Bernstein
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, but in English it is often.
Notable people sharing the surname "Bernstein"
A–H
- Aaron Bernstein, German short story writer and historian
- Abe Bernstein, American Mobster
- Abraham Bernstein, several people
- Adam Bernstein, American film, music video, television director, and screenwriter
- Al Bernstein, American sportscaster, writer, stage performer, recording artist, and speaker
- Al Bernstein, Austrian contemporary artist
- Al Bernstein, American boxing commentator
- Alan Bernstein, Canadian medical researcher
- Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil, British television executive and politician and psychologist, doctor of medicine, professor
- Alfred Bernstein, American civil rights and union activist
- Andrew Bernstein, American Objectivist philosopher
- Armyan Bernstein, American film producer, director and screenwriter
- Arnold Bernstein, German-American shipowner and pioneer of transatlantic car transport
- Artie Bernstein, American jazz bassist
- Assaf Bernstein, Israeli director and screenwriter.
- Basil Bernstein, British sociologist and linguist
- Benjamin Abram Bernstein, American mathematician
- Bernard Bernstein, American economist and public official
- Bernard Bernstein, English table tennis player
- Byron Bernstein, known as Reckful, Israeli-American Twitch streamer and former professional Esports player
- Bonnie Bernstein, American sports broadcaster
- Carl Bernstein, American investigative journalist, Watergate reporter
- Charles Bernstein, American poet, father of Felix Bernstein
- Charles Bernstein , film and television music composer
- Daniel Bernstein, video game and movie composer, and CEO of Sandlot Games
- Daniel J. Bernstein, American mathematics professor, creator of qmail and djbdns, and plaintiff in Bernstein v. United States
- David Bernstein , English football and business executive
- David E. Bernstein, American law professor, writer, libertarian
- David I. Bernstein, Rabbi at Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem and New York City
- Eduard Bernstein, German Social Democrat
- Edward M. Bernstein, American lawyer, politician, and philanthropist
- Elmer Bernstein, American composer and conductor
- Elsa Bernstein, Austrian-German writer and dramatist of Jewish descent
- Evan Bernstein, Israeli Olympic wrestler
- Felix Bernstein , American performance artist, son of Charles Bernstein
- Felix Bernstein , German mathematician
- F. W. Bernstein, German poet, cartoonist, satirist and academic
- Georg Heinrich Bernstein, German orientalist
- Harry Bernstein, British-born American author
- Heinrich Agathon Bernstein, German naturalist, zoologist and explorer
- Henri Bernstein, French playwright
- Henry Bernstein , social realist artist, WPA muralist
- Herman Bernstein, Jewish American journalist and writer
- Hilda Bernstein, South African author, artist, activist against apartheid and for women's rights
I–N
- Ira B. Bernstein, American physicist, specializing in theoretical plasma physics
- Isadore Bernstein, American screenwriter
- Jack Bernstein, American boxer
- Jake Bernstein, American Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author
- Jake Bernstein, American financial businesspeople
- Jared Bernstein, American economist
- Jed Bernstein, American executive in the performing arts
- Jeremy Bernstein, Physicist on Project Orion
- Joseph Bernstein, Israeli mathematician
- Joseph Milton Bernstein, alleged spy
- Josh Bernstein, American explorer, author, and television personality
- Julius Bernstein, German neurobiologist
- Leonard Bernstein, American composer, conductor, pianist, author, and teacher
- Lionel Bernstein, South African anti-apartheid activist and political prisoner
- Matt Bernstein, American football player
- Max Bernstein, German art and theatre critic and author
- Melanie Bernstein, German politician
- Michèle Bernstein, French writer
- Mikhail Bernshtein, Soviet painter and art educator
- Miriam Bernstein-Cohen, Israeli actress, director, poet and translator
- Morris Louis Bernstein, American abstract expressionist painter
- Nikolai Bernstein, Russian neurophysiologist
O–Z
- Ossip Bernstein, Russian chess master
- Peretz Bernstein, Zionist activist and Israeli politician
- Phil Bernstein, American computer scientist
- Rhett Bernstein, American soccer player
- Richard Bernstein, American journalist
- Roxy Bernstein, American sportscaster
- Salomon Bernstein, Israeli painter
- Samuil Bernstein, Soviet linguist
- Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Soviet mathematician
- Sid Bernstein , Advertising Age co-founder, Crain publications chairman, Ad Age writer/editor
- Sid Bernstein , brought the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to America, organized rock concerts
- Sidney Bernstein
- Seymour Bernstein, American pianist, composer, and teacher.
- Theodore Menline Bernstein, American journalist, New York Times editor
- Theresa Bernstein, American artist and painter
- Walter Bernstein, blacklisted American screenwriter
- William J. Bernstein, American financial theorist
- Zalman Bernstein, American billionaire businessman and philanthropist
From non-English Wikipedias
- , Russian and Soviet psychiatrist, psychotherapist
- , Romanian Jew writer, journalist, literary critic and theater editor
- , German hymn writer
- , French and Russian surgeon and medical scientist
- , German politician
- , the first Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Chayei Olam in Jerusalem.
- , Estonian Soviet art historian, doctor of art history
- , German writer
- , German screenwriter, director, audio book producer and radio writer
- , Russian-Israeli painter and sculptor
- , Israeli professor emeritus, sociologist and social historian
- , American tennis player
- , educator, professor, editor and activist
- , Chilean diplomat
- , German photographer
- , Soviet istorik- medievalist, translator from Old French and modern French language
- , German ancient historian
- , German military and administrative officials
- , Grand Ducal Hessian General of the Infantry and Minister of War
- , Domdechant Magdeburg and canon to Naumburg
- , American Contemporary artist
- , American screenwriter
- , officer in the IDF in the reserves with the rank of brigadier general
- , Electoral Saxon Privy Council
- , German lawyer and university professor
- , Russian-Jewish folklorist and linguist
- , Soviet and Russian literary critic
- , Soviet and Russian translator
- , Russian doctor and Zionist
- , Austrian actress
- , Hesse-Darmstadt Lieutenant General
- , German physician and professor of medicine
- , Russian lawyer, professor of law
- , commander of a partisan battalion
- , Russian revolutionary, narodolets
- , French sculptor
- , Romanian Jew poet, playwright and editor
- , Brazilian screenwriter and film director
- , leading materials scientists of the USSR
- , Russian revolutionary, political figure, Ph.D.
- , Soviet oil geologist, teacher
- , Soviet literary critic
- , Jewish teacher and communist
- , Israeli writer, playwright, publisher and public figure
- , one of the founders of Rosh Pina
- , rabbi and Revisionist public activist
- , Russian revolutionary and political activist.
- , Russian doctor, physiologist
- , Moldovan Soviet translator and journalist
- , Russian musicologist, music critic and historian
- , German engineer and cryptologist
- , German political scientist, journalist and community college teacher
- , Soviet translator
- , German historian and publicist
- , Jewish poet, novelist and playwright
- , German comintern and film official
- , American jazz and improvisation musician
- , Russian civil engineer
- , Russian linguist, bibliographer, historian of the theater, one of the founders of OPOZAZ
- , Russian and Soviet economist, economic geographer
- , literary researcher, writer, editor and Zionist
- , Israeli architect
- , German visual artist and art teacher
- , Russian-born Italian mathematician
- , German artist
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
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, known in German as Bernstein
- Bernstein, a mountain in Baden-Württemberg, Germany