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Notable people sharing the surname "Bernstein"

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* 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 * Aryeh Leib Bernstein (1708–1788), Chief Rabbi of Galicia * Assaf Bernstein (born 1970), Israeli director and screenwriter. * Axel Bernstein (1974–2017), German politician *

Basil Bernstein Basil Bernard Bernstein (1 November 1924 – 24 September 2000) was a British sociologist known for his work in the sociology of education. He worked on socio-linguistics and the connection between the manner of speaking and social organizati ...

(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 Bonnie Lynn Bernstein (born August 16, 1970) is an American sports journalist and media executive. She has been named one of the most accomplished female sportscasters in history by the American Sportscasters Association, spending nearly 20 yea ...

(born 1970), American sports broadcaster * Byron Bernstein (1989–2020), known as Reckful, Israeli-American Twitch streamer and former professional Esports player *

Carl Bernstein Carl Milton Bernstein ( ; born February 14, 1944) is an American investigative journalist and author. While a young reporter for ''The Washington Post'' in 1972, Bernstein was teamed up with Bob Woodward, and the two did much of the original ne ...

(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 Eduard Bernstein (; 6 January 1850 – 18 December 1932) was a German Marxist theorist and politician. A prominent member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), he has been both condemned and praised as a "Revisionism (Marxism), revisi ...

(1850–1932), German Social Democrat *

Elmer Bernstein Elmer Bernstein ( '; April 4, 1922August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor. In a career that spanned over five decades, he composed "some of the most recognizable and memorable themes in Hollywood history", including over 150 orig ...

(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) Felix Bernstein (24 February 1878 – 3 December 1956), was a German mathematician known for proving in 1896 the Schröder–Bernstein theorem, a central result in set theory,In 1897 (aged 19), according to and less well known for demonstratin ...

(1878–1956), German mathematician * F. W. Bernstein (1938–2018), German poet, cartoonist, satirist and academic * Georg Heinrich Bernstein (1787–1860), German orientalist * Hans Bernstein (1903–1977), German-American conductor and orchestrator * 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 Herman Bernstein (, September 21, 1876 – August 31, 1935) was an American journalist, poet, novelist, playwright, translator, Jewish activist, and diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to Albania and was the founder of '' Der Tog'', th ...

(1876–1935), Jewish American journalist and writer *

Hilda Bernstein Hilda Bernstein OLG (15 May 1915 – 8 September 2006) was a British-born author, artist, and an activist against apartheid and for women's rights. She was born Hilda Schwarz in London, England, and emigrated to South Africa at the age of 18 ...

(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

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* 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 Jared Bernstein (born December 26, 1955) is an American government official who was the chair of the United States Council of Economic Advisers. He is a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. From 2009 to 2011, Bernstein was ...

(born 1955), American economist * Jed Bernstein (born 1955), American executive in the performing arts *

Jeremy Bernstein Jeremy Bernstein (born December 31, 1929) is an American theoretical physicist and popular science writer. Early life Bernstein's parents, Philip S. Bernstein, a Reform rabbi, and Sophie Rubin Bernstein named him after the biblical Jeremiah, the ...

(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 Leonard Bernstein ( ; born Louis Bernstein; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was th ...

(1918–1990), American composer, conductor, pianist, author, and teacher *

Lionel Bernstein Lionel "Rusty" Bernstein (20 March 1920 – 23 June 2002) was a Jewish South African anti-apartheid activist and political prisoner. He played a key role in political organizations such as the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Afric ...

(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 Michèle Bernstein (born 28 April 1932) is a French novelist and critic, most often remembered as a member of the Situationist International from its foundation in 1957 until 1967, and as the first wife of its most prominent member, Guy Debord. ...

(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 Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bernstein (; 5 November 1896 – 16 January 1966) was a USSR, Soviet neurophysiology, neurophysiologist who has pioneered motion-tracking devices and formal processing of information obtained from the use of these devices. ...

(1896–1966), Russian neurophysiologist

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Ossip Bernstein Ossip Samoilovich Bernstein (20 September 1882 – 30 November 1962) was a French chess player and businessman. He was one of the inaugural recipients of the title Grandmaster (chess), International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. Biography Born ...

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

Phil Bernstein Philip A. Bernstein is a computer scientist specializing in database research in the Database Group of Microsoft Research. Bernstein is also an affiliate professor at the University of Washington and frequent committee member or chair of confere ...

, American computer scientist * Rhett Bernstein (born 1987), American soccer player * 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 Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (, sometimes Romanized as ; 5 March 1880 – 26 October 1968) was a Ukrainian and Soviet mathematician of Jewish origin known for contributions to partial differential equations, differential geometry, probability theo ...

(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. * Theodore Menline Bernstein (1904–1979), American journalist, ''New York Times'' editor * Theresa Bernstein (1890–2002), American artist and painter *

Walter Bernstein Walter Bernstein (August 20, 1919 – January 23, 2021) was an American screenwriter and film producer who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s because of his views on communism. Some of his notable works included '' The ...

(1919–2021), American film producer and screenwriter * William J. Bernstein (born 1948), American financial theorist * Zalman Bernstein (1926–1999), American billionaire businessman and philanthropist

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* (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 is a player character, video game character created by SNK Playmore, SNK. First introduced in ''The King of Fighters '94'', he is a recurring boss (video games), boss in ''The King of Fighters'' fighting game series, appearing in some titles as a ...

, 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 ''Citizen Kane'' is a 1941 American Drama (film and television), drama film directed by, produced by and starring Orson Welles and co-written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz. It was Welles's List of directorial debuts, first feature film. ...

'' * 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 Pełczyce (, Kashubian language: Bersztén) is a town in Choszczno County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the ...

, 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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