List of British Jewish entertainers

This list of British Jewish entertainers includes entertainers (actors, directors, screenwriters, musicians, film makers and others, including well known writers, social reformers, journalists, intellectuals, painters, photographers, fashion designers, sculptors, entrepreneurs and creative artists) from the United Kingdom and its predecessor states who are or were Jewish. The number of Jews contributing to British cinema increased after 1933, when Jews were prohibited from working in Nazi Germany. In the early 1930s, the Imperial Fascist League's anti-semitic newspaper The Fascist sought to isolate the Jews in British cinema.

In the 1970s, TV scripts by British-Jewish playwright Jack Rosenthal called Bar Mitzvah Boy and The Evacuees were praised as "unprecedented British-Jewish depictions". Stephen Brook wrote in The Club in 1989 that while there had been Jewish actors in British theatre, Jews had been more prominent as producers or agents. The Independent observed that British-Jewish comedians had taken the lead from American-Jewish comedian Jackie Mason by laughing at their own Jewish neuroses, Jewish mothers, and their leaning towards chicken soup and chopped liver, which they would not have done a decade prior. By the year 2000, British-Jewish comics may have reached their largest numbers.

Actors

• Gabrielle Anwar, of Indian Muslim and Austrian Jewish ancestry, daughter of Tariq Anwar (film editor).
• Bennett Arron (born 1973), actor, writer, and comedian
• Jacob Adler (1855–1926), Yiddish actor
• Peggy Ashcroft (1907–1991)
• Jill Balcon, (3 January 1925 – 18 July 2009) was a British actress of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry, and mother of Daniel Day-Lewis.
• Ben Barnes (born 1981), actor
• Sacha Baron Cohen (born 1971), comedian and actor known for playing the comedic characters Ali G, Brüno, and Borat, the latter of whom is portrayed as extremely antisemitic
• Alfie Bass (1916–1987), actor
• Gina Bellman (born 1966), actress
• John Bennett (1928–2005), actor
• Inez Bensusan (1871–1967), Jewish actress, playwright and suffragette in the UK. She was a leader of the Actresses' Franchise League and the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage.
• Elisabeth Bergner (22 August 1897 – 12 May 1986) was an Austrian Jewish British actress.
• Steven Berkoff (born 1937), actor, writer, and director
• Peter Birrel (1935–2004), actor
• Lionel Blair (1931-2021), TV entertainer
• Claire Bloom, Russian Jewish ancestry (born 1931), actress
• John Bluthal, (born Isaac Bluthal; 12 August 1929 – 15 November 2018) was a Polish Jewish born Australian actor, moved to the United Kingdom permanently in 1960, noted for his six-decade career internationally in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
• Helena Bonham Carter (born 1966), actress
• Josh Bowman (born 1988), actor
• Bernard Bresslaw (1934–1993), actor
• Eleanor Bron (born 1938), actress and writer
• June Brown OBE (16 February 1927 – 3 April 2022) was an English actress and author of Sephardic Jewish ancestry; best known for her role as Dot Cotton on the BBC soap opera EastEnders (1985–1993; 1997–2020).
• Katrin Cartlidge (1961–2002), actress
• Maria Charles (born 22 September 1929), English film, television and stage actress, director and comedian.
• Debbie Chazen (born 1971)
• Sir Daniel Day-Lewis (born 1957)
• Michelle de Swarte (born 1980), comedian, actress, presenter, and former model
• Marty Feldman (1934–1982), comedian and actor of Russian Jewish ancestry
• Fenella Fielding (1927–2018)
• Maria Friedman (born 1960), musical theatre actress
• Rebecca Front (born 1964), comedy actress
• Stephen Fry (born 1957), comedian and actor
• Romola Garai (/ˈrɒmələ ˈɡæri/; born 6 August 1982),British actress and film director of Hungarian Jewish ancestry, appeared in Amazing Grace, Atonement, and Glorious 39, and in the BBC series Emma, The Hour and The Crimson Petal and the White, nominated for a Golden Globe Award and for BAFTA award.
• Andrew Garfield (born 1983)
• Rafi Gavron (born 1989), actor
• Brian George (born 1 July 1952) British actor of Iraqi Jewish, Mizrahi Jewish ancestry; appeared in Seinfeld, The Big Bang Theory and Avatar: The Last Airbender.
• Hermione Gingold (1897–1987), actress of German Jewish ancestry, wife of Michael Joseph (publisher)
• Iddo Goldberg (born 1975)
• Brett Goldstein (born 1980), actor and comedian
• Henry Goodman (born 1950), actor
• Tamsin Greig (born 1966), actress
• Jenny Hanley (born 15 August 1947) is an English actress of Russian Jewish ancestry; best known for presenting the ITV children's magazine programme Magpie.
• Laurence Harvey (1928–1973), actor
• Melvyn Hayes (born 1935) Actor
• Gillian Hills (born 5 June 1944 in Cairo ) is an English actress and singer of Polish Jewish ancestry, acting in the British films Beat Girl (1960) and Blowup (1966). She is the grand daughter of Bolesław Leśmian, the Polish Jewish poet.
• Dennis Hoey (born Samuel David Hyams, 30 March 1893 – 25 July 1960) of Russian Jewish ancestry; best known for playing Inspector Lestrade in six films of Universal's Sherlock Holmes series.
• Arthur Howard (born Arthur John Steiner; 18 January 1910 – 18 June 1995) was an English stage, film and television actor.
• Leslie Howard (1893–1943), actor
• Ronald Howard (British actor) (7 April 1918 – 19 December 1996) was an English actor and writer. He appeared as Sherlock Holmes in a weekly television series of the same name in 1954. He was the son of the actor Leslie Howard.
• Jason Isaacs (born 1963), actor
• Sid James (1913–1976), actor
• Tony Jay (1933–2006), actor
• Lesley Joseph (born 1945), actor
• Miriam Karlin (1925–2011), actress
• Robert Kazinsky (born 1983), actor
• Barbara Kellerman (born 1949), actress
• Felicity Kendal (born 1946), actress
• David Kossoff (1919–2005), actor
• Harry Landis (born 1931)
• Bettina Le Beau, (23 March 1932 – 8 September 2015), also known as Bettine Le Beau, was a Belgian Jewish actress.
• Benny Lee (11 August 1916 – 9 December 1995) was a Scottish Jewish comedy actor and singer; he portrayed Mr. Klein in the British sitcom, Are You Being Served? (1981).
• Anton Lesser (born 1952), actor
• Mark Lester (born 1958), actor
• Dame Maureen Lipman (born 1946), actress
• Roger Lloyd-Pack (8 February 1944 – 15 January 2014) was an English actor of Austrian Jewish ancestry; best known for playing Trigger in Only Fools and Horses and Owen Newitt in The Vicar of Dibley.
• Herbert Lom (11 September 1917 – 27 September 2012), a Czech Jewish-British actor who moved to the United Kingdom in 1939; noted for precise, elegant enunciation of English. He is best known for his roles in The Ladykillers, The Pink Panther film series, War and Peace and the television series The Human Jungle.
• Miriam Margolyes (born 1941), actress
• Pamela Mason (10 March 1916 – 29 June 1996), (also known as Pamela Kellino ), was an English actress, author, and screenwriter of Ukrainian Jewish ancestry, and daughter of Isidore Ostrer as well as wife of English actor James Mason.
• Kay Mellor (born 1951), actress and screenwriter
• Martin Miller (actor), born Johann Rudolph Müller, of Austrian Jewish ancestry (2 September 1899 – 26 August 1969), appeared in Danger Man, The Saint (TV series), The Avengers and The Prisoner.
• Warren Mitchell (1926–2015), actor
• Julian Morris (born 1983), actor
• Tracy-Ann Oberman (born 1966), actress
• Sophie Okonedo (born 1969), actress
• Ingrid Pitt (born Ingoushka Petrov; 21 November 1937 – 23 November 2010) was a British actress of Polish Jewish and German Jewish ancestry, and an author and writer best known for her work in horror films of the 1970s.
• Ruth Posner BEM (née Wajsberg; born 20 April 1933) is a Polish Jewish born British dancer, choreographer, actress former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
• Hana Maria Pravda (née, Becková; after first marriage, Munk; after second marriage, Pravda; 29 January 1916, Prague − 22 May 2008, Oxford) was a Czech Jewish actress. Featured in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film) and Dracula (1974). Other TV credits include: Danger Man, Department S, Callan, Z-Cars, Dad's Army and Tales of the Unexpected.
• Natalie Press (born 1980), actress
• Lara Pulver (born 1980), actress
• Daniel Radcliffe (born 1989), actor
• David Rappaport (1951–1990), actor
• Edana Romney, Irish Jewish ancestry.
• Edina Ronay FRSA (born 8 January 1943) is an Anglo- Hungarian Jewish fashion designer and actress. She is the daughter of food critic Egon Ronay and the mother of actress/writer Shebah Ronay; numerous TV roles included The Avengers, No Hiding Place, Special Branch, The Champions, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) and Jason King.
• Andrew Sachs (1930–2016), actor
• Emma Samms (born 1960)
• Danny Schwarz (born 1986), actor, model
• Anna Shaffer (born 1992)
• Cyril Shaps(13 October 1923 – 1 January 2003), English actor of Polish Jewish ancestry, of radio, television and film, with a career spanning over seven decades, appearing in Doctor Who and The Adventures of Paddington Bear.
• Carole Shelley (1939–2018), actress
• Sir Antony Sher (1949-2021), actor
• Dinah Sheridan (born Dinah Nadyejda Ginsburg; 17 September 1920 – 25 November 2012); English actress of Russian Jewish origin; best known for the films Genevieve (1953) and The Railway Children (1970); the long-running BBC comedy series Don't Wait Up (1983–1990).
• Georgia Slowe (born 1966), actress
• Sarah Solemani (born 1982), actress
• Abraham Sofaer (1 October 1896 – 21 January 1988) was a Rangoon Burmese-born British actor of Iraqi Jewish and Mizrahi Jewish ancestry.
• Bernard Spear, (11 September 1919 – 9 May 2003), English actor of Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish ancestry.
• Milo Sperber (20 March 1911 – 22 December 1992) was a British actor, director and writer of Polish Jewish ancestry.
• Samantha Spiro, actress
• Jennie Stoller (26 April 1946 – 18 November 2018), actress of Russian Jewish ancestry. In a career spanning almost 40 years, she appeared in TV, film, stage and radio productions.
• Ed Stoppard (born 1974)
• David Suchet, Poirot actor, of Lithuanian Jewish and Russian Jewish ancestry, from the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire.
• Gregg Sulkin (born 1992), actor
• Clive Swift (9 February 1936 – 1 February 2019), worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company; best known as Richard Bucket in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances. He played many other television and film roles.
• Richard Tauber (16 May 1891 – 8 January 1948) was an Austrian tenor and film actor. Of Viennese Jewish ancestry. Convert to Roman Catholicism.
• Dame Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011), actress
• Aaron Taylor-Johnson (born 1990), actor
• Harriet Thorpe (born 1957), actress
• Harry Towb (27 July 1925 – 24 July 2009) was an actor from Northern Ireland of Russian Jewish ancestry; appeared in The 39 Steps (1959 film) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum .
• Meier Tzelniker, actor
• Sam Wanamaker (1919–1993), actor
• Zoë Wanamaker (born 1949), actress, of Ukrainian Jewish ancestry
• David Warner (actor) (29 July 1941 – 24 July 2022); Russian Jewish ancestry; in 1962 joined Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC); appeared in The Thirty Nine Steps,A Christmas Carol, Titanic, Mary Poppins Returns and various characters in the Star Trek franchise, in the films Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and the Star Trek: The Next Generation two-part "Chain of Command" episode.
• Rachel Weisz (born 1970), actress
• Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (born 1987), model, actress, and designer
• Sophie Winkleman (born 1980), actress
• Henry Woolf (1930-2021), actor

Directors and producers

• David Abraham (television executive), of Iraqi Jewish Mizrahi Jewish ancestry,(born August 1963) is a British media executive, who is the former chief executive of Channel 4 Television Corporation.
• Lenny Abrahamson, Irish film and television director of Polish Jewish ancestry.
• Ken Adam OBE RDI (born Klaus Hugo George Fritz Adam; 5 February 1921 – 10 March 2016) was a German Jewish British movie production designer, best known for his set designs for the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for Dr. Strangelove; won two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction. Together with his younger brother, Denis Adam, he was one of only three German-born pilots to serve in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
• Tariq Anwar (film editor), of Indian Muslim and Austrian Jewish ancestry, father of Gabrielle Anwar.
• Michael Balcon, Lithuanian Jewish ancestry, (19 May 1896 – 17 October 1977) was an English film producer known for his leadership of Ealing Studios.Father of Jill Balcon, grandfather of Daniel Day-Lewis and Tamasin Day-Lewis.
• Daniel Battsek, (born in 1958) is an English film producer and executive, and current director of Film4. Previously, he was president of Cohen Media Group, Miramax Films and National Geographic Films.
• Jacob Berger (born 1960) is a British-Swiss film director and screenwriter and actor. Son of John Berger, of English, Italian and Russian Jewish ancestry.
• Joshua Berger; CBE (born 1966) is an American-born British business executive and producer in the media and entertainment industry, President and managing director of Warner Bros. UK, Ireland, and Spain; outgoing president of Harry Potter Global Franchise Development; outgoing Chairman of the British Film Institute; and board member of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
• Monty Berman (16 August 1913 in Whitechapel, London, England – 14 June 2006 in London, England); cinematographer and film and television producer; produced Leslie Charteris's The Saint,The Champions, Department S, its spin-off Jason King, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), and The Adventurer.
• Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein (30 January 1899 – 5 February 1993), founding chairman of Granada Group and the founder of Granada Television in 1954.
• Neil Blair; literary agent, television producer, and film producer; joined Warner Bros. Entertainment, where he became Head of Business Affairs, Europe, worked on productions such as Band of Brothers and Eyes Wide Shut, and helped acquire the film rights for J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series; UK ambassador for The Abraham Initiatives and a board member of JW3.
• Peter Brook (1925-2022), of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry director
• Rudolph Cartier (born Rudolph Kacser, 7 April 1904 – 7 June 1994), Austrian Jewish television director, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer who worked predominantly in British television, exclusively for the BBC.
• Norman Cohen, (11 June 1936 in Dublin – 26 October 1983 in Van Nuys, California) was an Irish film director and producer, best known for directing two feature films based on television comedy programmes, Till Death Us Do Part (1969) and Dad's Army (1971).
• Sid Colin (born Sidney Coblentz; 31 August 1915 – 12 December 1989), of Russian Jewish origin, was an English scriptwriter, working for radio, television and the cinema.
• Paul Czinner (30 May 1890 – 22 June 1972) was a Hungarian-born British writer, film director, and producer.
• Monja Danischewsky (28 April 1911 – 16 October 1994) was a British producer and writer, born in Archangel into a Russian-Jewish family who left Russia for England in 1919.
• The Danzigers, Edward J. Danziger (1909–1999) and Harry Lee Danziger (1913–2005) of German Jewish ancestry, produced many British films and TV shows in the 1950s and 1960s.
• Bernard Delfont, Baron Delfont, Kt (born Boris Winogradsky; 5 September 1909 – 28 July 1994) was a leading Russian Jewish British theatrical impresario; brother of Lew Grade.
• Gaby Dellal (born 1961) is a British actress, film director and writer of Iraqi Jewish and Mizrahi Jewish ancestry. She was born in London.
• Jasmine Dellal is a British-born film director and producer.
• David Elstein, of Polish Jewish ancestry, (born 14 November 1944), is an executive producer and a former Chair of openDemocracy.net, directed The World at War, British documentary television series chronicling the events of the Second World War .
• Eric Fellner, CBE (born 10 October 1959) is a British film producer; co-chairman (along with Tim Bevan) of the production company Working Title Films.
• Cyril Frankel (28 December 1921 – 7 June 2017) , British film and television director ( born Cyril Solomon Israel Frankel), directed for over 30 TV programmes until 1990, such as The Avengers, and the pilot episodes of the ITC Entertainment shows Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) and Department S , "Timelash", an episode of UFO
• Stephen Frears (born 1941), film director, producer
• Jonathan Glazer, (born 26 March 1965) is an English film director and screenwriter.
• Isadore Goldsmith (26 May 1893 - 8 October 1964); Austrian Jewish Hungarian Jewish film producer. During the 1930s and 1940s he worked in the British film industry after fleeing from Berlin following Nazi rise to power ; married to the novelist Vera Caspary.
• Leslie Grade (3 June 1916 – 15 October 1979), born Laszlo (or Lazarus) Winogradsky, was a Russian Jewish British theatrical talent agent; brother of Lew Grade.
• Lew Grade (born Lev Winogradsky; 25 December 1906 – 13 December 1998, of Russian Jewish ancestry ) , leading figure in the creation of ITV (TV network), Associated Television, and ITC Entertainment.
• Michael Grade,(born 8 March 1943) television executive ; controller of BBC1 (1984–1986), chief executive of Channel 4 (1988–1997), Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC (2004–2006), and executive chairman of ITV plc (2007–2009)..
• Mutz Greenbaum (3 February 1896 – 5 July 1968), sometimes credited as Max Greene or Max Greenbaum, was a German film cinematographer and one of the pioneers in British film industry in the use of low-key lighting.
• Anthony Gross CBE RA (19 March 1905 – 8 September 1984) was a British printmaker, painter, war artist and film director of Hungarian-Jewish, Italian, and Anglo-Irish descent, worked on animated films, illustrated a 1929 edition of Jean Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles
• Joseph Grossman (10 October 1888 – 18 January 1949) was a pioneer of the British film industry and the Cinema of the United Kingdom; most famous as the charismatic Studio Manager of Elstree Studios; of German Jewish and Polish Jewish ancestry.
• Val Guest; (born Valmond Maurice Grossman; 11 December 1911 – 10 May 2006); English film director and screenwriter; best known for his work for Hammer Film Productions; Work included The Quatermass Experiment (film),Expresso Bongo and When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth.
• Otto Heller, B.S.C. (8 March 1896 – 19 February 1970) was a Czech cinematographer worked on more than 250 films, including Richard III (1955) and The Ladykillers (1955).
• Mark Herman, (born 1954), film director and screenwriter, best known for writing and directing the 2008 film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
• John Heyman (27 April 1933 – 9 June 2017) was a British film and TV producer also involved in television production, consulting, and film financing ;produced some 15 films, among them The Go-Between and The Hireling, which both won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.
• Erwin Hillier, (2 September 1911 – 10 January 2005), German Jewish cinematographer known for his work in British cinema from the 1940s to 1960s.
• Irene Howard (17 June 1903 – December 1981) was a British casting director. Her brothers Leslie Howard and Arthur Howard, and nephew, Alan Howard, became successful actors.
• Nicholas Hytner(/ˈhaɪtnər/; born 7 May 1956); theatre director, film director, and film producer; previously Artistic Director of London's National Theatre; directed Miss Saigon, The History Boys and One Man, Two Guvnors; also known for directing The Madness of King George (1994), The Crucible (1996), The History Boys (2006), and The Lady in the Van (2015). Hytner was knighted in the 2010 New Year Honours for services to drama by Queen Elizabeth II.
• Jeremy Isaacs (born 28 September 1932), creator of The World at War, British documentary television series chronicling the events of the Second World War, recipient of many British Academy Television Awards and International Emmy Awards; won the British Film Institute Fellowship in 1986, the International Emmy Directorate Award in 1987 and the BAFTA Fellowship in 1985, General Director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden from 1987 to 1996.
• Joseph Janni (21 May 1916, Milan – 29 May 1994, London); of Italian-Jewish ancestry; produced Far from the Madding Crowd (1967 film); Billy Liar (film) with John Schlesinger; also worked with Ken Loach.
• Roland Joffé (born 1945), Palme d'Or-winning director
• Stephen Joseph (13 June 1921 – 4 October 1967) was an English stage director and pioneer of "theatre in the round," son of actress Hermione Gingold and publisher Michael Joseph.
• Nicolas Kent (born 26 January 1945) is a British theatre director. His father arrived in Britain in 1936, a Jewish German refugee, and changed his name from Kahn to Kent.
• Beeban Kidron (born 1961)
• Michael Klinger (producer), (1 November 1920 – 15 September 1989) was a British film producer and distributor, of Polish Jewish ancestry.
• Tony Klinger(born 29 January 1950) is a British film-maker, author and media executive; son of film producer Michael Klinger (producer).
• Sir Alexander Korda (1893–1956), Hungarian-born film producer and director
• Zoltan Korda (1895–1961), Hungarian-born film director, producer, and screenwriter
• Verity Lambert OBE (27 November 1935 – 22 November 2007) was an English television and film producer and founding producer of Doctor Who from 1963 until 1965.
• Walter Lassally (18 December 1926 – 23 October 2017) , German Jewish British cinematographer, won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for Zorba the Greek.
• Mike Leigh (born 1943), writer and director of film and theatre
• Roberta Leigh was an assumed name for Rita Lewin (née Shulman) (22 December 1926 – 19 December 2014) who was a British author, artist, composer and television producer who wrote romance fiction and children's stories.
• Michael Lester (originally Michael Boris Letzer), film producer, actor, and father of Mark Lester.
• Robert Levy (producer) (1888–1959) was an English-born theatre manager and film producer whose support for Black actors helped pave the way for the recognition of ethnic diversity in cinema and theatre.
• Oscar Lewenstein (18 January 1917 – 23 February 1997) was a British theatre and film producer, who helped create some of the leading British theatre and film productions of the 1950s and 1960s.
• Sam Mendes (born 1965), Academy Award-winning director
• Paul Merzbach (27 November 1888 – September 1943); Austrian Jewish screenwriter and film director; following the Nazi rise to power in 1933, Merzbach went into exile in Britain and worked in the British film industry for the remainder of his career.
• Ivor Montagu (23 April 1904, in Kensington, London – 5 November 1984, in Watford), English filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, film critic, writer and Communist activist in the 1930s,awarded Lenin Peace Prize in 1959.
• Robert Muller (screenwriter), (1 September 1925 – 27 May 1998), German Jewish-born British journalist and screenwriter, who mainly worked in television, emigrated to Britain in 1938 as refugee from Nazi Germany.
• Sydney Cecil Newman, OC (April 1, 1917 – October 30, 1997) was a Canadian born film and television producer of Russian Jewish ancestry, played a pioneering role in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s.
• Sergei Nolbandov (1895-1971) was a Russian Jewish screenwriter, film producer and director, produced 'Memory of the Camps', documenting the conditions Allied troops found when they liberated Nazi concentration camps.
• Isidore Ostrer, Ukrainian Jewish ancestry,from the 1920s he owned and ran the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation Limited, which was the largest movie company in the UK in the 1930s, featuring the work of Alfred Hitchcock.
• Stephen Poliakoff (born 1952), film director, screenwriter, and playwright of Russian Jewish ancestry
• Emeric Pressburger (born Imre József Pressburger; 5 December 1902 – 5 February 1988) was a Hungarian Jewish British screenwriter, film director, and producer. He is best known for his series of film collaborations with Michael Powell, in a collaboration partnership known as the Archers, and produced a series of films.
• David Puttnam (born 1941) film producer
• Karel Reisz (21 July 1926 – 25 November 2002), Czech Jewish born British filmmaker, one of the pioneers of the new realist strain in British cinema during the 1950s and 1960s. Two of the best-known films he directed are Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), a classic of kitchen sink realism, and the romantic period drama The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981).
• Joan Rodker(1 May 1915, Kensington, London – 27 December 2010) was an English political activist and television producer; daughter of the modernist poet John Rodker and ballet dancer Sonia Perovskaia Cohen.
• Tessa Ross CBE (born 1961); film producer and executive; Head of Film at Channel 4; ran Film4 and Film4 Productions; appointed to the Board of the Royal National Theatre; received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award; named as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour. She is an honorary fellow of the National Film and Television School. In the 2010 New Year Honours; appointed a CBE for services to broadcasting.
• Harry Moses Rowson and Simon Rowson Brothers ( born Rosenbaum), of Polish Jewish ancestry, founders of Ideal Film Company, BBC Elstree Centre, and Gaumont-British.
• Leslie Rowson ( son of Simon Rowson); (1903–1977) was a British cinematographer. Rowson collaborated on several films with the director Michael Powell.
• Harry Saltzman, born Herschel Saltzman (October 27, 1915 – September 28, 1994) of Polish Jewish ancestry; co-produced first nine of the James Bond film series; lived most of his life in Denham, Buckinghamshire, England.
• G. B. Samuelson, Russian Jewish and German Jewish ancestry, film maker and director.
• Sydney Samuelson CBE (born 7 December 1925) is a British film director and cinematographer. He was appointed in 1991 by the government of the UK as the first British Film Commissioner. He was the first President of the UK Jewish Film Festival.
• Peter Sasdy, (born 27 May 1935 in Budapest, Hungary) is a British film and television director of Hungarian Jewish ancestry.
• Max Schach (1886–1957) was an Austro-Hungarian-Jewish film producer; particularly associated with British cinema, where he was a leading figure in the boom of the mid-1930s.
• John Schlesinger CBE (/ˈʃlɛsɪndʒər/; 16 February 1926 – 25 July 2003) was an English film and stage director, and actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for Midnight Cowboy
• Richard Sharp (BBC chairman) (born 8 February 1956), Chairman of the BBC since February 2021. A former banker, he worked at JP Morgan for eight years, and then for 23 years at Goldman Sachs. Sharp was an advisor to Boris Johnson during his tenure as London Mayor, and to Rishi Sunak as Chancellor; before coming to the BBC, Sharp served as chairman of the Royal Academy of Arts (2007–2012) and on the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee (2013–2019).
• Geraldine Sherman(born Geraldine Judith Schoenmann on 20 October 1940, Staines, Middlesex, England) known as Dena Hammerstein, is a British actress and writer, and theatre producer. She was the third wife of James Hammerstein, and after his death became president/CEO of James Hammerstein Productions Ltd.
• Irene Shubik (26 December 1929 – 26 September 2019), British television producer and story editor of Russian Jewish ancestry, known for development of the single play in British television drama; began career in television at ABC Weekend TV, worked on Armchair Theatre as story editor and devised science fiction anthology series Out of this World.
• Gary Sinyor (born 1962), film director, producer, and writer
• Wolfgang Suschitzky, BSC (29 August 1912 – 7 October 2016), was an Austrian Jewish British documentary photographer, as well as a cinematographer perhaps best known for his collaboration with Paul Rotha in the 1940s and his work on Mike Hodges' 1971 film Get Carter.
• Tony Tenser, (10 August 1920 – 5 December 2007) was an English-born film producer of Lithuanian-Jewish descent.
• Brian Tesler CBE (born 19 February 1929), British television producer and executive. His career encompassed British television's post-war evolution from a single-channel BBC to the beginning of today’s multitude of cable and satellite channels. He worked as a producer for Independent Television, as well as the BBC.
• Harry Waxman, B.S.C. (3 April 1912 – 24 December 1984) was an English cinematographer. Born in London, Waxman won an award from the British Society of Cinematographers and his other films included Brighton Rock (1947), Swiss Family Robinson (1960), The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), Crooks in Cloisters (1964), The Nanny (1965), The Anniversary (1968), and The Wicker Man (1973).
• Hannah Weinstein; June 23, 1911 – March 9, 1984, was a Jewish American journalist, publicist and left-wing political activist who moved to Britain and became a well known television producer; best remembered for having produced The Adventures of Robin Hood television series in the mid-to-late 1950s.
• Michael Winner (30 October 1935 – 21 January 2013) filmmaker, writer, and media personality of Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish ancestry.
• C.M. Woolf (10 July 1879 – 31 December 1942) was a British film distributor; distributor of Alfred Hitchcock's early films; managed Gaumont British Picture Corporation and formed General Film Distributors; brought J. Arthur Rank into the film industry; father of producers John and James Woolf, and Rosemary Woolf, scholar of medieval literature
• John and James Woolf; Sir John Woolf (15 March 1913, London – 28 June 1999, London) and his brother James Woolf (2 March 1920, London – 30 May 1966, Beverly Hills, California)[1] were British film producers.
• Julian Wylie, (1 August 1878 – 6 December 1934), was a British theatrical agent and producer.

Broadcasters

• Dani Behr (born 1971), TV presenter, actress and singer
• Rabbi Lionel Blue (1930–2016), radio broadcaster
• Alain de Botton, popular author, broadcaster and Youtube channel entrepreneur, of Ashkenazi and Sephardic ancestry. He co-founded The School of Life.
• Jonathan Coleman (born 1956), radio broadcaster
• Mark Damazer (born 1955), Controller, BBC Radio 4 and BBC 7
• Vanessa Feltz (born 1962), TV presenter
• Matt Frei, German Jewish ancestry, BBC journalist.
• Sir Clement Freud (1924–2009)
• Loyd Grossman;(born 16 September 1950) TV am and BBC presenter; Rolling Stone journalist and guest musician with Jethro Tull (band); cousin of Ram Dass.
• Gerard Hoffnung (1925–1959), frequent guest appearances as humorous personality
• David Jacobs (1926–2013), TV and radio presenter
• Natasha Kaplinsky (born 1972), TV presenter, newsreader
• Ludwig Karl Koch (1881–1974), broadcaster and sound recordist
• Nigella Lawson (born 1960), celebrity chef
• Olly Mann (born 1981), radio presenter
• Eric Maschwitz OBE (10 June 1901 – 27 October 1969), sometimes credited as Holt Marvell, was an English entertainer, writer, editor, broadcaster and broadcasting executive of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry.
• James Max (born 1970), radio presenter
• Mike Mendoza (born 1948), Talksport Radio
• Robert Peston (born 1960), BBC news business correspondent
• Esther Rantzen (born 1940), TV presenter
• Jay Rayner (born 1966), broadcaster and food writer
• Gaby Roslin (born 1964), TV presenter
• Nick Ross CBE (born 7 August 1947) is a British radio and television presenter.
• Martin Samuel (born 1964), sports broadcaster
• John Suchet, newsreader and brother of David Suchet, son of Jack Suchet, of Russian Jewish ancestry. He is the father of Russia Today presenter Rory Suchet.
• Claudia Winkleman (born 1972), TV presenter
• Charlie Wolf (born 1959), TalkSport Radio
• Alan Yentob (born 1947),of Iraqi-Jewish and Mizrahi Jewish ancestry, arts broadcaster
• Helen Zaltzman, broadcaster and podcaster

Comedians

• Simon Amstell, comedian, TV presenter and actor
• Ronni Ancona, impressionist
• David Baddiel, comedian, novelist and TV presenter
• Issy Bonn, radio, film, and music hall comedian and singer
• Arnold Brown
• Sam Costa, comedian
• Ben Elton, comedian and writer
• Bud Flanagan, comedian and actor
• Ronald Frankau, of German Jewish ancestry, (22 February 1894 – 11 September 1951), English comedian in cabaret, radio and film.
• Steve Furst (born 1967), comedian and actor
• Paul Kaye (born 1965), comedian, writer and actor (Dennis Pennis)
• Helen Lederer, comedian, was born September 1954 to English mother and Czech-Jewish father.
• Matt Lucas
• Jess Robinson (born 1993), impressionist, comedian, singer and podcaster
• Tony Robinson, actor and comedian.
• Ray Martine (1928–2002), comedian
• Denis Norden, scriptwriter and radio and TV personality
• Des O'Connor (1932–2020), comedian, TV presenter and singer
• Alexei Sayle (born 1952),pro Palestinian anti-Zionist Socialist stand-up comedian of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry
• Peter Sellers, comedian and actor; descendent of renowned Sephardi Jewish pugilist, Daniel Mendoza.
• Freddie Starr, comedian and actor; mother Hilda (née Feihnen) was of German Jewish ancestry.
• Bernie Winters
• Mike Winters
• Andy Zaltzman (born 1974), comedian

Musicians and singers

• Larry Adler, harmonica player (American-born; naturalised British)
• Ambrose, bandleader
• Howie B, sound engineer, mixer and producer, worked with Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Creatures, Steve Reich, The Royal Ballet's Carlos Acosta and dub music pioneers, Sly and Robbie, contributed to Jamaican movie soundtrack for Third World Cop.
• Gilad Atzmon, pro-Palestinian, anti Israel activist and saxophonist for The Blockheads. He has also played on Pink Floyd albums.
• Beardyman, beatboxing artist
• Matt Black,( birth name Matthew Cohn) of Coldcut D.J.
• Pauline Black, lead singer of The Selecter and actress
• Stanley Black, pianist, composer and bandleader
• Marc Bolan, leader of rock band T. Rex of Polish Jewish and Russian Jewish ancestry
• Elkie Brooks, singer
• Ian Broudie, of The Lightning Seeds
• Pete Brown (born 25 December 1940) is an English performance poet, lyricist, and singer best known for his collaborations with Cream and Jack Bruce.
• Pete Burns, of Dead or Alive
• Tito Burns, bandleader
• Alex Clare, singer
• Johnny Clegg, UK-born South African musician
• Antony Costa (born 1981), member of Blue
• Tony Crombie (1925–1999), jazz drummer and bandleader (Tony Crombie and his Rockets)
• Clifford Curzon, classical pianist
• Ivor Cutler (1923–2006), singer-songwriter, poet and humourist
• Craig David, singer
• Lynsey de Paul, singer-songwriter
• Billy Duffy, musician and guitarist for The Cult
• Ray Ellington, was an English singer, drummer and bandleader,brought up a strictly Orthodox Jew by his Russian-Jewish mother.
• Barry Fantoni, jazz musician
• Mick Farren, Proto-punk musician, anarchist, political activist, agent provocateur and author; foundation figure in the growth of the British Underground press.
• Nick Feldman, musician in new wave pop band, Wang Chung (band), his father was Basil Feldman, Baron Feldman, a Conservative member of the House of Lords, and his aunt was the actress Fenella Fielding.
• Pete Fender, guitarist in punk rock group, Fatal Microbes, son of Vi Subversa.
• Shane Fontayne, of Polish Jewish ancestry and parentage from Burma, ( born Michael Barakan), played in progressive rock, psychedelic music band, Byzantium (band) with Chaz Jankel.
• Justine Frischmann, of Elastica
• Jess Glynne, singer
• Harry Gold (26 February 1907 – 13 November 2005), born Hyman Goldberg, was an English British Dixieland jazz saxophonist and bandleader of Polish Jewish and Romanian Jewish ancestry.
• Vivien Goldman is a British punk rock and reggae journalist and historian, writer and musician of German Jewish ancestry.
• Graham Gouldman, Lol Creme and Kevin Godley, members of 10cc
• Benny Green, saxophonist and broadcaster
• Mick Green (22 February 1944 – 11 January 2010) was an English rock and roll guitarist who played with The Pirates.
• Peter Green, founding member of Fleetwood Mac
• Carl Gombrich, Opera singer and academic; son of Richard Gombrich, Sanskrit and Pali scholar of Viennese Jewish origin.
• Adrian Gurvitz, of The Gun & Baker Gurvitz Army
• Paul Gurvitz, of The Gun & Baker Gurvitz Army
• Steffan Halperin, drummer for The Chavs
• Barry Hay, of Golden Earring was born in Faizabad, India, to a Dutch-Jewish mother, Sofia Maria née Sluijter (1922–2004, born in Makassar), and a Scottish commissioned officer, Philip Aubrey Hay (1923–1980).
• Mick Hucknall, singer-songwriter of Simply Red
• Dick James singer, music publisher
• Chaz Jankel, of The Blockheads and Ian Dury's proto punk and pub rock band, Kilburn and the High Roads, as well as having recorded with Sly and Robbie at the roots reggae and pioneering avant-garde Compass Point Studios.
• Peter Jonas, director, of Ashkenazi, Jamaican and Lebanese ancestry, CBE, FRCM, FRSA, management of the English National Opera (1993), director of Bavarian State Opera (Staatsintendant), awarded the Bayerische Verfassungsmedaille, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Knight Bachelor, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art.
• Mick Jones, of Russian Jewish ancestry guitarist for The Clash
• Laurence Juber, guitarist
• Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits co-founder, lead vocalist and lead guitarist, of Marxist Hungarian Jewish parentage.
• Alexis Korner,referred to as founding father of British blues, A major influence on the sound of the British music scene in the 1960s,instrumental in formation of The Rolling Stones and Free. Austrian Jewish father.
• Paul Kossoff, son of actor David Kossoff and of Russian Jewish ancestry, guitarist in hard rock blues band Free (band)
• Danny Kustow, punk rock guitarist with Generation X and Tom Robinson Band.
• Clive Langer, guitarist in Art rock band Deaf School; also played with early Liverpool punk rock band, The Spitfire Boys, with Budgie (musician).
• Keith Levene, founder of The Clash and Public Image Ltd and early member of foundation punk rock outfit, The Flowers of Romance (British band), with Sid Vicious.
• Jona Lewie, new wave singer on the punk rock Stiff Records label.
• Joe Loss, bandleader
• Lora Logic, X-Ray Spex saxophonist, of German-Jewish origin. Also played for The Raincoats. Convert to Hinduism.
• Manfred Mann (musician), of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry.
• Daniel Miller (music producer), founder of Post-punk Industrial music record label Mute Records and member of The Normal, who released TVOD, of Austrian Jewish ancestry.
• Crispian Mills, singer of Kula Shaker (paternal grandmother was Jewish)
• Jon Moss, English drummer, member of Culture Club, the Damned and Adam and the Ants.
• Anthony Newley, singer-songwriter and actor
• Colin Newman, guitarist for early punk rock outfit, Wire (band).
• Passenger, stage name of singer-songwriter Michael David Rosenberg
• Peter Perrett, singer-songwriter of The Only Ones (Mother Austrian Jew)
• Yannis Philippakis, singer and guitarist of Foals. (Mother Ukrainian Jew)
• Sid Phillips, jazz clarinetist
• Simon Phillips, drummer, for 801 (band), Brian Eno and Toto member, son of Sid Phillips.
• Oscar Rabin, (26 April 1899 – 20 June 1958) was a Latvian-born English bandleader and musician. He was the musical director of his own big band.
• Trevor Rabin, guitarist for Progressive Rock outfit Yes (band).
• Keith Reid (born 1946), lyricist for Procol Harum
• Mark Ronson (born 1975), musician, DJ and producer
• Samantha Ronson (born 1977), singer-songwriter
• Leon Rosselson (born 1934), singer-songwriter.
• Dan Rothman, guitarist in London Grammar
• Rowetta
• Harry Roy, bandleader
• Helen Shapiro, singer
• Derek Shulman of Progressive Rock band, Gentle Giant.
• Stacey Solomon, finalist on X Factor 2009
• Rachel Stevens (born 1978), singer-songwriter, actress, TV presenter
• Gem Stone, drummer in punk rock group, Fatal Microbes, daughter of Vi Subversa.
• Lew Stone, bandleader
• Vi Subversa ( Frances Sokolov), of Russian Jewish ancestry, (20 June 1935 – 19 February 2016), better known by her stage name Vi Subversa, lead singer, lyricist and guitarist of British anarcho-punk band Poison Girls.
• Yevgeny Sudbin, concert pianist
• Lewis Taylor, singer/songwriter
• Nat Temple (18 July 1913 – 30 May 2008) was an English big band leader, and a clarinet and saxophone player.
• Sidney Torch (1908–1990), light orchestral conductor and composer
• Judie Tzuke, singer-songwriter
• Frankie Vaughan (1928–1999), singer, of Russian Jewish ancestry
• Jessie Ware, singer-songwriter, musician
• John Weider, musician
• Louise Wener of Sleeper
• Amy Winehouse, (1983–2011), singer-songwriter

Writers

• Grace Aguilar (2 June 1816 – 16 September 1847); English novelist of Sephardi Jewish origin; poet and writer on Jewish history and religion.
• Mick Anglo (born Maurice Anglowitz, 19 June 1916 – 31 October 2011), of Russian Jewish ancestry, was a British comic book writer, editor and artist, as well as an author. He is best known for creating the superhero Marvelman, later known as Miracleman.
• Bennett Arron (born 1973) Welsh writer, comedian and actor
• Dannie Abse (1923–2014), poet, novelist, playwright and doctor.
• Gilad Atzmon, be bop saxophonist, anti Israeli, pro Palestinian activist, dissident social critic of Israel, agent provocateur, satirist and author.
• Edith Ayrton or Edith Ayrton Zangwill (1879 – 1945) was a British author and activist. She helped form the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage.
• Rachel Beer, editor-in-chief of The Observer and The Sunday Times, born in Bombay to Sassoon David Sassoon, of the Iraqi Sassoon family.
• Chaim Bermant (1929–1998), journalist and novelist.
• Julie Bindel (born 20 July 1962) is an English radical feminist writer of Roman Catholic and Jewish ancestry.
• Lajos Bíró, 22 August 1880 – 9 September 1948, was a Hungarian Jewish novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who wrote many films from the early 1920s through the late 1940s.
• Alain Boublil, author and lyricist
• Caryl Brahms (8 December 1901 – 5 December 1982), English critic, novelist, and journalist specialising in the theatre and ballet; also wrote film, radio and television scripts.
• Joshua Arthur Rodrigues Brandon (9 February 1822, London – 11 December 1847 ) was an English architect and author of Sephardi Jewish ancestry; wrote three seminal, groundbreaking books on Early English architecture.
• Julius Braunthal (1891–1972) was an Austrian Jewish historian, magazine editor, and political activist; Secretary of the Socialist International from 1951 to 1956; wrote three volume History of the International, first published in German between 1961 and 1971.
• Anita Brookner CBE (16 July 1928 – 10 March 2016); of Polish Jewish ancestry, novelist and art historian; Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968; first woman to hold this visiting professorship; awarded Booker–McConnell Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac.
• Mosco Carner (born Mosco Cohen) (15 November 1904 – 3 August 1985) was an Austrian Jewish British musicologist, conductor and critic known for his studies on the life and works of the composers Giacomo Puccini and Alban Berg.
• Gerda Charles, novelist, Russian Jewish ancestry.
• Alan Coren (1938–2007)
• Giles Coren (born 1969)
• Victoria Coren Mitchell (born 1972)
• Olive Dehn (29 September 1914 – 21 March 2007) was an English children's writer, anarchist and poet of German Jewish ancestry who was active from the 1930s to the 2000s and wrote stories for the BBC Radio programme Children's Hour.
• Isaac Deutscher (Template:Lang-pl; 3 April 1907 – 19 August 1967); Polish Jewish Marxist author, journalist and political activist who moved to the United Kingdom before the outbreak of World War II; best known as a biographer of Leon Trotsky and as a commentator on Marxist dialectic and Soviet affairs. His three-volume biography of Trotsky was highly influential among the British New Left in the 1960s and 1970s.
• Jenny Diski, countercultural protagonist, author and contributor to the UK Underground press, colleague of R.D. Laing, notable for starting the Freightliners free school.
• Anton Ehrenzweig (27 November 1908 – 5 December 1966) was an Austrian Jewish British author and theorist on modern art, psychoanalysis and Avant-garde music who wroteThe Psychoanalysis of Artistic Vision and Hearing (1953) and The Hidden Order of Art (1967).
• Samantha Ellis, British playwright and writer of Iraqi Jewish and Mizrahi Jewish ancestry.
• Eleanor Farjeon (13 February 1881 – 5 June 1965) was an English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire. Several of her works had illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Her most famous work was Morning Has Broken, a Christian hymn first published in 1931.
• Mick Farren, Proto-punk musician, anarchist, activist, agent provocateur and author, contributed to the UK Underground press, the International Times, New Musical Express, aswell as writing 23 novels and eleven works of non-fiction and was columnist for Los Angeles CityBeat.
• Gilbert Frankau (21 April 1884 – 4 November 1952), popular British novelist; known also for verse (he was a war poet of World War I), including a number of verse novels, and short stories.
• Gillian Freeman (1929-2019), novelist and screenwriter
• Neil Gaiman, graphic novelist and fantasy writer, Polish Jewish ancestry.
• Ernest Gellner, social anthropologist and scholar of nationalism and identity, of Austrian Jewish and Czech Jewish origin.
• Adrian Goldberg, (born in 1961 in Northfield, Birmingham) is an English journalist, radio and television presenter of German Jewish ancestry; hosts the Byline Times Podcast.
• Jane Goldman (born 1970), screenwriter, author and producer
• Vivien Goldman is a British author and academic of German Jewish ancestry , focusing on the historiography, Praxis (process), dialectic and epistemology of punk rock, dub, and reggae.
• Ernst Gombrich, art historian and scholar of Viennese Jewish origin.
• Richard Gombrich, writer of Viennese Jewish ancestry, British Indologist and scholar of Sanskrit, Pāli, and Buddhist studies; historian of Tripiṭaka, Sthavira nikāya, Mahāsāṃghika schools, Abhidharma, Vinaya, Theravada,and ancient collections of Buddhist texts
• Geoffrey Gorer, psychoanalytic anthropologist, author and writer.
• Siam Goorwich, journalist for The Guardian and The Jewish Chronicle.
• David Graeber, British-American author, academic, scholar and anarchist activist, writer of Ashkenazi origin.
• Tony Greenstein, anti Zionist, anti fascist pro Palestinian writer, social critic of Israel and activist of Polish Jewish rabbinical ancestry.
• Anthony Horowitz (born 1956)
• Howard Jacobson (born 1942), author
• Tim Judah, (born 31 March 1962) of Iraqi Jewish and Mizrahi Jewish ancestry is a British writer, reporter and political analyst for The Economist. Judah has written several books on the geopolitics of the Balkans, mainly focusing on Serbia and Kosovo.^[a]
• Tony Judt FBA (/dʒʌt/ JUT; 2 January 1948 – 6 August 2010) was a British-American historian, essayist and university professor who specialised in European history.
• Judith Kerr (1923–2019), writer and illustrator.
• Gerald Kersh (1912–1968) was a British Jewish and later also American writer of novels and short stories; his most famous work was Night and the City (1938)
• Pannonica de Koenigswarter (née Rothschild; 10 December 1913 – 30 November 1988) was a British-born jazz patron and writer. A leading patron of bebop, she was a member of the Rothschild family.
• Arthur Koestler, CBE (UK: /ˈkɜːstlər/, US: /ˈkɛst-/; German: [ˈkœstlɐ]; Template:Lang-hu; 5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was a Hungarian Jewish author and journalist.
• Bernard Kops (born 1926), poet, novelist and playwright
• Lotte Labowsky; (1905-1991), Jewish German writer, author, scholar and classicist; became a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford; specialised in "the transmission of ancient Greek thought to the western world"
• Joseph Leftwich was a British critic and translator into English of Yiddish literature.
• Tamasin Day-Lewis, journalist and critic.
• Denise Levertov (1923–1977), poet.
• Gertrude Rachel Levy FSA (5 November 1883 – 10 October 1966) was an author and cultural historian of German Jewish ancestry, writing about comparative mythology, matriarchy, epic poetry and archaeology; published many of her works under the name "G. Rachel Levy".
• Martin Lewis (financial journalist)
• Emanuel Litvinoff (1915–2011), novelist and poet.
• Mina Loy (born Mina Gertrude Löwy; 27 December 1882 – 25 September 1966) was a British-born artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps, and bohemian; of Hungarian Jewish ancestry and one of the last of the first-generation modernists to achieve posthumous recognition.
• Moshé Machover (Hebrew: משה מחובר; born 1936) is a mathematician, philosopher,pro Palestinian socialist activist and author, noted for his writings against Zionism.
• David Zane Mairowitz; British-American; immigrated to England, where he was one of the founding editors of International Times.
• Wolf Mankowitz (7 November 1924 – 20 May 1998) was an English writer, playwright and screenwriter of Russian Jewish ancestry. Father of rock and fashion photographer Gered Mankowitz.
• Ivan Margolius (born 27 February 1947) is an author, architect and propagator of Czech culture; author of books on art, architecture, automobiles, design and history.
• George Markstein, (29 August 1926 – 15 January 1987), of German Jewish ancestry, British journalist and writer of thrillers and teleplays, writing scripts for Danger Man, Armchair Theatre, The Odessa File (film), and Return of the Saint.
• Carl Mayer (20 November 1894 – 1 July 1944) was an Austrian screenwriter who wrote screenplays to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Head of Janus (1920), The Haunted Castle (1921), Der Letzte Mann (1924), Tartuffe (1926), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), and 4 Devils (1928); fundamental figure in the dramatic and narrative establishment of both German expressionist cinema and Kammerspielfilm. Buried in Highgate Cemetery.
• Gerard Menuhin, son of Yehudi Menuhin
• Monty Meth MBE (3 March 1926 – 14 March 2021)[1]; member of Young Communist League, editor of the Daily Mail.
• Ralph Miliband (born Adolphe Miliband; 7 January 1924 – 21 May 1994) sociologist and Marxist author of Polish Jewish ancestry; father of Ed Miliband and David Miliband, described as "one of the best known academic Marxists of his generation", on a par with E. P. Thompson, Eric Hobsbawm and Perry Anderson.
• Lily Montagu, author, suffragette, political activist, CBE (22 December 1873 – 22 January 1963) was the first woman to play a major role in Progressive Judaism.
• Charles Shaar Murray; proto-punk music journalist for the New Musical Express, of Viennese Jewish origin.
• Ursula Owen, of German Jewish ancestry; founding director for the feminist Virago Press, cultural policy advisor to the Labour Party (UK) , editor and chief executive of Index on Censorship, a magazine for free expression; on the board of the Southbank Centre and English Touring Opera; on the board of the New Statesman and the committee of the Royal Literary Fund.
• Ilan Pappé, dissident Israeli-British scholar of Ashkenazi origin, writer and author from the New Historians school, focusing on the history of The Nakba, intifada, Palestinian land ownership and rights and radical Anti-Zionism.
• Julia Pascal, playwright and director
• Nikolaus Pevsner CBE FBA (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German Jewish British art historian and architectural historian , also of Russian Jewish ancestry, best known for his series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England (1951–74).
• Harold Pinter, playwright, director, actor
• Michael Polanyi FRS (/poʊˈlænji/; Template:Lang-hu; 11 March 1891 – 22 February 1976) was a Hungarian-British polymath, who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy.
• Gideon Rachman (born 1963) is a British journalist of Jewish South African ancestry.
• Claire Rayner (1931–2010), agony aunt and broadcaster
• Emma Richler (born 1961) is a British actress and author.
• Nick Robinson (journalist), BBC broadcaster of German Jewish ancestry.
• Claudia Roden CBE (née Douek; born 1936) is an Egyptian-born British cookbook writer and cultural anthropologist of Sephardi/Mizrahi descent.
• John Rodker (18 December 1894 – 6 October 1955) was an English writer, modernist poet, and publisher of modernist writers and one of the "Whitechapel Boys", a group including Isaac Rosenberg, Mark Gertler, David Bomberg, Samuel Weinstein and Joseph Lefkowitz
• Jon Ronson (born 1967), screenwriter
• Michael Rosen (born 1946)
• Isaac Rosenberg, war poet
• Jack Rosenthal CBE (8 September 1931 – 29 May 2004), wrote scripts for ITV soap opera Coronation Street and over 150 screenplays, including original TV plays and feature films; street in Manchester named after him, next to centre of contemporary art, theatre and film, HOME.
• Michael Samuels (linguist) (14 September 1920 – 24 November 2010) was a British historical linguist, responsible for the Historical Thesaurus of English; son of Harry Samuels, and Céline Aronowitz: his sister was actress Miriam Karlin
• George Sassoon,(30 October 1936 – 8 March 2006) was a British scientist, electronic engineer, linguist, translator and science fiction author of Iraqi Jewish Mizrahi Jewish origin; author of The Manna-Machine (1978) and The Kabbalah Decoded (1978).
• Siegfried Sassoon, writer and WW1 poet, of Iraqi Jewish Mizrahi Jewish origin.
• Will Self.
• Anthony Shaffer (writer) (15 May 1926 – 6 November 2001); English playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and advertising executive; brother of Peter Shaffer.
• Peter Shaffer ( Sir Peter Levin Shaffer) CBE (/ˈʃæfər/; 15 May 1926 – 6 June 2016) was an English playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He wrote numerous award-winning plays, of which several were adapted into films.
• Avi Shlaim, writer from the New Historians school, of Iraqi Jewish and Mizrahi Jewish origin.
• Andrew Shonfield (10 August 1917 – 23 January 1981) was a British economist of Czech Jewish ancestry, best known for writing Modern Capitalism (1966), also worked as journalist and foreign editor of The Financial Times from 1950 until 1958, then worked as The Observer's economic editor.
• Zuzanna Shonfield, Polish Jewish, born (31 January 1919, Warsaw – 1 February 2000, Greater London) was writer and historian best known as the author of the book The Precariously Privileged (1987) as well as editor of her husband’s, Andrew Shonfield, works The Use of Public Power (1982) and In Defence of the Mixed Economy (1984).
• Peter Simons aka Penny Reel, contributed to the UK Underground press, pioneering reggae historian, scholar, promotor, archivist , author, and journalist for The NME and Echoes (magazine), highly influential in introducing roots reggae and Dub music to the British people in the 60s and 70s, biographer of Dennis Brown, of Russian Jewish ancestry.
• Stephen Spender CBE (28 February 1909 – 16 July 1995); English poet of German Jewish ancestry, novelist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and Marxist class struggle; appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry by the United States Library of Congress in 1965.
• Tom Stoppard (born 1937), playwright
• David Toube, pro Israel, pro Zionist neoconservative activist, major contributor to Harry's Place, ( leading online journal that monitors pro Palestinian sympathisers) and director of policy at Quilliam, a British think tank co-founded by Maajid Nawaz that focused on counter extremism, specifically against Islamism.
• Géza Vermes, FBA (Hungarian: [ˈvɛrmɛʃ ˈɡeːzɒ]; 22 June 1924 – 8 May 2013) was a British academic, Biblical scholar, and Judaist of Hungarian Jewish descent, specialised in history of religion, particularly ancient Judaism and early Christianity; best known for his complete translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls into English.
• Jackie Walker (activist), anti Zionist pro Palestinian author, social critic of Israel and playwright of Sephardi Jewish and Jamaican origin.
• Arnold Wesker (1932–2016), dramatist.
• Edgar Wind (/wɪnd/; 14 May 1900 – 12 September 1971) was a German Jewish born British interdisciplinary art historian, also of Russian Jewish ancestry, specialising in iconology in the Renaissance era, member of the school of art historians associated with Aby Warburg and the Warburg Institute as well as the first Professor of art history at Oxford University, best remembered for his research in allegory and use of pagan mythology during the 15th and 16th centuries.
• Stephen Winsten (1893–1991), one of the 'Whitechapel Boys' group of young Jewish men and future writers in London's East End in the years before World War I (the others included Isaac Rosenberg, John Rodker and Joseph Leftwich).
• Humbert Wolfe CB CBE (5 January 1885 – 5 January 1940) was an Italian Jewish British poet, man of letters and translator of Heinrich Heine.
• Lauri Wylie, (25 May 1880 – 28 June 1951), was a British actor and author.
• Israel Zangwill (1864–1926), novelist and playwright. Zangwill was a British author at the forefront of cultural Zionism during the 19th century, and was associate of Theodor Herzl, later rejecting search for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Father of Oliver Zangwill and husband of Suffragette Edith Ayrton.

Songwriters

• Lionel Bart (1930–1999), writer and composer of pop music and musicals
• Don Black (born 1938), lyricist
• Friedrich Hollaender ( 18 October 1896 – 18 January 1976) was a German Jewish film soundtrack composer and author born in England; son of operetta composer Victor Hollaender, musical director at the Barnum & Bailey Circus.
• Wilfred Josephs (24 July 1927 – 17 November 1997) was an English composer of Russian Jewish ancestry, composed music for The Great War (TV series), Horizon (British TV series), Swallows and Amazons (1974 film), All Creatures Great and Small (film), and The Prisoner.
• Herbert Kretzmer (1925-2020), lyricist
• Keith Levene, songwriter for The Flowers of Romance (British band) with Sid Vicious, The Clash, and John Lydon's Public Image.
• Louis Levy (20 November 1894 – 18 August 1957) was an English film music director and conductor, who worked in particular on Alfred Hitchcock and Will Hay films; head of the music department for all Gainsborough Pictures productions from 1933 onwards; in 1948, Levy became general musical director for the Associated British Picture Corporation, and during the 1950s he was head of music at Elstree Studios.
• George Michael (1963–2016), singer and songwriter (maternal grandmother)
• Stanley Myers, composed Cavatina and incidental music for Doctor Who, as well as composing brass parts for Pink Floyd's final album with Syd Barrett, A Saucerful of Secrets.
• Monty Norman (born 1928), lyricist, composer and singer (creator of the "James Bond Theme")
• David Rose (1910–1990), songwriter and composer
• Mátyás Seiber (Hungarian: [ˈmaːcaːʃ ˈʃɛibɛr]; 4 May 1905 – 24 September 1960) was a Hungarian Jewish British composer whose work linked many diverse musical influences, from the Hungarian tradition of Bartók and Kodály, to Schoenberg and serial music, to jazz, folk song, and lighter music.
• Fritz Spiegl (27 January 1926 – 23 March 2003) was an Austrian Jewish English musician, journalist, broadcaster, humourist and collector who lived and worked in Britain from 1939; wrote Theme from Z-Cars in 1962 and compiled Radio 4 UK Theme in 1978.
• Mischa Spoliansky (28 December 1898 – 28 June 1985), Russian Jewish composer of cabaret and revue songs in the Weimar Republic of the 1920s and early 1930s; forced to emigrate to London in 1933 when Hitler rose to power. He stayed in Britain for the rest of his life, working as composer of film scores.
• Jule Styne (1905–1994), songwriter (UK-born)
• Debbie Wiseman (born 1963), composer

Classical musicians

• John Barnett, composer
• Julius Benedict, composer
• Maria Bland, singer
• Giacobbe Cervetto, popularised the cello in England, born in Italy to Italian Jewish parents
• Harriet Cohen, pianist
• Frederic Hymen Cowen, composer
• Isidore de Lara, composer
• Jacqueline du Pré, cellist
• Brian Elias (born 30 August 1948) is a British composer of Iraqi Jewish ancestry.
• Gerald Finzi, composer
• Norma Fisher, pianist
• Benjamin Frankel, composer of Polish Jewish ancestry; best known pieces include a cycle of five string quartets, eight symphonies, and concertos for violin and viola; also notable for writing over 100 film scores and working as a big band arranger in the 1930s. During the last 15 years of his life, Frankel also developed his own style of 12-note composition which retained contact with tonality.
• Alexander Goehr, composer; son of Walter Goehr
• Walter Goehr, composer
• Berthold Goldschmidt, composer
• Livia Ruth Gollancz, (25 May 1920 − 28 March 2018) was the daughter of Socialist humanitarian publisher, Victor Gollancz and was the first female principal horn of a major UK symphony orchestra.
• Mark Hambourg (Template:Lang-ru, 1 June 1879 – 26 August 1960) was a Russian British concert pianist.
• Myra Hess, pianist, best known for her performances of the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann.
• Alice Herz-Sommer (1903–2014), Czech-born Israeli-British pianist, music teacher, and supercentenarian)
• Gerard Hoffnung, tubist, illustrator and cartoonist, impresario, humorist
• Steven Isserlis, cellist
• Hans Keller, musicologist
• Evgeny Kissin (Template:Lang-ru; born 10 October 1971) is a Russian Jewish concert pianist and composer.
• Yaltah Menuhin
• Yehudi Menuhin, Lord Menuhin of Stoke d'Abernon; conductor and violinist (American/UK-based), son of anti-Zionist campaigner Moshe Menuhin, father of author Gerard Menuhin (born 1948 in Scotland) and pianist and composer Jeremy Menuhin, descendent of Shneur Zalman of Liadi (Template:Lang-he, September 4, 1745 – December 15, 1812 O.S. / 18 Elul 5505 – 24 Tevet 5573), rabbi and the founder and first Rebbe of Chabad, a branch of Hasidic Judaism.
• Benno Moiseiwitsch, pianist (Russian-born; naturalized 1937)
• Ignaz Moscheles (German pronunciation: [ˈig.nats ˈmɔ.ʃɛ.lɛs]; 23 May 1794 – 10 March 1870) was a Bohemian piano virtuoso and composer, based in London and Leipzig. Tutor to Felix Mendelssohn.
• Isaac Nathan, composer
• Michael Nyman, composer
• Murray Perahia, American pianist (UK-based)
• James Rhodes, pianist
• Landon Ronald, conductor and composer
• Robert Saxton, composer
• Rudolf Schwarz, conductor
• Solomon, professional name of the pianist Solomon Cutner
• Sir Georg Solti, conductor
• Walter Susskind (1913–1980), conductor
• Richard Tauber, Jewish-born Roman Catholic singer and composer (naturalised British citizen, 1940)
• Lionel Tertis, violist
• Simon Waley Waley, musician
• Fanny Waterman DBE (22 March 1920 – 20 December 2020), of Russian Jewish ancestry, British pianist and academic piano teacher, known as founder, chair and artistic director of the Leeds International Piano Competition, also president of the Harrogate International Music Festival.
• Egon Wellesz, composer
• Benjamin Zander, music director

Ballet dancers

• Celia Franca, ballerina
• Diana Gould (dancer), wife of Yehudi Menuhin.
• Peggy van Praagh , ballerina, choreographer, teacher was born in London and was of Jewish and English descent.
• Marie Rambert, of Polish Jewish ancestry, joined Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1912, working with the ballet legend Vaslav Nijinsky. ballerina

Other

• Gerhard Adler (14 April 1904 – 23 December 1988), of German Jewish ancestry, was a major figure in the world of analytical psychology who had a significant effect on popular culture in England; known for his translation into English from the original German and editorial work on the Collected Works of Carl Gustav Jung.
• Gerry Anderson, of Russian Jewish ancestry, produced Thunderbirds, Stingray, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and Joe 90.
• Dan Arbeid, sculptor and potter.
• Don Arden, of Ashkenazi descent, manager of Black Sabbath, Small Faces and The Move.
• Peter Barakan, D.J. and author of Polish Jewish and Anglo-Burmese people ancestry. Brother of Michael Barakan of Byzantium (band).
• Lotte Berk, dancer and health guru
• J. D. Bernal FRS (/bərˈnɑːl/; 10 May 1901 – 15 September 1971) was an Irish scientist of Sephardi ancestry who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography in molecular biology, published on the history of science, wrote popular books on science and society. He was a communist activist and a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB).
• Martin Bernal, pioneer in the creation of Pan-African studies, of Sephardi ancestry, most famous for his work Black Athena.
• David Beckham, Jewish maternal grandfather, describes himself as 'half Jewish'.
• Anya Berger, of Russian Jewish and Austrian Jewish ancestry, actress, wife of John Berger and contributor to Ways of Seeing, translator, intellectual, communist and feminist; cited by The Guardian as having played a part in many of the events and movements that shaped the 20th century.
• John Berger, Jewish father, convert to Roman Catholicism, (/ˈbɜːdʒə/; 5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. Berger's essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, is known as a foundation text employing deconstruction and feminist prisms of epistemology and ontology, questioning axiomatic assumptions about gender, racial prejudice and Orientalism, whilst introducing and debating prisms of Psychological projection, Reification (Marxism), False Consciousness, Commodity fetishism, Marx's theory of alienation and essentialism. He was a supporter of the Palestinian cause, and, focused on Israel and apartheid, a member of the Support Committee of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine.
• Clara Birnberg (1892 or 1894–1989) was a British artist, illustrator, portraitist and sculptor of Ukrainian Jewish ancestry; married to the artist Stephen Weinstein.
• Chris Blackwell, British-Jamaican, founder of Island Records, of Sephardi ancestry; one of the first people to introduce Bob Marley, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Burning Spear, Toots and the Maytals, The Heptones, Black Uhuru and Sly and Robbie to a worldwide audience outside Jamaica.
• Alan Blumlein (29 June 1903 – 7 June 1942); English electronics engineer of German Jewish ancestry , notable for his many inventions in telecommunications, sound recording, stereophonic sound, television and radar; considered one of the most significant engineers and inventors of his time.
• David Bohm FRS (/boʊm/; 20 December 1917 – 27 October 1992) was an American British scientist of Lithuanian Jewish and Hungarian Jewish ancestry who has been described as one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century and who contributed unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, neuropsychology and the philosophy of mind.
• David Bomberg, of Polish Jewish ancestry, (5 December 1890 – 19 August 1957) was a British painter ( Vorticism and Futurism ), and one of the Whitechapel Boys.
• Caprice Bourret, model (American-born and raised)
• Gerry Bron , of Ashkenazi ancestry, producer for Vertigo Records, founder of Bronze Records, manager of Motorhead, The Damned, Uriah Heep and Hawkwind.
• Carmel Budiardjo 18 June 1925 – 10 July 2021, human rights activist, anti- fascist, lecturer, and author.
• Mel Calman (19 May 1931 – 10 February 1994), cartoonist of Russian Jewish ancestry best known for his "little man" cartoons published in the Daily Express (1957–63), The Sunday Telegraph (1964–65), The Observer (1965-6), The Sunday Times (1969–84) and The Times (1979–94).
• Sybil Cholmondeley, Marchioness of Cholmondeley CBE (born Sybil Rachel Betty Cecile Sassoon; 30 January 1894 – 26 December 1989), styled Countess of Rocksavage from 1913 to 1923, was a British socialite, patron of the arts; of Iraqi Jewish Mizrahi Jewish ancestry, belonging to the prominent Sassoon and Rothschild families.
• Joseph Corré, fashion designer, environmental activist, agent provocateur,and son of Dame Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, former manager of Sex Pistols, of Sephardi Jewish origin.
• David Costa (graphic designer)(born 18 November 1947); son of Sam Costa; of Sephardi Jewish ancestry; English graphic designer, art director and musician. Notable design collaborations include those for Queen, Elton John, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, The Beatles, The Moody Blues, Genesis, The Rolling Stones and Phil Collins.
• Catherine da Costa (1679–1756),English miniaturist of Sephardi Jewish origin; was the first female Anglo-Jewish artist of note; married Moses da Costa.
• Carl Davis, CBE (born October 28, 1936) is an American-born conductor and composer who has written music for more than 100 television programmes; collaborated with Paul McCartney in the creation of the Liverpool Oratorio. Composed music for The World at War, British documentary television series chronicling the events of the Second World War
• David Dangoor CBE DL (born 1948) is a British businessman and philanthropist of Iraqi Jewish Mizrahi Jewish ancestry.
• Cara Delevingne, model (born 1998)
• André Deutsch CBE (15 November 1917 – 11 April 2000) was a Hungarian Jewish British publisher who founded an eponymous publishing company in 1951.
• Oscar Deutsch (12 August 1893 – 5 December 1941), of Hungarian Jewish ancestry, founder of Odeon Cinemas in 1928, with the flagship cinema, the Odeon, Leicester Square in London, opening in 1937.
• Dora Diamant, lover of Franz Kafka of Polish Jewish origin, joined the Communist Party and performed as an agitprop actress, later interned as enemy alien at the Port Erin Women's Detention Camp on the Isle of Man in 1940-1941. Released, she returned to London, where she helped to found the Friends of Yiddish, working to keep the Yiddish language and culture alive. She died of kidney failure in east London on 15 August 1952, and was buried in an unmarked grave in the United Synagogue Cemetery on Marlowe Road in East Ham.
• Dodo (painter) Dodo, of German Jewish origin, born as Dörte Clara Wolff (10 February 1907 – 22 December 1998), was a German painter and illustrator of the New Objectivity.
• Erica Echenberg, photographer on the early Punk Rock scene in London; worked for Sniffin' Glue producing pictures of Brian Eno, Dave Vanian, Marc Bolan,Gaye Advert, Billy Idol and The Clash.
• Jacob Epstein KBE (10 November 1880 – 21 August 1959) was an American-British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture ( Vorticism and Futurism ) , of Polish Jewish ancestry.
• Irving Finkel (born 1951), philologist and Assyriologist Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures in the Department of the Middle East in the British Museum, specialises in cuneiform from ancient Mesopotamia.
• Eva Frankfurther,(10 February 1930-January 1959) was a German Jewish-born British artist known for her depictions of the Jamaican Windrush immigrant communities of the East End of London in the 1950s
• Barnett Freedman CBE RDI (19 May 1901 – 4 January 1958) was a British painter, commercial designer, book illustrator, typographer, and lithographer of Russian Jewish ancestry.
• Bella Freud, descendent of Sigmund Freud, fashion designer of Viennese Jewish ancestry, notable on the early punk rock scene in London circa 1976, having worked in Vivienne Westwood's shops and having connections to Jordan Pamela Rooke and the Bromley Contingent .
• Jill Furmanovsky, of Russian Jewish ancestry; prominent in the early punk rock explosion in England, she photographed The Ramones, Bob Marley, The Clash, Soo Catwoman, Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Sex Pistols.
• Kitty Garman, (27 August 1926 – 11 January 2011), was a British artist, who, following role of the muses, was a model for her father Jacob Epstein, her first husband Lucian Freud (including Portrait of Kitty), and Andrew Tift. In 2004 she had her own show at The New Art Gallery Walsall.
• Robert Gavron CBE FRSL (13 September 1930 – 7 February 2015); chairman of the Guardian Media Group and a trustee of the Scott Trust between 1997 and 2000; chairman of the Open College of the Arts (1991–1996), a director of the Royal Opera House (1992–1998), a trustee of the National Gallery (1994–2001), and of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation (1987–2005). He was a governor of the London School of Economics (1997–2002) and in 1996 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
• Mark Gertler (artist) (9 December 1891 – 23 June 1939), born Marks Gertler, was a British painter ( Vorticism, Futurism, Cubism ) of figure subjects, portraits and still-life and one of the Whitechapel Boys of Polish Jewish ancestry. He was inspiration for Gilbert Cannan's novel Mendel. The characters of Loerke in D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love, and Gombauld in Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow were based on him.
• Stephen Glass, was a Hungarian Jewish photographer best known for his nude studies. With his younger brother, Zoltán Glass, he was one of a large group of talented Hungarians who fled westward before the outbreak Second World War.
• Gluck (painter) was a British painter, who rejected any forename or prefix (such as ‘Miss’ or ‘Mr.’), as Gluck was gender-nonconforming. Gluck was born into Jewish family in London, England. Gluck's father was Joseph Gluckstein, whose brothers Isidore and Montague had founded J. Lyons and Co., a British coffee house and catering empire.
• Walter Goehr,(German: [ɡøːɐ̯]; 28 May 1903 – 4 December 1960) was a German Jewish composer and conductor and descendent of Felix Mendelssohn and Moses Mendelssohn.
• Ruth Gollancz, follower of Modernism, Avant-garde painter and wife of Victor Gollancz.
• Victor Gollancz (/ɡəˈlænts/; 9 April 1893 – 8 February 1967) was a British publisher and humanitarian, supporter of left-wing causes, of German Jewish and Polish Jewish Rabbinical heritage.
• Lucian Grainge CBE (born 29 February 1960) is the chairman and chief executive officer of Universal Music Group.
• Nigel Grainge (4 October 1946 – 11 June 2017) was a British music executive, and the founder of Ensign Records in 1976; brother of Lucian Grainge.
• Derek Green, management, Public Relations and promotion for A&M Records.
• Paul Hamlyn, CBE (12 February 1926 – 31 August 2001) German Jewish born British publisher and philanthropist; established Paul Hamlyn Foundation; also established Music for Pleasure (record label) as a joint venture with EMI; the Royal Opera House announced that Floral Hall atrium will be renamed Paul Hamlyn Hall in his honour .
• Ruth Harrison OBE (née Winsten; 24 June 1920 – 13 June 2000) was an English animal welfare activist and writer; daughter of author Stephen Winsten and artist Clara Birnberg.
• Solomon Hart RA (April 1806 – 11 June 1881) was a British painter and engraver. He was the first Jewish member of the Royal Academy in London and was probably the most important Jewish artist working in England in the 19th century.
• Edith Tudor-Hart, Austrian Jewish British Marxist activist, photographer and spy, trained at Walter Gropius's Bauhaus, recruited the Cambridge Spy ring.
• Arnold Haskell (19 July 1903, London – 14 November 1980, Bath) was a British dance critic who founded the Camargo Society in 1930. With Ninette de Valois, he was influential in the development of the Royal Ballet School.
• Margot Heinemann, (18 November 1913 – 10 June 1992) was a British Marxist writer, drama scholar, and leading member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB).
• Rose Henriques, pianist, activist and British artist of German Jewish ancestry, and social and charity worker in the East End of London.
• Andy Hobsbawm, son of Eric Hobsbawm, entrepreneur, writer and musician of Viennese Jewish ancestry.
• Dick James (born Leon Isaac Vapnick; 12 December 1920 – 1 February 1986, of Polish Jewish ancestry) was a British music publisher and singer. He and Brian Epstein established the Beatles' publisher Northern Songs.
• Lily Delissa Joseph, née Solomon, (24 June 1863 – 27 July 1940) was a British artist and social campaigner active in the English suffrage movement.
• Gerry Judah, FRSS is a British artist and designer of Iraqi Jewish and Mizrahi Jewish ancestry who has created settings for theatre, film, television, museums and public spaces.
• Princess Julia (born Julia Fodor, 8 April 1960) is an English DJ and music writer who has also been called the "first lady of London's fashion scene.
• Nathan Joseph (23 July 1939 – 30 August 2005) was a British record company founder, theatrical producer and talent agent; pioneer in the development of independent record companies in the 1960s and 1970s; founder of Transatlantic Records, an independent British record company that flourished between 1961 and 1977.
• Antony Kamm, of Polish Jewish ancestry and son of George Kamm, a founder director of Pan Books and his wife Josephine, a biographer and novelist (who was a first cousin of Herbert Samuel). Kamm's wife, Anthea Bell translated Asterix and the works of Franz Kafka.
• Alan Keith, of Russian Jewish ancestry, OBE (born Alexander Kossoff; 19 October 1908 – 17 March 2003) was a British actor, disc jockey and radio presenter, noted for being the longest-serving and eldest presenter on British radio by the time of his death aged 94.
• Linda Keith, of Russian Jewish ancestry, (born 1946) is a former British fashion model, best known for her work for Vogue magazine during the 1960s as well as her involvement in the rock music scene; first cousin of Paul Kossoff.
• Michael Korda (born 8 October 1933) is an English-born writer and novelist of Hungarian Jewish ancestry, who was editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster in New York City.
• Vincent Korda (22 June 1897 – 4 January 1979) was a Hungarian Jewish art director, later settling in Britain, and he was the younger brother of Alexander and Zoltan Korda.
• Jacob Kramer (26 December 1892 – 4 February 1962) was a Ukrainian Jewish born painter who spent all of his working life in England
• Clive Langer, New wave music, punk rock and post-punk sound engineer and record producer, of Polish Jewish ancestry.
• Philip de László MVO RBA (born Fülöp Laub; Template:Lang-hu; 30 April 1869 – 22 November 1937) was an Anglo- Hungarian Jewish painter known particularly for his portraits of royal and aristocratic personages.
• Michael Levy, Baron Levy, (born 11 July 1944), Labour Party peer, was chairman and CEO of group of music companies, founded Magnet Records, now consultant for a number of companies and is chairman of finance company, spent nine years as Tony Blair's special envoy to Middle East
• Flora Lion (3 December 1878 – 15 May 1958), English portrait painter, known for her portraits of society figures and murals
• Albert Marchinsky, (1875 – July 1930) was a Polish Jewish stage magician.
• Gered Mankowitz, rock music and fashion photographer . Son of Wolf Mankowitz, of Russian Jewish ancestry. Worked with Jimi Hendrix and Soft Machine.
• Enid Marx, distant cousin of Karl Marx, RDI (20 October 1902 – 18 May 1998), was an English painter and designer, best known for her industrial textile designs for the London Transport Board and the Utility furniture Scheme. Marx was the first female engraver to be designated as a Royal Designer for Industry.
• Isabel Maxwell, (born 16 August 1950, daughter of Robert Maxwell ) film maker for Southern Television in the UK; in 1973, Maxwell made her first film, an adaptation of the book Jonathan Livingston Seagull, entrepreneur and the co-founder of Magellan, an early search engine, listed as a Technology Pioneer of the World Economic Forum, She served as the President of Commtouch, an Israeli internet company that became CYREN. She was a Director of Israel Venture Network and built up their Social Entrepreneur program in Israel from 2004-2010.
• Stella McCartney, daughter of Linda McCartney, who was of German Jewish and Russian Jewish ancestry.
• Malcolm McLaren, of Sephardi ancestry, (22 January 1946 – 8 April 2010) was an English impresario, agent provocateur, major figure in the history and origination of punk rock, fashion designer and boutique owner, follower of the Situationist International and the Avant-garde, promoter and manager of the New York Dolls and the Sex Pistols.
• Daniel Mendoza (5 July 1764 – 3 September 1836); renowned English prizefighter, who became the 18th boxing champion of England from 1792–1795; of Sephardic or Portuguese Jewish descent.
• Bernard Meninsky, (25 July 1891 – 12 February 1950), Ukrainian Jewish abstract artist and Avant-garde theorist.
• Hephzibah Menuhin, descendent of Shneur Zalman of Liadi, sister of Yehudi Menuhin,daughter of pro Palestinian anti Zionist activist Moshe Menuhin, author, musician, social activist, President of the British chapter of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
• Oliver Messel, (13 January 1904 – 13 July 1978) was an English artist of German Jewish ancestry and one of the foremost stage designers of the 20th century.
• Gustav Metzger (10 April 1926, Nuremberg – 1 March 2017, London), exponent of performance art,collaborator with Fluxus, art tutor to Pete Townshend, leading exponent of Auto-Destructive Art and the Art Strike, of Polish Jewish origin.
• Tanya Moiseiwitsch, CBE, OC (3 December 1914 – 19 February 2003) was an English theatre designer pf Russian Jewish ancestry and daughter of Benno Moiseiwitsch.
• Felix Moscheles (8 February 1833 – 22 December 1917) was an English painter, writer, peace activist, president of the International Arbitration and Peace Association. Of German Jewish ancestry.
• Stirling Moss OBE (17 September 1929 – 12 April 2020) was a British Formula One racing driver ( Family name was originally Moses, changed to Moss).
• Maud Nelke; 7 November 1891 – 27 May 1982) was a British socialite and art patron, who aided Jewish relatives in their escape from Nazi Germany during the 1930s.
• Oscar Nemon, sculptor famed for his busts of Sigmund Freud and Winston Churchill, of Austrian Jewish and Hungarian Jewish origin; father of Falcon Stuart, fashion photographer for Vogue (magazine) and Harper's Bazaar , punk rock clothes retailer, filmmaker, manager and music producer associated with X-Ray Spex, and Adam and the Ants.
• Otto Neurath (German: [ˈnɔʏʀaːt]; 10 December 1882 – 22 December 1945) was an Austrian Jewish philosopher of science, sociologist, and political economist; inventor of the ISOTYPE method of pictorial statistics and an innovator in museum practice. Before he fled his native country in 1934, Neurath was one of the leading figures of the Vienna Circle.
• Maurice Oberstein (26 September 1928—13 August 2001) was a British American music business executive; credited as "one of the chief architects of the modern UK record industry".
• Sharon Osbourne née Levy , of Ashkenazi descent, music manager and wife of Black Sabbath vocalist, Ozzy Osbourne.
• Phyllis Pearsall MBE (25 September 1906 – 28 August 1996) was a British painter and writer who founded the Geographers' A-Z Map Company, for which she is regarded as one of the most successful business people of the twentieth century; of Hungarian Jewish ancestry.
• Manfred Reiss, of Polish Jewish ancestry, exponent of British Avant-garde modernism, and, rooted in Vorticism, Cubism and Abstract art, pursued a highly successful career in Graphic Design and in the late forties and early fifties, he was one of the most prolific British poster designers.
• David and Simon Reuben; of Iraqi Jewish ancestry;named as the second richest family in the UK by the Sunday Times Rich List with a net worth of £16 billion. Involved in sports management related to takeover of Newcastle United and Arena Racing Company.
• Martha Richler (born October 11, 1964) is an art historian and cartoonist. Working for the Evening Standard, she was the first woman to produce a daily cartoon for the newspapers based in London, known collectively as "Fleet Street". Her father is the writer Mordecai Richler. She now works as an editorial cartoonist for The Jewish Chronicle.
• Fermin Rocker (22 December 1907 – 18 October 2004) was a British painter and book illustrator. He was the son of the anarcho-syndicalist theorist and activist Rudolf Rocker, a German, who had moved to London 1895, and Milly Witkop, a Ukrainian Jew and anarchist and feminist activist, who had fled to London in 1894.
• Bernard Rhodes, agent provocateur, Praxis (process) and Détournement seditionary Avant-Garde fashion designer for Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, manager of Subway Sect, The Clash, Twenty Flight Rockers and integral to the development of the punk rock scene in England from the mid 1970s and of Russian Jewish origin.
• Zandra Rhodes, fashion designer.
• Jake Riviera , founder of early punk rock record label, Stiff Records.
• William Rothenstein , painter, designer, Avant-garde theorist, Rothenstein was knighted in the New Year Honours in 1931. Rabindranath Tagore dedicated his Nobel Prize winner poetry collection Gitanjali to William Rothenstein.
• Philip Sallon is a British club promoter, fashion designer and style innovator on the early British punk rock scene in 1976, of Polish Jewish ancestry. Son of renowned cartoonist and satirist Ralph Sallon.
• Ralph Sallon ( 1899 - 1999 ), noted cartoonist and political satirist of Polish Jewish ancestry and father of Philip Sallon. Winston Churchill had Sallon's satirical drawings of Hitler copied and airdropped over Germany and occupied Europe.
• Adrian Sassoon (born February 1961) is an English art dealer of Iraqi Jewish ancestry, art collector and writer.; schooled at Eton College, taught ceramics by Gordon Baldwin; studied at Christie’s Education. ; curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
• Ian Saville (born 1953), magician
• James Schneider (born 17 June 1987), is the co-founder of the left wing grassroots movement Momentum. In October 2016 he was appointed as a PR advisor to the leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, taking the role of Director of Strategic Communications.
• Isaac Shoenberg, (1 March 1880 – 25 January 1963) of Russian Jewish ancestry; best known for his role in the history of television; head of the EMI research team that developed the 405-line (Marconi-EMI system), the first fully electronic television system.
• Nicholas Serota, CH (born 27 April 1946) is an English art historian and curator, who served as the Director of the Tate; currently Chair of Arts Council England.
• Oda Slobodskaya (28 November/10 December 1888 - 30 July 1970) was a Russian Jewish soprano who became a British citizen.
• Rebecca Solomon (London 26 September 1832 – 20 November 1886 London) was a 19th-century English draftsman, illustrator, engraver, and painter of social injustices.
• Yolanda Sonnabend (26 March 1935 – 9 November 2015) was a British theatre and ballet designer and painter, primarily of portraits, of Russian Jewish ancestry.
• Falcon Stuart, British photographer for Vogue (magazine) and Harper's Bazaar , punk rock clothes retailer, filmmaker, manager and music producer associated with X-Ray Spex, and Adam and the Ants. Son of sculptor Oscar Nemon, of Austrian Jewish and Hungarian Jewish origin.
• Anya Teixeira (1913 – 1992) was a Russian Jewish British street photographer and photojournalist. Her work is held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
• Geoff Travis, founder of Rough Trade Records, of Ukrainian Jewish and Romanian Jewish origin.
• Monica van der Zyl (27 April 1935 – 6 March 2021) was a German Jewish actress based in the United Kingdom, known for her dubbing work on the James Bond film franchise; mother of Marie van der Zyl (née Kaye; born November 1965), who is the 48th President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
• Minnie Weisz, photographer and visual artist of Hungarian Jewish ancestry.
• Milly Witkop (-Rocker), (March 3, 1877 – November 23, 1955) was a Ukrainian-born Jewish anarcho-syndicalist, feminist writer and activist. She was the common-law wife of the prominent anarcho-syndicalist leader Rudolf Rocker. The couple's son, Fermin Rocker, was an artist.

See also

• Lists of Jews
• List of British Jews

References

• JYB = Jewish Year Book
• TimesAd: The Times, 6/7/06 p34: "A Call by Jews in Britain" (advert signed by 300 British Jews)

External links

• Jinfo