Table of contents

1 List of noted Jews 1.1 Business 1.2 Crime 1.3 Entertainment 1.4 Law 1.5 Music 1.6 Philosophy, Literature, and Psychology 1.7 Politics 1.8 Rabbis 1.9 Religion (non-rabbis) 1.10 Science and Mathematics 1.11 Sports 1.12 The Visual Arts 1.13 War 1.14 Miscellaneous 2 External links

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
• Vladimir Gusinsky, Russian billionaire
• 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 billionaire
• Victor Vekselberg, Russian billionaire
• Max Warburg (1867-1946), German banker
• Paul Warburg (1868-1932), American banker, Federal Reserve founder and board member

• David Berkowitz, US serial killer, Son of Sam murders (adopted by Jewish family, but later converted to Christianity)
• Meyer Lansky, US gangster
• Leopold and Loeb, US killers
• Kevin Mitnick, US hacker
• Arnold Rothstein, US gangster
• Bugsy Siegel, US gangster

• 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.
• Will Eisner, US comic book creator
• Mark Evanier, US cartoonist/comic book creator
• 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 Kirby, US comic book creator
• 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
• Branko Lustig, US-Croatia film director
• 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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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 Lasalle, 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

• 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

• 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

• 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
• Yakov I. Perelman (1882-1942), Russian author of popular science books
• 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

• 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, later became emphatically anti-Jewish
• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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