List of Jews by country
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- Main article: List of Jews.
The following is a list of prominent Jews from across the Jewish diaspora, with one example from each country and a link to a list for that country. See also a list of prominent Jews in the arts and sciences.
- Algeria (list) – Jacques Derrida, philosopher
- Antigua & Barbuda (list) – Jamaica Kincaid, writer (convert)
- Argentina (list) – Lalo Schifrin, composer
- Australia (list) – John Monash, WWI general
- Austria (list) – Sigmund Freud, psychoanalyst
- Azerbaijan (list) – Lev Landau, physicist
- Belarus (list) – Marc Chagall, painter
- Belgium (list) – Ilya Prigogine, chemist
- Bosnia-Herzegovina (list) – Isak Samokovlija, writer
- Brazil (list) – Clarice Lispector, writer
- Bulgaria (list) – Elias Canetti, writer
- Cameroon (list) – Yaphet Kotto, actor (Cameroonian father)
- Canada (list) – Leonard Cohen, singer & poet
- Chile (list) – Ariel Dorfman, playwright
- China (list) – Michael Kadoorie, businessman
- Colombia (list) – Jorge Isaacs, poet
- Croatia (list) – Mira Furlan, actor
- Cuba (list) – Fabio Grobart, communist party founder
- Cyprus (list) – Mike Brant, French-based singer
- Czech Republic (list) – Franz Kafka, writer
- Denmark (list) – Arne Jacobsen, architect & designer
- DR Congo (list) – Olivier Strelli, fashion designer
- Egypt (list) – Sylvain Sylvain, musician
- El Salvador (list) – Juan Lindo, president (half-Jewish)
- Estonia (list) – Louis I. Kahn, architect
- Ethiopia (list) – Alebachew Teka, comedian and show-master
- Finland (list) – Moses Pergament, composer
- France (list) – Émile Durkheim, sociologist
- French Polynesia (list) – Alexander Salmon, Tahitian prince
- Georgia (list) – Melvin Calvin, chemist (Georgian mother)
- Germany (list) – Albert Einstein, physicist
- Gibraltar (list) – Don Pacifico, businessman
- Greece (list) – Hank Azaria, actor (Greek grandparents)
- Guatemala (list) – Francisco Goldman, author (half Jewish)
| List of Jews by country |
| Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Arab World | Israel* |
| South-East Europe |
| Austria | Hungary |
| Poland | East Europe |
| Russia | North Europe |
| UK | Germany | Italy |
| France | West Europe |
| Iberia | Latin America |
| Caribbean | Canada |
| US | Asia | Oceania |
| (*most are Jewish) |
- Guyana (list) – Janet Jagan, president
- Honduras (list) – Ricardo Maduro, president
- Hungary (list) – John Von Neumann, mathematician
- Iceland (list) – Dorrit Moussaieff, first lady
- India (list) – Nissim Ezekiel, poet
- Indonesia (list) – Xaviera Hollander, writer (half-Jewish)
- Iran (list) – Elie Tahari, fashion designer
- Iraq (list) – Maurice & Charles Saatchi, advertisers
- Ireland (list) – John Desmond Bernal, scientist (half-Jewish)
- Israel (list*) – Itzhak Perlman, violinist (*most are Jewish)
- Italy (list) – Amedeo Modigliani, artist
- Jamaica (list) – Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records (half Jewish)
- Japan (list) – David Rosen, founder of SEGA (unconfirmed)
- Kazakhstan (list) – Vladimir Zhirinovsky, politician (half-Jewish)
- Kyrgyzstan (list) – Alexander Mashkevich, businessman
- Latvia (list) – Isaiah Berlin, philosopher
- Lebanon (list) – Edmond Safra, banker
- Lithuania (list) – Emma Goldman, anarchist
- Luxembourg (list) – Hugo Gernsback, science-fiction pioneer (unconfirmed)
- Macedonia (list) – Esma Redzepova, Romany singer (half-Jewish) (unconfirmed)
- Mali (list) – Marvin Pontiac, R&B singer (half-Jewish)
- Mexico (list) – Frida Kahlo, painter (half-Jewish)
- Moldova (list) – William F. Friedman, cryptologist
- Monaco (list) – Franz Schreker, composer (half Jewish)
- Morocco (list) – Natacha Atlas, singer (half-Jewish)
- Mozambique (list) – Ruth First, ANC activist
- Myanmar (list) – Ike Isaacs, jazz player
- Netherlands (list) – Baruch Spinoza, philosopher
- Netherlands Antilles (list) – Daniel De Leon, socialist leader
- New Zealand (list) – Julius Vogel, prime-minister
- Norway (list) – Jo Benkow, opposition leader
- Panama (list) – Eric Arturo Delvalle, president
- Peru (list) – Isaac Goldemberg, poet
- Poland (list) – Roman Polanski, director
- Portugal (list) – Luis De Torres, explorer
- Romania (list) – Tristan Tzara, poet
- Russia (list) – Boris Pasternak, poet
- Serbia and Montenegro (list) – Danilo Kis, writer (half-Jewish)
- Singapore (list) – David Saul Marshall, Chief Minister
- Slovakia (list) – Ivan Reitman, film director
- Slovenia (list) – Alexander Beliavsky, chess player (unconfirmed)
- South Africa (list) – Nadine Gordimer, writer
- Spain (list) – Maimonides, philosopher
- Sri Lanka (list) – Anne Ranasinghe, poet
- Sudan (list) – Nessim Gaon, financier
- Sweden (list) – Oskar Klein, physicist
- Switzerland (list) – Felix Bloch, physicist
- Syria (list) – Jerry Seinfeld, actor (Syrian mother)
- Tajikistan (list) – Moses Znaimer, tv producer
- Trinidad and Tobago (list) – Nathaniel Nathan, chief justice
- Tunisia (list) – Alain Boublil, librettist
- Turkey (list) – Neil Sedaka, singer/songwriter (Turkish father)
- Ukraine (list) – Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
- United Kingdom (list) – Harold Pinter, playwright
- United States (list) – Bob Dylan, singer/songwriter
- Uruguay (list) – Gisele Ben-Dor, conductor
- Uzbekistan (list) – Yefim Bronfman, pianist
- Venezuela (list) – Baruj Benacerraf, immunologist
- Virgin Islands (UK) (list) – Camille Pissarro, artist
- Virgin Islands (US) (list) – Judah Benjamin, politician
- Yemen (list) – Ofra Haza, singer (Yemenite parents)
- Zambia (list) – Stanley Fischer, economist
- Zimbabwe (list) – Alexander Pines, chemist