Bernheim is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alain Bernheim (born 1931), French Masonic author Alain Bernheim (producer) (1922–2009), French-born American film producer and literary agent Emile Bernheim (1886–1985), Belgian industrialist Emmanuèle Bernheim (1955–2017), French writer Ernst Bernheim (1850–1942), German-Jewish historian Erwin Bernheim (1925–2007), Swiss founder of Mondaine Watch Ltd. Hippolyte Bernheim (1837–1919), French Jewish physician and neurologist Gilles Bernheim (born 1952), chief rabbi of France 2009–2013 Isaac Wolfe Bernheim (1848–1945), Jewish distiller and philanthropist, founder of the I. W. Harper bourbon brand and the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest Louis Bernheim (1861–1931), Belgian general Mary Bernheim (Hare) (1902–1997), British-American biochemist See also Bernheim petition, 1933 petition leading to the vacation of Nazi anti-Jewish legislation in German Upper Silesia until 1937. 3467 Bernheim, an asteroid Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, a park located twenty miles south of Louisville, Kentucky Bernheim-Jeune, Art gallery and publisher in Paris Jewish surnames