Sternberg (surname)

Sternberg is the surname of:

Persons

• Counts of Sternberg (Šternberkové), Bohemian nobility
• Ben-Zion Sternberg (1894–1962), Zionist statesman
• Brian Sternberg (1943–2013), American pole vaulter, world record holder
• Charles Hazelius Sternberg (1850–1943), American paleontologist
• Charles Mortram Sternberg (1885–1981), American paleontologist
• Dov Sternberg, American karateka
• Elf Sternberg (born 1966), American online erotica author
• Erich Walter Sternberg (1891–1974), German-born Israeli composer
• Eugene Sternberg (1915–2005), Hungarian-born American architect
• George F. Sternberg (1883–1969), American naturalist and paleontologist
• George Miller Sternberg (1838–1915), American bacteriologist and physician
• Jacob Sternberg (1890–1973), Yiddish writer and theatrical director
• Jacques Sternberg (1923–2006), French-language writer of science fiction and fantastique
• Janek Sternberg (born 1992), German footballer
• Jonathan Sternberg (1919–2018), American conductor
• Josef von Sternberg (also Jonas Sternberg, 1894–1969), Austrian-American film director
• Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (1761–1838), Bohemian palaeontologist (The standard botanical author abbreviation Sternb. is applied to species he described)
• Lev Sternberg (1861–1927), Ukrainian ethnologist
• Liam Sternberg (born c. 1950), American songwriter and producer
• Marvin J. Sternberg (1912–1994), justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court
• Maya Sternberg, American statistician
• Meir Sternberg (born 1944), Israeli biblical scholar
• Nat Sternberg (1942–1995), American molecular biologist
• Ricardo Sternberg (born 1948), Brazilian-born Canadian poet
• Richard Sternberg (fl. 1990s–2020s), American scientist and intelligent design proponent
• Robert Sternberg (born 1949), American psychologist
• Freiherr Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (1886–1921), Baltic German-Russian lieutenant-general
• Rudy Sternberg, Baron Plurenden (1917–1978), Austro-British businessman
• Saul Sternberg (fl. 1950s–2020s), American cognitive psychologist
• Shlomo Sternberg (1936–2024), Harvard mathematician
• Sir Sigmund Sternberg (1921–2016), British philanthropist
• Stephen Sternberg (1920–2021), American surgical pathologist
• Stuart Sternberg (born 1959), American owner of the Tampa Bay Rays
• Theodor Sternberg (1878–1950), German philosopher

Other spelling

• David Shterenberg (1881–1948), Ukrainian-born Russian painter and graphic artist
• Pavel Karlovich Shternberg (1865–1920), Russian astronomer and Bolshevik revolutionary
• Hermann Speck von Sternburg (1852–1908), German diplomat
• Janet Sternburg (born 1943), American writer and poet
• Maximilian Speck von Sternburg (1776–1856), German wool merchant and art collector

See also

• von Sternberg, Sternberger
• Star of Sternberg
• Sternberg (disambiguation)