Morgenstern

Morgenstern is a German surname meaning morning star.

Surname

• Barbara Morgenstern (born 1971), German musician
• Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914), German poet
• Christian Ernst Bernhard Morgenstern, German landscape painter
• Dan Morgenstern, music critic, former editor of Down Beat magazine, academician at Rutgers University
• Erin Morgenstern, American author
• Janusz Morgenstern (1922–2011), Polish film director and producer.
• Joe Morgenstern, American film critic
• Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern (1770–1852), the German philologist who coined the term Bildungsroman
• Maia Morgenstern (born 1962), Romanian film and stage actress
• Mark Morgenstern, Canadian filmmaker
• Oskar Morgenstern (1902–1977), German-born economist and founder of the field of game theory
• Ralph Morgenstern, German actor in theatre, TV and film
• Sam Morgenstern, composer of the symphonic poem Warsaw Ghetto (1946), text by Harry Granick
• Soma Morgenstern (1890–1976), Jewish-Austrian writer and journalist
• Stephanie Morgenstern, Canadian actress and screenwriter
• Thomas Morgenstern (born 1986), Austrian ski jumper

Fiction

• David Morgenstern, a fictional emergency-room physician portrayed by William H. Macy on the television
• S. Morgenstern, fictional author of William Goldman's The Princess Bride
• Valentine Morgenstern and Sebastian Morgenstern, the main antagonists in Mortal Instruments book series
• Clary Fray, the main protagonist of the Mortal Instruments book series, has the paternal surname of Morgenstern
• Rhoda Morgenstern, portrayed by Valerie Harper, a character on the television sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show and subsequent spin-off Rhoda

Music

• Morgenstern (band), a music project
• Morgenstern (Mittelalter band), a German Mittelalter-Rock band
• Morgenstern (song), song by rock band Rammstein on their 2004 album Reise Reise

Other uses

• Morning star (weapon), a spiked mace, also known as a morgenstern