List of Jews
Note that "
Jewishness" has the meanings both of "adherence to the religion of
Judaism" and "membership in the ethnic group '
Jews'". People of both groups are listed here.
List of noted Jews
Business
- Roman Abramovich, Russian billionaire
- Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft
- Boris Berezovsky, Russian billionaire
- Michael Bloomberg (born 1943), founder of Bloomberg Financial Markets, Mayor of New York City (2002-)
- Isaac Carasso, Spanish founder of Danone group
- Andre Citroen, French automaker
- Joshua Lionel Cowen, American inventor and founder of toy manufacturer Lionel Corporation
- Mark Cuban, billionaire owner of Dallas Mavericks
- Michael Dell (born 1965), founder of Dell Computer Corporation
- Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation
- Mikhail Fridman, Russian billionaire
- Alan Greenspan (born 1926), economist, chairman of the American Federal Reserve
- Milton Hershey, Hershey Chocolate founder
- Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian oligarch
- Roy Neuberger, financier (Neuberger & Berman) who uses money to buy and publicize rare art (staunchly atheistic Jew)
- Ron Popeil, US inventor
- Sumner Redstone (born Murray Rothstein), CEO of Viacom
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1743-1812), German banker, first of the Rothschild family
- David Sarnoff, General Manager of RCA corporation
- Ron Sommer, CEO of Deutsche Telekom
- George Soros, Hungarian millionaire
- Victor Vekselberg, Russian billionaire
- Max Warburg (1867-1946), German banker
- Paul Warburg (1868-1932), American banker, Federal Reserve founder and board member
Entertainment
- Anouk Aimee, French actress
- Woody Allen (born 1935), United States comedian, film director
- Jason Alexander, US actor, known from Seinfeld
- Patricia Arquette, US actress
- Bea Arthur, US actress, known from Maude and Golden Girls
- Ed Asner, US actor
- Lauren Bacall, US actress
- Barbara Bain, US actress, known from Mission Impossible
- Theda Bara, US actress
- Rosanne Barr, US actress
- Richard Belzer, US actor and comedian
- Jack Benny, US comedian
- Milton Berle, US comedian
- Sandra Bernhard, US actress
- Sarah Bernhardt, French actress
- Joey Bishop, US comedian and actor, member of the Rat Pack
- Jack Black, US actor and rock musician
- Mel Blanc, US cartoon voice actor
- David Blaine (born 1973), US illusionist
- Yasmine Bleeth, US actress
- Lisa Bonet, US actress, known from The Cosby Show
- Ernest Borgnine, US actor
- Tom Bosley, US actor
- Fanny Brice, US comedienne
- Albert Brooks, US actor
- Mel Brooks (b. 1926) US comedian, filmmaker
- Lenny Bruce, US satirist
- George Burns, US comedian
- James Caan, US actor
- Sid Caesar, US comedian
- Dyan Cannon, US actress
- Eddie Cantor US comedian, singer, entertainer
- Al Capp, US cartoonist
- Kate Capshaw, US actress
- Kitty Carlisle, US game show panelist
- Nell Carter, US actress
- Jill Clayburgh, US Oscar-nominated actress
- Sacha Baron Cohen, UK comedian best known for his fictional character, Ali G
- Joan Collins, British actress, known from Dynasty
- David Copperfield, US illusionist
- Billy Crystal, US actor and comedian
- Jamie Lee Curtis, US actress
- Tony Curtis, US actor
- Rodney Dangerfield, US comedian
- Larry David, US actor and comedy writer
- Sammy Davis Jr, American actor and performer
- Kirk Douglas, US actor
- Richard Dreyfuss, US actor
- Fran Drescher, US actress.
- Peter Falk, US actor
- Corey Feldman, US actor
- Marty Feldman, British comedian
- Norman Fell, US actor
- Harvey Fierstein, US actor
- Larry Fine, US actor, one of the Three Stooges
- Carrie Fisher, US actress, star of Star Wars movies
- Max Fleischer, US animated cartoonist
- Al Franken, US actor and comedy writer
- Bonnie Franklin, US actress, known from One Day at a Time
- Allen Funt, candid camera tv show creator
- Eva Gabor, Hungarian-American actress
- Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress
- Uri Geller, Israeli spoon bending magician
- Estelle Getty, US actress, known from Golden Girls
- Melissa Gilbert, US actress, known from Little House on the Prairie
- Jeff Goldblum, US actor
- Gilbert Gottfried, US comedian
- Seth Green, US actor
- Jennifer Grey, US actress
- Joel Grey, US actor
- Charles Grodin, US actor
- Steve Gutenberg, US actor
- Buddy Hackett, US comedian
- Monty Hall, Canadian game show host
- Goldie Hawn, US actress
- Judd Hirsch, US actor
- Dustin Hoffman, US actor
- Judy Holliday, US Oscar-winning actress
- Harry Houdini (1874-1926), US illusionist
- John Houseman,(born Jacques Haussmann) Romanian-born American actor
- Curly Howard, US actor, one of the Three Stooges
- Moe Howard, US actor, one of the Three Stooges
- Shemp Howard, US actor, one of the Three Stooges
- Kate Hudson, US actress, daughter of Goldie Hawn
- Amy Irving, US actress
- Ricky Jay, US magician and actor
- Ron Jeremy, US pornstar
- Al Jolson, US singer, actor, early sound film star
- Carolyn Jones, US actress, known from The Addams Family
- Madeline Kahn, US actress
- Gabriel Kaplan, US actor
- Andy Kaufman, US actor and comedian
- Danny Kaye, US actor, dancer, and singer
- Harvey Keitel, US actor
- Jack Klugman, US actor
- Stanley Kubrick, US director
- Lisa Kudrow, US actress
- Rikki Lake, US talk show hostess
- Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-US actress
- Martin Landau, US actor
- Piper Laurie, US actress
- Linda Lavin, US actress
- Stan Lee (born 1922), US comic book creator
- Jennifer Jason Leigh, US actress
- Eugene Levy, US actor
- Al Lewis, US actor, Grandpa on The Munsters
- Richard Lewis, US comedian
- Jerry Lewis, US actor and comedian
- Shari Lewis, US actress, known as companion of Lambchop
- Hal Linden, US actor
- Jonathan Lipnicki, US child actor
- Peggy Lipton, US actress, known from the Mod Squad
- Peter Lorre, US actor
- Tina Louise, US actress
- Jon Lovitz, US actor and comedian
- Ali MacGraw, US actress
- Howie Mandel, Canadian comedian
- Marx Brothers, US actors
- Marlee Matlin, US Oscar-winning deaf actress
- Benjamin "Petey" Masten, US radio personality
- Walter Matthau, US actor
- Anne Meara, US comedienne and actress
- Bette Midler, US singer and actress
- Marilyn Monroe, US actress
- Rick Moranis, Canadian actor
- Judd Nelson, US actor, member of the Brat Pack
- Laraine Newman, US actress, known from Saturday Night Live
- Paul Newman, US actor
- Leonard Nimoy, US actor, known from Star Trek
- Sharon Osbourne, actress wife of Ozzy Osbourne
- Gwyneth Paltrow, US actress
- Sara Jessica Parker, US actress
- S.J. Perelman, US writer
- Rhea Perlman, US actress
- Suzanne Pleshette, US actress
- Kevin Pollack, US actor
- Tracy Pollan, US actress wife of Michael J. Fox
- Roman Polanski, director
- Natalie Portman, US actress''
- Gilda Radner, US actress, known from Saturday Night Live
- Harold Ramis, US actor
- Joan Rivers, US comedian
- Winona Ryder, US actress
- Emma Samms, British actress, known from Dynasty
- Adam Sandler, US actor/comedian
- Laura Schlessinger, US radio personality
- Jerry Seinfeld, US comedian
- William Shatner, Canadian actor, known from Star Trek
- Ally Sheedy, US actress
- Dinah Shore, US actress
- Simone Signoret, French actress
- Jaclyn Smith, US actress, original Charlie's Angels
- Rena Sofer, US actress
- Steven Spielberg, US director
- Howard Stern, US radio personality
- Ben Stiller, US actor and comedian
- David Suchet, British actor, cited as the definitive Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot
- Elizabeth Taylor, British actress
- Rachel Weisz, British actress
- Ruth Westheimer, sex expert
- Billy Wilder (1906-2002), director
Music
- Herb Alpert, US musician
- Irving Berlin, US songwriter, composer
- Dan Bern, US songwriter, singer
- Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), US conductor, composer
- Ernest Bloch, Swiss-born composer
- Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer (converted to Buddhism)
- Aaron Copland, US composer
- Sammy Davis, Jr, US singer
- Neil Diamond, US singer
- Paul Dukas, French composer
- Bob Dylan (b. 1941), US singer, songwriter
- Perry Farrell, US musician, bandleader
- Kenny G, US musician
- Art Garfunkel, US singer
- Benny Goodman, US musician, bandleader
- Billy Joel, US singer
- Jascha Heifetz, US violinist
- Susannah Hoffs, one-fourth of the US band The Bangles
- Otto Klemperer, German-born conductor
- Ted Lewis, musician, entertainer
- György Ligeti, Hungarian composer
- Gustav Mahler, composer (converted to Catholicism)
- Barry Manilow (born 1946), US entertainer
- Felix Mendelssohn, Romantic composer (converted to Christianity)
- Yehudi Menuhin, US/British violinist, conductor, educator
- Giacomo Meyerbeer, Opera composer
- Mezz Mezzrow, US jazz musician
- Darius Milhaud, French composer
- Nathan Milstein, US violinist
- Randy Newman, US singer
- Jacques Offenbach, French composer
- Itzhak Perlman, US violinist
- Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer
- Curt Sachs, musicologist
- Artur Schnabel, pianist
- Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer
- Artie Shaw, US musician, bandleader
- Gene Simmons, bass player for KISS
- Paul Simon, US musician
- Slash, lead guitarist for Guns 'n Roses
- Georg Solti, Hungarian/US conductor
- Phil Spector, US record producer and songwriter
- Isaac Stern, US violinist
- Barbra Streisand, US singer, actress
- Willie "The Lion" Smith, US pianist
- Paul Stanley, guitar player for KISS
- Sophie Tucker, Russian born US singer and entertainer
- Jane Wiedlin, one-fifth of the US band the Go-Gos
- Kurt Weill, German/US composer
- John Zorn, American saxophonist and composer
Philosophy, Literature, and Psychology
- Sholem Aleichem, Yiddish writer
- Theodor Adorno, German philosopher, sociologist, composer, music theorist, essayist
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel Prize winner
- Isaac Asimov, American science fiction author
- Saul Bellow, American writer
- Walter Benjamin, German philosopher, critic, essayist
- Noam Chomsky (born 1928), American linguist, political writer
- Jacques Derrida (born 1930), French philosopher
- Anne Frank (1929-1945), Holocaust victim, diarist
- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian psychologist
- Zellig Harris, American linguist
- Max Horkheimer, German philosopher, sociologist
- Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), German philosopher and holocaust victim
- Franz Kafka Austrian/German-Bohemian writer
- Irving Layton, (born Israel Pincu Lazarovitch) Romanian-born Canadian poet.
- Maimonides (1135-1204), Philosopher, doctor, rabbi
- Herbert Marcuse, German/American philosopher, sociologist, political scientist
- Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), American writer
- Erich Mühsam (1878-1934), German poet and revolutionary
- Nachmanides Philosopher, mystic, rabbi
- Amos Oz (born 1937), Israeli writer
- Daniel Pearl (1963-2002), Wall Street Journal journalist, kidnapped and killed.
- I. L. Peretz, Yiddish writer
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982), writer
- Philip Roth (b.1933), American writer
- Robert Silverberg, American science fiction author
- Isaac Bashevis Singer, (1904-1991), Yiddish writer
- Baruch Spinoza, (1632-1677) philosopher
- Tristan Tzara, (1896-1963) (born Sami Rosenstock) Romanian-born French poet
- Elie Wiesel, writer
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Austrian philosopher
- Stefan Zweig, (1881-1942), Austrian writer
Politics
- Madeleine Albright (born 1937), US Secretary of State (1997-2001)
- Ehud Barak (b.1942), Israeli prime minister (1999-2001)
- Menachem Begin (1913-1992), Prime Minister of Israel (1977-1983)
- David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973), founder of Israel, Prime Minister of Israel (1948-1953 and 1955-1963)
- Judah P. Benjamin (1811-1884), Secretary of State for the Confederate States of America
- Michael Bloomberg (born 1943), founder of Bloomberg Financial Markets, Mayor of New York City (2002-)
- Barbara Boxer, US Senator from California
- Norm Coleman, US Senator from Minnesota
- Moshe Dayan (1915-1981), Israeli politician and general. Directed the 1956 Suez War and Six-Day War
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British Prime Minister (1868 and 1874-1880), raised as an Anglican
- Kurt Eisner (1867-1919), German politician (socialist), first prime minister of Bavaria
- Dianne Feinstein, US Senator from California
- Russ Feingold, US Senator from Wisconsin
- Emma Goldman (1869-1940), feminist and anarchist
- Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), founder of Zionism
- Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (1860-1935), British politician and Viceroy of India
- Vladimir Jabotinsky, Zionist leader
- Henry Kissinger (born 1923), US Secretary of State (1973-1977), winner of 1973 Nobel Peace Prize
- Herb Kohl, US Senator from Wisconsin
- Ferdinand Lassal, German Socialist revolutioner
- Joe Lieberman, Vice President candidate and US Senator from Connecticut
- Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919), German Communist leader
- Karl Marx (1818-1883), founder of Marxism, raised as a Lutheran
- Julius L. Meier, governor of the State of Oregon
- Golda Meir (1898-1978), Prime Minister of Israel (1969-1974)
- Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist
- Benjamin Netanyahu (born 1949), Prime Minister of Israel (1996-1999)
- Shimon Peres (born 1923), Prime Minister of Israel (1977, 1984-1986, and 1995-1996), shared winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1994
- Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995), Prime Minister of Israel (1974-1977 and 1992-1995), shared 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, assassinated in 1995
- Walther Rathenau (1867-1922), German industrialist and statesman
- Jack Ruby (1911-1965) US assassin of assassin
- Herbert Samuel (1870-1963), British politician and High Commissioner of Palestine
- Charles Schumer, US Senator from New York
- Ariel Sharon (b. 1928), Israeli general and prime minister
- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), Russian Bolshevik
- Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952), leading Zionist and first President of Israel
- Paul Wellstone former US Senator from Minnesota
- Ron Wyden, US Senator from Oregon
- Grigory Zinoviev (1883-1936), Russian Bolshevik
Rabbis
Religion (non-rabbis)
Science and Mathematics
- Niels Henrik Bohr (1885-1962), Danish physicist, winner of 1922 Nobel Prize
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955), scientist, winner of 1921 Nobel Physics Prize
- Paul Erdös, prolific mathematician
- Richard Feynman (1918-1988), US physicist
- Rosalind Franklin, British chemist
- Murray Gell-Mann, US physicist
- Stephen Jay Gould, US paleontologist and author of popular science
- Fritz Haber, German chemist
- Roald Hoffmann, theoretical chemist
- Karl Gustav Jacobi, German mathematician
- Hans Krebs biologist, discovered Krebs Cycle
- Benoit Mandelbrot (born 1924), Mathematician, creator of fractal geometry
- Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist
- Herman Minkowski, German mathematician
- Gregory Pincus (1906-1969), Biologist, inventor of the birth control pill
- Steven Pinker, Canadian psychologist
- Lionel Rothschild, 2nd Lord Rothschild (1868-1937), British zoologist, businessman, and politician
- Oliver Sacks (born 1933), neurologist and author
- Carl Sagan, US astronomer
- Jonas Salk polio vaccine
- Leo Szilard physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project
- Edward Teller, physicist, worked on the hydrogen bomb
- Stanislaw Ulam, mathematician, worked on the hydrogen bomb, descendant of Joseph Caro
- John Von Neumann, mathematician and computer scientist
- Robert Oppenheimer, US physicist, leader of the Manhattan Project
- Andre Weil, French mathematician
- Steven Weinberg Nobel prize winning physicist
Sports
The Visual Arts
- Richard Avedon, U.S. photographer
- Marc Chagall, Russian/French painter and stained glass artist
- Judy Chicago, U.S. feminist painter and artist
- Rube Goldberg, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, sculptor, and author
- Al Hirschfeld, U.S. caricaturist
- Peter Max, artist
- Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter
- Helmut Newton, German photographer
- Jules Pascin, French artist
- Camille Pissarro, French impressionist painter
- William Steig, U.S. cartoonist and illustrator
War
- Sarah Aaronsohn (1890-1917), head of Nili, a Jewish spy-ring in Palestine assisting the British during WWI.
- David Ben-Ishay or King David, biblical Jewish king (tribe of Judah), the conqueror of Yevus and the builder of Jerusalem
- Denise Bloch (1915-1945), SOE agent, decorated in WW II
- Eli Cohen, Israeli spy
- Moshe Dayan (1915-1981), Israeli politician and general. Directed the 1956 Suez War and Six-Day War
- Simon bar Kokhba leader of the second Jewish revolt
- Yoni Netanyahu (1946-1976), Israeli war hero
- Ilan Ramon ((1955-2003), Israeli pilot, Israel's first astronaut
- Julius (1918-1953) & Ethel Rosenberg (1915-1953), American spies who sold nuclear information to the USSR
- Samson, biblical judge (Shofet) with super-human strength
- Ariel Sharon, Israeli general Prime Minister of Israel (2001-?)
- Krystyna Skarbek (1915-1952), SOE agent
- Hannah Szenes (1921-1944), SOE agent
- Joseph Trumpeldor, soldier and early Zionist
Miscellaneous
- David Berkowitz, US serial killer, Son of Sam murders
- Louis Brandeis, US Supreme Court Justice
- Alan Dershowitz, US lawyer
- Alfred Dreyfus, French army officer falsely accused of treason
- Bobby Fischer , US chess player
- Abe Fortas, US Supreme Court Justice
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, US Supreme Court Justice
- Meyer Lansky, US gangster
- Leopold and Loeb, US killers
- Monica Lewinsky, US intern to President Bill Clinton, involved in a scandal
- Bess Myerson, Miss America, tv entertainer
- Kevin Mitnick, US hacker
- Arnold Rothstein, US gangster
- Bugsy Siegel, US gangster
- Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter
See also:
List of people by belief,
List of Biblical figures
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