# 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 1950jj) 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
* Josef Luitpold Stern [de] (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