Bernstein Explained
Bernstein is a common surname in the German language, meaning "amber" (literally "burn stone"). The name is used by both Germans and Jews, although it is most common among people of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. The German pronunciation is pronounced as /de/, but in English, it is pronounced either as or .
Notable people sharing the surname "Bernstein"
A–H
- Aaron Bernstein (1812–1884), German short story writer and historian
- Abe Bernstein (1892–1968), American mobster
- Abraham Bernstein (disambiguation), several people
- Adam Bernstein (born 1960), American film, music video, television director, and screenwriter
- 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 and psychologist, doctor of medicine, professor
- Alfred Bernstein (1911–2003), American civil rights and union activist
- Andrew Bernstein (disambiguation), several people
- 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
- Axel Bernstein (1974–2017), German politician
- Basil Bernstein (1924–2000), British sociologist and linguist
- Benjamin Abram Bernstein (1881–1964), American mathematician
- Bernard Bernstein (1908–1990), American economist and public official
- Bernard Bernstein (1899–1963), English table tennis player
- Bonnie Bernstein (born 1970), American sports broadcaster
- Byron Bernstein (1989–2020), known as Reckful, Israeli-American Twitch streamer and former professional Esports player
- Carl Bernstein (born 1944), American investigative journalist, Watergate reporter
- Charles Bernstein (composer) (born 1943), film and television music composer
- Charles Bernstein (poet) (born 1950), American poet, father of Felix Bernstein
- 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
- Eduard Bernstein (1850–1932), German Social Democrat
- Elmer Bernstein (1922–2004), American composer and conductor
- Elsa Bernstein (1866–1949), Austrian-German writer and dramatist of Jewish descent
- Evan Bernstein (wrestler) (born 1960), Israeli Olympic wrestler
- Felix Bernstein (artist) (born 1992), American performance artist, son of Charles Bernstein
- Felix Bernstein (mathematician) (1878–1956), German mathematician
- F. W. Bernstein (1938–2018), German poet, cartoonist, satirist and academic
- Georg Heinrich Bernstein (1787–1860), German orientalist
- 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
- 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
- Howard Bernstein (1953–2024), British chief executive of Manchester City Council
I–N
- Ignatius Bernstein (1846–1900), Russian railroad engineer
- Ira B. Bernstein (born 1924), American physicist, specializing in theoretical plasma physics
- Isadore Bernstein (1876–1944), American screenwriter
- J. Sidney Bernstein (1877–1943), Russian-American lawyer, politician, and judge
- 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
- Jeremy Bernstein (born 1929), Physicist on Project Orion (nuclear propulsion)
- 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
- Léna Bernstein (1906–1932), German aviator
- Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990), American composer, conductor, pianist, author, and teacher
- Lionel Bernstein (1920–2002), South African anti-apartheid activist and political prisoner
- Ludwig B. Bernstein (1870–1944), Latvian-American sociologist and social worker
- Matt Bernstein (born 1982), American football player
- Matt Bernstein (born 1998), American makeup artist and internet celebrity
- 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
- Miriam Bernstein-Cohen (1895–1991), Israeli actress, director, poet and translator
- Morris Louis Bernstein (1912–1962), American abstract expressionist painter
- Nikolai Bernstein (1896–1966), Russian neurophysiologist
O–Z
- Ronni Reis-Bernstein (born 1966), American tennis player
- Roxy Bernstein (born 1972), American sportscaster
- Salomon Bernstein (1886–1968), Israeli painter
- Samuil Bernstein (1911–1997), Soviet linguist
- (born 1985), American jazz and improvisation musician
- Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880–1968), Soviet mathematician
- Sid Bernstein (editor) (1907–1993), Advertising Age co-founder, Crain publications chairman, Ad Age writer/editor
- Sid Bernstein (impresario) (1918–2013), brought the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to America, organized rock concerts
- Sidney Bernstein (disambiguation)
- Seymour Bernstein (born 1927), American pianist, composer, and teacher.
From non-English Wikipedias
- (1870–1922), Russian and Soviet psychiatrist, psychotherapist
- (born 1927), Romanian Jewish writer, journalist, literary critic and theatre editor
- (1672–1699), German hymn writer
- (1868–?), French and Russian surgeon and medical scientist
- Axel Bernstein (1974–2017), German politician (CDU)
- (1839–1905), the first Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Chayei Olam in Jerusalem.
- (1924–2015), Estonian Soviet art historian, doctor of art history
- (1797–1838), German writer
- (born 1936), German screenwriter, director, audio book producer and radio writer
- (born 1973), Russian-Israeli painter and sculptor
- (born 1944), Israeli professor emeritus, sociologist and social historian
- (born 1989), American tennis player
- (1909–1993), educator, professor, editor and activist
- (1910–1990), Chilean diplomat
- (1929–1999), German photographer
- (1899–1976), Soviet istorik- medievalist, translator from Old French and modern French language
- (born 1964), German ancient historian
- (1818–1886), German military and administrative officials
- (1790–1861), Grand Ducal Hessian General of the Infantry and Minister of War
- (?–1670), Domdechant Magdeburg and canon to Naumburg
- (born 1924), American Contemporary artist
- (born 1955), American screenwriter
- (born 1955), officer in the IDF in the reserves with the rank of brigadier general
- (1525–1589), Electoral Saxon Privy Council
- (1930–2001), German lawyer and university professor
- (1836–1909), Russian-Jewish folklorist and linguist
- (1919–1992), Soviet and Russian literary critic
- (1929–2012), Soviet and Russian translator
- (1888–1943), Austrian actress
- (1757–1838), Hesse-Darmstadt Lieutenant General
- (1747–1835), German physician and professor of medicine
- (1842–1894), Russian lawyer, professor of law
- (1921–2019), commander of a partisan battalion
- (1862–1889), Russian revolutionary, narodolets
- (1867–1944), French sculptor
- (1873–1931), Romanian Jew poet, playwright and editor
- (born 1970), Brazilian screenwriter and film director
- (1919–1989), leading materials scientists of the USSR
- (1886–1918), Russian revolutionary, political figure, Ph.D.
- (1911–1984), Soviet oil geologist, teacher
- (1911–2002), Soviet literary critic
- (1908–1943), Jewish teacher and communist
- (1893–1983), Israeli writer, playwright, publisher and public figure
- (1862–1934), one of the founders of Rosh Pina
- (1892–1956), rabbi and Revisionist public activist
- (1861–1927), Russian revolutionary and political activist.
- (1836–1891), Russian doctor, physiologist
- (1922–1997), Moldovan Soviet translator and journalist
- (1876–1938), Russian musicologist, music critic and historian
- (1891–1976), German engineer and cryptologist
- (1897–1944 or 1945), German political scientist, journalist and community college teacher
- (1870–1949), Soviet translator
- (born 1939), German historian and publicist
- (1869–1942), Jewish poet, novelist and playwright
- (1896–1977), German comintern and film official
- (1901–1958), Russian civil engineer
- (1892–1970), Russian (Soviet) linguist, bibliographer, historian of the theatre, one of the founders of OPOZAZ
- (1886–1951), Russian and Soviet economist, economic geographer
- (1884–1962), literary researcher, writer, editor and Zionist
- (1907–1969), Israeli architect
- (born 1957), German visual artist and art teacher
- (1900–1936), Russian-born Italian mathematician
- (1901–1981), 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
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