (1899–1968), Polish writer
 * Andy Stern (born 1950) American president of the Service Employees International Union
 * Avraham Stern (1907–1942), founder and leader of the "Stern Gang" (Lehi)
 * Avraham Stern (politician) (1935–1997), Israeli politician
 * Bill Stern (1907–1971), American sports announcer in the Radio Hall of Fame
 * Casey Stern (born 1978), American baseball journalist
 * Clara Stern (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)
 * Edna Stern (born 1977), Belgian-Israeli pianist
 * Edouard Stern (1954–2005), French banker
 * Elazar Stern (born 1956), Israeli general
 * Elena Stern (born 1994), Swiss curler
 * Eric Stern (musician) (born 1971), musician from Portland, Oregon
 * Erich C. Stern (1879–1969), American lawyer and politician
 * Ephraim Stern (1934–2018), Israeli archaeologist
 * Frances Stern (1873–1947), American nutritionist
 * Frederick Claude Stern (1884–1967), English botanist and horticulturalist
 * Fritz Stern (1926–2016), German-born American historian of German history, Jewish history and historiography
 * Georges Stern (1882–1928), French jockey
 * Gerald Stern (1925–2022), American poet
 * Gladys Bronwyn Stern (1890–1973), English writer
 * Grace Mary Stern (1925–1998), American politician
 * Guy Stern (1922–2023), German-American educator and writer
 * Hans Stern (1922–2007), German-born Brazilian jeweler
 * Harold P. Stern (1922–1977), American art historian
 * Hellmut Stern (1928–2020), German violinist
 * Henry Stern (disambiguation)
 * Herman Stern (1887–1980), American businessman
 * Hermann Stern (1878–1952), Austrian lawyer and politician
 * Hermann de Stern (1815–1887), German-born British banker.
 * Howard Stern (born 1954), American radio and TV personality
 * Howard K. Stern (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), Croatian lawyer, writer, journalist, director and founder of the "Zagreb Radiostation" (now Croatian Radiotelevision)
 * Jacques Stern (born 1949), French computer scientist and cryptologist
 * Jacques Stern (politician) (1882–1949), French politician
 * Jared Stern, American screenwriter
 * Jean Stern (fencer) (1875–1962), French Olympic champion épée fencer
 * Jean Stern (art historian) (born 1946), art historian and museum director
 * Josef Stern (1797–1871), Austrian pastor and beekeeper
 * (1886—1966), Austrian author
 * Judith S. Stern (1943–2019), American nutritionist
 * Julius Stern (1820–1883), German musician and educator
 * Karoline Stern (1800–1887), German opera soprano
 * Karl Stern (1905–1975), German-Canadian neurologist, psychiatrist, theologian and author
 * Leo Stern (1862–1904), English-German cellist
 * Leonard B. Stern (1923–2011), American television producer, director and writer
 * Leonard J. Stern (1904–1988), American judge from Ohio
 * Leonard N. Stern (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 (1878–1968), biochemist, physiologist and humanist
 * Louise Stern (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 (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 (1918–2005), Soviet dissident
 * Milton R. Stern (1928–2011), American professor of American literature
 * Miroslava Stern (1926–1955), Mexican actress of Czech origin
 * Moritz Abraham Stern (1807–1894), German mathematician
 * Nicholas Stern (born 1946), British economist
 * Otto Stern (1888–1969), German physicist and Nobel laureate
 * Paul Stern (1892–1948), Austrian diplomat and bridge player
 * Philippe Stern (1895–1979), French art historian
 * Richard Martin Stern (1915–2001), American novelist
 * Ricki Stern, American film director, screenwriter, producer, and author
 * Robert A. M. Stern (born 1939), architect
 * Ronald J. Stern (born 1947), American mathematician
 * Ronnie Stern (born 1967), Canadian ice hockey player
 * Rudi Stern (1936–2006), American multimedia artist
 * Sam Stern (born 1990), British celebrity chef
 * Samuel Miklos Stern (1920–1969), Hungarian–British Orientalist
 * Selma Stern (1890–1981), German historian
 * Tom Stern (cinematographer) (born 1946), American cinematographer
 * Tom Stern (filmmaker) (born 1965), film and television writer and director
 * Vernon M. Stern (1923–2006), American entomologist
 * Victor Stern (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
 * William Joseph Stern (1891—1965), 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