We obtain the following dimension independent Bernstein-Markov inequality in Gauss space: for each 1≤p<∞ there exists a constant Cp>0 such that for any k≥1 and all polynomials P on Rk we have ∥∇P∥Lp(Rk,dγk)≤Cp(degP)21+π1arctan(2p−1∣p−2∣)∥P∥Lp(Rk,dγk), where dγk is the standard Gaussian measure on Rk. We also show that under some mild growth assumptions on any function B∈C2((0,∞))∩C([0,∞)) with B′,B′′>0 we have ∫RkB(∣LP(x)∣)dγk(x)≤∫RkB(10(degP)αB∣P(x)∣)dγk(x) where L=Δ−x⋅∇ is the generator of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroup and αB=1+π2arctan(21s∈(0,∞)sup{B′(s)sB′′(s)+sB′′(s)B′(s)}−2).