Bernheim is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Alain Bernheim, French Masonic author Alain Bernheim (producer), French-born American film producer and literary agent Emile Bernheim (1886–1985), Belgian industrialist Emmanuèle Bernheim (1955–2017), French writer Ernst Bernheim (1850–1922), German-Jewish historian Erwin Bernheim (1925–2007), Swiss founder of Mondaine Watch Ltd. Hippolyte Bernheim (1837–1919), French Jewish physician and neurologist Gilles Bernheim (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