Bernstein

Bernstein means amber in German and Yiddish language.

For Hebrew, amber/Bernstein is עִנְבָּר ‘inbār.

Place names

• Bernstein im Burgenland
• Bernstein (Brandenburg) (now Poland), now Pełczyce

Personal names

• Aaron Bernstein
• Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil, British television executive and politician
• Al Bernstein
• Basil Bernstein, UK linguist
• Barton J. Bernstein, historian
• Bonnie Bernstein, sports broadcaster
• 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
• Deena K. Bernstein, psychologist
• Eduard Bernstein, German Social Democrat
• Elmer Bernstein, American composer
• Felix Bernstein, German mathematician
• Henri Bernstein/Henry Bernstein (Henry-Léon-Gustave-Charles Bernstein), French playwright
• Joseph Bernstein, mathematician
• Joseph Milton Bernstein, alleged spy
• Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor
• Lev Bernstein (Bronstein), birth name of Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky
• Morris Louis Bernstein
• Nikolai Bernstein (1896-1966)
• Osip Bernstein (1882-1962)
• Richard Bernstein, US chemist
• Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Ukrainian mathematician
• Theodore M. Bernstein
• Walter Bernstein
• Dan Bern, American musician who previously performed under the name Bernstein
• Phil Bernstein, computer scientist

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 Mr. Kane in the 1941 film Citizen Kane.

Other uses

• Cantor–Bernstein–Schroeder theorem, after Felix Bernstein
• Bernstein-Sato polynomial, after Joseph Bernstein and Mikio Sato
• Bernstein polynomial, named after Sergei Natanovich Bernstein
• Bernstein's inequality, named after Sergei Natanovich Bernstein