Bernstein

Bernstein (Russian: Бернштейн Bernštejn) is the German word for amber, the fossil resin.

Place names

• Bernstein (Brandenburg) (now Poland)
• Bernstein im Burgenland
• shtetl Burshtyn (means amber for Polish) from Ukraine.

Personal names

People whose family name is or was Bernstein include

• Aaron Bernstein
• Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil — British television executive and politician
• Carl Bernstein — American investigative journalist
• Charles Bernstein — American poet
• Daniel J. Bernstein — American mathematics professor, creator of qmail and djbdns, and plaintiff in Bernstein v. United States
• Eduard Bernstein — German Social Democrat
• Elmer Bernstein — American composer
• Felix Bernstein - German mathematician
• Henry Bernstein(Henry-Léon-Gustave-Charles Bernstein) - French playwright
• Leonard Bernstein — American composer and conductor
• Sergei Natanovich Bernstein — Ukrainian mathematician after whom the Bernstein polynomial and Bernstein's inequality are named
• Zalman C. Bernstein, the founder of Bernstein Investment Research and Management (now a unit of Alliance Capital Management L.P)

• The American musician Dan Bern previously performed under the name Bernstein.

Others

• Bernstein-on-Essex, a kosher chinese restaurant in Manhattan
• Cantor-Bernstein-Schroeder theorem (named after Felix Bernstein)
• Bernstein-Sato polynomial after Joseph Bernstein and Mikio Sato