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Revision as of 01:16, 7 March 2005
This page is a list of people identified as Jews, either by themselves or by others. "Jewishness" has the meanings both of "adherence to the religion of Judaism" and "membership in the ethnic group 'Jews.'" People of both groups are listed here. By other criteria, these people may be listed under other nationalities as well.
This page does not differentiate between Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist Jews. It also does not take into account whether those listed acknowledge their Jewish identity or origins. Jewish tradition defines a Jew as a person with a Jewish mother. Most Jews would not agree with listing someone who was not brought up Jewish, or who does not adhere to Jewish beliefs as "Jewish."
Many listed here may have spent their lives disguising their Jewish origins, and married gentile (non-Jewish) spouses. In many cases the individuals listed may have only one Jewish parent. They may have never practiced Judaism, and may even have adopted another faith, or may be secular or atheist.
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. |
Arts, Performing
This page is a list of people identified as Jews, either by themselves or by others. "Jewishness" has the meanings both of "adherence to the religion of Judaism" and "membership in the ethnic group 'Jews.'" People of both groups are listed here. By other criteria, these people may be listed under other nationalities as well.
This page does not differentiate between Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist Jews. It also does not take into account whether those listed acknowledge their Jewish identity or origins. Jewish tradition defines a Jew as a person with a Jewish mother. Most Jews would not agree with listing someone who was not brought up Jewish, or who does not adhere to Jewish beliefs as "Jewish."
Many listed here may have spent their lives disguising their Jewish origins, and married gentile (non-Jewish) spouses. In many cases the individuals listed may have only one Jewish parent. They may have never practiced Judaism, and may even have adopted another faith, or may be secular or atheist.
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. |
Arts, Performing
Actors / Actresses
- Anouk Aimee, French actress
- Woody Allen, US actor, film director
- Jason Alexander, US actor, known from Seinfeld; born Jason Greenspan
- David Arquette, US actor (Jewish mother)
- Patricia Arquette, US actress (Jewish mother)
- Rosanna Arquette, US actress (Jewish mother)
- Bea Arthur, US actress, known from Maude and The Golden Girls
- Leon Askin, Austrian actor, known from Hogan's Heroes
- Ed Asner, US actor
- Harvey Atkin, Canadian actor and cartoon voice
- Hank Azaria, US actor
- Lauren Bacall, US actress
- Barbara Bain, US actress, known from Mission Impossible
- John Banner, Austrian-born US actor, Sargeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes
- Theda Bara, US actress
- David Barnes, US actor
- Sacha Baron Cohen, British actor, known from Da Ali G Show
- Roseanne Barr, US TV actress
- Richard Belzer, US actor and comedian
- Sandra Bernhard, US actress
- Sarah Bernhardt, French actress and dancer
- Joey Bishop, US actor, member of the Rat Pack
- Jack Black, US actor and rock musician
- Mel Blanc, US cartoon voice actor
- Selma Blair, US actress
- Yasmine Bleeth, US actress (Jewish father)
- Orlando Bloom, English actor (Jewish father)
- Lisa Bonet, US actress, known from The Cosby Show (Jewish mother)
- Ernest Borgnine, US actor
- Alex Borstein, US actress (Jewish father)
- Tom Bosley, US actor
- Matthew Broderick US actor (Jewish mother)
- Adam Brody US actor
- Albert Brooks, US actor
- Mel Brooks, US comedian, filmmaker
- Brooke Burke, US actress (Jewish mother)
- Steve Buscemi, US actor (converted to Scientology)
- James Caan, US actor
- Dyan Cannon, US actress (Jewish mother)
- Kate Capshaw, US actress (converted)
- Nell Carter, US actress (converted)
- Robert Clary, French-born US actor, Cpl Louis Lebeau from Hogan's Heroes
- Jill Clayburgh, US Oscar-nominated actress
- Lee J. Cobb, US actor
- Mindy Cohn, US television actress on The Facts of Life
- Joan Collins, British actress, known from Dynasty (Jewish father)
- Jennifer Connelly, US actress (Jewish mother)
- Paulo Costanzo, US TV actor (mother Jewish)
- Billy Crystal, US actor and comedian
- Jamie Lee Curtis, US actress (Jewish father- see below)
- Tony Curtis, US actor
- Larry David, US actor and comedy writer
- Sammy Davis Jr., US actor and performer (converted)
- Daniel Day-Lewis, British actor (Jewish mother)
- Kirk Douglas
- Michael Douglas, US actor, (Jewish father), son of Kirk Douglas
- Rachel Dratch, US actress known for Saturday Night Live
- Richard Dreyfuss, US actor
- Fran Drescher, US actress (Jewish father)
- David Duchovny, US actor (Jewish father)
- Lisa Edelstein, US actress
- Peter Falk, US actor
- Itzik Feffer, Russian Yiddish actor
- Corey Feldman, US actor
- Norman Fell, US actor
- Harvey Fierstein, US actor
- Fyvush Finkel, US actor
- Carrie Fisher, US actress, (father Jewish), star of Star Wars movies
- Harrison Ford, US actor, (mother Jewish)
- Al Franken, US actor and comedy writer
- Bonnie Franklin, US actress, known from One Day at a Time
- Allen Funt, US TV personality, creator of Candid Camera
- Dan Futterman, US actor
- Brad Garrett, US actor
- Sarah Michelle Gellar, US actress
- Jami Gertz, US actress
- Estelle Getty, US actress, known from Golden Girls
- Melissa Gilbert, US actress, known from Little House on the Prairie
- Judith Godrèche, French actress
- Adam Goldberg, US actor (father Jewish)
- Jeff Goldblum, US actor
- Seth Green, US actor
- Lorne Greene, Canadian actor
- Jennifer Grey, US actress
- Joel Grey, US actor
- Charles Grodin, US actor
- Steve Guttenberg, US actor
- Jake Gyllenhaal, US actor (Jewish mother)
- Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born British actor
- Nina Hartley, US pornographic film actress (parents converted to Zen Buddhism)
- Goldie Hawn, US actress (Jewish mother)
- Steven Hill, US actor best known on Law & Order
- Judd Hirsch, US actor
- Dustin Hoffman, US actor
- Judy Holliday, US Oscar-winning actress
- John Houseman, Romanian-born US actor
- Leslie Howard, UK actor, born Hungary,"Pygmalion", Ashley in "Gone with the Wind".
- Kate Hudson, US actress, daughter of Goldie Hawn (Jewish mother)
- Oliver Hudson, US actor, son of Goldie Hawn (Jewish mother)
- Amy Irving, US actress (Jewish father, raised Baptist)
- Ron Jeremy, US pornographic and mainstream actor
- Scarlett Johansson, US actress
- Al Jolson, US singer, actor, early sound film star
- Carolyn Jones, US actress, known from The Addams Family (converted)
- Madeline Kahn, US actress
- Gabriel Kaplan, US actor
- Chris Kattan, US actor and comedian. (Jewish father, parents practiced Buddhism.)
- Andy Kaufman, US actor and comedian, known from "SNL" and "Taxi"
- Julie Kavner, US actress, known from The Simpsons
- Lesli Kay, US soap opera actress
- Danny Kaye, US actor, dancer, and singer
- Harvey Keitel, US actor
- Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
- Werner Klemperer, German-born US actor, Colonel Klink from Hogan's Heroes (Jewish father)
- Jack Klugman, US actor
- Vera Korene, French actress and singer
- Yaphet Kotto, US actor
- Lisa Kudrow, US actress
- Mila Kunis, Ukrainian-born US actress
- Rikki Lake, US actress
- Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born US actress
- Michael Landon US Actor (Jewish father)
- Juliet Landau, US actress
- Martin Landau, US actor
- Piper Laurie, US actress
- Linda Lavin, US actress
- Shia LeBoeuff, US actor (Jewish mother, but raised Jewish)
- Jennifer Jason Leigh, US actress (Jewish father, daughter of Vic Morrow)
- Eugene Levy, Canadian actor
- Al Lewis, US actor, Grandpa on The Munsters
- 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
- Natasha Lyonne, US actress
- Ali MacGraw, US actress (Jewish mother)
- Marlee Matlin, US Oscar-winning deaf actress
- Walter Matthau, US actor
- Debra Messing, TV actress (Will and Grace)
- Solomon Mikhoels, Russian Yiddish actor
- Bette Midler, US singer and actress
- Marilyn Monroe, US actress (converted)
- Rick Moranis, Canadian/US actor and comedian
- Vic Morrow, US actor
- Bess Myerson, US TV entertainer
- Judd Nelson, US actor, member of the Brat Pack
- Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (Jewish father)
- Lorraine Newman, US actress, known from Saturday Night Live
- Paul Newman, US actor (Jewish father)
- Leonard Nimoy, US actor, known from Star Trek
- Sophie Okonedo, British actress, 2005 Oscar nominee (Jewish mother)
- Sharon Osbourne, TV talkshow host, Reality Show alumni (Jewish father)
- Gwyneth Paltrow, US actress (Jewish father)
- Sara Jessica Parker, US actress (Jewish mother)
- Sean Penn, US actor (Jewish father)
- Rhea Perlman, US actress
- David Petersen, Philanthropist
- Jeremy Piven, US actor
- Suzanne Pleshette, US actress
- Kevin Pollak, US actor
- Tracy Pollan, US actress
- Natalie Portman, Israeli-born, US actress
- Rachel, French actress
- Gilda Radner, US actress, known from Saturday Night Live
- Harold Ramis, US actor
- Eden Riegel, US soap opera actress
- Doris Roberts, US actress
- Tracey Ellis Ross, US actress, daughter of Diana Ross (Jewish father)
- Saul Rubinek, German-born Canadian actor
- Edward G. Robinson, Romanian-born US actor
- Winona Ryder, US actress (Jewish father)
- Daryl Sabara, US actor
- Andrew Sachs, British actor, known from Fawlty Towers
- Emma Samms, British actress, known from Dynasty
- Adam Sandler, US actor, comedian
- David Schwimmer, US actor
- Peter Sellers, British actor
- William Shatner, Canadian actor, known from Star Trek
- Harry Shearer, US actor, several voices on The Simpsons
- Ally Sheedy, US actress (Jewish mother)
- Dinah Shore, US actress
- Simone Signoret, French actress
- Jonathan Silverman, US actor
- Sarah Silverman, US actress
- Rena Sofer, US actress
- Olga Sosnovska, US/British actress, known from All My Children and MI-5 (Jewish father)
- Jill St. John, US actress
- Howard Stern, US radio personality
- Ben Stiller, US comic actor (Jewish father, son of Jerry Stiller)
- Jerry Stiller, US comic actor and comedian
- Barbra Streisand, US actress and singer
- David Suchet, British actor
- Elizabeth Taylor, British-born US actress (converted)
- Boris Thomashevsky, star of Yiddish theater
- Al Waxman, Canadian actor
- Rachel Weisz, British actress
- Gene Wilder, US comic actor
- Mare Winningham, US actress (converted, reported to be quite devout)
- Shelley Winters US actress -Oscars for Diary of Anne Frank, (1959) and A Patch of Blue, (1965)
- Noah Wyle, US actor
- Nikki Schieler Ziering, US actress, (converted for marriage and remained Jewish after divorce)
Comedians
- Woody Allen, US comedian
- Dave Attell, US comedian
- David Baddiel, British comedian
- Roseanne Barr, US comedienne
- Richard Belzer, US actor and comedian
- Jack Benny, US comedian
- Milton Berle, US comedian
- Mel Brooks, US comedian
- David Brenner, US comic
- Fanny Brice, US comedienne
- Lewis Black, US comedian
- Lenny Bruce, US satirist
- George Burns, US comedian
- Sid Caesar, US comedian
- Andrew "Dice" Clay, US comedian
- Sacha Baron Cohen, British comedian, also known as Ali G
- David Cross, US actor and comedian
- Billy Crystal, US actor and comedian
- Rodney Dangerfield, US comedian, born Jacob Cohen
- Fran Drescher, US comedienne
- Marty Feldman, British comedian
- Larry Fine, US actor and comedian, Larry of the Three Stooges
- Whoopie Goldberg US comedian (converted)
- Gilbert Gottfried, US comedian
- Gary Gulman, US standup comedian
- Buddy Hackett, US comedian
- Jerome Howard, US actor and comedian, Curly of the Three Stooges
- Moses Howard, US actor and comedian, Moe of the Three Stooges
- Shmuel Howard, US actor and comedian, Shemp of the Three Stooges
- Sid James, British comedian
- Jenny Jones, US comedienne and talk show host
- Andy Kaufman, US comedian, actor, performance artist
- Alan King, US Show business personality and comic
- Richard Lewis, US comedian
- Jerry Lewis, US actor and comedian
- Bill Maher, US comedian
- Howie Mandel, Canadian comedian
- Chico Marx, US vaudeville and film comic actor
- Groucho Marx, US vaudeville and film comic actor
- Gummo Marx, US vaudeville actor
- Harpo Marx, US vaudeville and film comic actor
- Zeppo Marx, US vaudeville and film comic actor
- Anne Meara, US comedienne and actress (converted)
- Dave Osborne, US comic
- Kevin Pollak, US actor and comedian
- Freddie Prinze Sr., US comedian (Jewish father)
- Gilda Radner, US comedienne
- Tony Randall, US comedian, The Odd Couple
- Carl Reiner, US comedian, writer, actor, director
- Don Rickles, US comic, actor
- Joan Rivers, US comedienne
- John Safran, Australian comedian
- Bob Saget, US comedian, actor
- Mort Sahl, US comedian
- Adam Sandler, US comedian, actor
- Alexei Sayle, UK comedian, actor
- Jerry Seinfeld, US comedian
- Robert Schimmel, US comedian
- Garry Shandling, US comedian, actor
- Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian
- Sarah Silverman, US comedian, actor
- Bobby Slayton, US comedian, actor, radio host
- Yakov Smirnov, US/Russian comedian
- Jon Stewart, US comedian
- Jerry Stiller, US radio comic, actor
- Soupy Sales, US comedian
- Raymond Teller, US comedian, magician, part of Penn and Teller duo
- Ovadia A. Vaknin, Israeli comedian
Directors
- Ramzi Abed, US director (Jewish mother)
- Darren Aronofsky, US director
- Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, US writer-producer-director team
- George Cukor. US director
- Jules Dassin, American director
- Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet director of Aleksander Niefsky and Ivan the Terrible
- John Frankenheimer, US director
- Sam Fuller, US director and screenwriter
- Henry Jaglom, US director
- Jim Jarmusch, US director
- Spike Jonze, US director
- Lloyd Kaufman, US director
- Stanley Kubrick, US director
- Fritz Lang, German director
- Ernst Lubitch,Europe-US director,"To Be or not To Be",
- Sidney Lumet, US director
- Bill Lustig, US director
- Branko Lustig, US-Croatian film director
- Leo Penn, US director and actor, father of actor Sean Penn
- Roman Polanski, Polish-born US director (Jewish father)
- Sydney Pollack, US director
- Abraham Polonsky, US director
- Otto Preminger, Austrian-born US director
- John Schlesinger, British director
- Steven Spielberg, US director
- Oliver Stone, US director
- Edgar G. Ulmer, German-born US director
- Billy Wilder, Austrian-born US director
- Michael Winner, British director
- Rob Reiner,US director ("Princess Charming"," Harry/Sally")
- Zucker brothers,US parody directors
Hollywood
- William Fox (Fox Film Corporation; 20th Century-Fox)
- Michael Eisner (Paramount Pictures; Disney Studios)
- Robert Evans (Paramount Pictures)
- David Geffen (Warner Brothers; DreamWorks SKG)
- Sam Goldwyn, (the "G" in MGM)
- Jeffrey Katzenberg (Paramount Pictures; DreamWorks SKG)
- Carl Laemmle (Universal Pictures)
- Carl Laemmle Jr (Universal Studios)
- Marcus Loew (MGM)
- Joseph Schenck (20th Century Pictures)
- Steven Spielberg (DreamWorks SKG)
- Louis B. Mayer, (the "M" of MGM)
- Jack Warner (Warner Brothers)
- Lew Wasserman (Universal Studios)
- Bob Weinstein (Miramax)
- Harvey Weinstein (Miramax)
- Adolph Zukor (Paramount Pictures)
- Irving Thalberg "the Last Tycoon"
Illusionists
- David Blaine, US illusionist (Jewish mother, raised Jewish)
- David Copperfield, US illusionist
- Uri Geller, Israeli spoon bending magician
- Harry Houdini, US illusionist
- Ricky Jay, US magician
Musicians
- Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer and virtuoso pianist
- Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian conductor
- Emanuel Ax, US pianist
- Paula Abdul, US singer, former LA Laker Girl, panelist on American Idol
- Herb Alpert, US musician
- Babydaddy (aka Scot Hoffman), US bassist, keyboardist, composer for Scissor Sisters.
- Burt Bacharach, US musician and songwriter
- Daniel Barenboim, Argentine-Israeli classical musician and conductor
- Beck (Hansen), singer and musician. Ethnically Jewish, currently a Scientologist.
- Walter Becker, US bass player, guitarist, songwriter, founding member of Steely Dan
- Irving Berlin, US songwriter, composer
- Bart Berman, Dutch-Israeli pianist, composer
- Lazar Berman, Russian classical pianist
- Dan Bern, US songwriter, singer
- Leonard Bernstein, US conductor, composer
- Hal Blaine, US session drummer
- Ernest Bloch, Swiss-born US composer
- Marc Bolan, British rock musician for band T. Rex
- Michael Bolton, US singer
- Mike Burkett, US singer, bass player in punk band NOFX
- Eddie Cantor, US pop singer, comedian, actor
- Eric Carmen, US musician, songwriter
- Cristian Castro, Mexican singer
- Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer (converted to Buddhism)
- Aaron Copland, US composer
- Sammy Davis, Jr., US singer (converted to Judaism)
- Mike Diamond (a.k.a. Mike D), US rapper with the group Beastie Boys
- Neil Diamond, US singer
- Paul Dukas, French composer
- Adam Duritz, US singer, songwriter for band Counting Crows
- Bob Dylan, US singer, songwriter (converted to Christianity, current religious affiliation uncertain)
- Jakob Dylan, US singer for band The Wallflowers
- Mama Cass Elliott, US singer with the group The Mamas and The Papas
- Ziggy Ellman, US jazz musician
- Donald Fagen, US keyboard player, singer, songwriter, founding member of Steely Dan
- Giora Feidman, clarinet player and Klezmer musician
- Perry Farrell, US musician, bandleader in Jane's Addiction, Porno For Pyros.
- Anthony Field, member of Australian children's music band The Wiggles
- Jon Fishman, US musician, drummer for Phish
- Flo and Eddie US musicians
- Ben Folds, Australian singer, songwriter, founder of rock group Ben Folds Five
- Kinky Friedman, US country singer, author
- Jackie Fox, US bassist of band The Runaways
- Nikolai Fraiture, French-born US bassist for rock-n-roll band The Strokes
- Kenny G, US musician
- Serge Gainsbourg, French singer, songwriter
- Art Garfunkel, US singer
- J. Geils, US rock musician
- Marvin Goldstein, US pianist (converted to LDS Church)
- Benny Goodman, US musician, bandleader
- Mike Gordon, US musician, bassist for Phish
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk, US composer (Jewish father)
- Graham Gouldman, British musician and songwriter, member of 10cc
- Mick Green, British guitarist, brother of Peter Green
- Peter Green, British guitarist, seminal member of Fleetwood Mac
- Norman Greenbaum, US musician, best known for hit Spirit in the Sky
- Brett Gurewitz, US musician and founder of Epitaph Records and punk rock group Bad Religion
- Richard Hell, US rock musician, poet
- Billy Joel, US singer
- Al Jolson, US singer
- Mick Jones, British rock musician, member of the Clash
- Jascha Heifetz, US violinist
- Susanna Hoffs, US member of band The Bangles
- Adam Horovitz (a.k.a. Ad-Rock), US rapper with the group Beastie Boys
- Carole King, US singer and songwriter
- Ed King, US rock guitarist of Strawberry Alarm Clock and Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Otto Klemperer, German-born US-Israeli conductor
- Mark Knopfler, British guitarist, founder of rock group Dire Straits (Jewish father)
- Lee Konitz, US jazz musician
- Lenny Kravitz, US musician (Jewish father)
- Steve Lacy, US jazz musician
- Steve Lawrence, US singer
- Geddy Lee, Canadian musician, lead singer of rock group Rush
- Tom Lehrer, singer/songwriter
- James Levine, US conductor
- Adam Levine, Lead singer, Maroon 5
- Ted Lewis, US musician, entertainer
- György Ligeti, Hungarian composer
- Lisa Loeb, US pop singer
- Ron Mael and Russell Mael,US rock band stars of Sparks
- Lorin Maazel, US conductor
- Gustav Mahler, Austro-Hungarian Viennese composer (converted to Catholicism)
- Barry Manilow, US entertainer (Jewish mother)
- Manfred Mann, South African born British rock musician
- Shelly Manne, US jazz musician
- Linda McCartney, née Eastman, US-born photographer
- Malcolm McLaren, British impresario and recording artist (Jewish mother)
- Eric Melvin, Guitarist for punk band NOFX
- Felix Mendelssohn, German Romantic composer (converted to Christianity)
- Yehudi Menuhin, US-British violinist, conductor, educator
- Giacomo Meyerbeer, German opera composer
- Mezz Mezzrow, US jazz musician
- Darius Milhaud, French composer
- Daniel Miller, UK producer, founder of Mute records
- Nathan Milstein, US violinist
- Sandy Nelson, US musician
- Randy Newman, US singer
- Phil Ochs, US singer, songwriter
- Steven Page, Canadian singer, guitarist for Barenaked Ladies
- Jacques Offenbach, French composer
- Murray Perahia, US pianist
- Itzhak Perlman, Israeli-US violinist
- Pink, US rock and hip hop singer (born Alecia Moore, mother Jewish)
- Joey Ramone, US rock singer
- Lou Reed, US singer, songwriter
- Buddy Rich, US jazz musician
- Jonathan Richman, US singer, songwriter
- Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer
- David Lee Roth, US rock singer, lead singer of Van Halen
- Curt Sachs, German-US musicologist
- Hank Sapoznik, klezmer musician
- Artur Schnabel, Polish-Austrian-US classical pianist
- Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer
- Franz Schreker, Austrian-German composer (Jewish father)
- Neil Sedaka, US singer, songwriter
- Artie Shaw, US jazz musician, bandleader
- Shel Silverstein, US songwriter
- Gene Simmons, US bass player for rock group KISS
- Carly Simon, US Singer, songwriter (Jewish father)
- Paul Simon, US musician
- Slash, British-born US rock musician (Jewish father)
- P.F. Sloan, US singer, songwriter
- Pat Smear, US rock musician, member of the Foo Fighters
- Georg Solti, Hungarian-US conductor
- Phil Spector, US record producer and songwriter
- Isaac Stern, US violinist
- Paul Stanley, US guitar player for rock band KISS
- Barbra Streisand, US singer, actress
- Willie "The Lion" Smith, US pianist
- Sylvain Sylvain, Egyptian-born US rock musician, guitarist for the New York Dolls.
- Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist, author of The Pianist
- Michael Tilson-Thomas, US conductor
- Richard Tucker, US opera singer
- Sophie Tucker, Russian-born US singer and entertainer
- Nick Valensi, US guitarist for rock band The Strokes
- Louise Wener, British rock singer and author
- Leslie West, US rock guitarist
- Kurt Weill, German-US composer
- Max Weinberg, US drummer for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band and leader of the Max Weinberg Seven
- Jane Wiedlin, US member of band The Go-Gos
- Peter Wolf, US rock singer, formerly of J Geils Band
- Adam Yauch (a.k.a. MCA), US rapper with the group Beastie Boys (converted to Buddhism)
- Maurice Zbriger, Canadian violinist, songwriter
- Warren Zevon, US rock songwriter, singer
- John Zorn, US saxophonist and composer
Arts, Visual
Artists
- Diane Arbus, US fashion photographer
- Richard Avedon, US portrait photographer
- Doris Bloom, South African-born Danish artist and sculptor
- Helen Berman, Dutch-Israeli painter
- Wallace Berman, US (Los Angeles-born) artist
- Ross Bleckner, US painter
- Marc Chagall, Russian-French painter and stained glass artist
- Judy Chicago, US feminist painter; (The Dinner Party)
- Robert Frank, Swiss-American photographer; (The Americans)
- Frank Gehry, Canadian-US architect, art museum designer
- Rube Goldberg, US cartoonist, sculptor, and author; (Rube Goldberg machine)
- Al Hansen, US/German member of the Fluxus art movement
- Al Hirschfeld, US caricaturist, featured in New York Times
- Max Jacob, French artist (converted to Catholicism)
- Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter, friend of Leon Trotsky, (Jewish father, Catholic mother)
- Louis Kahn, US architect
- Pinchus Kremegne, Russian-born French sculptor and painter
- Michel Kikoine, Russian-born French painter
- John Lautner, US architect, worked under Frank Lloyd Wright
- Daniel Libeskind, Polish-born US architect, designer of new World Trade Center; (Freedom Tower)
- Roy Lichtenstein, US popular art painter
- Peter Max, German-born Israeli-US artist
- Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor
- Helmut Newton, German photographer of nudes
- Jules Pascin, Bulgarian-French Expressionist artist
- Camille Pissarro, French painter, "Father of Impressionism"
- Man Ray, US-French surrealist photographer and film director
- H.A. Rey and Margret Rey, German-US illustrators; (Curious George)
- Larry Rivers, US abstract expressionist painter
- Chaim Soutine, Russian-born French expressionist painter
- William Steig, US cartoonist and illustrator, "King of Cartoons"; (Shrek)
- Weegee, Austrian-Polish-born US photographer and photojournalist; (Naked City)
Cartoons & Comics
- Al Capp, US cartoonist; creator of Li'l Abner
- Will Eisner, US cartoonist; (The Spirit)
- Mark Evanier, US comics and animated cartoons writer for Disney and Hanna-Barbera
- Max Fleischer, US animated cartoonist; (Popeye, Superman)
- Bob Kane, US cartoonist; creator of Batman
- Gil Kane, Latvian-born US comics artist. First to draw Silver Age Green Lantern and the Atom.
- Jack Kirby, US comics and animated cartoons creator; co-creator of Captain America, (Fantastic Four, Hulk)
- Stan Lee, US cartoon writer and creator of Marvel Comics and its heroes
- Harvey Pekar, US comic book writer; (American Splendor)
- Julius Schwartz, US comic book and magazine editor; (The Flash; Green Lantern).
- Joe Shuster, Canadian-US comics artist; co-creator of Superman
- Jerome Siegel, US comics artist; co-creator of Superman
- Joe Simon, US cartoonist; co-creator of Captain America
- Art Spiegelman, Swedish-US comic-book artist; creator of Maus
- Matt Stone, Co-creator of South Park (Jewish father)
- Mort Weisinger, US comic book and magazine editor; (Superman, Supergirl)
Clothing
- Kenneth Cole, US fashion designer
- Marc Jacobs, US clothing designer
- Calvin Klein, US fashion designer, CK
- Donna Karan, US fashion designer, DKNY
- Ralph Lauren, US fashion designer
- Stella McCartney, British fashion designer (Jewish mother)
- Isaac Mizrahi, US fashion designer
- Levi Strauss, US "Father of Jeans"
Business
- Roman Abramovich, Russian billionaire
- Steve Ballmer, US CEO of Microsoft (Jewish mother)
- Boris Berezovsky, Russian billionaire
- Michael Bloomberg, US politician, founder of Bloomberg News
- Sergey Brin Russian-born US co-founder of Google
- Samuel Bronfman, Ukrainian-born Canadian founder of Seagrams Distilleries
- Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Canadian original owner of Seagrams Distilleries
- Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Canadian-US owner of Vivendi Universal
- Isaac Carasso, Spanish founder of Danone group
- Andre Citroen, French automaker of Citroen
- Joshua Lionel Cowen, US toy inventor and manufacturer (Lionel trains)
- Jack Cohen, British businessman, founder of Tesco supermarkets
- Mark Cuban, US billionaire owner of Dallas Mavericks
- Marcel Dassault, French industrialist
- Michael Dell, US founder of Dell Inc.
- Larry Ellison, US CEO of Oracle Corporation
- Mikhail Fridman, Russian billionaire
- Alan Greenspan, US economist, chairman of the US Federal Reserve
- Andrew Grove, Hungarian-born US co-founder of Intel
- Vladimir Gusinsky, Russian billionaire
- Peter Ivany, Australian Media Mogul, earned his fortune running Hoyts cinemas world wide
- Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian billionare
- Henry Kravis, American financier
- Issachar Berend Lehmann, banker and patron of the Jewish communities in Halberstadt and Dresden, Germany
- Lev Leviev, Russian-born Israeli diamond billionaire
- Daniel M. Lewin, Israeli Internet entrepreneur
- Alfred Lowenstein, Belgian soldier, aviator, sportsman, entrepreneur
- Moses Haim Montefiore, English financier and Zionist
- Roy Neuberger, US art dealer of Neuberger & Berman
- Harry Oppenheimer, South African diamond and gold mines billionare, (became Christian)
- William Paley, US billionaire who built CBS
- Ron Popeil, US inventor
- Mike Klein, Canadian born investment magnate
- Sumner Redstone, US CEO of Viacom
- Paul Reichmann, Canadian real estate magnate
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker, first of the Rothschild family
- Nathan Mayer Rothschild, British financier and philanthropist
- William Rosenberg, US founder of Dunkin Donuts
- David Sarnoff, General Manager of RCA corporation
- Ron Sommer, CEO of Deutsche Telekom
- George Soros, Hungarian-born US billionaire, investor, philanthropist
- Laurence Tisch, US billionaire, owned CBS
- Victor Vekselberg, Russian billionaire
- Max Warburg, German banker
- Paul Warburg, US banker, Federal Reserve founder and board member
- Sandy Weill, US banker
- Haim Saban, television producer (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) and media mogul
- Samuel Hecht, A jewish immigrant from Bavaria, opened a furniture store in Baltimore in 1857
Controversy
Crime
- Yigal Amir, Israeli assassin (of Rabin)
- David Berkowitz, "Son of Sam", US serial killer, (adopted by Jews, became Christian)
- Ivan Boesky, US insider trader, swindler
- Mickey Cohen, US gangster
- Moe Dalitz, US gangster
- Ira Einhorn US political activist and killer
- Baruch Goldstein, US-born Israeli killer
- Meyer Lansky, US gangster
- Leopold and Loeb, US killers
- Michael Milken, US "junk bond' king, swindler, philanthropist
- Kevin Mitnick, US hacker
- Jackie Presser, US labor leader, embezzler
- Joseph Prushinowski, The "Robin Hood Rabbi", stole an estimated $200 million from banks and insurance companies from 1960-1987 and sent the money to Hasidic groups all over the globe.
- Arnold Rothstein, US gangster
- Jack Ruby, US assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald
- Dutch Schultz, US gangster
- Moller Eli, British gangster
- Bugsy Siegel, US gangster
- Serge Stavisky, Russian born French swindler
- Salomon Morel, Russian death camp commander
Victims
- Menahem Mendel Beilis, Russian victim of Russian blood libel mistrial
- Stephen Belson, New York City firefighter, 9/11
- Alan Berg, US radio personality, killed by neo-Nazis
- Nick Berg, US entrepreneur, beheaded by Iraqi terrorists
- Alfred Dreyfus, French army officer falsely accused of treason
- Efraim Elrom, Israeli consul was murdered by condemned turkish terrorists
- Alan Feinberg, New York City firefighter, 9/11
- Anne Frank, Dutch teenage Holocaust victim and writer
- Leo Frank, lynched in Georgia, USA.
- Jeremy Glick, United Flight 93 Hero, 9/11
- Ronald Goldman, murdered together with Nicole Brown Simpson. O.J. Simpson was found guilty for his wrongful death and ordered to pay $8.5 million to the Goldman family
- Herschel Grynszpan, Holocaust victim, assassinated Ernst vom Rath, which initiated Kristallnacht
- Chandra Levy, US intern, mysteriously murdered in Washington, DC
- Mel Mermelstein, Holocaust survivor who sued for damages
- Edgardo Mortara, Jewish Italian child kidnapped by Catholics
- Daniel Pearl, US Wall Street Journal journalist, decapitated by Islamic terrorists
- Darin Howard Pontell, US Navy Lieutenant, Pentagon, 9/11
- Jay Sebring, US hairdresser, victim of the Manson Family
- Nancy Spungen, Murder victim and girlfriend of Sid Vicious
- Rudolf Vrba, escaped from Auschwitz and told the world about it
- David Weiss, New York City firefighter, 9/11
- Abraham Zelmanowitz, US programmer, World Trade Center hero, 9/11
Law
- Rosalie Abella, Canadian Supreme Court Justice
- Louis Brandeis, US Supreme Court Justice
- Stephen G. Breyer, US Supreme Court Justice
- Benjamin N. Cardozo, US Supreme Court Justice
- Arthur Chaskalson, Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa
- Marcia Clark, US lawyer, prosecutor in the trial of O.J. Simpson
- Zelman Cowen, Australian legal scholar and Governor-General
- Alan Dershowitz, US lawyer
- Abe Fortas, US Supreme Court Justice
- Felix Frankfurter, US Supreme Court Justice
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, US Supreme Court Justice
- Arthur J. Goldberg, US Supreme Court Justice
- Richard Goldstone, South African judge, international war crimes prosecutor
- Isaac Isaacs, Australian High Court Justice and Governor-General
- Stanley Mosk, US jurist, California Supreme Court Justice and Attorney General
- Louis Nizer, British born American jurist
- Barry Scheck, US lawyer, known for the trial of O.J. Simpson
- Robert Shapiro, US lawyer, known for the trial of O.J. Simpson
- Jerry Sheindlin, husband of Judith Sheindlin, former New York State Supreme Court justice
- Judith Sheindlin, former New York family court judge, host of Judge Judy
- Laurence H. Tribe, Professor of Law, Harvard University
Literature & Journalism
Writers
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer
- Isaac Asimov, Russian-born US science fiction writer
- Paul Auster, New York-based postmodern detective writer, filmmaker and poet
- David Avidan, Israeli poet
- Ahad Ha'am, Ukrainian-born, Hebrew writer and Zionist leader
- Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-born, Yiddish writer
- Isaac Babel, Russian journalist and writer
- Peter Barnes, British playwright and screenwriter
- Saul Bellow, US writer
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Lithuanian-born, "Father of modern Hebrew language"
- Henri Bergson, French philosopher, 1927 Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
- Ludwig Börne
- Max Brod, Czech-Israeli writer and composer
- Harold Brodkey, US novelist
- Joseph Brodsky, Soviet-born poet, Nobel laureate
- Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet
- Elias Canetti, Bulgarian author, Nobel prize winner
- Otto Maria Carpeaux, Austro-Brazilian literary and musical critic, journalist and historian
- Michael Chabon, US writer
- Isaac Deutscher, Polish-born British historian
- Ilya Ehrenburg, Soviet writer and international peace activist
- Dr. Isidor Israel Elyashev aka penname "Ba'al Machshavot" = "The Thinker" (1873-1924), physician (neurologist); Yiddish literary critic; forerunner of Zionist Movement- translated Theodore Herzel's "Altneuland" from German into Yiddish; delegate from Germany to First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland (August 1897).
- Harlan Ellison, US fantasy writer
- Nissim Ezekiel, Indian poet, playwright and art critic
- Howard Fast, US writer of historical fiction, political activist
- Itzik Feffer, Soviet writer
- Anne Frank, Dutch Holocaust victim, diarist
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- Thomas L. Friedman, US journalist and columnist
- David Frum, Canadian-born US neo-conservative commentator; speechwriter for George W. Bush (2001-2002)--wrote "Axis of Evil" for 2002 State of the Union Address
- Allen Ginsberg, US poet
- Maurice Girodias, French writer and publisher
- Gluckl of Hamelin, German Yiddish religious writer
- Leah Goldberg, Israeli poet
- David Goodis, US mystery writer
- Nadine Gordimer, South African writer, won a Nobel Prize for Literature
- Vassily Grossman, Soviet journalist and writer
- Ben Hecht, US novelist, playwright, screenwriter and Zionist activist
- Heinrich Heine, German poet
- Immanuel the Roman, Italian religious erotic poet
- Isidore Isou, Romanian-born French poet
- Susan Jacoby, Author, (father half-Jewish, converted to Catholicism)
- Franz Kafka, Czech-born, Austrian-Germany, writer
- Imre Kertész, Hungarian author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and winner of the Nobel Prize
- Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-born Austrian and English novelist and activist
- Jerzy Kosinski, Polish born American novelist
- William Kristol, US political commentator
- Irving Layton, Romanian-born Canadian poet
- Emma Lazarus, US poet
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, Polish writer
- Jan Lechoń, Polish writer
- Julius Lester, US children's author and academic
- Primo Levi, Italian novelist and chemist
- A. J. Levin, Canadian poet
- Sonia (Wolff) Levitin, German-born, American novelist, winner of the National Jewish Book Award, Edgar Allen Poe Award
- Norman Mailer, US novelist and social critic
- Bernard Malamud, US writer
- David Mamet, US playwright
- Patrick Marber, British playwright
- Arthur Miller, US playwright
- Walter Mosley, US novelist
- Erich Mühsam, German poet and revolutionary
- David Erik Nelson co-creator of The Giant Squid (http://www.squid.poormojo.org) and co-founder of Poor Mojo's Almanac(k) (http://www.poormojo.org)
- M. J. Nurenberger, Conservative editor of Jewish newspapers and author of The Scared And the Doomed.
- Adolph Ochs, German-born builder of the New York Times
- Amos Oz, Israeli writer
- Cynthia Ozick, US writer
- Dorothy Parker, US writer
- S. J. Perelman, US writer
- I. L. Peretz, Yiddish writer
- Harold Pinter, British playwright
- Norman Podhoretz, US writer
- Chaim Potok, US writer
- Marcel Proust, French writer, (son of a Jewish mother)
- Dalia Rabikovich, Israeli poet
- Ayn Rand, Russian-born US writer
- Mordecai Richler, Canadian writer
- Marcel Reich-Ranicki
- Tanya Reinhart, Israeli writer
- Daniel Rona Israeli LDS theologian writer, speaker and professional tour guide (converted to LDS Church)
- Philip Roth, US writer
- Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter
- Robert Silverberg, US science-fiction author
- Isaac Bashevis Singer, US writer
- Antoni Slonimski, Polish poet
- William Steig, US writer, author of Shrek
- Arthur Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times
- Natan Tenenbaum, Polish writer
- Harry Turtledove, American writer
- Julian Tuwim, Polish poet
- Tristan Tzara, Romanian-born French poet
- Louise Wener, British author and rock singer
- Nathanael West, US writer
- Bob Woodward, US journalist and author, investigated Watergate with Carl Bernstein
- (?)Jon Woronoff
- Herman Wouk, US writer
- Elie Wiesel, US, Hungarian-born, French writer about Holocaust
- Avraham B. Yehoshua, Israeli novelist
- Israel Zangwill, English writer and Zionist
- Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer
Media
- Israel Asper, Canadian philanthropist and founder of Global Television Network
- Carl Bernstein, US journalist, investigated Watergate break-in with Bob Woodward
- Wolf Blitzer, US news anchor for CNN
- Joe Bob Briggs, US syndicated film critic
- Aaron Brown, US journalist, TV host
- Alan Colmes, US liberal commentator for Fox News' Hannity & Comes.
- Amira Hass, Israeli journalist
- Tony Kornheiser, US columnist for the Washington Post, radio host, and televsion host
- Ted Koppel, US news anchor, ABC TV Nightline
- Charles Krauthammer, conservative U.S. columnist for the Washington Post
- Elena Lappin, British novelist and journalist, known as US deportee
- Benjamin Masten, US radio personality, Audience of Two
- Morley Safer, Canadian-born US news reporter, CBS TV 60 Minutes
- William Safire, US newspaper columnist, speechwriter for US President Nixon
- Michael Savage, US radio personality
- Laura Schlessinger, US radio personality (Jewish father, she later converted to Orthodox Judaism)
- Joel Stein, US columnist for TIME magazine
- Mike Wallace, US news reporter, CBS TV 60 Minutes
- Barbara Walters, US news commentator, ABC TV 20/20
Military
- Mordechaj Anielewicz, Polish Warsaw ghetto leader
- Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian Soviet military commander
- David Abramovich Dragunsky, Russian anti-Zionist Colonel-General
- Vladimir Jabotinsky, Russian founder and leader of British Jewish Legion
- Berek Joselewicz, Polish colonel, organized Jewish squads and uprisings
- Josephus, Jewish priest and military leader who went over to the side of ancient Rome
- Judah the Maccabee, Judean leader of Maccabees against ancient Greeks
- Simon bar Kokhba Judean leader of Jewish revolt against ancient Rome
- John Monash, Australian general
- Haym Solomon, Polish-born US financier of the American Revolution and Revolutionary War
- Yona Yakir, a Soviet General, purged by Stalin
Israeli military
- Ron Arad, Israeli pilot, missing in action
- Ehud Barak, Israeli general and Prime Minister
- Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel
- Moshe Dayan, former Israeli chief of staff, minister of defense
- Arie Eldad, former medical officer and surgeon
- Uziel Gal, Israeli designer of the UZI submachine gun
- Israel Galili, Israeli designer of the Galil assault rifle
- David (Mickey) Marcus US colonel, assisted Israel in 1948 war, first Israeli Brigadier general
- Shaul Mofaz, Israeli general, former chief of staff, minister of defense
- Yoni Netanyahu, Israeli commander of Operation Entebbe, killed in action
- Yitschak Rabin, Israeli chief of staff, Prime Minister of Israel
- Ilan Ramon, Israeli pilot attacked Iraqi reactor; Israel's first astronaut, died on Columbia space shuttle
- Ariel Sharon, Israeli general, Prime Minister of Israel
- Israel Tal, Israeli general, oversaw development of Israel's Merkava tank
- Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian soldier, founded Zion Mule Corps, killed in early Palestine
- Moshe Yaalon, Israeli general and chief of staff
US military
- Julius O. Adler Brigadier General,(World War II) Commanded the 77th Infantry Division
- Jeremy Michael Boorda Admiral, (Vietnam; Kosovo)
- Louis Bush, (Revolutionary war)
- Mathias Bush, (Revolutionary war)
- Solomon Bush, (Revolutionary war), Lieutenant Colonel, highest-ranking Jewish officer in the Continental Army
- Leopold Blumenberg (Civil War)
- Wesley Kane Clark, former NATO commander during the Bosnian War (Jewish father, raised Baptist, converted to Catholicism)
- David Camden DeLeon (Mexican War), "The Fighting Doctor", doctor under General Zachary Taylor, Congressional Citation
- LeRoy Diamond (World War II, Pacific), Corporal, Navy Cross and Purple Heart
- Hyman Epstein (World War II, Pacific), Army medical aide, killed in New Guinea after heroic rescues defying snipers
- David Nunez Cardozo (American Revolution), South Carolina Grenadiers, led an assault on British-held Savannah, Georgia
- Leon Dyer, (Civil War, Mexican War, Seminole War), Colonel, post-Alamo volunteer, escorted Gen. Santa Anna to D.C.
- Herbert P. Grossman Private First Class {World War II) Silver Star for gallantry in action at Leyte, Philippine Islands
- Levy Myers Harby (War of 1812), Navy Captain, began military at 14
- Phineas Horowitz (Civil War)
- Stanley H. Hyman (Vietnam)
- Isadore S. Jachman Sergeant USA (World War II), Medal of Honor (posthumously) for actions saving his paratroop company during fighting in Flamierge, Belgium
- Jack H. Jacobs Captain USA (Vietnam) Medal of Honor recipient
- Leopold Karpeles (Civil War) Sergeant, Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery and heroism
- Frederick Knefler (Civil War)
- Melvin Krulewitch Major General (World War II) First person to personally captured Japanese prisoners, first to fly the American flag on Japanese territory
- [Jean Lafitte] Buccaneer leader who aided Gen. Jackson's defeat of British in thebattle of New Orleans in 1812 War.
John L. Levitow Sergeant USAF (Vietnam) Medal of Honor recipient
- Uriah P. Levy (War of 1812) First Jewish US Admiral; ended the Practice of Flogging; bought, restored, and gave Montecello (Jefferson's home) as a gift to the American people
- Aaron Lopez, (American Revolution), Supplied transoceanic ships and coastal vessels to Navy
- David "Mickey" Marcus, (World War II), US Army Lieutenant Colonel, West Point graduate, Divisional Judge Advocate, Division Commander, attended the "Big Five" meetings, volunteered to join D-Day airborne assault without formal training. Distinguished Service Cross, Bronze Star, and British decorations. Volunteered to Israeli Army to defend against Transjordan Arab Legion. Became first Israeli brigadier general, and served as Commander of Jerusalem front.
- Alfred Mordechai (Civil War)
- Ben Moreel Admiral,(World War II) Formed the Seabees
- Mordecai Myers, (War of 1812), Captain, New York City's first Jewish Mayor
- Leopold Newman (Civil War)
- Manuel M. Noah, (American Revolution), Served with General Marion, Financier
- Hyman Rickover US Admiral, Father of the Nuclear Navy
- Maurice Rose Major General, (World War II) Negotiated the unconditional surrender of the Germans in Tunisia, Commanded 3rd Armored Division: the first division to cross the German border and the first to breach the Siegfried line, killed in combat
- Edward Rosewater, (Civil War), Union Army telegrapher for President Lincoln, transmitted Gettysburg Address
- Ben L. Salomon (World War II, Pacific) Captain, USA Medical Corps, Medal of Honor (posthumously) for actions during Battle of Saipan
- Edward S. Salomon (Civil War)
- Haym Salomon (American Revolution), Sons of Liberty, Financier
- Francis Salvador (American Revolution), "Paul Revere of the South"
- Mordecai Sheftall (American Revolution), "The Great Rebel"
- Seligman Brothers, (Civil War), Financeers
- Frances Slanger, (World War II, France), Lieutenant, U.S. Army Nurses Corps. Killed in action.
- Robert B. Solomon (Vietnam)
- Judah Touro, (War of 1812), civilian volunteer in American Army, Philanthropist
- John Ordroneaux (War of 1812), French Commodore, Continental Navy Privateersman
- Max Warshaw, (World War II, North Africa), Staff Sergeant, Army Medic, two Silver Star medals, three Bronze Star medals, the Purple Heart, the Ex-Prisoner of War Medal, the Pre-Pearl Harbor Medal, the European Theater of Operations Medal with six campaign clusters, the Victory Medal, the New York State Conspicuous Cross Medal (for highly decorated veterans), and the Army Combat Medic Badge.
- Raymond Zussman Second Lieutenant, (World War II) Medal of Honor, killed in action
Spies
- Sarah Aaronsohn, British head of anti-Turkish Nili spy-ring
- Denise Bloch, French World War II Special Operations Executive agent
- Eli Cohen, Israeli spy, hanged by Syria
- Avraham Marcus Klingberg, KGB spy, spent 15 years in Israeli prison for passing secrets about biological research to the Soviets.
- Jonathan Pollard, United States Navy intelligence analyst, passed information to Israel
- Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg, allegedly gave United States atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union
- Krystyna Skarbek, Polish-born British Special Operations Executive agent
- Hannah Szenes, Hungarian-born British-Palestine, Special Operations Executive agent
- Mordechai Vanunu, Moroccon-born Israeli, spied on Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor, (converted to Christianity)
- Moshe Marzouk, Israeli spy and Karaite Jew executed by Egypt, part of the Lavon Affair
Politics
International world politicians
- Peter Baume, Australian Cabinet Minister
- Joe Berinson, Australian Cabinet minister
- Eduard Bernstein, German founder of Evolutionary Socialism
- Léon Blum, Prime Minister of France
- Marek Borowski, Polish politician
- Leon Brittan, British Cabinet minister
- Moss Cass, Australian Cabinet minister
- Barry Cohen, Australian Cabinet minister
- Michael Danby, Australian politician
- Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister (raised Anglican)
- Sid Einfeld, Deputy Premier of New South Wales, Australia
- Laurent Fabius, Prime Minister of France
- Malcolm Fraser, Australian Prime Minister (raised Presbyterian, mother born Jewish)
- Bronisław Geremek, Polish politician
- Herb Gray, Canadian Cabinet minister
- Theodor Herzl, founder of Zionism
- Michael Howard, leader of the British Conservative Party
- Isaac Isaacs, Australian politician and Governor-General
- Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, British politician and Viceroy of India
- Vladimir Jabotinsky, Zionist leader
- Keith Joseph, British Cabinet Minister
- Sam Katz, Mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Bruno Kreisky, Austrian Chancellor
- Jack Lang, French minister of culture
- Ferdinand Lassalle, German Socialist leader
- Nigel Lawson, British Cabinet minister
- Tony Leon, South African opposition leader
- Peter Mandelson, British Labour MP and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (father was Jewish)
- Pierre Mendès-France, French Prime Minister
- Shirley Porter, British local government leader
- Walther Rathenau, German industrialist and statesman
- Petre Roman, Prime Minister of Romania (father was Jewish)
- Malcolm Rifkind, British Foreign Secretary
- Jorge Sampaio, Portuguese President
- Herbert Samuel, British politician and High Commissioner of Palestine
- Vaiben Solomon, Premier of South Australia
- Helen Suzman, South African anti-Apartheid member of Parliament
- Julius Vogel, Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Simone Veil, French politician
- Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician (recently acknowledged Jewish father)
- Szmul Zygielbojm, Polish politician
Israeli politicians
See: List of Israeli politicians (most are Jewish)
Political activists
- Noam Chomsky, activist, U.S. foreign policy critic, and professor of linguistics at M.I.T.
- Frank Collin, former neo-Nazi, now diffusionist (father was Jewish)
- Abraham Foxman, US director of the Anti-Defamation League
- Jonah Goldberg, US conservative writer
- David Horowitz, US neoconservative writer and social activist
- Kivie Kaplan, NAACP president, 1966 to 1975
- Mel Mermelstein, Auschwitz survivor; reward-winner: Institute for Historical Review
- Irv Rubin, chairman of the Jewish Defense League
- Michael Schwerner, US civil rights activist
- Adam Shapiro, cofounder of the international Solidarity Movement
- Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi-hunter
- Tim Wise, anti-racism lecturer and activist
US politicians
- Elliott Abrams, State Department and NSC
- Gary Ackerman, Congressman from New York
- Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State (raised Christian by parents who converted)
- Abe Beame, Mayor of New York City
- Anthony Beilenson, Congressman from California
- Judah P. Benjamin Senator, then Confederate Secretary of War and Secretary of State
- Howard Berman, Congressman from California
- Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City
- Rudy Boschwitz, Senator from Minnesota
- Barbara Boxer, Senator from California
- Harold Brown, Secretary of Defense
- Emmanuel Cellar, Congressman from New York
- William Cohen, Senator from Maine; Defense Secretary (father was Jewish)
- Roy Cohn, US prosecutor and assistant to Sen. Joe McCarthy
- Norm Coleman, Senator from Minnesota
- John Deutsch, CIA director
- Rahm Emanuel, Congressman from Illinois
- Eliot Engel, Congressman from New York
- Dianne Feinstein, Senator from California
- Russ Feingold, Senator from Wisconsin
- Douglas Feith, Secretary of Defense for Policy
- Ari Fleischer, Press secretary to the President
- Barney Frank, Congressman from Massachusetts
- Barry Goldwater, Senator from Arizona (father was Jewish)
- Oscar Goodman, Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada
- Chic Hecht, Senator from Nevada
- Jacob Javits, Senator from New York
- John Kerry, Senator from Massachusetts and 2004 Presidental candidate (recently acknowledged that father was ethnically Jewish but raised Catholic by converted parents)
- Henry Kissinger, National Security Advisor and Secretary of State
- Ed Koch, Congressman and New York City mayor
- Herb Kohl, Senator from Wisconsin
- Tom Lantos, Congressman from California, (Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor)
- Herbert H. Lehman, Governor of New York
- Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City (mother was Jewish)
- Frank Lautenberg, Senator from New Jersey
- Carl Levin, Senator from Michigan
- Joe Lieberman, Vice-President candidate and US Senator from Connecticut
- Julius L. Meier, Governor of Oregon
- Allard Lowenstein, Congressman from New York
- Howard Metzenbaum , Senator from Ohio
- Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury
- Jerrold Nadler, Congressman from New York
- Richard Perle, Under-secretary Department of Defense
- Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor
- Edward Rendell, Governor of Pennsylvania, Mayor of Philadelphia
- Abraham Ribicoff, Senator from Connecticut
- Steve Rothman, Congressman from New Jersey
- Robert Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury
- Warren Rudman, Senator from New Hampshire
- Adam Schiff, Congressman from California
- James Schlesinger, Secretary of Defense and CIA Director (Converted to Christianity)
- Charles Schumer, Senator from New York
- David Segal, City Councilman from Providence, Rhode Island
- Brad Sherman, Congressman from California
- Arlen Specter, Senator from Pennsylvania
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Congresswoman from Florida
- Henry Waxman, Congressman from California
- Anthony Weiner, Congressman from New York
- Paul Wellstone Senator from Minnesota
- Robert Wexler, Congressman from Florida
- Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense
- Ron Wyden, Senator from Oregon
Russian revolutionaries and politicians
- Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko, Soviet Red Army
- Pavel Axelrod, Soviet revolutionary
- Matvei D. Berman, Soviet chief of Gulag system
- Simeon Dimanstein, Soviet Commissar of Nationalities
- Jacob Fuerstenberg, Russian aide to Lenin
- Lev Kamenev, Russian Bolshevik leader
- Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet Politburo member
- Mikhail Koltsov, Soviet journalist
- Adolph Ioffe, Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs (Karaite)
- Martyn Latsis, Soviet Cheka official, author
- Maxim Litvinov, Soviet Foreign Minister
- I. P. Meshkovsky, Soviet Central Committee member
- Karl Radek, Soviet Central Committee
- Leon Trotsky, Russian Bolshevik leader
- Moisei Uritsky, Soviet Petrograd Cheka
- V. Volodarsky, Soviet press commissar, Petrograd
- Genrikh Yagoda, Soviet NKVD chief
- Grigory Zinoviev, Russian Bolshevik leader
- Jacob Sverdlov, first president of the Soviet Union
WW2 Ghetto politicians
World revolutionaries and politicians
- Daniel Cohn-Bendit, French student leader
- Kurt Eisner, German revolutionary politician
- Emma Goldman, US feminist and anarchist
- Abbie Hoffman, US radical
- Béla Kun, Hungarian revolutionary leader
- Rosa Luxemburg, Communist leader
- Karl Marx, German founder of Marxism. (Atheist. Raised a Lutheran)
- Jerry Rubin, US radical
- Irv Rubin, US radical JDL leader (died in prison)
- Abraham Serfaty, Moroccan dissident
- Joe Slovo, Lithuanian-born head of South African Communist Party
- Avraham Stern, Polish-born founder of anti-British Stern Gang (Lehi)
- Matyas Rakosi, Hungarian communist Prime Minister
Religious Figures
Biblical figures
See: List of Jewish Biblical figures
Rabbis
See: List of rabbis
Other religious leaders
- Aaron ben Moses ben Asher, 10th century Karaite
- Anan ben David, purported founder of the Karaites
- Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan
- Ya'acov Al-Kirkisani, Karaite leader
- Daniel Al-Kumisi, 9th Century Karaite leader
- Apostles, the "Twelve Apostles", first followers of Jesus who began Christianity
- Jacob Frank, false messiah in Poland, founder of Frankists
- John the Baptist (Yochanan HaMatbil), revered by Christians
- Jesus of Nazareth, inspired the creation of Christianity
- Jean-Marie Lustiger, French Cardinal (raised Catholic)
- Mary (Miriam), mother of Jesus
- Mary Magdalene, a follower and, perhaps, friend of Jesus
- Ram Dass, modern American Hindu author
- Simon of Galilee, considered the first Pope
- St. Teresa of Avila, Catholic saint (parents were Conversos)
- Saul of Tarsus (Paul), early Christian leader
- Edith Stein, Catholic nun, Holocaust victim
Scientists & Philosophers
See: List of Jewish scientists and philosophers & List of Jewish Nobel Prize winners
Sports
- Cal Abrams, US baseball player,
- Jeff Agoos, US soccer player
- Lyle Alzado, US football player (Jewish mother, raised Jewish)
- Bob Arum, US boxing promoter
- Red Auerbach, US basketball coach
- Max Baer, US boxer
- Harris Barton, US football player
- Boris Becker, German Tennis Star (Jewish Mother)
- Moe Berg, US baseball player
- Kenny Bernstein, US drag racer
- Gary Bettman, US National Hockey League commissioner
- David Bluthenthal, US basketball player
- Larry Brown, US basketball coach
- Noah Cantor, Canadian football player
- Brian Cashman, US General Manager of the New York Yankees
- Mark Cuban, US owner of the Dallas Mavericks
- Ben Davidson, US football player
- Al Davis, US owner of the Oakland Raiders
- Rene Dreyfus, French Grand Prix auto racing champion
- Bernie Ecclestone, British owner of F1 racing
- Steve Ellman, US owner of the Phoenix Coyotes
- Theo Epstein, US General Manager of the Boston Red Sox
- Jay Fiedler, US football player
- Benny Friedman, US football player elected to Hall of Fame in 2005
- Marty Friedman, US basket player
- Malcolm Glazer, US owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, part owner of Manchester United
- Bill Goldberg, US professional wrestler, NFL player
- Shawn Green, US baseball player
- Hank Greenberg, US baseball player
- Randy Grossman, US football player
- Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer
- Jeff Halpern, US hockey player
- Bob Kraft, US owner of the New England Patriots
- Lenny Krayzelburg, Ukrainian-born US swimmer
- Sandy Koufax, US baseball player
- Marv Levy, US football coach
- Sid Luckman, US football player
- Ron Mix, US football player
- Art Modell US owner of the Baltimore Ravens
- Jerry Reinsdorf US owner of the Chicago Bulls, owner of the Chicago White Sox
- Barney Ross, US world champion boxer
- Mike Rossman, US world champion boxer (Jewish mother)
- Abe Saperstein, US founder of the Harlem Globetrotters
- Dolph Schayes, US basketball player
- Mathieu Schneider, US hockey player
- Bud Selig, US baseball commissioner
- Anna Smashnova, Israeli tennis player
- Ed Snider, US owner of the Philadelphia Flyers
- Mark Spitz, US olympic swimmer
- David Stern, US basketball commissioner
- Daniel Suher, US cross country runner
- Paul Tagliabue, US NFL commissioner
- James Toney, US world champion boxer
- Dara Torres, US swimmer (Jewish father)
- Neil Walk, US basketball player
Miscellaneous
- Moshe Bar, Open Source/Linux software notable, founder of Qlusters, Inc, book author and project manager of openMosix clustering software
- Gypsy Boots, US health guru and TV personality
- Howard Braham, Inventor
- Kitty Carlisle, US game show panelist
- Alex Chiu, inventor of "immortality ring" (by religion only)
- Judith Steinberg Dean, medical doctor and wife of US Democratic politician governor Howard Dean
- Kitty Dukakis, wife of US Democratic presidential candidate governor Michael Dukakis
- Barry Greenstein, US professional poker player and philanthropist
- Monty Hall, Canadian game show host
- Nigella Lawson, British cooking show host (Jewish father)
- Monica Lewinsky, US intern to President Bill Clinton
- Cindy Margolis, supermodel and Internet businesswoman
- Bill Nye, US scientist and TV personality (Bill Nye the Science Guy)
- Max Nordau, Hungarian Zionist leader
- Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player
- Susan Polgár, Hungarian/US chess player
- Zsófia Polgár, Hungarian/Israeli chess player
- Judith A. Resnik, US astronaut, killed on space shuttle Challenger
- Geraldo Rivera, US talk show host (Jewish mother)
- Jerry Springer, US talk show host
- Ben Stein, US actor, lawyer, game show host and former Presidential speech writer
- Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player, former world champion
- Karl Targownik, prominent psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor
- Michel Thomas, French/American language teacher
- Lindsey Vuolo, US Playboy Playmate (Jewish mother, father converted from Catholicism)
Personalities with unproven and/or distant partial Jewish heritage
- David Beckham, English Soccer (maternal grandfather is Jewish)
- Helena Bonham Carter, actor (mother from family of Jews who converted to Catholicism)
- Fidel Castro, Cuban leader (may be descended from Conversos)
- Bill Clinton, His German Jewish family emigrated to Scotland (Roessel>Russell) (Also widely rumored to be a Rothschild)
- Hilary Clinton Some say admitted to Jewish Heritage, others say that "stepfamily" was Jewish.
- Christopher Columbus, explorer (may have been a Converso' but probably wasn't')
- Zsa Zsa Gabor and Eva Gabor, US actresses (Vanity Fair 6/01 article says one set of grandparents died in the Holocaust and other relatives may have converted to Christianity).
- Muriel Gray, broadcaster (Jewish maternal grandmother)
- Christopher Hitchens, British-born journalist and contrarian (Jewish maternal grandmother)
- Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion (Jewish father)
- John Kerry, Senator from Massachusets (Catholic. Paternal Jewish grandparents converted to Catholicism)
- Vladimir Lenin, leader of Russian Bolsheviks during Russian Revolution (maternal grandfather was Jewish)
- Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright (acknowledged descent from Conversos)
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, US first lady (one grandparent was Jewish)
- Colin Powell, US Secretary of State (father's side has Jewish strain through Broomfield according to his autobiography)
- Elvis Presley, US musician, maternal grandfather was Jewish
- Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (one grandparent was Jewish)
- Carlos Santana, Mexican born US musician (acknowledges descent from Conversos)
- Jack Straw, British Foreign Secretary (one grandparent was Jewish)
- Meryl Streep, US actress (acknowledges distant Jewish heritage, great-grandparent, possibly one grandparent)
- Raoul Wallenberg, Protector of Jews during Holocaust (one Jewish great-great grandparent)
- Caspar Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (Christian, paternal grandfather was Jewish)
- Wanda Wasilewska, Polish communist leader, alleged Stalin mistress and collaborator
- Pete Sampras, paternal grandmother was Jewish
Fictional Characters
See also: List of Jewish superheroes
- Grace Adler, from Will and Grace
- Abby and Len Ardin, from the comic strip Edge City
- Benjamin (a wandering Jew), from the novel A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Harold Berman, from Hey Arnold!
- Leopold Bloom, from the novel Ulysses by James Joyce
- Kent Brockman, from The Simpsons (was Kenny Brocklestein in a flashback episode)
- Kyle Broflovski, from South Park
- Clancy, from Blue Healers (Australian drama)
- Robert Cohn from the novel "The Sun Also Rises"/"Fiesta" by Ernest Hemingway
- Seth Cohen from US show The OC (Jewish father)
- Fagin, from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- Fran Fine from The Nanny
- Dharma Finkelstein from Dharma and Greg
- Duffman, from The Simpsons
- Reuben Flagg, from American Flagg!
- Monica Geller, from US sitcom Friends
- Ross Geller, from US sitcom Friends
- Emmanuel Goldstein, in Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Natalie Green, from The Facts of Life
- Rachel Green, from Friends
- Ben Grimm, the "Thing" in Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four
- Menocu, "only half-Jewish", from Mr. Show with Bob and David
- Mr. Harold Hooper, from Sesame Street (Will Lee, who played the character, was Jewish in real life)
- Isaac the Jew and his daughter Rebecca, from the novel Ivanhoe
- Janice, from US TV sitcom Friends
- Krusty the Clown, from The Simpsons
- Hyman Krustofsky, father of Krusty the Klown
- Isaac Edward Leibowitz, from the novel A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Josh Lyman, from the US drama "The West Wing".
- Rhoda Morgenstern, from The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- Pickles family, from The Rugrats (half-Jewish family, mother Jewish, mentioned in special Passover episode, a Chanukah episode was also made)
- Kitty Pryde aka Shadowcat formely of the X-Men and Excalibur mutant groups.
- Willow Rosenberg, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Lilith Sternin, from Frasier
- Walter Sobchak, from The Big Lebowski
- Shylock, from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
- Tevye, from Fiddler on the Roof
- Wandering Jew of Christian folklore
- Toby Ziegler, from the US drama "The West Wing" (Richard Schiff, who plays the character, is Jewish in real life)
See also
- List of people by nationality
- List of people by belief
- List of converts to Judaism
- List of Black Jews
- List of LGBT Jews
- The Chanukah Song
External links
- Jewhoo(More links)
- Jinfo, Lists of prominent Jewish scientific and cultural figures
- Jewish Women's Archive, Includes information about Jewish Women in many of above categories
Comedians
- Woody Allen, US comedian
- Dave Attell, US comedian
- David Baddiel, British comedian
- Roseanne Barr, US comedienne
- Richard Belzer, US actor and comedian
- Jack Benny, US comedian
- Milton Berle, US comedian
- Mel Brooks, US comedian
- David Brenner, US comic
- Fanny Brice, US comedienne
- Lewis Black, US comedian
- Lenny Bruce, US satirist
- George Burns, US comedian
- Sid Caesar, US comedian
- Andrew "Dice" Clay, US comedian
- Sacha Baron Cohen, British comedian, also known as Ali G
- David Cross, US actor and comedian
- Billy Crystal, US actor and comedian
- Rodney Dangerfield, US comedian, born Jacob Cohen
- Fran Drescher, US comedienne
- Marty Feldman, British comedian
- Larry Fine, US actor and comedian, Larry of the Three Stooges
- Whoopie Goldberg US comedian (converted)
- Gilbert Gottfried, US comedian
- Gary Gulman, US standup comedian
- Buddy Hackett, US comedian
- Jerome Howard, US actor and comedian, Curly of the Three Stooges
- Moses Howard, US actor and comedian, Moe of the Three Stooges
- Shmuel Howard, US actor and comedian, Shemp of the Three Stooges
- Sid James, British comedian
- Jenny Jones, US comedienne and talk show host
- Andy Kaufman, US comedian, actor, performance artist
- Alan King, US Show business personality and comic
- Richard Lewis, US comedian
- Jerry Lewis, US actor and comedian
- Bill Maher, US comedian
- Howie Mandel, Canadian comedian
- Chico Marx, US vaudeville and film comic actor
- Groucho Marx, US vaudeville and film comic actor
- Gummo Marx, US vaudeville actor
- Harpo Marx, US vaudeville and film comic actor
- Zeppo Marx, US vaudeville and film comic actor
- Anne Meara, US comedienne and actress (converted)
- Dave Osborne, US comic
- Kevin Pollak, US actor and comedian
- Freddie Prinze Sr., US comedian (Jewish father)
- Gilda Radner, US comedienne
- Tony Randall, US comedian, The Odd Couple
- Carl Reiner, US comedian, writer, actor, director
- Don Rickles, US comic, actor
- Joan Rivers, US comedienne
- John Safran, Australian comedian
- Bob Saget, US comedian, actor
- Mort Sahl, US comedian
- Adam Sandler, US comedian, actor
- Alexei Sayle, UK comedian, actor
- Jerry Seinfeld, US comedian
- Robert Schimmel, US comedian
- Garry Shandling, US comedian, actor
- Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian
- Sarah Silverman, US comedian, actor
- Bobby Slayton, US comedian, actor, radio host
- Yakov Smirnov, US/Russian comedian
- Jon Stewart, US comedian
- Jerry Stiller, US radio comic, actor
- Soupy Sales, US comedian
- Raymond Teller, US comedian, magician, part of Penn and Teller duo
- Ovadia A. Vaknin, Israeli comedian
Directors
- Ramzi Abed, US director (Jewish mother)
- Darren Aronofsky, US director
- Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, US writer-producer-director team
- George Cukor. US director
- Jules Dassin, American director
- Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet director of Aleksander Niefsky and Ivan the Terrible
- John Frankenheimer, US director
- Sam Fuller, US director and screenwriter
- Henry Jaglom, US director
- Jim Jarmusch, US director
- Spike Jonze, US director
- Lloyd Kaufman, US director
- Stanley Kubrick, US director
- Fritz Lang, German director
- Ernst Lubitch,Europe-US director,"To Be or not To Be",
- Sidney Lumet, US director
- Bill Lustig, US director
- Branko Lustig, US-Croatian film director
- Leo Penn, US director and actor, father of actor Sean Penn
- Roman Polanski, Polish-born US director (Jewish father)
- Sydney Pollack, US director
- Abraham Polonsky, US director
- Otto Preminger, Austrian-born US director
- John Schlesinger, British director
- Steven Spielberg, US director
- Oliver Stone, US director
- Edgar G. Ulmer, German-born US director
- Billy Wilder, Austrian-born US director
- Michael Winner, British director
- Rob Reiner,US director ("Princess Charming"," Harry/Sally")
- Zucker brothers,US parody directors
Hollywood
- William Fox (Fox Film Corporation; 20th Century-Fox)
- Michael Eisner (Paramount Pictures; Disney Studios)
- Robert Evans (Paramount Pictures)
- David Geffen (Warner Brothers; DreamWorks SKG)
- Sam Goldwyn, (the "G" in MGM)
- Jeffrey Katzenberg (Paramount Pictures; DreamWorks SKG)
- Carl Laemmle (Universal Pictures)
- Carl Laemmle Jr (Universal Studios)
- Marcus Loew (MGM)
- Joseph Schenck (20th Century Pictures)
- Steven Spielberg (DreamWorks SKG)
- Louis B. Mayer, (the "M" of MGM)
- Jack Warner (Warner Brothers)
- Lew Wasserman (Universal Studios)
- Bob Weinstein (Miramax)
- Harvey Weinstein (Miramax)
- Adolph Zukor (Paramount Pictures)
- Irving Thalberg "the Last Tycoon"
Illusionists
- David Blaine, US illusionist (Jewish mother, raised Jewish)
- David Copperfield, US illusionist
- Uri Geller, Israeli spoon bending magician
- Harry Houdini, US illusionist
- Ricky Jay, US magician
Musicians
- Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer and virtuoso pianist
- Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian conductor
- Emanuel Ax, US pianist
- Paula Abdul, US singer, former LA Laker Girl, panelist on American Idol
- Herb Alpert, US musician
- Babydaddy (aka Scot Hoffman), US bassist, keyboardist, composer for Scissor Sisters.
- Burt Bacharach, US musician and songwriter
- Daniel Barenboim, Argentine-Israeli classical musician and conductor
- Beck (Hansen), singer and musician. Ethnically Jewish, currently a Scientologist.
- Walter Becker, US bass player, guitarist, songwriter, founding member of Steely Dan
- Irving Berlin, US songwriter, composer
- Bart Berman, Dutch-Israeli pianist, composer
- Lazar Berman, Russian classical pianist
- Dan Bern, US songwriter, singer
- Leonard Bernstein, US conductor, composer
- Hal Blaine, US session drummer
- Ernest Bloch, Swiss-born US composer
- Marc Bolan, British rock musician for band T. Rex
- Michael Bolton, US singer
- Mike Burkett, US singer, bass player in punk band NOFX
- Eddie Cantor, US pop singer, comedian, actor
- Eric Carmen, US musician, songwriter
- Cristian Castro, Mexican singer
- Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer (converted to Buddhism)
- Aaron Copland, US composer
- Sammy Davis, Jr., US singer (converted to Judaism)
- Mike Diamond (a.k.a. Mike D), US rapper with the group Beastie Boys
- Neil Diamond, US singer
- Paul Dukas, French composer
- Adam Duritz, US singer, songwriter for band Counting Crows
- Bob Dylan, US singer, songwriter (converted to Christianity, current religious affiliation uncertain)
- Jakob Dylan, US singer for band The Wallflowers
- Mama Cass Elliott, US singer with the group The Mamas and The Papas
- Ziggy Ellman, US jazz musician
- Donald Fagen, US keyboard player, singer, songwriter, founding member of Steely Dan
- Giora Feidman, clarinet player and Klezmer musician
- Perry Farrell, US musician, bandleader in Jane's Addiction, Porno For Pyros.
- Anthony Field, member of Australian children's music band The Wiggles
- Jon Fishman, US musician, drummer for Phish
- Flo and Eddie US musicians
- Ben Folds, Australian singer, songwriter, founder of rock group Ben Folds Five
- Kinky Friedman, US country singer, author
- Jackie Fox, US bassist of band The Runaways
- Nikolai Fraiture, French-born US bassist for rock-n-roll band The Strokes
- Kenny G, US musician
- Serge Gainsbourg, French singer, songwriter
- Art Garfunkel, US singer
- J. Geils, US rock musician
- Marvin Goldstein, US pianist (converted to LDS Church)
- Benny Goodman, US musician, bandleader
- Mike Gordon, US musician, bassist for Phish
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk, US composer (Jewish father)
- Graham Gouldman, British musician and songwriter, member of 10cc
- Mick Green, British guitarist, brother of Peter Green
- Peter Green, British guitarist, seminal member of Fleetwood Mac
- Norman Greenbaum, US musician, best known for hit Spirit in the Sky
- Brett Gurewitz, US musician and founder of Epitaph Records and punk rock group Bad Religion
- Richard Hell, US rock musician, poet
- Billy Joel, US singer
- Al Jolson, US singer
- Mick Jones, British rock musician, member of the Clash
- Jascha Heifetz, US violinist
- Susanna Hoffs, US member of band The Bangles
- Adam Horovitz (a.k.a. Ad-Rock), US rapper with the group Beastie Boys
- Carole King, US singer and songwriter
- Ed King, US rock guitarist of Strawberry Alarm Clock and Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Otto Klemperer, German-born US-Israeli conductor
- Mark Knopfler, British guitarist, founder of rock group Dire Straits (Jewish father)
- Lee Konitz, US jazz musician
- Lenny Kravitz, US musician (Jewish father)
- Steve Lacy, US jazz musician
- Steve Lawrence, US singer
- Geddy Lee, Canadian musician, lead singer of rock group Rush
- Tom Lehrer, singer/songwriter
- James Levine, US conductor
- Adam Levine, Lead singer, Maroon 5
- Ted Lewis, US musician, entertainer
- György Ligeti, Hungarian composer
- Lisa Loeb, US pop singer
- Ron Mael and Russell Mael,US rock band stars of Sparks
- Lorin Maazel, US conductor
- Gustav Mahler, Austro-Hungarian Viennese composer (converted to Catholicism)
- Barry Manilow, US entertainer (Jewish mother)
- Manfred Mann, South African born British rock musician
- Shelly Manne, US jazz musician
- Linda McCartney, née Eastman, US-born photographer
- Malcolm McLaren, British impresario and recording artist (Jewish mother)
- Eric Melvin, Guitarist for punk band NOFX
- Felix Mendelssohn, German Romantic composer (converted to Christianity)
- Yehudi Menuhin, US-British violinist, conductor, educator
- Giacomo Meyerbeer, German opera composer
- Mezz Mezzrow, US jazz musician
- Darius Milhaud, French composer
- Daniel Miller, UK producer, founder of Mute records
- Nathan Milstein, US violinist
- Sandy Nelson, US musician
- Randy Newman, US singer
- Phil Ochs, US singer, songwriter
- Steven Page, Canadian singer, guitarist for Barenaked Ladies
- Jacques Offenbach, French composer
- Murray Perahia, US pianist
- Itzhak Perlman, Israeli-US violinist
- Pink, US rock and hip hop singer (born Alecia Moore, mother Jewish)
- Joey Ramone, US rock singer
- Lou Reed, US singer, songwriter
- Buddy Rich, US jazz musician
- Jonathan Richman, US singer, songwriter
- Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer
- David Lee Roth, US rock singer, lead singer of Van Halen
- Curt Sachs, German-US musicologist
- Hank Sapoznik, klezmer musician
- Artur Schnabel, Polish-Austrian-US classical pianist
- Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer
- Franz Schreker, Austrian-German composer (Jewish father)
- Neil Sedaka, US singer, songwriter
- Artie Shaw, US jazz musician, bandleader
- Shel Silverstein, US songwriter
- Gene Simmons, US bass player for rock group KISS
- Carly Simon, US Singer, songwriter (Jewish father)
- Paul Simon, US musician
- Slash, British-born US rock musician (Jewish father)
- P.F. Sloan, US singer, songwriter
- Pat Smear, US rock musician, member of the Foo Fighters
- Georg Solti, Hungarian-US conductor
- Phil Spector, US record producer and songwriter
- Isaac Stern, US violinist
- Paul Stanley, US guitar player for rock band KISS
- Barbra Streisand, US singer, actress
- Willie "The Lion" Smith, US pianist
- Sylvain Sylvain, Egyptian-born US rock musician, guitarist for the New York Dolls.
- Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist, author of The Pianist
- Michael Tilson-Thomas, US conductor
- Richard Tucker, US opera singer
- Sophie Tucker, Russian-born US singer and entertainer
- Nick Valensi, US guitarist for rock band The Strokes
- Louise Wener, British rock singer and author
- Leslie West, US rock guitarist
- Kurt Weill, German-US composer
- Max Weinberg, US drummer for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band and leader of the Max Weinberg Seven
- Jane Wiedlin, US member of band The Go-Gos
- Peter Wolf, US rock singer, formerly of J Geils Band
- Adam Yauch (a.k.a. MCA), US rapper with the group Beastie Boys (converted to Buddhism)
- Maurice Zbriger, Canadian violinist, songwriter
- Warren Zevon, US rock songwriter, singer
- John Zorn, US saxophonist and composer
Arts, Visual
Artists
- Diane Arbus, US fashion photographer
- Richard Avedon, US portrait photographer
- Doris Bloom, South African-born Danish artist and sculptor
- Helen Berman, Dutch-Israeli painter
- Wallace Berman, US (Los Angeles-born) artist
- Ross Bleckner, US painter
- Marc Chagall, Russian-French painter and stained glass artist
- Judy Chicago, US feminist painter; (The Dinner Party)
- Robert Frank, Swiss-American photographer; (The Americans)
- Frank Gehry, Canadian-US architect, art museum designer
- Rube Goldberg, US cartoonist, sculptor, and author; (Rube Goldberg machine)
- Al Hansen, US/German member of the Fluxus art movement
- Al Hirschfeld, US caricaturist, featured in New York Times
- Max Jacob, French artist (converted to Catholicism)
- Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter, friend of Leon Trotsky, (Jewish father, Catholic mother)
- Louis Kahn, US architect
- Pinchus Kremegne, Russian-born French sculptor and painter
- Michel Kikoine, Russian-born French painter
- John Lautner, US architect, worked under Frank Lloyd Wright
- Daniel Libeskind, Polish-born US architect, designer of new World Trade Center; (Freedom Tower)
- Roy Lichtenstein, US popular art painter
- Peter Max, German-born Israeli-US artist
- Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor
- Helmut Newton, German photographer of nudes
- Jules Pascin, Bulgarian-French Expressionist artist
- Camille Pissarro, French painter, "Father of Impressionism"
- Man Ray, US-French surrealist photographer and film director
- H.A. Rey and Margret Rey, German-US illustrators; (Curious George)
- Larry Rivers, US abstract expressionist painter
- Chaim Soutine, Russian-born French expressionist painter
- William Steig, US cartoonist and illustrator, "King of Cartoons"; (Shrek)
- Weegee, Austrian-Polish-born US photographer and photojournalist; (Naked City)
Cartoons & Comics
- Al Capp, US cartoonist; creator of Li'l Abner
- Will Eisner, US cartoonist; (The Spirit)
- Mark Evanier, US comics and animated cartoons writer for Disney and Hanna-Barbera
- Max Fleischer, US animated cartoonist; (Popeye, Superman)
- Bob Kane, US cartoonist; creator of Batman
- Gil Kane, Latvian-born US comics artist. First to draw Silver Age Green Lantern and the Atom.
- Jack Kirby, US comics and animated cartoons creator; co-creator of Captain America, (Fantastic Four, Hulk)
- Stan Lee, US cartoon writer and creator of Marvel Comics and its heroes
- Harvey Pekar, US comic book writer; (American Splendor)
- Julius Schwartz, US comic book and magazine editor; (The Flash; Green Lantern).
- Joe Shuster, Canadian-US comics artist; co-creator of Superman
- Jerome Siegel, US comics artist; co-creator of Superman
- Joe Simon, US cartoonist; co-creator of Captain America
- Art Spiegelman, Swedish-US comic-book artist; creator of Maus
- Matt Stone, Co-creator of South Park (Jewish father)
- Mort Weisinger, US comic book and magazine editor; (Superman, Supergirl)
Clothing
- Kenneth Cole, US fashion designer
- Marc Jacobs, US clothing designer
- Calvin Klein, US fashion designer, CK
- Donna Karan, US fashion designer, DKNY
- Ralph Lauren, US fashion designer
- Stella McCartney, British fashion designer (Jewish mother)
- Isaac Mizrahi, US fashion designer
- Levi Strauss, US "Father of Jeans"
Business
- Roman Abramovich, Russian billionaire
- Steve Ballmer, US CEO of Microsoft (Jewish mother)
- Boris Berezovsky, Russian billionaire
- Michael Bloomberg, US politician, founder of Bloomberg News
- Sergey Brin Russian-born US co-founder of Google
- Samuel Bronfman, Ukrainian-born Canadian founder of Seagrams Distilleries
- Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Canadian original owner of Seagrams Distilleries
- Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Canadian-US owner of Vivendi Universal
- Isaac Carasso, Spanish founder of Danone group
- Andre Citroen, French automaker of Citroen
- Joshua Lionel Cowen, US toy inventor and manufacturer (Lionel trains)
- Jack Cohen, British businessman, founder of Tesco supermarkets
- Mark Cuban, US billionaire owner of Dallas Mavericks
- Marcel Dassault, French industrialist
- Michael Dell, US founder of Dell Inc.
- Larry Ellison, US CEO of Oracle Corporation
- Mikhail Fridman, Russian billionaire
- Alan Greenspan, US economist, chairman of the US Federal Reserve
- Andrew Grove, Hungarian-born US co-founder of Intel
- Vladimir Gusinsky, Russian billionaire
- Peter Ivany, Australian Media Mogul, earned his fortune running Hoyts cinemas world wide
- Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian billionare
- Henry Kravis, American financier
- Issachar Berend Lehmann, banker and patron of the Jewish communities in Halberstadt and Dresden, Germany
- Lev Leviev, Russian-born Israeli diamond billionaire
- Daniel M. Lewin, Israeli Internet entrepreneur
- Alfred Lowenstein, Belgian soldier, aviator, sportsman, entrepreneur
- Moses Haim Montefiore, English financier and Zionist
- Roy Neuberger, US art dealer of Neuberger & Berman
- Harry Oppenheimer, South African diamond and gold mines billionare, (became Christian)
- William Paley, US billionaire who built CBS
- Ron Popeil, US inventor
- Mike Klein, Canadian born investment magnate
- Sumner Redstone, US CEO of Viacom
- Paul Reichmann, Canadian real estate magnate
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker, first of the Rothschild family
- Nathan Mayer Rothschild, British financier and philanthropist
- William Rosenberg, US founder of Dunkin Donuts
- David Sarnoff, General Manager of RCA corporation
- Ron Sommer, CEO of Deutsche Telekom
- George Soros, Hungarian-born US billionaire, investor, philanthropist
- Laurence Tisch, US billionaire, owned CBS
- Victor Vekselberg, Russian billionaire
- Max Warburg, German banker
- Paul Warburg, US banker, Federal Reserve founder and board member
- Sandy Weill, US banker
- Haim Saban, television producer (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) and media mogul
Controversy
Crime
- Yigal Amir, Israeli assassin (of Rabin)
- David Berkowitz, "Son of Sam", US serial killer, (adopted by Jews, became Christian)
- Ivan Boesky, US insider trader, swindler
- Mickey Cohen, US gangster
- Moe Dalitz, US gangster
- Ira Einhorn US political activist and killer
- Baruch Goldstein, US-born Israeli killer
- Meyer Lansky, US gangster
- Leopold and Loeb, US killers
- Michael Milken, US "junk bond' king, swindler, philanthropist
- Kevin Mitnick, US hacker
- Jackie Presser, US labor leader, embezzler
- Joseph Prushinowski, The "Robin Hood Rabbi", stole an estimated $200 million from banks and insurance companies from 1960-1987 and sent the money to Hasidic groups all over the globe.
- Arnold Rothstein, US gangster
- Jack Ruby, US assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald
- Dutch Schultz, US gangster
- Moller Eli, British gangster
- Bugsy Siegel, US gangster
- Serge Stavisky, Russian born French swindler
- Salomon Morel, Russian death camp commander
Victims
- Menahem Mendel Beilis, Russian victim of Russian blood libel mistrial
- Stephen Belson, New York City firefighter, 9/11
- Alan Berg, US radio personality, killed by neo-Nazis
- Nick Berg, US entrepreneur, beheaded by Iraqi terrorists
- Alfred Dreyfus, French army officer falsely accused of treason
- Efraim Elrom, Israeli consul was murdered by condemned turkish terrorists
- Alan Feinberg, New York City firefighter, 9/11
- Anne Frank, Dutch teenage Holocaust victim and writer
- Leo Frank, lynched in Georgia, USA.
- Jeremy Glick, United Flight 93 Hero, 9/11
- Ronald Goldman, murdered together with Nicole Brown Simpson. O.J. Simpson was found guilty for his wrongful death and ordered to pay $8.5 million to the Goldman family
- Herschel Grynszpan, Holocaust victim, assassinated Ernst vom Rath, which initiated Kristallnacht
- Chandra Levy, US intern, mysteriously murdered in Washington, DC
- Mel Mermelstein, Holocaust survivor who sued for damages
- Edgardo Mortara, Jewish Italian child kidnapped by Catholics
- Daniel Pearl, US Wall Street Journal journalist, decapitated by Islamic terrorists
- Darin Howard Pontell, US Navy Lieutenant, Pentagon, 9/11
- Jay Sebring, US hairdresser, victim of the Manson Family
- Nancy Spungen, Murder victim and girlfriend of Sid Vicious
- Rudolf Vrba, escaped from Auschwitz and told the world about it
- David Weiss, New York City firefighter, 9/11
- Abraham Zelmanowitz, US programmer, World Trade Center hero, 9/11
Law
- Rosalie Abella, Canadian Supreme Court Justice
- Louis Brandeis, US Supreme Court Justice
- Stephen G. Breyer, US Supreme Court Justice
- Benjamin N. Cardozo, US Supreme Court Justice
- Arthur Chaskalson, Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa
- Marcia Clark, US lawyer, prosecutor in the trial of O.J. Simpson
- Zelman Cowen, Australian legal scholar and Governor-General
- Alan Dershowitz, US lawyer
- Abe Fortas, US Supreme Court Justice
- Felix Frankfurter, US Supreme Court Justice
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, US Supreme Court Justice
- Arthur J. Goldberg, US Supreme Court Justice
- Richard Goldstone, South African judge, international war crimes prosecutor
- Isaac Isaacs, Australian High Court Justice and Governor-General
- Stanley Mosk, US jurist, California Supreme Court Justice and Attorney General
- Louis Nizer, British born American jurist
- Barry Scheck, US lawyer, known for the trial of O.J. Simpson
- Robert Shapiro, US lawyer, known for the trial of O.J. Simpson
- Jerry Sheindlin, husband of Judith Sheindlin, former New York State Supreme Court justice
- Judith Sheindlin, former New York family court judge, host of Judge Judy
- Laurence H. Tribe, Professor of Law, Harvard University
Literature & Journalism
Writers
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer
- Isaac Asimov, Russian-born US science fiction writer
- Paul Auster, New York-based postmodern detective writer, filmmaker and poet
- David Avidan, Israeli poet
- Ahad Ha'am, Ukrainian-born, Hebrew writer and Zionist leader
- Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-born, Yiddish writer
- Isaac Babel, Russian journalist and writer
- Peter Barnes, British playwright and screenwriter
- Saul Bellow, US writer
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Lithuanian-born, "Father of modern Hebrew language"
- Henri Bergson, French philosopher, 1927 Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
- Ludwig Börne
- Max Brod, Czech-Israeli writer and composer
- Harold Brodkey, US novelist
- Joseph Brodsky, Soviet-born poet, Nobel laureate
- Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet
- Elias Canetti, Bulgarian author, Nobel prize winner
- Otto Maria Carpeaux, Austro-Brazilian literary and musical critic, journalist and historian
- Michael Chabon, US writer
- Isaac Deutscher, Polish-born British historian
- Ilya Ehrenburg, Soviet writer and international peace activist
- Dr. Isidor Israel Elyashev aka penname "Ba'al Machshavot" = "The Thinker" (1873-1924), physician (neurologist); Yiddish literary critic; forerunner of Zionist Movement- translated Theodore Herzel's "Altneuland" from German into Yiddish; delegate from Germany to First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland (August 1897).
- Harlan Ellison, US fantasy writer
- Nissim Ezekiel, Indian poet, playwright and art critic
- Howard Fast, US writer of historical fiction, political activist
- Itzik Feffer, Soviet writer
- Anne Frank, Dutch Holocaust victim, diarist
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- Thomas L. Friedman, US journalist and columnist
- David Frum, Canadian-born US neo-conservative commentator; speechwriter for George W. Bush (2001-2002)--wrote "Axis of Evil" for 2002 State of the Union Address
- Allen Ginsberg, US poet
- Maurice Girodias, French writer and publisher
- Gluckl of Hamelin, German Yiddish religious writer
- Leah Goldberg, Israeli poet
- David Goodis, US mystery writer
- Nadine Gordimer, South African writer, won a Nobel Prize for Literature
- Vassily Grossman, Soviet journalist and writer
- Ben Hecht, US novelist, playwright, screenwriter and Zionist activist
- Heinrich Heine, German poet
- Immanuel the Roman, Italian religious erotic poet
- Isidore Isou, Romanian-born French poet
- Susan Jacoby, Author, (father half-Jewish, converted to Catholicism)
- Franz Kafka, Czech-born, Austrian-Germany, writer
- Imre Kertész, Hungarian author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and winner of the Nobel Prize
- Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-born Austrian and English novelist and activist
- Jerzy Kosinski, Polish born American novelist
- William Kristol, US political commentator
- Irving Layton, Romanian-born Canadian poet
- Emma Lazarus, US poet
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, Polish writer
- Jan Lechoń, Polish writer
- Julius Lester, US children's author and academic
- Primo Levi, Italian novelist and chemist
- A. J. Levin, Canadian poet
- Sonia (Wolff) Levitin, German-born, American novelist, winner of the National Jewish Book Award, Edgar Allen Poe Award
- Norman Mailer, US novelist and social critic
- Bernard Malamud, US writer
- David Mamet, US playwright
- Patrick Marber, British playwright
- Arthur Miller, US playwright
- Walter Mosley, US novelist
- Erich Mühsam, German poet and revolutionary
- David Erik Nelson co-creator of The Giant Squid (http://www.squid.poormojo.org) and co-founder of Poor Mojo's Almanac(k) (http://www.poormojo.org)
- M. J. Nurenberger, Conservative editor of Jewish newspapers and author of The Scared And the Doomed.
- Adolph Ochs, German-born builder of the New York Times
- Amos Oz, Israeli writer
- Cynthia Ozick, US writer
- Dorothy Parker, US writer
- S. J. Perelman, US writer
- I. L. Peretz, Yiddish writer
- Harold Pinter, British playwright
- Norman Podhoretz, US writer
- Chaim Potok, US writer
- Marcel Proust, French writer, (son of a Jewish mother)
- Dalia Rabikovich, Israeli poet
- Ayn Rand, Russian-born US writer
- Mordecai Richler, Canadian writer
- Marcel Reich-Ranicki
- Tanya Reinhart, Israeli writer
- Daniel Rona Israeli LDS theologian writer, speaker and professional tour guide (converted to LDS Church)
- Philip Roth, US writer
- Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter
- Robert Silverberg, US science-fiction author
- Isaac Bashevis Singer, US writer
- Antoni Slonimski, Polish poet
- William Steig, US writer, author of Shrek
- Arthur Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times
- Natan Tenenbaum, Polish writer
- Harry Turtledove, American writer
- Julian Tuwim, Polish poet
- Tristan Tzara, Romanian-born French poet
- Louise Wener, British author and rock singer
- Nathanael West, US writer
- Bob Woodward, US journalist and author, investigated Watergate with Carl Bernstein
- (?)Jon Woronoff
- Herman Wouk, US writer
- Elie Wiesel, US, Hungarian-born, French writer about Holocaust
- Avraham B. Yehoshua, Israeli novelist
- Israel Zangwill, English writer and Zionist
- Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer
Media
- Israel Asper, Canadian philanthropist and founder of Global Television Network
- Carl Bernstein, US journalist, investigated Watergate break-in with Bob Woodward
- Wolf Blitzer, US news anchor for CNN
- Joe Bob Briggs, US syndicated film critic
- Aaron Brown, US journalist, TV host
- Alan Colmes, US liberal commentator for Fox News' Hannity & Comes.
- Amira Hass, Israeli journalist
- Larry King, US TV and radio talk show host
- Tony Kornheiser, US columnist for the Washington Post, radio host, and televsion host
- Ted Koppel, US news anchor, ABC TV Nightline
- Charles Krauthammer, conservative U.S. columnist for the Washington Post
- Elena Lappin, British novelist and journalist, known as US deportee
- Benjamin Masten, US radio personality, Audience of Two
- Morley Safer, Canadian-born US news reporter, CBS TV 60 Minutes
- William Safire, US newspaper columnist, speechwriter for US President Nixon
- Michael Savage, US radio personality
- Laura Schlessinger, US radio personality (Jewish father, she later converted to Orthodox Judaism)
- Joel Stein, US columnist for TIME magazine
- Mike Wallace, US news reporter, CBS TV 60 Minutes
- Barbara Walters, US news commentator, ABC TV 20/20
Military
- Mordechaj Anielewicz, Polish Warsaw ghetto leader
- Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian Soviet military commander
- David Abramovich Dragunsky, Russian anti-Zionist Colonel-General
- Vladimir Jabotinsky, Russian founder and leader of British Jewish Legion
- Berek Joselewicz, Polish colonel, organized Jewish squads and uprisings
- Josephus, Jewish priest and military leader who went over to the side of ancient Rome
- Judah the Maccabee, Judean leader of Maccabees against ancient Greeks
- Simon bar Kokhba Judean leader of Jewish revolt against ancient Rome
- John Monash, Australian general
- Haym Solomon, Polish-born US financier of the American Revolution and Revolutionary War
- Yona Yakir, a Soviet General, purged by Stalin
Israeli military
- Ron Arad, Israeli pilot, missing in action
- Ehud Barak, Israeli general and Prime Minister
- Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel
- Moshe Dayan, former Israeli chief of staff, minister of defense
- Arie Eldad, former medical officer and surgeon
- Uziel Gal, Israeli designer of the UZI submachine gun
- Israel Galili, Israeli designer of the Galil assault rifle
- David (Mickey) Marcus US colonel, assisted Israel in 1948 war, first Israeli Brigadier general
- Shaul Mofaz, Israeli general, former chief of staff, minister of defense
- Yoni Netanyahu, Israeli commander of Operation Entebbe, killed in action
- Yitschak Rabin, Israeli chief of staff, Prime Minister of Israel
- Ilan Ramon, Israeli pilot attacked Iraqi reactor; Israel's first astronaut, died on Columbia space shuttle
- Ariel Sharon, Israeli general, Prime Minister of Israel
- Israel Tal, Israeli general, oversaw development of Israel's Merkava tank
- Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian soldier, founded Zion Mule Corps, killed in early Palestine
- Moshe Yaalon, Israeli general and chief of staff
US military
- Julius O. Adler Brigadier General,(World War II) Commanded the 77th Infantry Division
- Jeremy Michael Boorda Admiral, (Vietnam; Kosovo)
- Louis Bush, (Revolutionary war)
- Mathias Bush, (Revolutionary war)
- Solomon Bush, (Revolutionary war), Lieutenant Colonel, highest-ranking Jewish officer in the Continental Army
- Leopold Blumenberg (Civil War)
- Wesley Kane Clark, former NATO commander during the Bosnian War (Jewish father, raised Baptist, converted to Catholicism)
- David Camden DeLeon (Mexican War), "The Fighting Doctor", doctor under General Zachary Taylor, Congressional Citation
- LeRoy Diamond (World War II, Pacific), Corporal, Navy Cross and Purple Heart
- Hyman Epstein (World War II, Pacific), Army medical aide, killed in New Guinea after heroic rescues defying snipers
- David Nunez Cardozo (American Revolution), South Carolina Grenadiers, led an assault on British-held Savannah, Georgia
- Leon Dyer, (Civil War, Mexican War, Seminole War), Colonel, post-Alamo volunteer, escorted Gen. Santa Anna to D.C.
- Herbert P. Grossman Private First Class {World War II) Silver Star for gallantry in action at Leyte, Philippine Islands
- Levy Myers Harby (War of 1812), Navy Captain, began military at 14
- Phineas Horowitz (Civil War)
- Stanley H. Hyman (Vietnam)
- Isadore S. Jachman Sergeant USA (World War II), Medal of Honor (posthumously) for actions saving his paratroop company during fighting in Flamierge, Belgium
- Jack H. Jacobs Captain USA (Vietnam) Medal of Honor recipient
- Leopold Karpeles (Civil War) Sergeant, Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery and heroism
- Frederick Knefler (Civil War)
- Melvin Krulewitch Major General (World War II) First person to personally captured Japanese prisoners, first to fly the American flag on Japanese territory
- John L. Levitow Sergeant USAF (Vietnam) Medal of Honor recipient
- Uriah P. Levy (War of 1812) First Jewish US Admiral; ended the Practice of Flogging; bought, restored, and gave Montecello (Jefferson's home) as a gift to the American people
- Aaron Lopez, (American Revolution), Supplied transoceanic ships and coastal vessels to Navy
- David "Mickey" Marcus, (World War II), US Army Lieutenant Colonel, West Point graduate, Divisional Judge Advocate, Division Commander, attended the "Big Five" meetings, volunteered to join D-Day airborne assault without formal training. Distinguished Service Cross, Bronze Star, and British decorations. Volunteered to Israeli Army to defend against Transjordan Arab Legion. Became first Israeli brigadier general, and served as Commander of Jerusalem front.
- Alfred Mordechai (Civil War)
- Ben Moreel Admiral,(World War II) Formed the Seabees
- Mordecai Myers, (War of 1812), Captain, New York City's first Jewish Mayor
- Leopold Newman (Civil War)
- Manuel M. Noah, (American Revolution), Served with General Marion, Financier
- Hyman Rickover US Admiral, Father of the Nuclear Navy
- Maurice Rose Major General, (World War II) Negotiated the unconditional surrender of the Germans in Tunisia, Commanded 3rd Armored Division: the first division to cross the German border and the first to breach the Siegfried line, killed in combat
- Edward Rosewater, (Civil War), Union Army telegrapher for President Lincoln, transmitted Gettysburg Address
- Ben L. Salomon (World War II, Pacific) Captain, USA Medical Corps, Medal of Honor (posthumously) for actions during Battle of Saipan
- Edward S. Salomon (Civil War)
- Haym Salomon (American Revolution), Sons of Liberty, Financier
- Francis Salvador (American Revolution), "Paul Revere of the South"
- Mordecai Sheftall (American Revolution), "The Great Rebel"
- Seligman Brothers, (Civil War), Financeers
- Frances Slanger, (World War II, France), Lieutenant, U.S. Army Nurses Corps. Killed in action.
- Robert B. Solomon (Vietnam)
- Judah Touro, (War of 1812), civilian volunteer in American Army, Philanthropist
- John Ordroneaux (War of 1812), French Commodore, Continental Navy Privateersman
- Max Warshaw, (World War II, North Africa), Staff Sergeant, Army Medic, two Silver Star medals, three Bronze Star medals, the Purple Heart, the Ex-Prisoner of War Medal, the Pre-Pearl Harbor Medal, the European Theater of Operations Medal with six campaign clusters, the Victory Medal, the New York State Conspicuous Cross Medal (for highly decorated veterans), and the Army Combat Medic Badge.
- Raymond Zussman Second Lieutenant, (World War II) Medal of Honor, killed in action
Spies
- Sarah Aaronsohn, British head of anti-Turkish Nili spy-ring
- Denise Bloch, French World War II Special Operations Executive agent
- Eli Cohen, Israeli spy, hanged by Syria
- Avraham Marcus Klingberg, KGB spy, spent 15 years in Israeli prison for passing secrets about biological research to the Soviets.
- Jonathan Pollard, United States Navy intelligence analyst, passed information to Israel
- Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg, allegedly gave United States atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union
- Krystyna Skarbek, Polish-born British Special Operations Executive agent
- Hannah Szenes, Hungarian-born British-Palestine, Special Operations Executive agent
- Mordechai Vanunu, Moroccon-born Israeli, spied on Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor, (converted to Christianity)
- Moshe Marzouk, Israeli spy and Karaite Jew executed by Egypt, part of the Lavon Affair
Politics
International world politicians
- Peter Baume, Australian Cabinet Minister
- Joe Berinson, Australian Cabinet minister
- Eduard Bernstein, German founder of Evolutionary Socialism
- Léon Blum, Prime Minister of France
- Marek Borowski, Polish politician
- Leon Brittan, British Cabinet minister
- Moss Cass, Australian Cabinet minister
- Barry Cohen, Australian Cabinet minister
- Michael Danby, Australian politician
- Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister (raised Anglican)
- Sid Einfeld, Deputy Premier of New South Wales, Australia
- Laurent Fabius, Prime Minister of France
- Malcolm Fraser, Australian Prime Minister (raised Presbyterian, mother born Jewish)
- Bronisław Geremek, Polish politician
- Herb Gray, Canadian Cabinet minister
- Theodor Herzl, founder of Zionism
- Michael Howard, leader of the British Conservative Party
- Isaac Isaacs, Australian politician and Governor-General
- Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, British politician and Viceroy of India
- Vladimir Jabotinsky, Zionist leader
- Keith Joseph, British Cabinet Minister
- Sam Katz, Mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Bruno Kreisky, Austrian Chancellor
- Jack Lang, French minister of culture
- Ferdinand Lassalle, German Socialist leader
- Nigel Lawson, British Cabinet minister
- Tony Leon, South African opposition leader
- Peter Mandelson, British Labour MP and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (father was Jewish)
- Pierre Mendès-France, French Prime Minister
- Shirley Porter, British local government leader
- Walther Rathenau, German industrialist and statesman
- Petre Roman, Prime Minister of Romania (father was Jewish)
- Malcolm Rifkind, British Foreign Secretary
- Jorge Sampaio, Portuguese President
- Herbert Samuel, British politician and High Commissioner of Palestine
- Vaiben Solomon, Premier of South Australia
- Helen Suzman, South African anti-Apartheid member of Parliament
- Julius Vogel, Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Simone Veil, French politician
- Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician (recently acknowledged Jewish father)
- Szmul Zygielbojm, Polish politician
Israeli politicians
See: List of Israeli politicians (most are Jewish)
Political activists
- Noam Chomsky, activist, U.S. foreign policy critic, and professor of linguistics at M.I.T.
- Frank Collin, former neo-Nazi, now diffusionist (father was Jewish)
- Abraham Foxman, US director of the Anti-Defamation League
- Jonah Goldberg, US conservative writer
- David Horowitz, US neoconservative writer and social activist
- Kivie Kaplan, NAACP president, 1966 to 1975
- Mel Mermelstein, Auschwitz survivor; reward-winner: Institute for Historical Review
- Irv Rubin, chairman of the Jewish Defense League
- Michael Schwerner, US civil rights activist
- Adam Shapiro, cofounder of the international Solidarity Movement
- Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi-hunter
- Tim Wise, anti-racism lecturer and activist
US politicians
- Elliott Abrams, State Department and NSC
- Gary Ackerman, Congressman from New York
- Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State (raised Christian by parents who converted)
- Abe Beame, Mayor of New York City
- Anthony Beilenson, Congressman from California
- Judah P. Benjamin Senator, then Confederate Secretary of War and Secretary of State
- Howard Berman, Congressman from California
- Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City
- Rudy Boschwitz, Senator from Minnesota
- Barbara Boxer, Senator from California
- Harold Brown, Secretary of Defense
- Emmanuel Cellar, Congressman from New York
- William Cohen, Senator from Maine; Defense Secretary (father was Jewish)
- Roy Cohn, US prosecutor and assistant to Sen. Joe McCarthy
- Norm Coleman, Senator from Minnesota
- John Deutsch, CIA director
- Rahm Emanuel, Congressman from Illinois
- Eliot Engel, Congressman from New York
- Dianne Feinstein, Senator from California
- Russ Feingold, Senator from Wisconsin
- Douglas Feith, Secretary of Defense for Policy
- Ari Fleischer, Press secretary to the President
- Barney Frank, Congressman from Massachusetts
- Barry Goldwater, Senator from Arizona (father was Jewish)
- Oscar Goodman, Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada
- Chic Hecht, Senator from Nevada
- Jacob Javits, Senator from New York
- John Kerry, Senator from Massachusetts and 2004 Presidental candidate (recently acknowledged that father was ethnically Jewish but raised Catholic by converted parents)
- Henry Kissinger, National Security Advisor and Secretary of State
- Ed Koch, Congressman and New York City mayor
- Herb Kohl, Senator from Wisconsin
- Tom Lantos, Congressman from California, (Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor)
- Herbert H. Lehman, Governor of New York
- Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City (mother was Jewish)
- Frank Lautenberg, Senator from New Jersey
- Carl Levin, Senator from Michigan
- Joe Lieberman, Vice-President candidate and US Senator from Connecticut
- Julius L. Meier, Governor of Oregon
- Allard Lowenstein, Congressman from New York
- Howard Metzenbaum , Senator from Ohio
- Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury
- Jerrold Nadler, Congressman from New York
- Richard Perle, Under-secretary Department of Defense
- Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor
- Edward Rendell, Governor of Pennsylvania, Mayor of Philadelphia
- Abraham Ribicoff, Senator from Connecticut
- Steve Rothman, Congressman from New Jersey
- Robert Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury
- Warren Rudman, Senator from New Hampshire
- Adam Schiff, Congressman from California
- James Schlesinger, Secretary of Defense and CIA Director (Converted to Christianity)
- Charles Schumer, Senator from New York
- David Segal, City Councilman from Providence, Rhode Island
- Brad Sherman, Congressman from California
- Arlen Specter, Senator from Pennsylvania
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Congresswoman from Florida
- Henry Waxman, Congressman from California
- Anthony Weiner, Congressman from New York
- Paul Wellstone Senator from Minnesota
- Robert Wexler, Congressman from Florida
- Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense
- Ron Wyden, Senator from Oregon
Russian revolutionaries and politicians
- Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko, Soviet Red Army
- Pavel Axelrod, Soviet revolutionary
- Matvei D. Berman, Soviet chief of Gulag system
- Simeon Dimanstein, Soviet Commissar of Nationalities
- Jacob Fuerstenberg, Russian aide to Lenin
- Lev Kamenev, Russian Bolshevik leader
- Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet Politburo member
- Mikhail Koltsov, Soviet journalist
- Adolph Ioffe, Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs (Karaite)
- Martyn Latsis, Soviet Cheka official, author
- Maxim Litvinov, Soviet Foreign Minister
- I. P. Meshkovsky, Soviet Central Committee member
- Karl Radek, Soviet Central Committee
- Leon Trotsky, Russian Bolshevik leader
- Moisei Uritsky, Soviet Petrograd Cheka
- V. Volodarsky, Soviet press commissar, Petrograd
- Genrikh Yagoda, Soviet NKVD chief
- Grigory Zinoviev, Russian Bolshevik leader
- Jacob Sverdlov, first president of the Soviet Union
WW2 Ghetto politicians
World revolutionaries and politicians
- Daniel Cohn-Bendit, French student leader
- Kurt Eisner, German revolutionary politician
- Emma Goldman, US feminist and anarchist
- Abbie Hoffman, US radical
- Béla Kun, Hungarian revolutionary leader
- Rosa Luxemburg, Communist leader
- Karl Marx, German founder of Marxism. (Atheist. Raised a Lutheran)
- Jerry Rubin, US radical
- Irv Rubin, US radical JDL leader (died in prison)
- Abraham Serfaty, Moroccan dissident
- Joe Slovo, Lithuanian-born head of South African Communist Party
- Avraham Stern, Polish-born founder of anti-British Stern Gang (Lehi)
- Matyas Rakosi, Hungarian communist Prime Minister
Religious Figures
Biblical figures
See: List of Jewish Biblical figures
Rabbis
See: List of rabbis
Other religious leaders
- Aaron ben Moses ben Asher, 10th century Karaite
- Anan ben David, purported founder of the Karaites
- Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan
- Ya'acov Al-Kirkisani, Karaite leader
- Daniel Al-Kumisi, 9th Century Karaite leader
- Apostles, the "Twelve Apostles", first followers of Jesus who began Christianity
- Jacob Frank, false messiah in Poland, founder of Frankists
- John the Baptist (Yochanan HaMatbil), revered by Christians
- Jesus of Nazareth, inspired the creation of Christianity
- Jean-Marie Lustiger, French Cardinal (raised Catholic)
- Mary (Miriam), mother of Jesus
- Mary Magdalene, a follower and, perhaps, friend of Jesus
- Ram Dass, modern American Hindu author
- Simon of Galilee, considered the first Pope
- St. Teresa of Avila, Catholic saint (parents were Conversos)
- Saul of Tarsus (Paul), early Christian leader
- Edith Stein, Catholic nun, Holocaust victim
Scientists & Philosophers
See: List of Jewish scientists and philosophers & List of Jewish Nobel Prize winners
Sports
- Cal Abrams, US baseball player,
- Jeff Agoos, US soccer player
- Lyle Alzado, US football player (Jewish mother, raised Jewish)
- Bob Arum, US boxing promoter
- Red Auerbach, US basketball coach
- Max Baer, US boxer
- Harris Barton, US football player
- Boris Becker, German Tennis Star (Jewish Mother)
- Moe Berg, US baseball player
- Kenny Bernstein, US drag racer
- Gary Bettman, US National Hockey League commissioner
- David Bluthenthal, US basketball player
- Larry Brown, US basketball coach
- Noah Cantor, Canadian football player
- Brian Cashman, US General Manager of the New York Yankees
- Mark Cuban, US owner of the Dallas Mavericks
- Ben Davidson, US football player
- Al Davis, US owner of the Oakland Raiders
- Rene Dreyfus, French Grand Prix auto racing champion
- Bernie Ecclestone, British owner of F1 racing
- Steve Ellman, US owner of the Phoenix Coyotes
- Theo Epstein, US General Manager of the Boston Red Sox
- Jay Fiedler, US football player
- Benny Friedman, US football player elected to Hall of Fame in 2005
- Marty Friedman, US basket player
- Malcolm Glazer, US owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, part owner of Manchester United
- Bill Goldberg, US professional wrestler, NFL player
- Shawn Green, US baseball player
- Hank Greenberg, US baseball player
- Randy Grossman, US football player
- Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer
- Jeff Halpern, US hockey player
- Bob Kraft, US owner of the New England Patriots
- Lenny Krayzelburg, Ukrainian-born US swimmer
- Sandy Koufax, US baseball player
- Marv Levy, US football coach
- Sid Luckman, US football player
- Ron Mix, US football player
- Art Modell US owner of the Baltimore Ravens
- Jerry Reinsdorf US owner of the Chicago Bulls, owner of the Chicago White Sox
- Barney Ross, US world champion boxer
- Mike Rossman, US world champion boxer (Jewish mother)
- Abe Saperstein, US founder of the Harlem Globetrotters
- Dolph Schayes, US basketball player
- Mathieu Schneider, US hockey player
- Bud Selig, US baseball commissioner
- Anna Smashnova, Israeli tennis player
- Ed Snider, US owner of the Philadelphia Flyers
- Mark Spitz, US olympic swimmer
- David Stern, US basketball commissioner
- Daniel Suher, US cross country runner
- Paul Tagliabue, US NFL commissioner
- James Toney, US world champion boxer
- Dara Torres, US swimmer (Jewish father)
- Neil Walk, US basketball player
Miscellaneous
- Moshe Bar, Open Source/Linux software notable, founder of Qlusters, Inc, book author and project manager of openMosix clustering software
- Gypsy Boots, US health guru and TV personality
- Howard Braham, Inventor
- Kitty Carlisle, US game show panelist
- Alex Chiu, inventor of "immortality ring" (by religion only)
- Judith Steinberg Dean, medical doctor and wife of US Democratic politician governor Howard Dean
- Kitty Dukakis, wife of US Democratic presidential candidate governor Michael Dukakis
- Bobby Fischer, US chess player (converted to "Christian Identity")
- Barry Greenstein, US professional poker player and philanthropist
- Monty Hall, Canadian game show host
- Nigella Lawson, British cooking show host (Jewish father)
- Monica Lewinsky, US intern to President Bill Clinton
- Cindy Margolis, supermodel and Internet businesswoman
- Bill Nye, US scientist and TV personality (Bill Nye the Science Guy)
- Max Nordau, Hungarian Zionist leader
- Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player
- Susan Polgár, Hungarian/US chess player
- Zsófia Polgár, Hungarian/Israeli chess player
- Judith A. Resnik, US astronaut, killed on space shuttle Challenger
- Geraldo Rivera, US talk show host (Jewish mother)
- Jerry Springer, US talk show host
- Ben Stein, US actor, lawyer, game show host and former Presidential speech writer
- Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player, former world champion
- Karl Targownik, prominent psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor
- Michel Thomas, French/American language teacher
- Lindsey Vuolo, US Playboy Playmate (Jewish mother, father converted from Catholicism)
Personalities with unproven and/or distant partial Jewish heritage
- David Beckham, English Soccer (maternal grandfather is Jewish)
- Helena Bonham Carter, actor (mother from family of Jews who converted to Catholicism)
- Fidel Castro, Cuban leader (may be descended from Conversos)
- Bill Clinton, His German Jewish family emigrated to Scotland (Roessel>Russell) (Also widely rumored to be a Rothschild)
- Hilary Clinton Some say admitted to Jewish Heritage, others say that "stepfamily" was Jewish.
- Christopher Columbus, explorer (may have been a Converso' but probably wasn't')
- Zsa Zsa Gabor and Eva Gabor, US actresses (Vanity Fair 6/01 article says one set of grandparents died in the Holocaust and other relatives may have converted to Christianity).
- Muriel Gray, broadcaster (Jewish maternal grandmother)
- Christopher Hitchens, British-born journalist and contrarian (Jewish maternal grandmother)
- Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion (Jewish father)
- John Kerry, Senator from Massachusets (Catholic. Paternal Jewish grandparents converted to Catholicism)
- Vladimir Lenin, leader of Russian Bolsheviks during Russian Revolution (maternal grandfather was Jewish)
- Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright (acknowledged descent from Conversos)
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, US first lady (one grandparent was Jewish)
- Colin Powell, US Secretary of State (father's side has Jewish strain through Broomfield according to his autobiography)
- Elvis Presley, US musician, maternal grandfather was Jewish
- Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (one grandparent was Jewish)
- Carlos Santana, Mexican born US musician (acknowledges descent from Conversos)
- Jack Straw, British Foreign Secretary (one grandparent was Jewish)
- Meryl Streep, US actress (acknowledges distant Jewish heritage, great-grandparent, possibly one grandparent)
- Raoul Wallenberg, Protector of Jews during Holocaust (one Jewish great-great grandparent)
- Caspar Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (Christian, paternal grandfather was Jewish)
- Wanda Wasilewska, Polish communist leader, alleged Stalin mistress and collaborator
- Pete Sampras, paternal grandmother was Jewish
Fictional Characters
See also: List of Jewish superheroes
- Grace Adler, from Will and Grace
- Abby and Len Ardin, from the comic strip Edge City
- Benjamin (a wandering Jew), from the novel A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Harold Berman, from Hey Arnold!
- Leopold Bloom, from the novel Ulysses by James Joyce
- Kent Brockman, from The Simpsons (was Kenny Brocklestein in a flashback episode)
- Kyle Broflovski, from South Park
- Clancy, from Blue Healers (Australian drama)
- Robert Cohn from the novel "The Sun Also Rises"/"Fiesta" by Ernest Hemingway
- Seth Cohen from US show The OC (Jewish father)
- Fagin, from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- Fran Fine from The Nanny
- Dharma Finkelstein from Dharma and Greg
- Duffman, from The Simpsons
- Reuben Flagg, from American Flagg!
- Monica Geller, from US sitcom Friends
- Ross Geller, from US sitcom Friends
- Emmanuel Goldstein, in Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Natalie Green, from The Facts of Life
- Rachel Green, from Friends
- Ben Grimm, the "Thing" in Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four
- Menocu, "only half-Jewish", from Mr. Show with Bob and David
- Mr. Harold Hooper, from Sesame Street (Will Lee, who played the character, was Jewish in real life)
- Isaac the Jew and his daughter Rebecca, from the novel Ivanhoe
- Janice, from US TV sitcom Friends
- Krusty the Clown, from The Simpsons
- Hyman Krustofsky, father of Krusty the Klown
- Isaac Edward Leibowitz, from the novel A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Josh Lyman, from the US drama "The West Wing".
- Rhoda Morgenstern, from The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- Pickles family, from The Rugrats (half-Jewish family, mother Jewish, mentioned in special Passover episode, a Chanukah episode was also made)
- Kitty Pryde aka Shadowcat formely of the X-Men and Excalibur mutant groups.
- Willow Rosenberg, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Lilith Sternin, from Frasier
- Walter Sobchak, from The Big Lebowski
- Shylock, from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
- Tevye, from Fiddler on the Roof
- Wandering Jew of Christian folklore
- Toby Ziegler, from the US drama "The West Wing" (Richard Schiff, who plays the character, is Jewish in real life)
See also
- List of people by nationality
- List of people by belief
- List of converts to Judaism
- List of Black Jews
- List of LGBT Jews
- The Chanukah Song
External links
- Jewhoo(More links)
- Jinfo, Lists of prominent Jewish scientific and cultural figures
- Jewish Women's Archive, Includes information about Jewish Women in many of above categories