Famous People with Name Stern

Stern John            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Stern John: is a Trinidadian football player currently playing for Crystal Palace. John moved to the United States to attend Mercer County Community College in 1995. he joined the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer from the now-defunct New Orleans Riverboat Gamble

Curt Stern            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Curt Stern: was a German-American geneticist. He made several important genetic discoveries, demonstrating chromosomal crossover in Drosophila weeks after Barbara McClintock and Harriet Creighton had done so [with maize] in 1931. He demonstrated that there were multiple genes on the Drosophila Y chromosome and described the mechanism of dosage compensation. During World War II he led research for the American government on low dose radiation safety; his group concluded that there is no "safe" threshold below which radiation is not harmful. After the War his research focused on human genetics; he wrote the very successful pioneering US textbook Principles of Human Genetics, and studied what is now known as gene regulation. Though not a physician,

Gerald Stern            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gerald Stern: is an American poet.His work has been widely recognized after the 1977 publication of Lucky Life and a series of essays on writing poetry in American Poetry Review.

David H. Stern            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

David H. Stern: is an Israel-based Messianic Jewish theologian.Stern's major work is the Complete Jewish Bible, his English translation of the Old Testament and New Testament (which Messianics refer to by the Hebrew phrase from the book of the prophet Jeremiah/Yirmeyahu chapter 31, "B'rit Chadashah," New Covenant). One of the ways in which he treats the issue is to leave most of the proper nouns in their transliterated form, and for the New Testament to replace Greek proper nouns with transliterated Hebrew or words.

Menahem Stern            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Menahem Stern: Israeli historian, one of the greatest researchers of the period of the Second Temple. He received the Israel Prize for History of the Jewish people in 1977.Menahem Stern was born in 1925 in Bialystok, Poland. His father was a Lithuanian Jew of the "opposition" (to the Hasidic movement), while his mother came from the south from a Hasidic family. In his childhood he studied Hebrew and theology, while at school he acquired a general education including Latin. I

Irma Stern            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Irma Stern: was a major South African artist who achieved national and international recognition in her lifetime. She was born in Schweitzer-Renecke, a small town in the Transvaal, of German-Jewish parents. Her father was interned in a concentration camp by the British during the South African War because of his pro-Boer leanings.[1] Irma and her younger brother, Rudi, were thus taken to Cape Town by their mother. After the war, the family returned to Germany and constant travel. This travel would influence Irma's work.