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 [ˈbɛʁnʃtaɪn] (listen), but in English it is often /ˈbɜːrnstiːn/.

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 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 and psychologist, doctor of medicine, professor
Alfred Bernstein (1911–2003), American civil rights and union activist
Andrew Bernstein (born 1949), American Objectivist philosopher
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
Assaf Bernstein (born 1970), Israeli director and screenwriter.
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
Byron Bernstein (1989–2020), known as Reckful, Israeli-American Twitch streamer and former professional Esports player
Bonnie Bernstein (born 1970), American sports broadcaster
Carl Bernstein (born 1944), American investigative journalist, Watergate reporter
Charles Bernstein (born 1950), American poet, father of Felix Bernstein
Charles Bernstein (composer) (born 1943), film and television music composer
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
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
Evan Bernstein (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

I–N

Ira B. Bernstein (born 1924), American physicist, specializing in theoretical plasma physics
Isadore Bernstein (1876–1944), American screenwriter
Jack Bernstein (1899–1945), American boxer
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)

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
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
Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990), American composer, conductor, pianist, author, and teacher
Lionel Bernstein (1920–2002), South African anti-apartheid activist and political prisoner
Matt Bernstein (born 1982), American football player
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

Ossip Bernstein (1882–1962), Russian chess master
Peretz Bernstein (1890–1971), Zionist activist and Israeli politician

Peter Bernstein (composer) (born 1951), American film and television composer
Peter Bernstein (guitarist) (born 1967), American jazz guitarist
Peter L. Bernstein (1919–2009), American author, economist and educator
Phil Bernstein, American computer scientist
Rhett Bernstein (born 1987), American soccer player
Richard Bernstein (born 1944), American journalist

Richard B. Bernstein (born 1956), American constitutional historian and CCNY lecturer in law and political science
Richard Barry Bernstein (1923–1990), American chemist
Richard H. Bernstein (born 1974), American lawyer and Michigan supreme court justice; first blind supreme court justice in the United States
Richard K. Bernstein (born 1934), American physician
Richard J. Bernstein (born 1932), American philosopher
Richard Bernstein (artist) (1939–2002), American artist, illustrated covers of Interview magazine
Richard Bernstein (bass) (born 1966), American opera singer at the Metropolitan Opera
Robert Bernstein (comics) (1919–1988), American comic book writer
Robert A. Bernstein (born 1961), American attorney and politician
Robert L. Bernstein (1923–2019), American publisher and human rights activist
Robert Root-Bernstein (born 1953), American professor of life sciences
Roxy Bernstein (born 1972), American sportscaster
Salomon Bernstein (1886–1968), Israeli painter
Samuil Bernstein (1911–1997), Soviet linguist
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.

Steven Bernstein (cinematographer) (active from 1986), American cinematographer
Steven Bernstein (musician) (born 1961), American trumpeter
Steven "Jesse" Bernstein (1950–1991), American poet
Theodore Menline Bernstein (1904–1979), American journalist, New York Times editor
Theresa Bernstein (1890–2002), American artist and painter
Walter Bernstein (born 1919), blacklisted American screenwriter
William J. Bernstein (born 1948), American financial theorist
Zalman Bernstein (1926–1999), American billionaire businessman and philanthropist

From non-English Wikipedias

Alexander Nikolaevich Bernstein (1870–1922), Russian and Soviet psychiatrist, psychotherapist
Alvin Bernstein (born 1927), Romanian Jew writer, journalist, literary critic and theater editor
Andreas Christian Bernstein (1672–1699), German hymn writer
Anna Matveevna Bernstein-Kogan (1868–?), French and Russian surgeon and medical scientist
Axel Bernstein (1974–2017), German politician ( CDU )
Benjamin Yehuda Leib Bernstein (1839–1905), the first Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Chayei Olam in Jerusalem.
Boris Moiseevich Bernstein (1924–2015), Estonian Soviet art historian, doctor of art history
Caroline Bernstein (1797–1838), German writer
Charlotte Drews-Bernstein (born 1936), German screenwriter , director , audio book producer and radio writer
Costa Bernstein (born 1973), Russian-Israeli painter and sculptor
Deborah Bernstein (born 1944), Israeli professor emeritus, sociologist and social historian
Drake Bernstein (born 1989), American tennis player
Emil Bolden-Bernstein (1909–1993), educator, professor, editor and activist
Enrique Bernstein Carabantes (1910–1990), Chilean diplomat
F. O. Bernstein (1929–1999), German photographer
Faina Abramovna Kogan-Bernstein (1899–1976), Soviet istorik- medievalist , translator from Old French and modern French language
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
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
Herbert Bernstein (1930–2001), German lawyer and university professor
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
Jacob Bernstein-Kohan (1859–1929), Russian doctor and Zionist
Jenny Schaffer-Bernstein (1888–1943), Austrian actress
Johann Georg von Schäffer-Bernstein (1757–1838), Hesse-Darmstadt Lieutenant General
Johann Gottlob Bernstein (1747–1835), German physician and professor of medicine
Karl Ilich Bernstein (1842–1894), Russian lawyer, professor of law
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
Matvey Lvovich Kogan-Bernstein (1886–1918), Russian revolutionary , political figure, Ph.D.
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
Mordechai Bernstein (publisher) (1893–1983), Israeli writer , playwright , publisher and public figure
Mordechai Bernstein (pioneer) (1862–1934), one of the founders of Rosh Pina
Moshe Bernstein (rabbi) (1892–1956), rabbi and Revisionist public activist
Natalia Osipovna Kogan-Bernstein (1861–1927), Russian revolutionary and political activist.
Natan Osipovich Bernstein (1836–1891), Russian doctor, physiologist
Naum Samuilovich Bernstein (1922–1997), Moldovan Soviet translator and journalist
Nikolay Davidovich Bernstein (1876–1938), Russian musicologist, music critic and historian
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
Polina Samoilovna Bernstein (1870–1949), Soviet translator
Reiner Bernstein (born 1939), German historian and publicist
Rohl Bernstein (1869–1942), Jewish poet , novelist and playwright
Rudolf Bernstein (1896–1977), German comintern and film official
Sarah Bernstein (born 1985), American jazz and improvisation musician
Sergei Alexandrowitsch Bernstein (1901–1958), Russian civil engineer
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
Thomas Bernstein (born 1957), German visual artist and art teacher
Vladimir Bernstein (1900–1936), Russian-born Italian mathematician
Walter Bernstein (artist) (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 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 (part of Germany until 1945), known in German as Bernstein
Bernstein (Northern Black Forest), a mountain in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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