Bernstein
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Bernstein is a common surname in the German language meaning "amber". The name is used by both Germans and Jews, although it is most common among people of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage.. The German pronunciation is [ˈbɛʁnʃtaɪn] , but in English it is often /ˈbɜːrnstiːn/.
People
Notable people with this surname include:
A–H
- Aaron Bernstein (1812–1884), German short story writer and historian
- Abe Bernstein (1892-1968), American Mobster
- Abraham Bernstein (born 1969), professor at the Institute of Computer Science
- Adam Bernstein (born 1960), American film, music video and television director and screenwriter
- Al Bernstein (born 1950), American sportscaster, writer, stage performer, recording artist, and speaker
- Al Bernstein (born 1949), Austrian contemporary artist
- Al Bernstein (born 1950), American boxing commentator
- Alan Bernstein (born 1947), Canadian medical researcher
- Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil (1936–2010), British television executive and politician
- Alexander Nikolaevich Bernstein (1870-1922), Russian and Soviet psychiatrist , psychotherapist and psychologist , doctor of medicine , professor
- Alfred Bernstein (1897-1972), German football player
- Alvin Bernstein (born 1927), Romanian Jew writer , journalist , literary critic and theater editor
- Andrew Bernstein (born 1949), American Objectivist philosopher
- Andreas Christian Bernstein (1672-1699), German hymn writer
- Anna Matveevna Bernstein-Kogan (1868-?), French and Russian surgeon and medical scientist
- Armyan Bernstein, American film producer, director and screenwriter
- Arnold Bernstein (1888-1971), German-American shipowner and pioneer of transatlantic car transport
- Artie Bernstein (1909–1964), American jazz bassist
- Aryeh Leib Bernstein (1890-1965), a veteran of the Yishuv, fought in Gallipoli in the Mule Regiment and was a member of Nili
- Asaf Bernstein (born 1970), Israeli director and screenwriter.
- Axel Bernstein (1974-2017), German politician ( CDU )
- Basil Bernstein (1924–2000), British sociologist and linguist
- Benjamin Abram Bernstein (1881–1964), American mathematician
- Benjamin Yehuda Leib Bernstein (1839-1905), the first Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Chayei Olam in Jerusalem.
- Bernard Bernstein (1908-1990), American economist and public official
- Bernard Bernstein (1899-1963), English table tennis player
- Bonnie Bernstein (born 1970), American sports broadcaster
- Boris Moiseevich Bernstein (1924-2015), Estonian Soviet art historian, doctor of art history
- Carl Bernstein (born 1944), American investigative journalist, Watergate reporter
- Caroline Bernstein (1797-1838), German writer
- Cron Bernstein (born 1970), South African model, actress, and singer-songwriter
- Charles Bernstein (born 1950), American poet, father of Felix Bernstein
- Charles Bernstein (composer) (born 1943), film and television music composer
- Charlotte Drews-Bernstein (born 1936), German screenwriter , director , audio book producer and radio writer
- Costa Bernstein (born 1973), Russian-Israeli painter and sculptor
- Daniel Bernstein, video game and movie composer, and CEO of Sandlot Games
- Daniel J. Bernstein (born 1971), American mathematics professor, creator of qmail and djbdns, and plaintiff in Bernstein v. United States
- David Bernstein (executive) (born 1943), English football and business executive
- David E. Bernstein (born 1967), American law professor, writer, libertarian
- David I. Bernstein, Rabbi at Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem and New York City
- Deborah Bernstein (born 1944), Israeli professor emeritus, sociologist and social historian
- Drake Bernstein (born 1989), American tennis player
- Eduard Bernstein (1850–1932), German Social Democrat
- Edward M. Bernstein (born 1949), American lawyer, politician, and philanthropist
- Elmer Bernstein (1922–2004), American composer and conductor
- Elsa Bernstein (1866-1949), Austrian-German writer and dramatist of Jewish descent
- Emil Bolden-Bernstein (1909-1993), educator, professor, editor and activist
- Enrique Bernstein Carabantes (1910-1990), Chilean diplomat
- Evan Bernstein (born 1960), Israeli Olympic wrestler
- F. O. Bernstein (1929-1999), German photographer
- Faina Abramovna Kogan-Bernstein (1899-1976), Soviet istorik- medievalist , translator from Old French and modern French language
- Felix Bernstein (artist) (born 1992), American performance artist, son of Charles Bernstein
- Felix Bernstein (mathematician) (1878–1956), German mathematician
- Frank Bernstein (born 1964), German ancient historian
- Friedrich Bernstein (1818-1886), German military and administrative officials
- Friedrich Ferdinand Wilhelm von Schäffer-Bernstein (1790-1861), Grand Ducal Hessian General of the Infantry and Minister of War
- F. W. Bernstein (1938–2018), German poet, cartoonist, satirist and academic
- Georg Heinrich Bernstein (1787–1860), German orientalist
- Georg Heinrich von Bernstein (?-1670), Domdechant Magdeburg and canon to Naumburg
- Gerda Meyer-Bernstein (born 1924), American Contemporary artist
- Gregory Bernstein (born 1955), American screenwriter
- Hanan Bernstein (born 1955), officer in the IDF in the reserves with the rank of brigadier general
- Hans von Bernstein (1525-1589), Electoral Saxon Privy Council
- Harry Bernstein (1910–2011), British-born American author
- Heinrich Agathon Bernstein (1828 – 1865), German naturalist, zoologist and explorer
- Henri Bernstein (also Henry-Léon-Gustave-Charles Bernstein, 1876–1953), French playwright
- Henry Bernstein (sociologist) (1912–1964), social realist artist, WPA muralist
- Herbert Bernstein (1930-2001), German lawyer and university professor
- Herman Bernstein (1876–1935), Jewish American journalist and writer
- Hilda Bernstein (1915–2006), South African author, artist, activist against apartheid and for women's rights
I–N
- Ignaz Bernstein (1836-1909), Russian-Jewish folklorist and linguist
- Inna Abramovna Bernstein (1919-1992), Soviet and Russian literary critic
- Inna Maksimovna Bernstein (1929-2012), Soviet and Russian translator
- Ira B. Bernstein (born 1924), American physicist, specializing in theoretical plasma physics
- Isadore Bernstein (1876–1944), American screenwriter
- Jack Bernstein (1899-1945), American boxer
- Jacob Bernstein-Kohan (1859-1929), Russian doctor and Zionist
- Jake Bernstein, American Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author
- Jake Bernstein (born 1946), American financial businesspeople
- Jared Bernstein (born 1955), American economist
- Jed Bernstein (born 1955), American executive in the performing arts
- Jenny Schaffer-Bernstein (1888-1943), Austrian actress
- Jeremy Bernstein (born 1929), Physicist on Project Orion (nuclear propulsion)
- Joe Bernstein (boxer) (1877–1931), one of the first great boxers to emerge from New York's Lower East Side
- Joe Bernstein (American football) (1893–1967), professional football player
- Joe Bernstein (poker player) (1899–1975), poker player and road gambler
- Johann Georg von Schäffer-Bernstein (1757-1838), Hesse-Darmstadt Lieutenant General
- Johann Gottlob Bernstein (1747-1835), German physician and professor of medicine
- Joseph Bernstein (born 1945), Israeli mathematician
- Joseph Milton Bernstein (1908–1975), alleged spy
- Josh Bernstein (born 1971), American explorer, author, and television personality
- Julius Bernstein (1839–1917), German neurobiologist
- Karl Ilich Bernstein (1842-1894), Russian lawyer, professor of law
- Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990), American composer, conductor, pianist and teacher
- Lionel Bernstein (1920–2002), South African anti-apartheid activist and political prisoner
- Leonid Bernstein (1921-2019), commander of a partisan battalion
- Lev Matveevich Kogan-Bernstein (1862-1889), Russian revolutionary , narodolets
- Lev Semenovich Sinaev-Bernstein (1867-1944 ), French sculptor
- Luca Bernstein (1873-1931), Romanian Jew poet, playwright and editor
- Marcos Bernstein (born 1970), Brazilian screenwriter and film director
- Mark Lvovich Bernstein (1919-1989), leading materials scientists of the USSR
- Matt Bernstein (born 1982), American football player
- Matvey Lvovich Kogan-Bernstein (1886-1918), Russian revolutionary , political figure, Ph.D.
- Max Bernstein (1854–1925), German art and theatre critic and author
- Melanie Bernstein (born 1976), German politician
- Michèle Bernstein (born 1932), French writer
- Mikhail Bernshtein (1875-1960), Soviet painter and art educator
- Mikhail Alexandrovich Bernstein (1911-1984), Soviet oil geologist, teacher
- Mikhail Davidovich Bernstein (literary critic) (1911-2002), Soviet literary critic
- Mira Bernstein (1908-1943), Jewish teacher and communist
- Miriam Bernstein-Cohen (1895-1991), Israeli actress, director, poet and translator
- Mordechai Bernstein (publisher) (1893-1983), Israeli writer , playwright , publisher and public figure
- Mordechai Bernstein (pioneer) (1862-1934), one of the founders of Rosh Pina
- Morris Louis Bernstein (1912–1962), American abstract expressionist painter
- Moshe Bernstein (rabbi) (1892-1956), rabbi and Revisionist public activist
- Natalia Osipovna Kogan-Bernstein (1861-1927), Russian revolutionaryandpolitical activist.
- Natan Osipovich Bernstein (1836-1891), Russian doctor, physiologist
- Naum Samuilovich Bernstein (1922-1997), Moldovan Soviet translator and journalist
- Nikolai Bernstein (1896–1966), Russian neurophysiologist
- Nikolay Davidovich Bernstein (1876-1938), Russian musicologist, music critic and historian
O–Z
- Ossip Bernstein (1882–1962), Russian chess master
- Paul Bernstein (cryptologist) (1891-1976), German engineer and cryptologist
- Paul Bernstein (political scientist) (1897-1944 or 1945), German political scientist , journalist and community college teacher
- Peretz Bernstein (1890–1971), Zionist activist and Israeli politician
- Peter Bernstein (born 1951), American film score composer
- Peter Bernstein (born 1967), American jazz guitarist
- Peter L. Bernstein (1919–2009), American author, economist, educator
- Phil Bernstein, American computer scientist
- Polina Samoilovna Bernstein (1870-1949), Soviet translator
- Reiner Bernstein (born 1939), German historian and publicist
- Rhett Bernstein (born 1987), American soccer player
- Richard Bernstein (born 1944), American journalist
- Richard Bernstein (1939-2002), American artist
- Richard Bernstein (born 1966), American bass
- Richard B. Bernstein (born 1956), American historian
- Richard Barry Bernstein (1923-1990), American physical chemist
- Richard H. Bernstein (born 1974), American lawyer
- Richard J. Bernstein (born 1932), American philosopher
- Richard K. Bernstein (born 1934), American physician
- Robert Bernstein (disambiguation)
- Rohl Bernstein (1869-1942), Jewish poet , novelist and playwright
- Roxy Bernstein (born 1972), American sportscaster
- Rudolf Bernstein (1896-1977), German comintern and film official
- Salomon Bernstein (1886-1968), Israeli painter
- Samuil Bernstein (1911–1997), Soviet linguist
- Sarah Bernstein (born 1985), American jazz and improvisation musician
- Sergei Alexandrowitsch Bernstein (1901-1958), Russian civil engineer
- Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880–1968), Soviet mathematician
- Sergey Ignatievich Bernstein (1892-1970), Russian (Soviet) linguist , bibliographer , historian of the theater, one of the founders of OPOZAZ
- Sergey Vladimirovich Bernstein-Kogan (1886-1951), Russian and Soviet economist, economic geographer
- Shimon Bernstein (1884-1962), literary researcher, writer, editor and Zionist
- Shlomo Bernstein (1907-1969), Israeli architect
- Sid Bernstein (1918-2013), American music promoter, talent manager, and author
- Sidney Bernstein (disambiguation)
- Seymour Bernstein (born 1927), American pianist, composer, and teacher.
- Steven Bernstein (filmmaker), American cinematographer, director, screenwriter and author
- Steven Bernstein (musician) (born 1961), American trumpeter and composer
- Steven "Jesse" Bernstein (1950-1991), Jewish American underground writer and performance artist
- Theodore Menline Bernstein (1904–1979), American journalist, New York Times editor
- Theresa Bernstein (1890–2002), American artist and painter
- Thomas Bernstein (born 1957), German visual artist and art teacher
- Vladimir Bernstein (1900-1936), Russian-born Italian mathematician
- Walter Bernstein (born 1919), blacklisted American screenwriter
- Walter Bernstein (artist) (1901-1981), German artist
- William J. Bernstein (born 1948), American financial theorist
- Zalman Bernstein (1926-1999), American billionaire businessman and philanthropist
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 Charles Foster Kane in the 1941 film Citizen Kane
- Judith Bernstein, pseudonym of the character Janine Butcher in the British soap opera EastEnders
- Kudelia Aina Bernstein, a character in the mecha anime series Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
Places
- Château du Bernstein, a castle in Alsace, France
- Bernstein im Burgenland, a village near the Austrian-Hungarian border
- Pełczyce, a town in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship, which was part of Germany until 1945 and is known as Bernstein in German (and Bersztén in Kashubian)
See also
- All pages with titles containing Bernstein
- Justice Bernstein (disambiguation)
- Berenstein, a variant
- Bernstine
- Albert Baernstein II (1941–2014), American mathematician
- Dan Bern (born 1965), American musician who previously performed under the name Bernstein
- Eric Berne (1910–1970, born Bernstein), American psychiatrist and writer
- Burstyn (disambiguation), a Polish and Ukrainian version of the same word