Wikipedia: List of Jews

List of Jews
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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
Vladimir Gusinsky, 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

Crime

David Berkowitz, US serial killer, Son of Sam murders
Meyer Lansky, US gangster
Leopold and Loeb, US killers
Kevin Mitnick, US hacker
Arnold Rothstein, US gangster
Bugsy Siegel, US gangster

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
Bess Myerson, Miss America, tv entertainer
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

Law

Louis Brandeis, US Supreme Court Justice
Alan Dershowitz, US lawyer
Abe Fortas, US Supreme Court Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, US Supreme Court Justice

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
Lenny Kravitz, US musician
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
Lou Reed, US singer, songwriter
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
Allen Ginsberg (1926 - 1997), American poet
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.
Primo Levi, Italian novelist and chemist
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
Julius Vogel, former Prime Minister of New Zealand
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

Hillel
Shammai
Judah haNasi (Judah the Prince, redactor of the Mishnah)
Abba Mari
Asher ben Jehiel
Abraham ibn Ezra
Bahya ibn Paquda 11th century Spanish Jewish philosopher
Abraham ibn Daud
Gersonides, Levi ben Gershom, the Ralbag
Maimonides Moshe Ben Maimon, aka the Rambam
Nahmanides Moshe ben Nahman of Gerondi, aka the Ramban
Yair Bacharach
Israel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov, founder of Hasidic Judaism
Dovber of Mezeritch
Shneur Zalman
Jacob Abendana
Jacob Ettlinger
Nosson Zvi Finkel
Zecharias Frankel - Founder of the positive-historical school of Judaism
Samuel Holdheim A founder of classic German Reform Judaism
Samson Raphael Hirsch - Founder of neo-Orthodox Judaism
Abraham Isaac Kook - First chief rabbi of pre-State Israel in Palestine.
Moses Chaim Luzzato - Kabbalist, mystic
Solomon Schechter - Founder of Conservative Judaism as a distinct movement
Elliot N. Dorff - Bioethicist
Nosson Zvi Finkel
Louis Finkelstein - Talmud scholar
Robert Gordis - Leader in Conservative Judaism
Abraham Joshua Heschel - Hasidic, Conservative
Jules Harlow - Liturgist
Yitzchok Hutner
Meir Kahane - Extremist
Mordecai Kaplan - Founder of the Reconstructionist movement
Isaac Klein
Harold Kushner
Jacob Neusner - Prolific writer
Joel Roth
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi - Jewish Renewal
Menachem Mendel Schneerson Last Rebbe of Lubavitch (Chabad) Hasidic Judaism
Joseph Soloveitchik - Leading figure in American Modern Orthodoxy
Adin Steinsaltz - Talmud scholar

Religion (non-rabbis)

Abraham (approx. 1980 BC - 1890 BC), first patriarch of Judaism
Moses (approx. 1530 BC - 1470 BC) leader of Jewish exodus from Egypt and receiver of Jewish law
Jesus Christ (4 BC - 29 AD), Messianist and central figure of Christianity
Saul of Tarsus (approx. 2 BC - 67 AD), later known as Saint Paul
David, king of ancient Israel

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
Richard Stallman, leader of the GNU project
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

Bob Arum, American boxing promoter
Moe Berg, American spy and baseball player
Gary Bettman, National Hockey League Commissioner
Marty Friedman, defensive basketball player in early basketball history
Bill Goldberg, U.S. professional wrestler
Shawn Green, All-Star baseball player
Hank Greenberg, Hall of Fame baseball player
Bobby Fischer , US chess player
Sandy Koufax, Hall of Fame baseball player
Sid Luckman, Hall of Fame football player
Ron Mix, Hall of Fame football player
Barney Ross, world champion boxer
Mike Rossman, world champion boxer
Dolph Schayes, Hall of Fame basketball player
Bud Selig, Major League Baseball Commissioner
Mark Spitz, 9-time Olympic gold medal winning swimmer
David Stern, National Basketball Association Commissioner
James Toney, world champion boxer

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

Alfred Dreyfus, French army officer falsely accused of treason
Monica Lewinsky, US intern to President Bill Clinton, involved in a scandal
Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter

External links

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