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*[[Ron Perlman]] (born 1950), film/TV actor (''Hellboy'')<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/22022/edition_id/445/format/html/displaystory.html |title=Celebrity Jews | j. the Jewish news weekly of Northern California |publisher=Jewishsf.com |date=2004-04-02 |accessdate=2011-05-25}}</ref> |
*[[Ron Perlman]] (born 1950), film/TV actor (''Hellboy'')<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/22022/edition_id/445/format/html/displaystory.html |title=Celebrity Jews | j. the Jewish news weekly of Northern California |publisher=Jewishsf.com |date=2004-04-02 |accessdate=2011-05-25}}</ref> |
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*[[Kevin Pollak]] (born 1957), actor, impressionist, and comedian<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/26268/edition_id/507/format/html/displaystory.html |title=Stand-up guy plays for the home crowd | j. the Jewish news weekly of Northern California |publisher=Jewishsf.com |date=2005-06-24 |accessdate=2011-05-25}}</ref> |
*[[Kevin Pollak]] (born 1957), actor, impressionist, and comedian<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/26268/edition_id/507/format/html/displaystory.html |title=Stand-up guy plays for the home crowd | j. the Jewish news weekly of Northern California |publisher=Jewishsf.com |date=2005-06-24 |accessdate=2011-05-25}}</ref> |
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*[[Elvis Presley]] (born 1935), "King of [[Rock and Roll]]" |
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*[[Paul Reiser]] (born 1957), actor, author, and stand-up comedian (''Mad About You'')<ref>[http://www.sdjewishjournal.com/stories/oct05_1.html ]{{dead link|date=December 2010}}</ref> |
*[[Paul Reiser]] (born 1957), actor, author, and stand-up comedian (''Mad About You'')<ref>[http://www.sdjewishjournal.com/stories/oct05_1.html ]{{dead link|date=December 2010}}</ref> |
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*[[Paul Reubens]] (born '''Paul Rubenfeld''', 1952–), aka ''Peewee Herman'' |
*[[Paul Reubens]] (born '''Paul Rubenfeld''', 1952–), aka ''Peewee Herman'' |
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This is a list of notable Jewish American entertainers. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.
Actors (film and TV)
1990s
- Jonah Bobo (born 1997), film actor (Around the Bend, Zathura)[1]
- Flora Cross (born 1993), film actress (Bee Season)[2]
- Alexander Gould (born 1994), film/TV actor (Finding Nemo)[3]
- Shane Haboucha (born 1990), actor (Desperation, Stacy's Mom)[4]
- Carter Jenkins (born 1991), film/TV actor[5]
- Logan Lerman (born 1992), film/TV actor (Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief)[6][7]
- Jonathan Lipnicki (born 1990), film actor (Jerry Maguire, Like Mike)[8]
- Nathalia Ramos (born 1992), Spanish-born American actress (Bratz: The Movie)[9]
- Sarah Ramos (born 1991), TV actress (American Dreams)[10]
- Daryl Sabara (born 1992), actor (Spy Kids, Keeping Up with the Steins, Halloween)[11][12]
- Evan Sabara (born 1992), film/TV actor, brother of Daryl Sabara[13]
- Adiel Stein (born 1991), film actor (Stolen Summer)[14]
- Matt Weinberg (born 1990), film/TV actor (Haunted Lighthouse)[15]
- Zoe Weizenbaum (born 1991), film actress (Memoirs of a Geisha)[16]
1980s
- Dianna Agron (born 1986), actress and singer
- Jonathan Ahdout (born 1989), actor (House of Sand and Fog, 24)[17]
- Justin Baldoni (born 1984), actor (Everwood)[18]
- Amanda Bynes (born 1986), film actress and former show host on Nickelodeon (She's the Man)[19]
- Lizzy Caplan (born 1982), film/TV actress (Mean Girls, Cloverfield)[20]
- Lauren Cohan (born 1982), Film/Television actor (Supernatural)[21]
- Matt Cohen (born 1982), film/TV actor[22]
- John Francis Daley (born 1985), actor/director (Freaks and Geeks)[23]
- Kat Dennings (born Katherine Litwack, 1986–), film/TV actress[24][25]
- Zac Efron (born 1987), teen idol/actor (High School Musical, Hairspray)[26]
- Jesse Eisenberg (born 1983), film actor (The Squid and the Whale)[27]
- Ben Feldman (born 1980), film/TV actor[28][29]
- Sean Flynn-Amir (born 1989), TV actor (Zoey 101)[30]
- Ben Foster (born 1980), film actor (X-Men: The Last Stand)[31]
- Jon Foster (born 1984), film/TV actor (Stay Alive)[32]
- Shayna Fox (born 1984), voice actress[33]
- Gideon Glick (born 1988), actor[34]
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt (born 1981), film/TV actor[35][36]
- Max Greenfield (born 1980), film/TV actor[37]
- Zena Grey (born 1988), film actress (Max Keeble's Big Move)[38]
- Jake Gyllenhaal (born 1980), film actor (Brokeback Mountain)[39]
- Jonah Hill (born Jonah Hill Feldstein, 1983–), film actor[40]
- Scarlett Johansson (born 1984), film actress;[41] [42]
- Ariana Jollee (born 1982), pornographic actress and pornographic film director[43]
- Mila Kunis (born 1983), TV actress (That '70s Show)[44]
- Shia LaBeouf (born 1986), TV/film actor (Even Stevens, Holes,Disturbia,Transformers)[45][46]
- Adam Lamberg (born 1984), actor (Lizzie McGuire)[47]
- Samm Levine (born 1982), film/TV actor[48]
- Margarita Levieva (born 1980), actress and professional gymnast
- Alex D. Linz (born 1989), actor (Home Alone 3, Max Keeble's Big Move)[49][50]
- Jessica Manley, actress (Anne Frank: The Whole Story).
- Eli Marienthal (born 1986), film actor (Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen)[51]
- Scott Mechlowicz (born 1981), film actor (EuroTrip, Mean Creek)[52]
- Sara Paxton (born 1988), actress (Darcy's Wild Life, Aquamarine)[53][54][55]
- Josh Peck (born 1986), actor (Drake & Josh)[56]
- Ashley Peldon (born 1984), film/TV actress[57]
- Courtney Peldon (born 1981), film/TV actress[58]
- Alisan Porter (born 1981), film and stage actress and singer[59]
- Natalie Portman (born Natalie Hershlag, 1981–), Israeli-born film actor (V for Vendetta)[60]
- Laura Prepon (born 1980), film/TV actress (That '70s Show). .[61][62]
- Nikki Reed (born 1988), film actress/screenwriter (Thirteen)[63][64]
- Seth Rogen (born 1982), comedian, actor, writer
- Daphne Rosen (born 1982), Israeli/American adult film actress and adult movie producer[65]
- Emmy Rossum (born 1986), actress, singer, and songwriter
- Jason Schwartzman (born 1980), known from Rushmore, Spun, I Heart Huckabees, Shopgirl, Marie Antoinette, and for being a member of the predominantly Jewish band Phantom Planet, of which the track "California" became the theme song for the Fox TV series, The O.C.
- Jason Segel (born 1980), film/TV actor[66]
- Jamie-Lynn Sigler (born 1981), TV actress (The Sopranos)[67]
- Sam Smith (born 1989), English actor (Wondrous Oblivion)[68]
- Marla Sokoloff (born 1980), film/TV actress (Big Day)[69]
- Shoshannah Stern (born 1980), TV actress[70][71]
- Margo Stilley (born 1983), film actress (9 Songs)[72]
- Lauren Storm (born 1987), TV actress (Flight 29 Down)[73][74]
- Khleo Thomas (born 1989), film actor (Holes)[75]
- Ashley Tisdale (born 1985), actress and singer (High School Musical)[76]
- Michelle Trachtenberg (born 1985), film/TV actress; born to devout Jewish parents; grandparents live in Israel[77]
- Joseph Trohman (born 1984), musician (Fall Out Boy)Joe Trohman
- Raviv (Ricky) Ullman (born 1986), Israeli-born actor, teen idol (Phil of the Future)[78]
- Anneliese van der Pol (born 1984), Dutch/American actress (That's So Raven)[79]
- Mara Wilson (born 1987), film actress (Matilda)[80]
- Evan Rachel Wood (born 1987), film actress (Thirteen, The Upside of Anger)[63][64][81]
- Mario Yedidia (born 1984), former child actor (Warriors of Virtue)[82]
- Anton Yelchin (born 1989), Russian-born film/TV actor[83][84]
- Joey Zimmerman (born 1986), film/TV actor (Halloweentown)[85]
1970s
- Shiri Appleby (born 1978), Israeli/American film/TV actress (Roswell)[86]
- David Arquette (born 1971), film actor[87][88]
- Elizabeth Banks (born 1974), film actress (Invincible)[89][90]
- Justin Bartha (born 1978), film actor (National Treasure,The Hangover)[91]
- Amber Benson (born 1977), actress (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)[92]
- Elizabeth Berkley (born 1972), TV, film, and stage actress[93]
- Mayim Bialik (born 1975), actress (Blossom)[94]
- Michael Ian Black (born Michael Ian Schwartz, 1971–), actor, comedian and comedy writer[95]
- Selma Blair (born Selma Bleitner, 1972–), film actress, raised w/strong Jewish identity and Jewish day school (Cruel Intentions)[96]
- Alex Borstein (born 1971), actress, writer, and comedian[97]
- Caprice Bourret (born 1971), English fashion model and actress, often known by her first name[98]
- Zach Braff (born 1975), film/TV actor, director, screenwriter, and producer (Scrubs, Garden State)[99]
- Tamara Braun (born 1971), soap opera actress[100]
- Adam Brody (born 1979), actor (The O.C.)[101]
- Adrien Brody (born 1973), film actor (The Pianist)[102][103]
- Sarah Brown (born 1975), actress[104]
- Brooke Burke (born 1971), TV personality and model[105][106]
- Scott Caan (born 1976), film actor, son of James Caan[107]
- Josh Charles (born 1971), stage, film, and TV actor[108]
- Emmanuelle Chriqui (born 1977), film/TV actress[109]
- Jennifer Connelly (born 1970), film actress[110]
- Erin Daniels (born Erin Cohen, 1973–), actress[111][112]
- Dustin Diamond (born 1977), actor (Saved by the Bell)[113]
- Nicole Eggert (born 1972), actress (Baywatch, Charles in Charge); raised in traditional Jewish household
- Oded Fehr (born 1970), Israeli/American actor (The Mummy)[114]
- Corey Feldman (born 1971), film actor, 1980s teen idol[115]
- James Franco (born 1978), film actor (James Dean, Spider-Man)[116][117]
- Soleil Moon Frye (born 1976), actress and director (Punky Brewster)[118]
- Sarah Michelle Gellar (born 1977), actress, writer, director, film maker, comedian, singer (Buffy Summers)[119]
- Elon Gold (born 1970), comedian, TV actor, writer, and producer[120]
- Missy Gold (born 1970), actress on TV show Benson
- Adam Goldberg (born 1970), film actor[121]
- Ginnifer Goodwin (born 1978), film/TV actress (Big Love)[122]
- Seth Green (born 1974), actor, writer, and TV producer[123][124]
- Bryan Greenberg (born 1978), film/TV actor (Prime)[125]
- Maggie Gyllenhaal (born 1977), Golden Globe-nominated actress[112][126]
- Corey Haim (1971–2010), Canadian-born film actor[127]
- Chelsea Handler (born 1975), actress/comedian[128]
- Alyson Hannigan (born 1974), actress ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Date Movie)[129]
- Danielle Harris (born 1977), actress[130]
- Samantha Harris (born Samantha Harris Shapiro, 1973–), actress and TV presenter[131]
- Cole Hauser (born 1975), film actor[132][133]
- Jason Hervey (born 1972), actor (The Wonder Years)
- Kate Hudson (born 1979), film actress (Almost Famous, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days)[134]
- Oliver Hudson (born 1976), film/TV actor[32]
- Rashida Jones (born 1976), actress, writer, model, and musician (The Office)[135]
- Chris Kattan (born 1970), comedian (Saturday Night Live)[39]
- Mia Kirshner (born 1975), Israeli/American actress and author born to devout Jewish parents, known for portrayal of Jenny Schecter on The L Word; granddaughter of Jewish Holocaust survivors
- Alla Korot (born 1970), Ukrainian-born actress[136]
- Lisa Kushell (born 1971), comedic actress (MADtv, co-host of Dinner and a Movie)[137]
- David Krumholtz (born 1978), actor (NUMB3RS)[138]
- Adam Levine (born 1979), musician (Maroon 5)Adam Levine
- Aaron Lewis (born 1972), lead singer of post-grunge band Staind
- Jenny Lewis (born 1976), musician and former child actress[139]
- Michael Lucas (born 1972), Russian-born porn star[140]
- Jamie Luner (born 1971), actress (Melrose Place)[141]
- Natasha Lyonne (born Natasha Braunstein, 1979–), film/TV actress (American Pie)[142]
- Gabriel Macht (born 1972), film actor[143]
- Kellie Martin (born 1975), actress (Life Goes On, Christy, ER)
- Idina Menzel (born 1971), actress, singer and songwriter[144]
- Seth Meyers (born 1973), actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live)[145]
- Gwyneth Paltrow (born 1972), actress and singer[146][147][148]
- Adam Pascal (born 1970), actor (Rent)[149]
- Amanda Peet (born 1972), film actress[150][151]
- Joaquin Phoenix (born Joaquin Bottom, 1974–), film actor (Walk the Line)[152][153][154][155]
- Rain Phoenix (born Rain Bottom, 1973–), actress/musician[152][153]
- River Phoenix (born River Bottom, 1970–93), film actor[152][153]
- Summer Phoenix (born 1978), actress and model[152][153]
- Pink (born Alecia Moore, 1979–), singer and actress[156]
- Josh Radnor (born 1976), actor (How I Met Your Mother)[86]
- Michael Rapaport (born 1970), film/TV actor[157]
- Leah Remini (born 1970), actress (The King of Queens)[158]
- Simon Rex (born 1974), actor and model[159]
- Michael Rosenbaum (born 1972), film/TV actor (Smallvile)[160]
- Tracee Ellis Ross (born Tracee Joy Silberstein, 1972–), actress, daughter of singer Diana Ross[161]
- Eli Roth (born 1972), film actor, director, producer and writer[162]
- Maya Rudolph (born 1972), actress/comedian (Saturday Night Live)[90]
- Keri Russell (born 1976), actress and dancer (Felicity, The Upside of Anger)[163]
- Winona Ryder (born Winona Horowitz, 1971–), film actress[164][165]
- Sarah Saltzberg (born 1976), Broadway theater actress[166]
- Andy Samberg (born David Andrew Samberg, 1977–), comedian. Part of group The Lonely Island; Saturday Night Live
- Fred Savage (born 1976), actor and TV director (Wonder Years)[167][168]
- Josh Saviano (born 1976), (Wonder Years)
- Miriam Shor (born 1971), film/TV actress (Big Day)[169]
- Sarah Silverman (born 1970), stand-up comedian, actress, and writer[145]
- Alicia Silverstone (born 1976), actress and former fashion model (Clueless, Batman and Robin)[170][171]
- Ione Skye (born Ione Skye Leitch, 1971–), English-born actress[172]
- Lindsay Sloane (born Lindsay Sloane Leikin, 1977–), actress[173][174]
- Bahar Soomekh (born 1975), Iranian-born actress (Crash)[175][176]
- Tori Spelling (born 1973), actress (Beverly Hills 90210)[177][178]
- Jordana Spiro (born 1977), TV actress (My Boys)[179]
- Matt Stone (born 1971), animator, film director, screenwriter, actor, voice actor, and creator of South Park[180]
- Danny Strong (born 1974), film/TV actor[181]
- Jonathan Togo (born 1977), actor (CSI: Miami, Mystic River)[182]
- Mageina Tovah (born Mageina Tovah Begtrup, 1979–), actress[183]
- Kevin Weisman (born 1970), film/TV actor[184]
- Jennifer Westfeldt (born 1971), actress and writer (Kissing Jessica Stein)[185]
- Marissa Jaret Winokur (born 1973), film, TV, and stage actress (Hairspray stage version)[186]
- Noah Wyle (born 1971), film/TV actor[187]
- Nikki Ziering (born Natalie Schiele, 1971–), model and actress[188]
- Ethan Zohn (born 1973), Survivor: Africa winner and actor[189]
- Arianne Zuker (born Arianne Zuckerman, 1974–), soap opera actress[190]
1960s
- Paula Abdul (born 1962), singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, dancer, and choreographer[191]
- Steven Adler (born 1965), musician, songwriter, drummer (Guns N' Roses)
- Patricia Arquette (born 1968), Golden Globe-nominated actress[192][193]
- Hank Azaria (born 1964), Ladino (Sephardic Jewish language) speaking film/TV actor, director, comedian, and voice artist (voice actor on The Simpsons, The Birdcage).[194]
- David Alan Basche (born 1968), actor[195]
- Randall Batinkoff (born 1968), film/TV actor (For Keeps?)[196]
- Mary Kay Bergman (1961–99), voice actress (South Park)[197]
- Troy Beyer (born 1964), film director, screenwriter, and actress[110]
- Craig Bierko (born 1964), film/TV actor (Cinderella Man)[198]
- Jack Black (born 1969), film actor and musician[199][200]
- Yasmine Bleeth (born 1968), film/TV actress (Baywatch)[201]
- Lisa Bonet (born 1967), film/TV actress (The Cosby Show)[202]
- Matthew Broderick (born 1962), film and stage actor (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Producers)[203]
- Gabrielle Carteris (born 1961), actress (Beverly Hills 90210)[204]
- Max Casella (born 1967), actor (Doogie Howser)
- Scott Cohen (born 1964), film/TV actor[205]
- Mindy Cohn (born 1966), TV actress (The Facts of Life)[174]
- David Cross (born 1964), actor/comedian[206]
- Embeth Davidtz,(born 1965), actress (Schindler’s List, Matilda)
- Dean Devlin (born 1962), former actor, now producer and screenwriter[207]
- Don Diamont (born Donald Feinberg, 1961–), soap opera actor (The Young and the Restless)[208]
- Robert Downey Jr. (born 1965), actor and musician (Iron Man)[209][210]
- David Duchovny (born 1960), film/TV actor (The X-Files)[211][212]
- Lisa Edelstein (born 1967), actress (House)[213]
- Jon Favreau (born 1966), actor/director[214][215]
- Dan Futterman (born 1967), actor and screenwriter[216]
- Jeff Garlin (born 1962), comic actor (Curb Your Enthusiasm)[217]
- Brad Garrett (born Bradley Harold Gerstenfeld, 1960–), actor and comedian[218]
- Gina Gershon (born 1962), film actress[219]
- Jami Gertz (born 1965), film/TV actress[220]
- Melissa Gilbert (born 1964), former child actress, two terms as president of Screen Actors Guild[221]
- Judy Gold (born 1962), stand-up comedian and actress[222]
- Tracey Gold (born 1969), actress (Growing Pains); sister of Missy
- Bill Goldberg (born 1966), former wrestler; wrestled for both World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), film/TV actor[223]
- Kerri Green (born 1967), actress, screenwriter, producer, and 1980s teen icon (“Andy” in The Goonies, Lucas)
- Jennifer Grey (born 1960), actress and dancer (Dirty Dancing)[224]
- Arye Gross (born 1960), film/TV actor[225]
- Greg Grunberg (born 1966), film/TV actor (Heroes)[226]
- Annabelle Gurwitch (born 1961), comedic actress, hostess of TBS's Dinner and a Movie[227]
- Daryl Hannah (born 1960), film actress (Splash)[228]
- Jessica Hecht (born 1965), film/stage actress[229]
- Monica Horan (born 1963), TV actress (Everybody Loves Raymond)[230]
- Sean Kanan (born Sean Perelman, 1966–), soap opera actor (General Hospital)[231]
- Lesli Kay (born Lesli Pushkin, 1965–), actress (As the World Turns); had first individual girl's bat mitzvah in West Virginia
- Heather Paige Kent (born 1969), TV actress[232]
- Marc Kudisch (born 1966), stage actor[233]
- Lisa Kudrow (born 1963), actress (Friends)[234]
- Juliet Landau (born 1965), actress (Ed Wood), daughter of Martin Landau and Barbara Bain[235]
- John Lehr (born 1967), actor/comedian (10 Items or Less)[179][236]
- Jennifer Jason Leigh (born 1962), Hollywood film actress (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)[8]
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus (born 1961), actress (Seinfeld)[237]
- Joshua Malina (born 1966), film and stage actor[238]
- Camryn Manheim (born 1961), actress (The Practice)[239]
- Cindy Margolis (born 1965), actress/model; in 2000 Guinness Book of World Records as the "most downloaded" person in 1999[195]
- Julianna Margulies (born 1966), film/TV actress (ER)[240]
- Brett Marx (born 1964), actor (The Bad News Bears); great nephew of the Marx Brothers
- Marlee Matlin (born 1965), actress (Children of a Lesser God)[241]
- Debra Messing (born 1968), actress (Will & Grace)[242]
- Dina Meyer (born 1968), film/TV actress (Saw films)[243]
- Ari Meyers (born 1969), actress (Kate & Allie)[244]
- Rob Morrow (born 1962), actor (Northern Exposure, Numb3rs)[245]
- Sarah Jessica Parker (born 1965), Golden Globe, Emmy-winning actress[246][247]
- Sean Penn (born 1960), film actor (Mystic River, Milk)[248]
- Jeremy Piven (born 1965), actor (Entourage)[249]
- Rain Pryor (born 1969), actress and comedian, daughter of Richard Pryor[250]
- Ted Raimi (born 1965), actor, brother of Spider-Man director Sam Raimi[89]
- Adam Rich (born 1968), child actor (Eight is Enough)
- Paul Rudd (born 1969), actor and screenwriter; son of devout Jewish immigrants from England[251][252]
- Adam Sandler (born 1966), actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter, producer, and musician[253][254]
- Rob Schneider (born 1963), actor, comedian, and screenwriter[255]
- Bitty Schram (born 1968), Golden Globe-nominated actress[256]
- Liev Schreiber (born 1967), Tony Award winning actor[257]
- Scott Schwartz (born 1968), child actor (A Christmas Story and The Toy)
- David Schwimmer (born 1966), Emmy-nominated actor and director (Friends)[258]
- Sam Seder (born 1966), actor, comedian, writer, producer, director[259]
- Kyra Sedgwick (born 1965), Emmy-nominated actress[228]
- Ally Sheedy (born 1962), screen and stage actress ("Brat Pack" films The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire)[260]
- Jonathan Silverman (born 1966), film/TV actor[261]
- Helen Slater (born 1963), film actress and singer-songwriter, (title role in Supergirl)[262]
- Robert Smigel (born 1960), Comedian, actor, writer; puppeteer behind Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog, Saturday Night Live's TV Funhouse cartoon shorts; contributed to album The Jewish Songbook: The Heart and Humor of a People. Son of devout Jewish parents; raised w/strong Jewish identity, Jewish day school, travel to Israel, and Jewish summer camps.
- Rena Sofer (born 1968), actress born to Orthodox Jewish parents; father is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi. Descendant of mystical rabbi and philosopher Baal Shem Tov.[263]
- Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, 1962–), stand-up comedian, actor, author; host, head writer, and producer of The Daily Show[264]
- Ben Stiller (born 1965), Emmy Award winning comedian, actor, and film director[254][265]
- Michael Vartan (born 1968), French-born film/TV actor (Monster-in-Law)[266]
- Steven Weber (born 1961), film/TV actor (Wings)[267]
- Scott Wolf (born 1968), actor (Party of Five)[268]
- Ian Ziering (born 1964), actor (Beverly Hills 90210)[131][269]
1950s
- Caroline Aaron (born 1957), actress and producer[270]
- Jason Alexander (born Jay Greenspan, 1959–), actor, comedian, writer, director ("George Costanza" on Seinfeld)[271]
- Adam Arkin (born 1956), film, TV, and stage actor[272]
- Rosanna Arquette (born 1959), actress, film director, and film producer[273]
- Ellen Barkin (born 1954), actress[37]
- Robby Benson (born Robin Segal, 1956–), actor, former teen idol[274]
- Mike Binder (born 1958), screenwriter, film director, and actor[275]
- Kate Capshaw (born 1953), actress (Indiana Jones)[276]
- Jamie Lee Curtis (born 1958), Golden Globe-winning film actress, writer of books for children[277]
- Wayne Federman (born 1959), comedian, actor, author (Maravich)[278]
- Tovah Feldshuh (born 1952), actress, singer, and playwright[279]
- Harvey Fierstein (born 1954), actor, author, and singer[280]
- Carrie Fisher (born 1956), film actress, novelist (Star Wars)[281]
- Al Franken (born 1951), comedian, actor, author, screenwriter, political commentator, radio host, and U.S. Senator[282]
- Jeff Goldblum (born 1952), film actor[283]
- Steve Guttenberg (born 1958), actor[284]
- Mary Hart (born 1950), actress and TV personality (Entertainment Tonight)[285]
- Amy Irving (born 1953), actress[286]
- Toni Kalem (born 1956), film/TV actress, screenwriter, and director[287]
- Carol Kane (born 1952), actress[288]
- Julie Kavner (born 1950), film/TV actress (voice of Marge on The Simpsons)[289]
- Richard Kind (born 1956), actor[290]
- John Landis (born 1950), actor, director, writer, and producer[291]
- Carol Leifer (born 1956), comedienne and actress[292]
- Joan Lunden (born Joan Blunden, 1950–), broadcaster (Good Morning America), has also acted[293]
- Melanie Mayron (born 1952), actress and director (Thirtysomething)[294]
- Larry Miller (born 1953), stand-up comedian, actor[295]
- Don Most (born 1953), actor (Happy Days)[296]
- Bebe Neuwirth (born 1958), theater, TV, and film actress[144]
- Laraine Newman (born 1952), comedienne and actress[297]
- Ken Olin (born 1954), actor, director and producer[298]
- Mandy Patinkin (born 1952), actor of stage and screen, and singer/interpreter of Yiddish songs[299]
- Lorna Patterson (born 1956), film, stage and TV actress[300]
- Scott Patterson (born 1958), actor (Gilmore Girls)[301]
- David Paymer (born 1954), character actor[302]
- Ron Perlman (born 1950), film/TV actor (Hellboy)[303]
- Kevin Pollak (born 1957), actor, impressionist, and comedian[304]
- Elvis Presley (born 1935), "King of Rock and Roll"
- Paul Reiser (born 1957), actor, author, and stand-up comedian (Mad About You)[305]
- Paul Reubens (born Paul Rubenfeld, 1952–), aka Peewee Herman
- Alan Rosenberg (born 1950), actor, 24th president of the Screen Actors Guild[306]
- Katey Sagal (born 1954), actress, singer, and writer (Married... with Children)[307]
- Bob Saget (born 1956), actor, stand-up comedian, and game show host[308]
- Richard Schiff (born 1955), actor (The West Wing)[309]
- Steven Seagal (born 1951), action movie actor, producer, writer, director, and singer[310]
- Jerry Seinfeld (born 1954), comedian, actor, and writer[258]
- Jane Seymour (born Joyce Frankenberg, 1951–), English-born film/TV actress[311]
- Wendie Jo Sperber (1958–2005), TV/movie actress[312]
- Annie Sprinkle (born Ellen Steinberg, 1954–), stripper, porn film star/producer, porn magazine editor/writer, turned into an artist, cable TV host[313]
- Howard Stern (born 1954), radio/TV personality, media mogul, humorist, actor, and author[39]
- Stephen Tobolowsky (born 1951), actor[314]
- Robert Trebor (born Robert Schenkman, 1953–), actor (Hercules, Xena)[315]
- Debra Winger (born 1955), actress born to Orthodox Jewish parents; raised w/strong Jewish identity that included trips to kibbutzim in Israel; played "Wonder Girl" in Wonder Woman TV series[316]
- Mare Winningham (born 1959), film/TV actress[317]
1940s
- Bob Balaban (born 1945), actor and director[318]
- Richard Belzer (born 1944), stand-up comedian, writer, and actor[258]
- Lewis Black (born 1948), stand-up comedian and actor
- Albert Brooks (born Albert Lawrence Einstein, 1947–), stand-up comedian, director, screenwriter, actor[319]
- James Caan (born 1940), film, stage, and TV actor (The Godfather)[320]
- Nell Carter (1948–2003), singer and film, stage, and TV actress[321]
- Peter Coyote (born Rachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon, 1941–), actor and author[322]
- Billy Crystal (born 1947), actor, writer, producer, comedian, and film director (When Harry Met Sally...)[323][324]
- Larry David (born 1947), Emmy-winning writer, director, comedian, actor, producer, co-creator of Seinfeld, and creator of Curb Your Enthusiasm[325]
- Michael Douglas (born 1944), actor and producer (Wall Street); Jewish father[326]
- Richard Dreyfuss (born 1947), actor (The Goodbye Girl)[327]
- Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, 1941–), singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet, also appeared in several films[328]
- Bob Einstein (born 1942), writer and comedian known as Super Dave
- Richard Elfman (born 1949), film director, writer, and actor[329]
- Harrison Ford (born 1942), actor[141][154]
- Bonnie Franklin (born 1944), actress[330]
- Art Garfunkel (born 1941), singer & songwriter
- Paul Michael Glaser (born 1943), actor (Starsky & Hutch)[331]
- Scott Glenn (born 1941), actor[332]
- Les Golden (born 1943), stage, film, improvisation, voice, and commercial actor; stand-up comedian; trumpet player; band leader; radio disk jockey; play-by-play announcer; gambling writer[333]
- Christopher Guest (born 1948), comedian, screenwriter, composer, musician, film director, actor, and Spinal Tap member[334][335]
- Goldie Hawn (born 1945), film actress, director, and producer[336]
- Dan Hedaya (born 1940), character actor[337]
- Barbara Hershey (born Barbara Lynn Herzstein, 1948–), actress[32]
- Ricky Jay (born Richard Jay Potash, 1948–), professional sleight-of-hand artist, actor, and author
- Madeline Kahn (1942–99), actress of film, TV, and theater[338]
- Gabe Kaplan (born 1945), actor, comedian, and professional poker player[339]
- Andy Kaufman (1949–84), comedian; devout Jewish parents[340]
- Judy Kaye (born 1948), singer and actress[341]
- Lainie Kazan (born Lanie Levine, 1940–), actress and singer[342]
- Robert Klein (born 1942), stand-up comedian and occasional actor[343]
- Kevin Kline (born 1947), stage and film actor[27]
- Richard Kline (born 1944), actor and TV director[344]
- Sherry Lansing (born 1944), former CEO of Paramount Studios and actress[345]
- Michael Lembeck (born 1948), actor and director[300]
- Richard Lewis (born 1947), comedian and actor[346]
- Judith Light (born 1949), actress (Who's the Boss?)
- Peggy Lipton (born 1947), TV actress and socialite (The Mod Squad)[347]
- Stephen Macht (born 1942), actor[348]
- Richard Masur (born 1948), actor[330]
- Bette Midler (born 1945), singer, actress, and comedian, also known as The Divine Miss M[349][350]
- Frank Oz (born Richard Frank Oznowicz, 1944–), English-born film director, actor, and puppeteer (Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, and Sam the Eagle on The Muppet Show, and Grover, Cookie Monster, and Bert on Sesame Street)
- David Proval (born 1942), actor (The Sopranos)[351]
- Gilda Radner (1946–89), comedian and actress (Saturday Night Live)[352]
- Harold Ramis (born 1944), director, actor, writer, and producer
- Rob Reiner (born 1947), actor, director, producer, writer, political, and anti-tobacco activist; son of Carl Reiner, directed and co-wrote “mockumentary” film This Is Spinal Tap (w/fellow Jewish screenwriters and Spinal Tap members Harry Shearer and Christopher Guest); films Stand by Me, When Harry Met Sally..., and A Few Good Men.[353]
- Peter Riegert (born 1947), film/TV actor[354]
- Garry Shandling (born 1949), comedian and actor[355]
- Wallace Shawn (born 1943), actor and writer[356]
- Harry Shearer (born 1943), actor, comedian, writer, voice artist, musician, author, and radio host; long-running role on The Simpsons, his work on Saturday Night Live, and for being a founding member comedy band Spinal Tap[357][358]
- Paul Simon (born 1941), singer, songwriter
- Brent Spiner (born 1949), actor (Star Trek: The Next Generation)[359]
- Barbra Streisand (born 1942), two-time Academy Award-winning singer, theatre and film actress, songwriter, composer, and film producer and director.[324][360]
- Jeffrey Tambor (born 1944), film/TV actor (Hellboy, Arrested Development)[361]
- Jessica Walter (born 1941), film/TV actress (Arrested Development)[362]
- Zoë Wanamaker (born 1949), American-born English actress[363][364]
- Lesley Ann Warren (born 1946), stage, film, and TV actress[365]
- Anson Williams (born Anson William Heimlick, 1949–), actor (Happy Days)[296]
- Henry Winkler (born 1945), actor, director, producer, and author (Happy Days)[296]
1930s
- Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg, 1935–), Yiddish-speaking film director, writer, actor, musician, and stand-up comedian; raised in an Orthodox Jewish family[366]
- Alan Arkin (born 1934), film actor, director[367]
- Barbara Barrie (born 1931), actress and author of children's books[289]
- Richard Benjamin (born 1938), actor and film director[324]
- Dyan Cannon (born Samille Diane Friesen, 1937–), film/TV actress, editor, producer, and director[368]
- Eddie Carmel (1936–72), entertainer known as "The Jewish Giant"[369]
- Jerry Douglas (born Gerald Rubenstein, 1932–), TV actress (The Young and the Restless)[370]
- Elliott Gould (born Elliot Goldstein, 1938–), film/TV actor[371]
- Charles Grodin (born 1935), actor and former cable talk show host[372]
- Estelle Harris (born Estelle Nussbaum, 1932–), actress (Seinfeld)[258]
- Judd Hirsch (born 1935), actor (Taxi, NUMB3RS)[293]
- Dustin Hoffman (born 1937), two-time Oscar winning actor[373]
- Tony Jay (1933–2006), English/American actor[374]
- Harvey Keitel (born 1939), actor[375]
- Walter Koenig (born 1936), actor, writer, teacher, and director (appeared in original Star Trek)[376]
- Yaphet Kotto (born 1937), African-American actor (son of Cameroonian Crown Prince), (role in Alien)[377]
- Martin Landau (born 1931), film/TV actor
- Michael Landon (born Eugene Maurice Orowitz, 1936–91), actor, producer, and director[378]
- Louise Lasser (born 1939), stage/film/TV actress (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman)[379][380]
- Piper Laurie (born Rosetta Jacobs, 1932–), actress[381]
- Linda Lavin (born 1937), stage, film, and TV actress[382]
- Steve Lawrence (born Sidney Liebowitz, 1935–), singer and actor (The Carol Burnett Show)
- Shari Lewis (born Sonia Phyllis Hurwitz, 1933–98), ventriloquist, puppeteer, and children's TV show host[383]
- Hal Linden (born Harold Lipshitz, 1931–), actor and TV director (Barney Miller)[384]
- Tina Louise (born 1934), model, singer, and film/TV actress[385]
- Jackie Mason (born Yacov Moshe Maza, 1931–), stand-up comedian/actor[386][387]
- Paul Mazursky (born 1930), film director and actor[388]
- Barry Newman (born 1931), actor[389]
- Leonard Nimoy (born 1931), Yiddish-speaking son of Orthodox Jewish parents; film director, actor, writer, singer, songwriter, poet, and photographer; wrote and directed on the Star Trek films and series (in which he played Spock)[390]
- Suzanne Pleshette (1937–2008), actress (The Bob Newhart Show)
- Ron Rifkin (born 1939), actor, director[298]
- Joan Rivers (Joan Alexandra Molinsky Sanger Rosenberg, 1933–), comedienne, actress, talk show host, and celebrity[391][392]
- George Segal (born 1934), film and stage actor[324]
- Susan Strasberg (1938–99), actress (In Praise of Older Women)
- Dame Elizabeth Taylor (1932—2011), Oscar-winning English/American film actress and sex symbol[393][394][395]
- Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman, 1933–), actor and comedian[396]
1920s
- Marty Allen (born 1922), stand-up comedian and actor
- Ed Ames (born Edmund Dantes Urick, 1927–), singer and actor[397]
- Beatrice Arthur (born Bernice Frankel, 1925–2009), actress[398]
- Ed Asner (born 1929), actor[399]
- Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske, 1924–), film and stage actress[400]
- Julian Beck (1925–85), actor, director, poet, and painter[401]
- Shelley Berman (born 1926), comedian, writer, teacher, and actor[402]
- Herschel Bernardi (1923–86), film, Broadway, and TV actor[403]
- Theodore Bikel (born 1924), character actor, folk singer, and musician[404]
- Larry Blyden (1925–75), actor[405]
- Tom Bosley (1927–2010), film/TV actor (Happy Days)[406]
- Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky, 1926–), director, writer, actor, producer, composer, lyricist, and stand-up comedian; pioneered comedy style of mixing comedy with real historic events[407]
- Lenny Bruce (born Leonard Schneider, 1925–66), stand-up comedian, writer, social critic, satirist[408]
- Susan Cabot (1927–86), actress[409]
- Sid Caesar (born 1922), comic actor and writer[410]
- Robert Clary (born Robert Max Widerman, 1926–), French-born actor, published author, and lecturer[411]
- Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz, 1925–2010), film actor[412]
- Rodney Dangerfield (born Jacob Cohen, 1921–2004), comedian and actor[413]
- Sammy Davis, Jr. (1925–90), (converted to Judaism) entertainer, member of the "Rat Pack"[394][414]
- Peter Falk (1927–2011), actor[415]
- Fyvush Finkel (born 1923), actor[416]
- Eddie Fisher (1928–2010), singer and father of Carrie Fisher
- Lee Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal, 1927–), theater, film, and TV actress, and film director[324]
- Buddy Hackett (born Leonard Hacker, 1924–2003), stand-up comedian, writer, actor, and producer; used Jewish humor in his act[417]
- Monty Hall (born Monte Halperin, 1921–), Canadian-born actor, singer, and sportscaster (Let's Make a Deal)[418]
- Laurence Harvey (born Zvi Mosheh Skikne, 1928–73), Lithuanian-born actor; British and American films
- Steven Hill (born Solomon Krakovsky, 1922–), film/TV actor[419]
- Judy Holliday (born Judith Tuvim, 1921–65), actress, singer[420][421]
- Werner Klemperer (1920–2000), comedic actor[422]
- Jack Klugman (born 1922), actor
- Harvey Korman (1927–2008), actor[423]
- Al Lewis (born Albert Meister, 1920–2006), actor (Grandpa Munster)
- Jerry Lewis (born Joseph Levitch, 1926–), comedian, singer, actor, film director, writer, film producer, and humanitarian, slapstick humor and charity fund-raising telethons; wrote, directed, produced, and starred in films The Ladies Man (1961), The Errand Boy (1961), The Patsy (1964), and The Nutty Professor (1963)[414]
- Bill Macy (born 1922), actor[424]
- Ross Martin (born Martin Rosenblatt, 1920–81), [Jewish family] Polish-born film/TV actor (Wild Wild West)
- Walter Matthau (1920–2000), actor[425]
- Anne Meara (born 1929), comedienne and actress, partner and wife of Jerry Stiller[426][427]
- Marilyn Monroe (1926–62), actress, singer, and model[394]
- Vic Morrow (1929–82), actor[428][429]
- Paul Newman (1925–2008), Academy Award-winning actor and film director, philanthropist, founder of "Newman's Own"[324][430][431]
- Charlotte Rae (born 1926), actress from The Facts of Life
- Tony Randall (born Arthur Leonard Rosenberg, 1920–2004), comic actor[432]
- Carl Reiner (born 1922), actor, film director, producer, writer, and comedian[433]
- Regina Resnik (born 1922), opera singer and actress[434]
- Don Rickles (born 1926), stand-up comedian, actor; pioneer of insult comedy[435]
- Fred Sadoff (1926–94), actor in South Pacific[436]
- Mort Sahl (born 1927), stand-up comedian and actor, pioneered style of stand-up comedy that paved the way for Lenny Bruce, Nichols and May, and Dick Gregory; wrote jokes for speeches delivered by President Kennedy
- Rod Serling (1924–75), screenwriter and actor (The Twilight Zone)[437]
- Simone Signoret (1921–85), Academy Award-winning French actress[324]
- Jerry Stiller (born 1927), comedian and actor[426][427]
- Mel Tormé (1925–99), actor, musician, known as "The Velvet Fog", jazz singer and songwriter; wrote over 400 songs including The Christmas Song ("Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire").[438][439]
- Abe Vigoda (born 1921), film/TV actor (The Godfather)Vigoda
- Jack Warden (born John Lebzelter, 1920–2006), Emmy Award-winning, Oscar-nominated actor[440][441]
- Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift, 1920–2006), two-time Academy Award-winning actress[442][443]
1910s
- Mason Adams (1919–2005), character actor[444]
- Martin Balsam (1919–96), actor; won an Academy Award for A Thousand Clowns
- John Banner (1910–73), Austrian/American actor (Hogan's Heroes)[445]
- Red Buttons (born Aaron Chwatt, 1919–2006), Academy Award-winning comedian and actor[254][324][446]
- Lee J. Cobb (born Leo Jacob, 1911–76), Academy Award-nominated film actor[324]
- Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch, 1916), actor (Spartacus)[447]
- John Garfield (born Jacob Garfinkle, 1913–52), actor[448]
- Paulette Goddard (born Marion Levy, 1910–99), Oscar-nominated film and theatre actress[449]
- Kitty Carlisle Hart (born Catherine Conn, 1910–2007), singer, actress, and spokeswoman for the arts[450]
- Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky, 1913–87), film actor, singer and comedian[451]
- Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Kiesler, 1914–2000), actress, invented early form of spread spectrum communications technology, a key to modern wireless communication
- Marc Lawrence (born Max Goldsmith, 1910–2005), character actor[452]
- Zero Mostel (born Samuel Mostel, 1915–77), stage and film actor[453]
- Jan Murray (born Murray Janofsky, 1916–2006), stand-up comedian, actor[254][454]
- Luise Rainer (born 1910), German-born American two-time Academy Award-winning film actress[455][456]
- Lillian Roth (born Lillian Rutstein, 1910–80), singer and actress, noted performer on Broadway[457]
- Dinah Shore ((born Frances Rose Shore, 1916–94), singer and actress[458][459]
- Sylvia Sidney (born Sophia Kosow, 1910–99), film actress[460][461]
- Phil Silvers (1911–85), entertainer and comedy actor[462]
- Harold J. Stone (born Harold Hochstein, 1913–2005), film/TV character actor[463]
- Mike Wallace (born Myron Wallace, 1918–), journalist, briefly acted during the 1940s[464]
- Eli Wallach (born 1915), film, TV and stage actor[465]
- Sam Wanamaker (1919–93), actor and director[466]
- Keenan Wynn (1916–86), character actor[324]
1900s
- Stella Adler (1901–92), actress and acting teacher[467]
- Jack Albertson (1907–81), actor (Chico and the Man)
- Leon Askin (born Leon Aschkenasy, 1907–2005), Austrian American actor[468]
- Milton Berle (born Milton Berlinger, 1908–2002), comedian and actor; pioneered vaudeville and stand-up comedy art forms[469][470]
- Joe Besser (1907–88), comedian (Three Stooges)[201]
- Mel Blanc (1908–89), voice actor and comedian, "The Man of a Thousand Voices”, created voices of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Wile E. Coyote, Barney Rubble.[471]
- Ben Blue (born Benjamin Bernstein, 1901–75), Canadian American actor and comedian[324]
- Howard Da Silva (born Howard Silverblatt, 1909–86), film actor[324]
- Melvyn Douglas (born Melvyn Hesselberg, 1901–81), actor, won all three of the entertainment industry's highest awards (two Oscars, a Tony, and an Emmy)[472][473]
- Larry Fine (born Louis Feinberg, 1902–75), comedian and actor (Three Stooges)[201]
- John Houseman (born Jacques Haussmann, 1902–88), actor; won an Academy Award for The Paper Chase
- Curly Howard (born Jerome Horwitz, 1903–52), one of the Three Stooges[201]
- Sam Levene (1905–80), Russian/American stage and film actor[474]
- Peter Lorre (born László Löwenstein, 1904–64), Austria-Hungary-born American stage and screen actor (M)[475]
- Zeppo Marx (1901–79), member of the Marx Brothers[476]
- Sandy Meisner, (1905–97), actor and acting coach; developed acting methodology known as the "Meisner Technique"
- Ritz Brothers (Al Ritz, Jimmy Ritz, Harry Ritz, 1901–65, 1904–85, 1907–86), Jewish comedy team[324]
- Natalie Schafer (1900–91), actress (Gilligan's Island)
- Lee Strasberg (born Israel Strassberg, 1901–82), actor, director, and acting teacher in theater and film, who according to author Mel Gussow "revolutionized the art of acting”
1890s
- Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky, 1894–1974), comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, TV, and film actor[477]
- Gertrude Berg (born Tilly Edelstein, 1899–1966), radio/TV actress[478]
- Fanny Brice (born Fania Borach, 1891–1951), comedian, singer, and entertainer[479]
- George Burns (born Nathan Birnbaum, 1896–1996), comedian and actor[480]
- Eddie Cantor (born Israel Iskowitz, 1892–1964), comedian, singer, actor, songwriter[481]
- Ricardo Cortez (born Jacob Krantz, 1899–1977), Austrian-born American silent film star, known as a "Latin lover" type[482]
- Hermione Gingold (1897–1987), British-born actress[483]
- Moe Howard (born Moses Horwitz, 1897–1975), "leader" of the Three Stooges[201]
- Shemp Howard (born Samuel Horwitz, 1895–1955), member of the Three Stooges[201]
- Sam Jaffe (born Shalom Jaffe, 1891–1984), Academy Award-nominated film and stage actor[324]
- Irving Kaufman (born Isidore Kaufman, 1890–1976), singer, recording artist, and vaudeville performer[484]
- Francis Lederer (1899–2000), Czech-born American actor [485]
- Philip Loeb (1892–1955), stage, film, and TV actor[486]
- Paul Lukas (1895–1971), Hungarian American film actor[324]
- Groucho Marx (born Julius Marx, 1890–1977), comedian, working both with his siblings, the Marx Brothers, and on his own[476]
- Gummo Marx (born Milton Marx, 1893–1977), one of the Marx Brothers[476]
- Paul Muni (born Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund, 1895–1967), Austrian-born American Academy Award and Tony Award-winning actor[487]
- Carmel Myers (1899–1980), silent film actress[488]
- Molly Picon (born Małka Opiekun, 1898–1992), actor of stage, screen, and TV[489]
- Edward G. Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg, 1893–1973), stage and film actor[490]
- Mae West (born Mary Jane West, 1893–1980), actress, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol[491]
1880s
- Broncho Billy Anderson (born Maxwell Aronson, 1880–1971), actor, writer, director, and producer; first star of the Western film genre[492]
- Theda Bara (born Theodosia Goodman, 1885–1955), silent film actress; the first screen "Vamp"[493]
- Douglas Fairbanks (born Douglas Ullman, 1883–1939), actor, screenwriter, director, and producer known for his silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro in which he starred himself [citation needed]
- Al Jolson (born Asa Yoelson, 1886–1950), singer and actor[494]
- Chico Marx (born Leonard Marx, 1887–1961), one of the Marx Brothers[476]
- Harpo Marx (born Adolph Marx, 1888–1964), one of the Marx Brothers[476]
- Sophie Tucker (born Sonya Kalish, 1884–1966), actress, singer, and comedienne[495]
- Erich von Stroheim (1885–1957), Austrian-born American filmmaker and actor[496]
- Louis Wolheim (1880–1931), character actor in silent films during 1920s; also appeared on stage and in early sound films (All Quiet on the Western Front)
- Ed Wynn (born Isaiah Edwin Leopold, 1886–1966), comedian and actor[324]
Pre–1880s
- Alla Nazimova (born Miriam Leventon, 1879–1945), theater and film actress, scriptwriter, and producer[497]
- Boris Thomashefsky (1868–1939), Ukrainian-born American singer, actor, Yiddish theater icon[498]
- Jacob Pavlovitch Adler (1855–1926), Russian-born American actor, Yiddish theater[499]
- Adah Isaacs Menken (1835–68), actress, dancer, painter, and poet; converted to Judaism upon marrying the first of her four husbands[500]
Actors (theater)
Persons listed with a double asteriks (**) are producers who have won the Tony Award for Best Musical and/or the Tony Award for Best Play. Those listed with a triple asteriks (***) have won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical and/or Play. Those listed with a quadruple asteriks (****) have won the Tony Award for Best Actor or Best Actress in a Musical or Play.
- Jacob Pavlovitch Adler, actor
- Stella Adler, actress
- Woody Allen (born 1935), see "Actors" above
- Morey Amsterdam, see "Actors" above
- Shoshana Bean, actress
- Jack Benny, (1894–1974), see "Actors" above
- Milton Berle, see "Actors" above
- Shelley Berman, actor
- Theodore Bikel, see "Actors" above
- Victor Borge, see "Actors" above
- Fanny Brice, see "Actors" above
- Mel Brooks, see "Actors" above**
- Red Buttons (1919–2006), see "Actors" above[324]
- George Burns, see "Actors" above
- Sid Caesar, see "Actors" above
- Eddie Cantor (1892–1964), see "Actors" above[324]
- Kitty Carlisle, actress
- Billy Crystal (born 1947), see "Actors" above[324]
- Rodney Dangerfield, see "Actors" above
- Sammy Davis, Jr., see "Actors" above
- Robert Evans, actor
- Larry Fine, see "Actors" above
- Judy Gold (born 1962), see "Actors" above
- Les Golden (born 1943), see "Actors" above
- Charles Grodin, see "Actors" above
- Buddy Hackett, see "Actors" above
- Anna Held, stage performer
- Dustin Hoffman (born 1937), see "Actors" above[324]
- Curly Howard, see "Actors" above
- Moe Howard, see "Actors" above
- Shemp Howard, see "Actors" above
- George Jessel, producer and actor
- Al Jolson,
- Mickey Katz, actor & director
- Andy Kaufman, see "Actors" above
- Danny Kaye (1913–87), see "Actors" above[324]
- Larry Kert, actor and singer
- Alan King, actor and producer
- Robert Klein, see "Actors" above
- Richard Kline, see "Actors" above
- Lisa Kron, actress
- Judy Kuhn, actress and singer
- Bert Lahr, actor
- Louise Lasser (born 1939), see "Actors" above
- Sam Levene, director & actor
- Jerry Lewis (born 1926), see "Actors" above
- Judith Light, actress
- Craig Lucas, actor
- Joshua Malina, actor
- Ross Martin, actor
- The Marx Brothers, (Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo), see "Actors" above
- Jackie Mason (born 1931), see "Actors" above
- Ed Metzger, actor and writer
- Idina Menzel, actress, singer & songwriter ****
- Howard Morris, actor
- Zero Mostel (1915–77), see "Actors" above[324]
- Alla Nazimova, actress
- Bebe Neuwirth, see "Actors" above ****
- Adam Pascal, actor
- Mandy Patinkin, see "Actors" above ****
- Jan Peerce, actor
- Sydney Pollack, actor
- Gilda Radner, see "Actors" above
- Tony Randall, see "Actors" above
- Carl Reiner, see "Actors" above
- Rob Reiner (born 1947), see "Actors" above
- Joan Rivers (born 1933), see "Actors" above
- Edward G. Robinson, see "Actors" above
- Rita Rudner, see "Actors" above
- Rebecca Schull, actress
- Jerry Seinfeld, see "Actors" above
- Wallace Shawn, actor
- Al Shean, see "Actors" above
- Miriam Shor (born 1971), actress[236]
- Barbra Streisand (born 1942), see "Actors" above
- Bessie Thomashefsky, actress
- Boris Thomashefsky, see "Actors" above
- Sophie Tucker (1884–1966), see "Actors" above[324]
- Lesley Ann Warren, actress
- Steven Weber, actor
- Louis Wolheim (1880–1931), character actor in silent films during 1920s; also appeared on stage and early sound films (All Quiet on the Western Front in 1930)
- Ed Wynn (1886–1966), comedian and actor[324]
- Harris Yulin, actor
- Efrem Zimbalist Jr., actor and producer
Comedians
- Dan Ahdoot, finalist Last Comic Standing, 2004[501]
- Jason Alexander (born 1959), see "Actors" above
- Marty Allen (born 1922), see "Actors"
- Woody Allen (born 1935), see "Actors"
- Morey Amsterdam (1908–96), TV actor and comedian[502]
- Ed Asner (1929), see "Actors"
- Dave Attell (born 1965), stand-up comedian; host of Insomniac with Dave Attell[503]
- Jack Benny (1894–74), see "Actors"
- Milton Berle (1908–2002), see "Actors"
- Shelley Berman (born 1926), see "Actors"
- Jack Black (born 1969), see "Actors"
- Lewis Black (born 1948), see "Actors"
- Elayne Boosler (born 1952), comedian
- Victor Borge (born Børge Rosenbaum, 1909–2000), humorist and concert pianist[504]
- Alex Borstein (born 1971), see "Actors"
- David Brenner (born 1936), stand-up comedian, actor, author, and filmmaker
- Fanny Brice (1891–1951), see "Actors"
- Albert Brooks (born 1947), see "Actors"
- Mel Brooks (born 1926), see "Actors"
- Lenny Bruce (1925–66), see "Actors"
- George Burns (1896–1996), see "Actors"
- Red Buttons (1919–2006), see "Actors"
- Eddie Cantor (1892–1964), see "Actors"
- Sid Caesar (born 1922), see "Actors"
- Andrew Dice Clay (born Andrew Clay Silverstein, 1957–), comedian
- Myron Cohen (1902–86), comedian
- "Professor" Irwin Corey (born 1914), comedian
- David Cross (born 1964), see "Actors"
- Billy Crystal (born 1947), see "Actors"
- Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004), see "Actors"
- Larry David (born 1947), see "Actors"
- Wayne Federman (born 1959), see "Actors"
- Totie Fields (born Sophie Feldman, 1930–78), comedienne who poked fun at her weight
- Larry Fine (1902–75), see "Actors"
- Al Franken (born 1951), see "Actors"[505]
- Andrew Ginsburg (born 1979), comedian, actor, and three-time champion bodybuilder[506]
- Elon Gold (1970 –), see "Actors"
- Judy Gold (born 1962), see "Actors"
- Les Golden (born 1943), see "Actors"
- Shecky Greene (born Fred Sheldon Greenfield, 1926–), comedian, actor
- Charles Grodin (born 1935), see "Actors"
- Christopher Guest (born 1948), see "Actors"
- Buddy Hackett (1924–2003), see "Actors"
- Chelsea Handler (born 1975), see "Actors"
- Goldie Hawn (born 1945), see "Actors"
- Jonah Hill (born 1983), see "Actors"
- Steve Hofstetter (born 1979), comedian, author, and columnist
- Jeremy Hotz (born 1963), stand-up comedian; neurotic Jewish person schtick
- Kenny Hotz (born 1973), writer, director, actor, comedian, producer, photographer; creator/co-star of TV show Kenny vs. Spenny, and creator/co-writer of the series Testees
- Moe, Shemp & Curly Howard, the Three Stooges, see "Actors"
- George Jessel (1898–1981), comedian
- Al Jolson (1886–1950), see "Actors"
- Jonathan Katz (born 1946), stand-up comedian, actor, voice-actor; created, wrote, and starred in animated sitcom Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
- Mickey Katz (1909–85), comedian, musician, singer-songwriter, Klezmer clarinetist, director, writer, actor
- Andy Kaufman (1949–84), see "Actors"
- Danny Kaye (1913–87), see "Actors"
- Alan King (born Irwin Alan Kniberg, 1927–2004), see "Actors (Theater)" above
- Robert Klein (born 1942), see "Actors"
- John Lehr (born 1967), see "Actors"
- Tom Lehrer (born 1928), satirist, musician[507]
- Oscar Levant (1906–72), comedian
- "The Reverend" Bob Levy (born 1962), stand-up comedian; frequent Howard Stern guest
- Jerry Lewis (born 1926), see "Actors"
- Richard Lewis (born 1947), see "Actors"
- Bill Maher (born 1956), stand-up comedian; political humor
- Marc Maron (born 1963), comedian, radio host
- Jackie Mason (born 1931), see "Actors"
- The Marx Brothers, (Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Zeppo, Gummo), see "Actors"
- Anne Meara (born 1929), see "Actors"
- Lorne Michaels (born Lorne David Lipowitz, 1944–), comedian, writer, director, producer; the sole creator, writer, director, and producer of Saturday Night Live
- Bette Midler (born 1945), see "Actors"
- Larry Miller (born 1953), see "Actors"
- Dan Mintz (born 1981), stand-up comedian; deadpan delivery; uses non sequitur one-liners.
- Jan Murray (1916–2006), see "Actors"
- BJ Novak (born 1979), comedian, writer, and TV actor on The Office
- Gilda Radner, (1946–89), see "Actors"
- Harold Ramis (born 1944), see "Actors"
- Carl Reiner, see "Actors"
- Paul Reiser, see "Actors"
- Paul Reubens, see "Actors"
- Spencer Rice (aka Spenny), writer, director, producer, and comedian; co-star of Kenny vs. Spenny
- Don Rickles (born 1926), see "Actors"
- Ritz Brothers (Al Ritz, Jimmy Ritz, Harry Ritz), see "Actors"[324]
- Joan Rivers (born 1933), see "Actors"
- Seth Rogen (born 1982), see "Actors"
- Jeffrey Ross (born Jeffrey Ross Lifschultz, 1965–), stand-up comedian; "The Roastmaster General".
- Paul Rudd (born 1969), see "Actors"
- Rita Rudner (born 1953), stand-up comedian; uses Jewish humor
- Mort Sahl, see "Actors"
- Adam Sandler (born 1966), see "Actors"
- Andy Samberg (born 1978), see "Actors"
- Robert Schimmel (born 1950), stand-up comedian; often X-rated and controversial[508]
- Sam Seder (born 1966), see "Actors"
- Jerry Seinfeld (born 1954), see "Actors"
- Gary Shandling (born 1949), see "Actors"
- Al Shean (born Abraham Schönberg, 1868–1949), comedian, actor
- Allan Sherman (1924–73), satirist, musician
- Sarah Silverman (born 1970), see "Actors"
- Phil Silvers (1911–85), see "Actors"
- Bobby Slayton (born 1955), comedian, "The Pit Bull of Comedy"
- Robert Smigel (born 1960), see "Actors"
- Kira Soltanovich (born 1973), comedian, actress, writer, star of Girls Behaving Badly recurring on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- David Steinberg (born 1942), comedian, actor, author, writer, and director.
- Stella, Jewish American comedy team consisting of Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black, and David Wain.
- Jon Stewart (born 1962), see "Actors"
- Ben Stiller (born 1965), see "Actors"
- Jerry Stiller (born 1927), see "Actors"
- Judy Toll (1958–2002), comedian and actor
- Rich Vos (born 1957), comedic actor
- Marc Weiner (born 1952), comedian, puppeteer known for TV show Weinerville and the Bizarre Show
- Gene Wilder (born 1933), see "Actors"
- Steven Wright (born 1955), comedian, actor, and writer; lethargic voice and slow, deadpan delivery
- Ed Wynn (1886–1966), see "Actors"
- Henny Youngman (1906–98), comedian and violinist; 1-liner style
- Roy Zimmerman (born 1957), political, satirical singer, songwriter, and guitarist
Music
Singers and songwriters
- Paula Abdul, singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, dancer, and choreographer; main choreographer of the Jacksons, Janet Jackson, and films Coming to America, Action Jackson, Jerry Maguire, The Running Man, American Beauty, Oliver Stone's The Doors, and the giant keyboard scene involving Tom Hanks’ character in Big.
- The Adolescents, predominantly Jewish hardcore punk band led by Tony Cadena (real name Anthony Brandenburg).
- Agent Orange, predominantly Jewish punk rock band led by Jewish frontman and songwriter Mike Palm.
- Herb Alpert, composer, songwriter, lead singer, and horn player with Tijuana Brass, whose musical accomplishments include 5 number one hits, 28 albums on the Billboard charts, 8 Grammy Awards, 14 Platinum albums, and 15 Gold albums, and who as of 1996 had sold 72 million albums, as well as written Baby Talk, Wonderful World, and Alley-Oop.
- Sean Altman, founder and lead singer of singing group Rockapella.
- The Ames Brothers, all-Jewish singing quartet, consisting of Joe Ames, Gene Ames, Vic Ames, and Ed Ames (real names Urick)
- Anthrax, thrash metal band w/strong Jewish membership that includes founding members, guitarists, and songwriters Scott Ian (guitarist, songwriter), Dan Lilker (lead guitarist, songwriter), and Dan Spitz (lead guitarist, songwriter)
- Asleep at the Wheel, predominantly Jewish Country/Western Swing band, have won 9 Grammy Awards, released more than 20 studio albums, and charted more than 20 singles on the Billboard country charts. Both main members Ray Benson (lead singer, lead guitarist, songwriter, producer), Lucky Oceans (pedal steel guitarist, songwriter, vocalist, real name Reuben Gosfield ) are Jewish
- Harold Arlen, singer, composer, songwriter, and musician
- Kenneth Ascher, musician (keyboards), singer, songwriter, and musical arranger
- Howard Ashman songwriter
- David Axelrod, songwriter, arranger, and producer
- Babes in Toyland, early female grunge band w/predominantly Jewish membership including Kat Bjelland (electric guitar, lead vocals), Maureen Herman (bass, vocals)
- Burt Bacharach, musician, songwriter, singer, musical arranger, producer, pianist
- Bad Religion, rock band with predominantly Jewish membership that includes Brett Gurewitz (lead guitarist, songwriter, founding member), Greg Graffin (lead singer), Greg Hetson (lead guitarist, songwriter), Lucky Lehrer (voted the "best punk drummer of all-time" by fanzine, Flipside), Jay Ziskrout, Brooks Wackerman, Davy Goldman, Pete Finestone and Bobby Schayer.
- Marty Balin, (real name Martyn Buchwald), lead singer and songwriter for Jefferson Airplane
- Jeff Barry (real name Joel Adelberg), Tin Pan Alley and Songwriters Hall of Fame songwriter, singer, and record producer, who created many pop standards, and who also sometimes teamed up with fellow Jewish songwriter Cynthia Weil.
- Len Barry (real name Leonard Borisoff), lead singer, songwriter and musician who influenced artists including John Lennon; a founding member of the predominantly Jewish '60s rock pioneering band The Dovells
- The Barry Sisters (Claire and Minnie Bagelman), Yiddish jazz singers in the 1940s–60s and who sang Yiddish songs, jazz, and popular recordings in Yiddish, and also recorded with other Jewish singers such as Barbra Streisand and chazan (Cantor); Moishe Oysher
- Beastie Boys, all-Jewish NY rap/rock band consisting of Jewish members Michael Diamond, Adam Yauch, and Adam Horovitz.
- Leonard Bernstein, eclectic classical composer whose legacy includes poignant explicitly Jewish themed compositions, as well as a composer of works such as West Side Story, Candide, and On the Town
- Irving Berlin, (real name Israel Isadore Baline), Yiddish speaking son of Orthodox Jewish parents (his father was a Jewish Cantor at the synagogue), and the most prolific songwriter and lyricist of all time who wrote over 3000 songs including White Christmas, God Bless America, Easter Parade, There's No Business Like Show Business, and Cheek To Cheek
- Blood, Sweat & Tears, all-Jewish band that created a new style of music by fusing rock, Klezmer (Jewish art music), blues, pop music, horn arrangements and Klezmer/jazz improvisation into a hybrid that came to be known as "jazz-rock”, who also performed at Woodstock. Its Jewish members include Al Kooper, Jim Fielder, Fred Lipsius, Randy Brecker, Jerry Weiss, Dick Halligan, Steve Katz, and Bobby Colomby.
- Michael Bolton, singer and songwriter
- Mike Bloomfield, lead guitar, composer, and musician, who became one of the first music stars of the 1960s to earn his reputation entirely on his instrumental prowess.
- The Blues Project, all-Jewish, "psychedelic rock pioneering jam band".
- Bratmobile, first-generation Riot Grrrl band that has a predominantly Jewish membership including Allison Wolfe (lead singer, songwriter), Molly Neuman
- David Bromberg, guitar virtuoso and singer-songwriter who has a eclectic style, playing bluegrass, blues, folk, jazz, country and western, and rock & roll equally well. Nominated for a Grammy in 2008.
- Carrie Brownstein, musician, actress, and music blogger; lead guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter in the Portland, Oregon-based indie rock band Sleater-Kinney, and also of Excuse 17.
- Randy California, (real name Randy Craig Wolfe), lead singer, lead guitarist, and principal songwriter of the rock band Spirit. He died while saving his son from drowning.
- Shlomo Carlebach, prolific singer-songwriter; was also a Jewish religious teacher, composer, and known as "The Singing Rabbi". Although his roots lay in traditional Orthodox yeshivot, he branched out to create his own movement combining Hasidic-style warmth and personal interaction, public concerts, and song-filled synagogue services.
- Eric Carmen, singer/songwriter/pianist and leader of Raspberries who wrote and sang the songs All By Myself, Go All the Way, Never Gonna Fall in Love Again.
- The Cars, predominantly Jewish New Wave rock band, whose Jewish members include Ric Ocasek (singer, rhythm guitarist), Elliot Easton (real name Elliot Steinberg, lead guitarist, singer), Benjamin Orr (real name Benjamin Orzechowski, bass guitar player, vocalist), and Greg Hawkes (keyboardist)
- Sharon Cheslow, musician, composer, and artist. who 1981, formed Chalk Circle, Washington, D.C.'s first all-female punk band. [1] She has since become an accomplished artist who works between different mediums
- Harry Chapin, singer, songwriter, and guitarist, known for folk rock songs such as Taxi, W*O*L*D, and the number-one hit Cat's in the Cradle.
- Alex Chilton, songwriter, guitarist, singer and producer best known as the leader of the bands Big Star, and Box Tops.
- Richie Chodes, Leader of the "novelty pop" Elephant 6 based band Kingsauce. Richie sneaks a lot of Yiddish into his songs.
- Marc Cohn, singer-songwriter and musician, whose songs include Walking in Memphis
- Cy Coleman (real name Seymour Kaufman), composer, songwriter, singer, jazz pianist, and major contributor to the Great American Songbook, whose songs include "Big Spender", "The Best Is Yet to Come", "Hey, Look Me Over", "If My Friends Could See Me Now" and "Witchcraft".
- Concrete Blonde, predominantly Jewish alternative rock band led by Jewish members Johnette Napolitano, and James Mankey (also of the band Sparks)
- Harry Connick, Jr., singer/crooner, composer, arranger, and pianist
- Carol Connors (real name Annette Kleinbard), singer-songwriter and composer; lead singer of the pop vocal trio The Teddy Bears, which also included Phil Specter, and composed songs including Tomorrow Is Another Day, The Journey and Someone's Waiting for You, from the Disney film The Rescuers (with fellow Jewish songwriter Sammy Fain), and the 1960s hit "Hey Little Cobra"
- Aaron Copland, composer known as "the dean of American composers" and an accomplished pianist; was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition
- Country Joe and the Fish, the quintessential anti-Vietnam protest rock band, has a predominantly Jewish membership; performed at Woodstock
- Chris Cornell, lead singer/songwriter of the era-defining alternative rock band Soundgarden and also of Audioslave, who is known for his distinctive high octave range voice as well as for his songwriting
- Dick Dale, surf-rock guitarist, known as "The King Of The Surf Guitar".
- Glenn Danzig, singer, songwriter, musician, and entrepreneur, who is the founder of the bands the Misfits, Samhain, and Danzig
- Joe Dassin, American/French singer-songwriter and composer. Born to devout Jewish parents (his father was the film noir director and Yiddish theatre actor Jules Dassin)
- Hal David, musician and Burt Bacharach's writing partner
- Taylor Dayne, 1980s singer, songwriter, dance artist, actress
- Neil Diamond, singer, guitarist, and songwriter, of Sweet Caroline. He worked in the Brill Building and wrote all his own songs, as well as many songs for others such as I'm a Believer for The Monkees. Sometimes called “The Jewish Elvis”.
- The Dictators, all-Jewish proto-punk pioneering band whose Jewish members include bassist/vocalist Andy Shernoff, lead guitarist Ross "The Boss" Friedman (who is also a founding member of the heavy metal band Manowar), lead singer Handsome Dick Manitoba (real name Richard Blum), rhythm guitarist Scott Kempner, and drummer Stu Boy King. They were "one of the very first (if not the actual first) punk bands in history, and they subsequently invented the infamous punk rock sound/genre."
- Ani Difranco, Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, and songwriter, who released over 20 albums
- David Draiman, lead singer and principal songwriter for the alternative metal band Disturbed
- Dream Theater, progressive rock band whose Jewish members include Mike Portnoy and Jordan Rudess
- Adam Duritz, Lead Singer and main songwriter for the alternative band Counting Crows
- Bob Dylan, (real name Robert Zimmerman),singer, songwriter who revolutionized folk music with songs like Blowin' in the Wind and Like a Rolling Stone
- Jakob Dylan, Bob Dylan’s son, lead singer, songwriter of the predominantly Jewish Grammy Award winning rock band The Wallflowers
- Elliot Easton, (real name Elliot Steinberg), lead guitarist, songwriter, vocalist with the band The Cars
- The Electric Prunes, experimental predominantly Jewish "psychedelic rock pioneering band", who laid the groundwork for psychedelic and experimental rock music, which earned them their status as an innovative cult band.
- The 13th Floor Elevators, predominantly Jewish "psychedelic rock pioneering band".
- Danny Elfman, lead singer and chief songwriter of the new-wave band Oingo Boingo, and later a much praised film/TV composer; his scores include The Simpsons Theme, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, Batman, Batman Returns, and the scores to other Tim Burton films
- Cass Elliot, Mama Cass from The Mamas & the Papas
- Ramblin' Jack Elliott, country musician, singer-songwriter, guitarist
- Roky Erickson, singer, songwriter, harmonica player, guitarist, and founding member of the 13th Floor Elevators; a "pioneer of the psychedelic rock genre", as well as a solo artist.
- Tamas Erdelyi, aka Tommy Ramone, songwriter, lead guitarist, producer, co-founder, and original drummer for Punk rock pioneers The Ramones, who wrote their songs I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend and Blitzkrieg Bop, and played lead guitar on all the albums he produced for them
- Donald Fagen, lead singer and principal songwriter of Steely Dan whose songs include Do it Again and Peg
- Eddie Fisher, singer, entertainer and father of Carrie Fisher
- Bela Fleck, banjo virtuoso and composer of his Grammy-winning group Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
- Charles Fox, prolific Hall Of Fame composer/songwriter who wrote the song "Killing Me Softly with His Song" and the dramatic theme music of Wide World of Sports.
- Ace Frehley, lead guitarist best known as an original member and lead guitarist for the rock band Kiss, who has inspired numerous up-and-coming rockers to pick up the guitar in the 1970s, and come the '90s, was listed by just about every contemporary rock guitarist (Soundgarden's Kim Thayil, Pearl Jam's Mike McCready, Pantera's Dimebag Darrell, and so on) as an important influence
- David Freiberg, lead vocalist, songwriter, and bass guitar player with Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship
- Kinky Friedman, singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for the Texas Monthly. He once lead a band called the Texas Jewboys
- The Fugs, The first underground/indie band, has a predominantly Jewish membership which includes main members Tuli Kupferberg, Ed Sanders, Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber. They invented the notion of the now infamous DIY (Do it yourself) underground sensibility in rock, that directly or indirectly influenced every punk, indie or art-rock band that came after them
- Art Garfunkel, part of the biggest-selling music duo in history with Jewish friend Paul Simon
- George Gershwin, quintessential 20th century classical composer who created a style of Klezmer (Jewish art music) influenced classical music through such works as Rhapsody in Blue. As well as a composer of popular songs (with his brother Ira Gershwin) such as "Summertime" and "Someone to Watch Over Me".
- Georgia Gibbs, (real name Freda Lipschitz), singer, Dance With Me Henry (Wallflower) and Kiss of Fire.
- Michael Gira, lead singer, principal songwriter of the goth rock band Swans
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor, predominantly Jewish membership including Efrim Menuck (also of the band A Silver Mt Zion), *Thierry Amar (who also participates with Black Ox Orkestar, a Yiddish folk band), Aidan Girt, and Thea Pratt
- Benny Goodman, jazz and Klezmer musician, composer, clarinetist and bandleader, known as "King of Swing", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman"
- Steve Goodman, singer/songwriter, lyricist, and guitarist, who, despite suffering from Leukemia his entire career and his early death, became influential artist, with songs covered by many artists
- Eydie Gormé, singer and performer with Jewish husband Steve Lawrence
- Jarrod Gorbel Lead singer of The Honorary Title
- Lesley Gore, (real name Lesley Sue Goldstein), singer-songwriter of the "girl group era". Had her first hit with It's My Party at age 16 and became recognized teen pop singer and sex symbol of the 1960s, and was influential on riot-grrrl bands including fellow Jewish singer-songwriter Kathleen Hanna
- Adam Goren lead singer, songwriter, musician best known as the sole member of the synth punk band Atom and His Package
- Norman Greenbaum, wrote and sang Spirit in the Sky
- Howard Greenfield, Grammy Award-winning Tin Pan Alley and Songwriters Hall of Fame singer, songwriter, and lyricist, who wrote many pop standards.
- David Grisman, bluegrass/newgrass mandolin virtuoso and composer of acoustic music.
- Josh Groban, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter
- Guns N' Roses, Jewish members include Ron Thal aka "Bumblefoot" (lead guitarist, songwriter, producer), and Steven Adler (songwriter, drummer).
- Arlo Guthrie, singer-songwriter who often sings songs of protest against social injustice.
- Marvin Hamlisch, prolific songwriter, a child prodigy, and is together with fellow Jewish composer Richard Rodgers "the only individual to have been awarded an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, a Tony, and a Pulitzer Prize". His songs include Nobody Does it Better and The Way We Were
- Kathleen Hanna, lead singer/songwriter of the punk band Bikini Kill, founder of the infamous Riot grrrl movement, and leader of the dance-punk band Le Tigre. Hanna also released a solo album under the name Julie Ruin.
- Joe Harnell, composer and arranger, whose father played in a Klezmer band, and who composed the score for The Incredible Hulk including the ballad "The Lonely Man", and who also composed scores for The Bionic Woman, Alien Nation, and V, for which he was awarded an Emmy in 1986
- Mickey Hart, drummer for The Grateful Dead
- Richard Hell, (real name Richard Meyers), songwriter, lead singer, bass-player and Punk rock pioneer, who through his band Richard Hell and the Voidoids defined the Punk sound, attitude, as well as its image of torn clothes and safety pins, which Malcolm Mclaren used for the Sex Pistols
- Jerry Herman, Songwriters Hall of Fame composer, songwriter, lyricist, and singer, known for his pioneering work in Broadway musical theater, and for composing many pop standards including Hello, Dolly!", one of the most popular tunes ever to have originated in a Broadway musical, and was a #1 hit in the United States for Louis Armstrong, knocking The Beatles from #1. His scores include all the songs to the hit Broadway musicals Milk and Honey, Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage aux Folles
- Kristin Hersh, lead singer, guitarist, and main songwriter for the alternative rock band Throwing Muses, and also a solo artist.
- Al Hoffman, songwriter, musician and member of the Songwriter's Hall Of Fame; a hit songwriter active in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, responsible for many number one hits through each decade, many of which are still sung and recorded today. His songs include all the songs from Disney's Cinderella including A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes and Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (written with fellow Jewish songwriters Mack David and Jerry Livingston), and Mairzy Doats and were recorded by almost every star of that era including Frank Sinatra ("Close To You", "I'm Gonna Live Until I Die"), Billy Eckstine ("I Apologize") Perry Como ("Papa Loves Mambo", "Hot Diggity"), Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Armstrong ("Who Walks In When I Walk Out")
- Susanna Hoffs, lead singer/songwriter for The Bangles, and songwriter of their hit Eternal Flame
- James Horner, composer and conductor of orchestral and film music. He is noted for the integration of choral and electronic elements in many of his film scores, and has won two Academy Awards for his score and song compositions for the film Titanic in 1997, which includes My Heart Will Go On. His other scores include An American Tail (1986), The Land Before Time (1988), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), Casper (1995). Aliens (1986, earning his first Academy Award nomination), A Beautiful Mind
- Lux Interior (real name Erick Lee Purkhiser), lead singer, songwriter, and founding member of the garage punk band The Cramps, (from 1976 until his death in February 2009), who are recognized as innovators of the "psychobilly/gothabilly" genre, as well as "garage punk" and "horror punk".
- Jane's Addiction, Alternative rock band with strong Jewish membership that includes Perry Farrell (lead singer/songwriter), Eric Avery (bass), and Stephen Perkins (drums).
- Janis Ian, female singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and science fiction author who had a successful career throughout the 1960s and 1970s as a singer and songwriter, and who in 1975 won a Grammy Award for her song At Seventeen
- Scott Ian, founding member, guitarist, singer and songwriter for the seminal thrash metal band Anthrax
- Jay and the Americans, all-Jewish pop/rock band from the 1960s
- Jefferson Airplane, psychedelic folk rock band, has a predominantly Jewish membership that includes Marty Balin (lead singer), Jorma Kaukonen (lead guitarist), Paul Kantner (bass player), Jack Casady (guitarist, bass player), Spencer Dryden (drummer), David Freiberg (vocalist bass player)
- The Jesus Lizard, predominantly Jewish alternative indie rock band, whose Jewish members include David Yow (lead singer, also a founding member of noise rock band Scratch Acid), Duane Denison (lead guitarist), David Wm. Sims (bass guitar player, also a founding member of noise rock band Scratch Acid), and Mac McNeilly (drummer).
- The J. Geils Band, Nearly all Jewish (except for J. Geils) rock band whose Jewish members include Peter Wolf, Stephen Bladd, Magic Dick, Seth Justman, and Danny Klein. Sometimes called "The Jewish Rolling Stones".
- Billy Joel, singer, songwriter known for his many #1 hits (aka The Piano Man)
- Eric Johnson, guitarist, singer and songwriter and pianist, who regularly incorporates jazz, fusion, New Age, and country and western elements into his recordings.
- Kitty Kallen, big band singer of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s
- John Kander, composer, singer, and songwriter who together with Jewish lyricist Fred Ebb wrote all the songs to the frequently revived musicals Cabaret, Chicago, Woman of the Year, Kiss of the Spider Woman.
- Jerome Kern, composer/songwriter, and one of the "main pioneers of the modern musical theatre art form", whose songs include such classics as Ol' Man River, Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man, A Fine Romance, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, All the Things You Are, The Way You Look Tonight, and Who? a 6-week number 1 hit for George Olsen & his Orchestra in 1925
- Carole King (real name Carole Klein), female singer-songwriter who wrote the most #1 hits of all the writers from the Brill Building and her chart topping solo album Tapestry, and songs ranging from classic standards such as You've Got a Friend, to early 60's dance songs such as the Loco-Motion
- Gershon Kingsley (real name Götz Gustav Ksinski), pop composer and musician; a " major pioneer of electronic music", and composed the "first ever electronic pop instrumental song"; Popcorn
- Kiss, rock band with Jewish main members that include Paul Stanley (lead vocals, guitarist), Gene Simmons (lead vocals, bassist), Ace Frehley (lead guitarist), Bruce Kulick (lead guitarist), and Eric Singer (drummer)
- Kittie, metal band with a predominantly Jewish membership that includes Morgan Lander (lead singer, songwriter, guitarist, founding member), Mercedes Lander (drummer, vocalist, founding member), Talena Atfield, and Lisa Marx
- The Klezmatics, all-Jewish Grammy Award winning neo-klezmer music group, who have achieved fame singing in several languages, most notably mixing older Yiddish tunes with other types of more contemporary music, whose Jewish members include composers Matt Darriau, wind instruments, and Frank London, on trumpet, Paul Morrissett playing bass and tsimbl cimbalom, vocalist Lorin Sklamberg on accordion, and Lisa Gutkin on violin, David Licht on drums, Alicia Svigals on violin, David Krakauer, Margot Leverett, and Kurt Bjorling on the clarinet, and who have also collaborated with Israeli violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman
- The Knack, all-Jewish quirky yet sophisticated New-Wave band, who were years ahead of their time
- Al Kooper, songwriter, lead singer, lead guitarist, producer
- Joey Kramer, drummer, back-up singer for Aerosmith
- Robby Krieger, Lead guitarist, and songwriter of The Doors who wrote some their songs including the hits such as Light My Fire" and Wishful Sinful"
- Adam Lambert, singer, songwriter and actor
- Anton Lavey, founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan, author of The Satanic Bible, occultist, musician, composer, organ virtuoso, lead vocalist who recorded several albums
- Blackie Lawless, lead singer, guitarist, and main songwriter of the band W.A.S.P., who has become notorious for his live performances, controversial album covers and lyrics.
- Steve Lawrence, singer who performs with his Jewish wife Eydie Gorme. Appeared often on the Carol Burnett Show
- Geddy Lee, Canadian lead singer, bassist, keyboardist, and chief songwriter for the progressive rock band Rush. He was born Gary Lee Weinrib and is the son of Jewish Holocaust survivors. His stage name, Geddy, was inspired by his mother's heavily-accented Yiddish pronunciation of his given first name, Gary.
- Jerry Leiber, Hall of fame songwriter from the Brill Building who, together with Jewish friend Mike Stoller became influential songwriter and music producer in post-World War II popular music, and wrote defining songs for Elvis and others, including Stand By Me, Hound Dog, Loving You,Don't, Young Blood, Jailhouse Rock, Searchin, Yakety Yak. Their music had a tremendous influence on both John Lennon's and Paul McCartney's songwriting.
- Jenn Lindsay, anti-folk singer/songwriter
- Lisa Loeb, singer, songwriter of Stay (I Missed You)
- Courtney Love, singer and songwriter [509]
- James Lowe, lead singer, songwriter, and autoharp player for the psychedelic rock pioneers The Electric Prunes
- Gary Lucas, Grammy-nominated guitar player, lead singer, and songwriter; described as "one of the best and most original guitarists in America" and "the most innovative and challenging guitarists playing today."
- Barry Mann (real name Barry Imberman), prolific singer-songwriter who led a double career as both a singer and as a songwriter/composer who wrote many era defining songs, and who has received 56 pop, country, and R&B awards from BMI and 46 Millionaire Awards for radio performances numbering over 1 million plays. He wrote "You've Lost That Loving Feeling", together with fellow Jewish songwriters Cynthia Weil and Phil Spector, which was the most played song of the 20th century with more than 14 million plays.
- Herbie Mann (real name "Herbert Jay Soloman"), jazz/funk flautist who recorded during 1950s–90s. Played with Ron Carter, Cissy Houston, Duane Allman and Roy Ayers.
- J Mascis, lead singer, lead guitarist and songwriter for the indie rock band Dinosaur Jr.; also a founding member of and drummer for the band Witch, and has produced records and composed film scores
- Stephin Merritt, principal singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of the indie pop band The Magnetic Fields
- Linda McCartney, married Paul McCartney and was a keyboard player and vocalist for his band Wings
- The Mamas & the Papas, vocal group of the 1960s, with a predominatly Jewish membership including John Phillips, Michelle Phillips, and Cass Elliot, who have had many hit singles including California Dreamin' They have sold nearly 40 million records worldwide.
- Melissa Manchester, singer/songwriter
- Jeff Mangum, lead singer and main songwriter of the indie rock band Neutral Milk Hotel
- Barry Manilow, singer/songwriter/pianist who writes pop songs, that include Mandy and I Write the Songs, "Copacabana"
- Handsome Dick Manitoba (real name Richard Blum), punk rock pioneer; frontman for NYC punk originators, The Dictators
- David Marks, one of the original Beach Boys
- Johnny Marks, composer and lyricist of Christmas songs like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree and A Holly Jolly Christmas
- Richard Marx, pop/rock singer, songwriter, and record producer, who placed himself in the record books by being the first solo artist to have his first seven singles hit the Top 5 on the US charts, and whose hit songs include "Endless Summer Nights", "Right Here Waiting", "Now and Forever", and "Hazard"
- Abel Meeropol composer/songwriter and lyricist who wrote the music and lyrics to the quintessential anti-racism song Strange Fruit
- Megadeth seminal Thrash metal band with important Jewish members Dave Mustaine (lead singer/guitarist/songwriter), and Marty Friedman (lead guitarist)
- Randy Meisner, bass guitar player, lead singer and songwriter best known as a founding member of the rock group Eagles.
- Alan Menken, musical theatre, film composer and pianist, who has won eight Academy Awards as well as ten additional nominations. His compositions include Little Shop of Horrors (Oscar Nominee), The Little Mermaid (Oscar Winner), Beauty and the Beast (Oscar Winner), Newsies, Aladdin (Oscar Winner) (1992), A Christmas Carol (1994 Broadway musical and 2004 TV movie), Pocahontas (Oscar Winner) (1995), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 and 1999 German musical), Hercules (Oscar Nominee) (1997)
- Idina Menzel, Tony Award-winning singer, songwriter, actress, known for originating the roles of Maureen in Rent and Elphaba in Wicked.
- James Mercer, lead singer and chief songwriter of the indie pop band The Shins
- Bette Midler, singer of The Rose and Wind Beneath My Wings
- The Dead Milkmen, predominantly Jewish satirical punk band whose Jewish members include Joe Genaro ("Joe Jack Talcum"; guitar, vocals), Rodney Linderman ("Rodney Anonymous"; vocals, synth), Dave Schulthise ("ave Blood"; bass), Dean Sabatino ("Dean Clean"; drums), and who are known from such songs as their indie Punk anthem Punk Rock Girl
- Ron Miller, songwriter responsible for several of Stevie Wonder's Top Ten hits in the late 1960s, including A Place in the Sun; For Once in My Life; Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday; and Heaven Help Us All.
- Meredith Monk, composer, performer, director, vocalist, film-maker, and choreographer, who since the 1960s has created multi-disciplinary works which dwell in the spaces between music, theatre, and dance
- Keith Morris, punk rock singer and songwriter; the frontman of Black Flag, and The Circle Jerks
- Randy Newman, prolific singer/songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is notable for his mordant, satirical, and often melodically sophisticated pop songs, as well for many film scores (such as the Toy Story soundtrack). Songs include Short People, I Love L.A., Rednecks, Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear, You've Got a Friend in Me.
- Juice Newton (real name Judith Kay Cohen], pop and country music singer, songwriter and guitarist, who has received five Grammy Award nominations in the Pop and Country Best Female Vocalist categories (winning once in 1983), as well as a CMA Award for Best New Female Artist and two Billboard Female Album Artist of the Year awards (won consecutively), and who has several Gold and Platinum records to her credit
- New York Dolls, pioneering Protopunk band that has a predominantly Jewish membership including David Johansen, Sylvain Sylvain, Arthur Kane, Jerry Nolan, Blackie Lawless, whose style helped lay the groundwork for the Punk sound as well as its image
- NOFX, punk rock band whose Jewish main members include Fat Mike (lead singer, bassist, songwriter), and Eric Melvin (guitarist/songwriter/lead singer).
- Noodles (real name Kevin Wasserman) lead guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist for Punk band The Offspring
- Laura Nyro, singer-songwriter
- Buzz Osborne lead singer/guitarist/songwriter of grunge and sludge rock pioneers The Melvins, who were a strong influence on Nirvana.
- Phil Ochs, singer-songwriter, who pioneered the concept of the (later much imitated) indisputable rock 'n' roll suicide, by hanging himself.
- Patti Smith Group punk band whose Jewish members include Lenny Kaye (lead guitarist and chief songwriter), Richard Sohl (pianist and songwriter)
- Phish, jam band that has a strong Jewish membership, and embraces its roots by playing "Yerushalayim Shel Zhahav" by Israeli songwriter Naomi Shemer also known as "The First Lady of Israeli song", and "Avenu Malkenu" (another Hebrew song) in concert.
- Pink, singer and songwriter
- Robert Pollard, lead singer and prolific main songwriter of the indie rock band Guided by Voices that helped pioneer the lo-fi music genre.
- Buck Ram, songwriter and popular music producer, arranger, saxophone player, and pianist. It has been written that the history of rock and roll could not be written without Buck Ram's contributions (which include the defining hits he wrote for The Platters). He was one of BMI's top five songwriters/air play in its first 50 years. He was also one of the many Jewish songwriters that contributed to the Christmas song cataogue by writing the song "I'll Be Home for Christmas" with fellow Jewish songwriters Walter Kent, and Kim Gannon
- Joey Ramone, lead singer and songwriter of punk rock pioneers the Ramones, whose songs include I Wanna Be Sedated and Rock 'n' roll High School.
- Reagan Youth, predominantly Jewish progressive peace punk band, who pioneered the concept of artsy and intricate guitar work within a punk context, and who often utilized Ku Klux Klan and Nazi Party imagery for satirical effect, despite the irony of both of lead singer/chief songwriter Dave Rubinstein’s parents being Jewish Holocaust survivors.
- Lou Reed, lead singer, composer, lyricist, often imitated guitarist who with his band The Velvet Underground broke down many taboo barriers of what was possible or acceptable in rock music, both musically and lyrically, and thereby laid down the groundwork of all modern indie or DIY (Do it yourself) music. His songs include the anthemic "Perfect Day", "Venus in Furs", "Pale Blue Eyes", "Candy Says", "Femme Fatale", "Stephanie Says", "Sister Ray", and "Walk on the Wild Side"
- REO Speedwagon, predominantly Jewish melodic rock band from the 1970s and 1980s
- David Roback, lead guitarist and main songwriter of the psychedelic folk band Mazzy Star.
- Robbie Robertson (real name Jaime Robert Klegerman), Canadian singer-songwriter, lead guitar player, and pianist of The Band
- Richard Rodgers, composer and songwriter of musical theatre and popular music. He wrote more than 1,500 songs, 40 musicals, and various TV and film music, including all the songs for The Sound of Music, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and Oklahoma!, including the songs "My Favorite Things", "You'll Never Walk Alone", "My Funny Valentine", "Oh What a Beautiful Morning", "Blue Moon", "People Will Say We're in Love", "If I Loved You", "It Might as Well Be Spring", "Some Enchanted Evening", "Getting to Know You", "The Sound Of Music, "Sixteen Going On Seventeen", "Climb Ev'ry Mountain", "Do-Re-Mi", and "Edelweiss".
- Buddy Rich, jazz drummer and bandleader; billed as "the world's greatest drummer".
- Natalia Paruz, aka the 'Saw Lady', whose career spans from Carnegie Hall to the NYC subway (where she could be heard playing Israeli songs on the musical saw since the mid 1990's to the present). Founder/director of the annual NYC Musical Saw Festival.
- Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, Protopunk band, that was involved in early aspects of Punk, New Wave and Indie rock music, led by Jewish members Jonathan Richman (authentic lead singer, principal songwriter, and guitarist) and Ernie Brooks (bassist)
- David Lee Roth, lead singer and principal songwriter of both the music and lyrics of Van Halen, as well as a successful and solo artist
- Melanie Safka (real name Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk), usually known professionally as Melanie, is a singer-songwriter who performed at Woodstock and whose songs include the hits "Brand New Key", "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)", "What Have They Done to My Song, Ma", and "Beautiful People". She has sold more than 25 million records.
- Greg Sage, principal songwriter, idiosyncratic lead guitarist, and lead vocalist for the Portland, Oregon-based punk rock band Wipers, who were an influence on the grunge movement and on bands such as Nirvana and Sonic Youth.
- Rachel Sage, singer and songwriter, lead singer, pianist, guitarist, whose style is described as beautifully theatrical.
- Mark Sandman, multi-instrumentalist, lead singer, songwriter, of the alternative rock band Morphine. In addition he was also a musical instrument inventor.
- Walter Scharf, songwriter, composer, singer and orchestrator.
- Robert Schneider lead singer, guitarist and keyboardist and songwriter of the indie rock band Apples in Stereo
- Chuck Schuldiner, lead singer, lead guitarist, principal songwriter of the death metal band Death. Regarded as "The Father of Death Metal".
- Genya Ravan, (real name Genyusha Zelkowitz) early female punk pioneer, lead singer, songwriter, of idiosyncratic punk bands The Escorts, Goldie & the Gingerbreads, and Ten Wheel Drive
- Troy Sanders (born 1973), singer/bassist for heavy metal band Mastodon
- Raymond Scott, idiosyncratic composer, band leader, pianist, engineer, recording studio maverick, and electronic instrument inventor; also was a major pioneer of electronic music. His music was used in many of the Warner Bros. cartoons like Looney Tunes, and Merrie Melodies and also in Ren & Stimpy and The Simpsons.
- Sebadoh, predominantly Jewish indie rock band that helped pioneer the lo-fi music genre, and whose Jewish members include Lou Barlow, Jason Loewenstein, and Eric Gaffney.
- Sholom Secunda, Yiddish theatre, Yiddish folk, and opera composer.
- Neil Sedaka, singer, songwriter, and pianist from the Brill Building who wrote over 1000 songs, and who also sings in Hebrew, and recorded an album of Yiddish songs to express his passion for his Jewish heritage.
- Sha Na Na, predominantly Jewish rock and roll revival act
- The Shangri-las, all-Jewish pop girl group of the 1960s whose Jewish members are Mary Weiss, Elizabeth "Betty" Weiss, Marguerite "Marge" Ganser, Mary Ann Ganser, and who charted with often heartbreaking teen melodramas, and are known for "Leader of the Pack" and "Remember (Walkin' in the Sand)"
- Artie Shaw, (real name Arthur Jacob Arshawsky), jazz and Klezmer clarinetist, composer, and bandleader. Considered to be one of the greatest jazz clarinetists of all time. Author of fiction and non-fiction writings.
- The Sherman Brothers, singers, songwriters, composers, screenwriters, producers, who wrote the music and lyrics to Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Jungle Book, The Aristocats, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, and It's a Small World (After All).
- Dinah Shore, singer, actress, and TV personality and entertainer during the Big Band era of the 1940s and 1950s, where she enjoyed a string of over 80 charted popular hits.
- Mort Shuman, singer, pianist and songwriter, who led a double career, first as a prolific songwriter, by writing many 1960s rock and roll hits, including "Viva Las Vegas”, and second as a singer-songwriter who wrote and sang many songs in French, such as Le Lac Majeur, Allo Papa Tango Charlie, Sha Mi Sha, Un Eté de Porcelaine, Brooklyn by the Sea.
- Josh Silver, keyboardist, songwriter, and producer for heavy metal band Type O Negative who wrote all the songs on their most praised album; Bloody Kisses.
- Gene Simmons, bass player, main songwriter and singer for Kiss, who penned their song "Love it Loud".
- Carly Simon, singer, songwriter, pianist, guitarist
- Paul Simon, singer, songwriter from the biggest-selling duo in music history Simon and Garfunkel, and a solo artist
- Simon & Garfunkel, Jewish singer-songwriter duo consisting of Jewish members Paul Simon (principal songwriter, lead guitarist and lead singer, arranger) and Art Garfunkel (vocalist, arranger) who were the best-selling duo in history
- Alex Skolnick, jazz and metal lead guitarist, songwriter; has been a member, lead guitarist, and songwriter of the seminal thrash metal band Testament from its formation in San Francisco in 1983 until his departure in 1992.
- Sleater-Kinney, predominantly Jewish "riot-grrrl" band
- Phoebe Snow, singer, songwriter and guitarist, known for her 1975 hit "Poetry Man."
- Social Distortion, predominantly Jewish rock band who were one of the leading bands of the 1980s hardcore punk explosion
- Sparks, elctro-pop/rock pioneering band that released at least 22 albums, whose main members, Ron Mael (principal songwriter/keyboardist/founding member), Russell Mael (lead singer/songwriter/founding member), Harley Feinstein, and John Mendelssohn are all Jewish.
- Stephen Sondheim, composer, songwriter, and lyricist of many scores and songs including Sweeney Todd, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park with George, Assassins.
- Phil Spector, songwriter, singer, and music producer; influenced The Beatles and the Beach Boys to Bruce Springsteen. Best known for his knack for writing and producing defining pop songs and for his production and songwriting on songs such as "Be My Baby", and his subsequent creation of the often imitated "Wall Of Sound" production technique.
- Regina Spektor, a Russian-born American singer-songwriter and pianist. Her music is associated with the anti-folk scene centered on New York City's East Village.
- Paul Stanley, lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of Kiss
- Peter Steele (real name Petrus T. Ratajczyk), lead singer, and bassist for the Goth metal band Type O Negative
- Steely Dan, both main members, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, are Jewish.
- Chris Stein, co-founder, lead guitarist and chief songwriter for punk/new-wave band Blondie; wrote most of their big hits including "Sunday Girl", "Heart of Glass", "Picture This", "Dreaming", "Island of Lost Souls", "Rapture", "Rip Her to Shreds". He also ran the Animal Records label.
- Rachel Stevens – member of S Club 7
- Steve Stevens (real name Steve Schneider), lead guitarist and songwriter; won a Grammy in 1987 for his performance on the Top Gun soundtrack; is also known for his solo efforts ("Atomic Playboys" and "Flamenco A Go-Go") and for his work with other artists
- Mike Stoller, Hall of fame songwriter from the Brill Building who, with Jewish friend Jerry Leiber, wrote defining songs for Elvis and others, including "Stand By Me", "Hound Dog", "Loving You," "Don't", "Young Blood", "Jailhouse Rock", "Searchin", "Yakety Yak". Their music had an influence on both John Lennon's and Paul McCartney's songwriting.
- Barbra Streisand, multiple record breaking singer, songwriter, actress, and film director, who In 1976 became the first woman to receive an Academy Award for Best Original Song when she composed "Evergreen" for A Star Is Born
- Charles Strouse, Broadway composer–songwriter, and singer; wrote all the songs to the musicals Annie, and Bye Bye Birdie.
- Jules Styne (real name Julius Kerwin Stein), Songwriters Hall of Fame and Theatre Hall of Fame composer, singer, and songwriter, known for his many Broadway musicals, which included several frequently revived shows. His songs include "Don't Rain on My Parade" "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend", "Everything's Coming Up Roses", "Every Street's a Boulevard in Old New York", "I Still Get Jealous", "Just In Time", "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!", “People”, "Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)".
- Suicide, all-Jewish synth-punk band that played a role in punk, synthpop, techno, industrial dance, and Goth music, consisting of Jewish members Alan Vega (lead vocals), and Martin Rev (synthesizers and drum machines.), also known as "The Godfathers of Punk
- Ari Teitel, guitarist/mandolinist/percussionist/vocalist and co-founder of The Jam Society; he is often seen with jambands in the Detroit area. He also had feature articles in the Oakland Press and Detroit Jewish News.
- Television, Protopunk band with a predominantly Jewish membership that includes Tom Verlaine (lead singer/guitarist/songwriter), Richard Hell (bassist/vocalist/songwriter), Richard Lloyd (guitarist, singer and songwriter), who are influences on punk rock, as well as pioneering an intricate and artsy guitar approach to the genre.
- Joe Trohman, Guitarist for Fall Out Boy and The Damned Things
- Albert Von Tilzer (real name Albert Gumm), early American songwriter, and composer; the younger brother of fellow Jewish songwriter Harry Von Tilzer, composed many hit songs, including the unofficial anthem of baseball; Take Me Out To The Ball Game.
- Harry Von Tilzer (real name Harry Gumm), early American songwriter, and composer whose songs include “Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage, "Cubanola Glide", "Wait 'Til The Sun Shines Nellie", "Old King Tut", "All Alone", "Mariutch", "I Love My Wife, But Oh You Kid!", "They Always Pick On Me", "I Want A Girl Just Like The Girl Who Married Dear Old Dad", And The Green Grass Grew All Around.
- The Tokens, all-Jewish quintessential doo-wop vocal band; known from their songs "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", "Portrait of My Love", "Tonight I fell in Love"
- Mel Torme, musician, known as The Velvet Fog; wrote over 400 songs including The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire).
- The Manhattan Transfer, all-Jewish vocal group whose Jewish members include Tim Hauser, Alan Paul, Janis Siegel
- The Turtles seminal 60's pop rock band with main Jewish founding members Howard Kaylan (lead singer/songwriter, real name Howard Kaplan) and Mark Volman (guitarist,saxophonist,vocalist); had hits with such songs as the Flower power anthem "Happy Together", and "Elenore". They later transformed themselves into the band Flo and Eddie
- Twisted Sister, heavy metal band with a predominantly Jewish membership that includes Dee Snider (lead singer, songwriter), Jay Jay French (lead guitarist, songwriter, real name John Segall), Mark Mendoza (bassist, songwriter, real name Mark Glickman)
- The United States of America, experimental rock and psychedelic band with a predominantly Jewish membership whose works are an example of early electronic music in rock and roll.
- Tom Verlaine (real name Thomas Miller), singer, songwriter and guitarist, best-known as the frontman for the New York rock band Television.
- Veruca Salt, 1990s alternative rock band with a predominantly Jewish membership that includes Nina Gordon (guitarist vocalist, songwriter) Louise Post (guitarist, vocalist, songwriter) and James Shapiro.
- Scott Walker (real name Scott Engel), lead singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist of The Walker Brothers, and a solo artist. Walker has been a continuing influence on other artists, and was also among the first to adopt the electric bass guitar
- The Walker Brothers, all-Jewish art rock/pop group consisting of Jewish members Scott Walker (real name Scott Engel, lead vocalist, chief songwriter, multi-instrumentalist), John Walker (real name John Maus, guitarist, vocalist), Gary Walker (drummer).
- Diane Warren, country and pop music singer-songwriter, whose songs as of 2006 had received six Academy Award nominations, four Golden Globe nominations, and seven Grammy Award nominations. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001, and her success in the US has been paralleled in the UK, where she has been rated one of the most successful songwriters in singles chart history as well as the third-most-successful female.
- The Weavers, pioneering predominantly Jewish folk music quartet; sold millions of records at the height of their popularity; inspired the commercial "folk boom" that followed them in the 1950s and 1960s
- Ween, eccentric alternative rock band whose Jewish members include Gene Ween (lead singer, main songwriter), and Dave Dreiwitz (bassist, songwriter)
- Cynthia Weil, Tin Pan Alley and Songwriters Hall of Fame singer and songwriter; writes and sings with her Jewish husband Barry Mann, and with fellow Jewish songwriter Jeff Barry. She became an important writer during the emergence of rock and roll, and continues to write songs for contemporary artists, winning awards including a number of Grammy Awards.
- Kurt Weill, composer, songwriter and son of Orthodox Jewish parents (his father was a Cantor at the synagogue); one of the leading composers for the stage as well as the concert hall; wrote operettas and songs including The Threepenny Opera, Alabama Song, Mack the Knife, September Song. His unique and theatrical Jewish cabaret inspired composing style influenced generations of High Art and Low Art songwriters and performers, and many of his compositions have explicit Jewish themes to them in their style, titles, and musical structure, as he remained a devout Orthodox Jew throughout his life.
- Carnie Wilson and Wendy Wilson, singer, songwriter daughters of Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson. They formed the group Wilson Phillips with Chynna Phillips.
- George David Weiss, composer and songwriter and President of the Songwriters Guild of America, whose songs include "What a Wonderful World" (covered by Louis Armstrong), "Can't Help Falling in Love with You" (covered by Elvis Presley), "Let's Put It All Together", "That Sunday, That Summer", "Mr. Wonderful", "Lullaby of Birdland", "Stay with Me". His songs have been recorded by singers including Tom Jones, Mel Tormé, Elvis Presley, Dinah Washington, The Stylistics, Tennessee Ernie Ford, and Sammy Davis, Jr.
- Max Weinberg, drummer of the E Street Band, and as the leader of The Max Weinberg 7, the house band for Late Night with Conan O'Brien as well as the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, where the band will become Max Weinberg and the Tonight Show Band.
- Ben Weinman, principal songwriter and lead guitarist for the band The Dillinger Escape Plan; the founder and only original member remaining in the band.
- Leslie West (real name Leslie Weinstein), lead guitarist, lead singer, and songwriter of the band Mountain
- Peter Wolf, (real name Peter W. Blankfield), lead singer and songwriter for The J. Geils Band, and a solo artist.
- Steve Wynn, lead singer and main songwriter for alternative band Dream Syndicate.
- X (American band), predominantly Jewish first wave punk band whose Jewish members include Exene Cervenka (lead vocals), John Doe (real name John Duchac, bass and vocals), Billy Zoom (real name Tyson Kindell, guitar) and DJ Bonebrake (drums).
- Peter Yarrow, chief singer and songwriter from the band Peter, Paul and Mary; co-wrote the folk anthem "Puff the Magic Dragon".
- Yo La Tengo, indie rock band with a predominantly Jewish membership that includes Ira Kaplan (aka the Jewish Hendrix), Georgia Hubley, Dave Schramm, Stephan Wichnewski, Mike Lewis (musician); pioneered the modern indie rock genre
- Youth Brigade all-Jewish punk band consisting of Jewish members Adam Stern, Mark Stern, Shawn Stern
- Robin Zander, lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the power pop band Cheap Trick
- John Zorn, prolific composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist; is strongly influenced by his Jewish roots and Klezmer music, to which his Klezmer quartet Masada is a testimony
Music businessmen
- Lou Adler, record producer, manager, and director; helped organize the Monterey Pop Festival[510]
- Moses Asch, founder of Folkways Records[510]
- Leonard Chess, co-founder of Chess Records, inducted into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame
- Phil Chess, co-founder of Chess Records
- Michael Cohl, Canadian rock'n'roll promoter
- Bob Ezrin, Canadian music producer; worked on Pink Floyd's The Wall
- Milt Gabler, record producer, responsible for many innovations in the recording industry of the 20th century, inducted into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame
- David Geffen (born 1943), record executive, film producer, theatrical producer, and philanthropist
- Bill Graham, rock concert promoter inducted into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame
- Albert Grossman, an entrepreneur and manager in the American folk music scene. Manager of Bob Dylan between 1962 and 1970[511]
- Jimmy Iovine Chairman of Interscope/Geffen/A&M
- Don Kirshner, record producer, and music coordinator for The Monkees
- Artie Kornfeld, musician, record producer and music executive, known world wide as “The Father of Woodstock”, the name given to him by the Woodstock Preservation Alliance.
- Allen Klein, managed The Rolling Stones and The Beatles for a time.
- Steven Miller, music producer and executive known for his association with Windham Hill Records
- Bob Rafelson, producer of The Monkees
- Paul A. Rothchild, record producer and arranger; helped create the The Doors sound, by producing and arranging most of their albums; also produced The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Janis Joplin
- Phil Spector, songwriter, music producer, and singer inducted into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame
- Seymour Stein, co-founder of Sire Records with acts like Talking Heads and The Ramones, inducted into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame
- Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein, produced rock concerts and later founded Miramax
- Jerry Wexler, a music journalist turned music producer, and is regarded as one of the major record industry players behind 1960s soul music after he coined the term Rhythm and Blues, inducted into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame
Dance
Persons listed with a double asteriks (**) are winners of the Tony Award for Best Choreography.
- Paula Abdul, singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, dancer, and choreographer; the main choreographer of the Jacksons, Janet Jackson, and of films Coming to America, Action Jackson, Jerry Maguire, The Running Man, American Beauty (1999 film), Oliver Stone's, The Doors, and the giant keyboard scene involving Tom Hanks’s character in Big.[512]
- Michael Bennett, director, producer, dancer, choreographer **
- Stanley Donen, film director and choreographer hailed by David Quinlan as "the King of the Hollywood musicals", and whose films include Singin' in the Rain.
- Josephine Earp, wife of Wyatt Earp
- Eliot Feld, dancer and choreographer
- Ron Field, choreographer **
- Michael Kidd, choreographer **
- Lincoln Kirstein, dance impressario
- Bella Lewitzky, dancer, choreograher, & teacher
- Arthur Murray, dance instructor
- Jerome Robbins , Oscar-winning director, and choreographer and filmmaker **
- Anna Sokolow, dancer & choreographer
Film directors
- Jim Abrahams, parody director
- J.J. Abrams, writer and director
- Woody Allen (born 1935), see "Actors" above
- Judd Apatow (born 1968), screenwriter, film/TV producer[513]
- Alan Arkin (born 1934), Academy Award-nominated film actor, director[254][324]
- Jack Arnold, director
- Darren Aronofsky (born 1969), film director, screenwriter and producer[236]
- George Axelrod, director, producer and screenwriter
- Ralph Bakshi, Israeli-born animation film director, screenwriter, and animator.
- Bob Balaban, director and producer
- Richard Benjamin (born 1938), actor/film director[324]
- Andrew Bergman, director
- Edward Bernds, director of Three Stooges and Blondie films
- Curtis Bernhardt, German-born director and producer
- Peter Bogdanovich, director (Jewish mother)
- Zach Braff (born 1975), film/TV actor, director, screenwriter, and producer[514][515]
- Kevin Bright, director, screenwriter, and executive producer
- James L. Brooks, Oscar-winning director, writer, producer
- Mel Brooks, see "Actors" above
- Richard Brooks, director
- Edward Cahn, director of Our Gang from 1939–43
- William Castle, director
- Ethan & Joel Coen (AKA the Coen brothers), directors, screenwriters & producers
- Rob Cohen, director, producer
- Ricardo Cortez, director and actor; brother of Stanley Cortez
- David Cronenberg, film maker, director, screenwriter, and actor.
- George Cukor, Oscar-winning director.
- Michael Curtiz, Oscar-winning director.
- Paul Czinner, Hungarian-born director.
- Jules Dassin, director
- Larry David, see "Actors" above
- Andrew Davis, director
- Cecil B. DeMille, Academy Award-winning film director and producer[516]
- Maya Deren, director
- Henri Diamant-Berger, French-born director, producer and screenwriter
- Stanley Donen, film director and choreographer
- Richard Elfman, director
- Nora Ephron, film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, journalist, author
- Douglas Fairbanks see "Actors" above
- Max Fleischer, animator, director, producer, inventor, and a major pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon; served as the head of Fleischer Studios
- Richard Fleischer, director; son of animator Max Fleischer
- Victor Fleming, Oscar-winning film director, cinematographer, and producer
- Isaac Florentine, director
- Miloš Forman film director, screenwriter, actor and professor
- Carl Foreman, director, producer and screenwriter
- William Friedkin, Oscar-winning director, screenwriter, producer
- Samuel Fuller, director
- Lee Grant (born 1927), see "Actors" above
- Christopher Guest (born 1948), see "Actors" above[517][518]
- Charles Guggenheim, Oscar-winning documentary director
- Todd Haynes, director
- Amy Heckerling, director and screenwriter
- Peter Hyams, director
- Garson Kanin, director, screenwriter and playwright
- Lawrence Kasdan, director
- Jeffrey Katzenberg (born 1950), film producer, director and co-founder of DreamWorks SKG[519]
- Philip Kaufman, director, screenwriter
- Tony Kaye, director of films, music videos and documentaries; directed the film American History X
- Irvin Kershner, film director
- Zalman King, director
- Harmony Korine, independent film director, screenwriter, producer
- Henry Koster, director
- Stanley Kramer, director[520]
- Stanley Kubrick, film director, screenwriter, producer, photographer of films
- John Landis (born 1950), movie actor, director, writer, and producer[521]
- Fritz Lang, film director, screenwriter, and producer
- Norman Lear, creator, head screenwriter and producer
- Mimi Leder, director
- Mervyn LeRoy, Oscar-winning director, screenwriter, and producer
- Richard Lester, director
- Barry Levinson, Oscar-winning director
- Shuki Levy, singer-songwriter, composer, TV writer, director, and executive producer
- Jerry Lewis (born 1926), see "Actors" above[324]
- Anatole Litvak, Russian-born director
- Siegmund Lubin, director
- Ernst Lubitsch, director
- Sidney Lumet, director
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Oscar-winning director
- Tom Mankiewicz, director and screenwriter; son of Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Daniel Mann, director
- Michael Mann, film director, screenwriter, producer[522]
- Stuart Margolin, director and actor
- Elaine May, see "Actors" above
- Paul Mazursky (born 1930), see "Actors" above[523]
- Albert and David Maysles, documentary filmmakers
- Sam Mendes, filmmaker, director, producer
- Nancy Meyers, director, screenwriter
- Lewis Milestone, Oscar-winning director
- Sam Newfield, TV & film director
- Mike Nichols (born 1931), Emmy, Grammy, Tony and Academy Award-winning film and stage director[324]
- Leonard Nimoy, film director, actor, writer, singer, songwriter, poet, and photographer
- Ken Olin (born 1954), see "Actors" above[524]
- Marcel Ophüls, director; son of director Max Ophüls
- Richard Oswald, German-born director and producer
- Alan J. Pakula, Oscar-winning director, producer
- Arthur Penn, director
- Leo Penn, director
- Abraham Polonsky, director
- Sydney Pollack, Oscar-winning director, actor, producer
- Otto Preminger, director
- Sam Raimi, director
- Harold Ramis, director, writer, producer, actor
- Irving Rapper (1898–1999), British-born film director[525]
- Brett Ratner, director
- Carl Reiner, see "Actors" above
- Rob Reiner (born 1947), see "Actors" above
- Ron Rifkin (born 1939), actor, director[524]
- Martin Ritt, director
- Jay Roach, director
- Jerome Robbins, Oscar-winning director, and choreographer and filmmaker
- Herbert Ross, director
- Robert Rossen, director, screenwriter
- Eli Roth (born 1972), film actor, director, producer and writer[526]
- Joe Roth, director, producer and executive
- Joel Schumacher, director (Jewish mother)
- Sam Seder (born 1966), see "Actors" above
- Adam Shankman, director, choreographer
- George Sidney (1916–2002), film director, known for MGM films[324]
- Don Siegel, director
- Bryan Singer, director and producer
- Robert Siodmak, German-born director
- Todd Solondz, director
- Barry Sonnenfeld, director[527]
- Steven Spielberg, Oscar-winning director, screenwriter, producer
- Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-born director (The Blue Angel)
- Oliver Stone, Oscar-winning film director and screenwriter
- Paul Strand, documentary director
- Erich von Stroheim, see "Actors" above
- James Toback, director, screenwriter and producer
- Edgar G. Ulmer, director
- Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz, director brothers known for American Pie
- Billy Wilder, Oscar-winning director, screenwriter, and producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films
- Irwin Winkler, director
- Frederick Wiseman, documentary director
- William Wyler, Oscar-winning director
- Boaz Yakin, director
- Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born Oscar-winning director
- David Zucker & Jerry Zucker (born 1950), parody directors, producers[528]
- Edward Zwick, director, producer
- Terry Zwigoff, director
Magicians
- David Blaine, stunt performer, illusionist
- David Copperfield, Israeli/American illusionist
- Uri Geller, psychic magician
- Harry Houdini (real name Ehrich Weiss), the first illusionist/magician/escape artist in history. Widely known as "The Father of Magic/Illusion". Born to Orthodox Jewish parents, and his father was a rabbi
- Max Maven, mentalist
- Ricky Jay, card tricks
- Shari Lewis, ventriloquist
- Jacob Philadelphia
- Howie Schwarzman (born 1927), magician
- Teller, silent magician from the duo Penn & Teller
Models
- Barbi Benton, model, actress
- Jeremy Bloom, model, Olympic skier
- Caprice Bourret, model
- Brooke Burke, TV personality and model[529]
- Sharon Genish, Israeli model born in America
- Cindy Margolis, model
- Bess Myerson, Miss America 1945
- Bar Refaeli, Israeli Model
- Simon Rex, model, actor, MTV VJ
- Lindsey Vuolo, model/Playboy Playmate [530]
- Nikki Schieler Ziering, model and actress
Producers, screenwriters and creators (film and TV)
- Jeremy Tchaban, film/TV producer
- Irwin Allen, producer & director
- Judd Apatow (born 1968), screenwriter, film/TV producer[513]
- Samuel Z. Arkoff, film producer of B-films like Squirm and The Amityville Horror
- George Axelrod, screenwriter
- David Benioff, screenwriter
- Steven Bochco, creator of LA Law, Murder One
- Zach Braff (born 1975), film/TV actor, director, screenwriter, and producer (Scrubs, Garden State)[531]
- James L. Brooks, Oscar-winning director, writer, producer;is "one of the original creators, developers, and head writers of" The Simpsons, Taxi, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, as well as being the director and writer of many films
- Jerry Bruckheimer, producer
- James Burrows, director of the sitcoms Friends, Will and Grace, Laverne & Shirley; also created Cheers
- Paddy Chayefsky, screenwriter
- Bruce Cohen, Oscar-winning producer
- Norman Corwin, radio writer, producer
- David Cronenberg, filmmaker, director, screenwriter, and actor; is one of the "principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre"
- Larry David, Emmy-winning writer, director, comedian, actor, producer, co-creator of Seinfeld and creator of Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Dean Devlin (born 1962), producer and screenwriter[532]
- Robert Evans, producer, studio executive, produced The Godfather
- Max Fleischer, animator, director, producer, inventor, and a "major pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon"; served as the head of Fleischer Studios
- Victor Fleming Oscar-winning film director, cinematographer, and producer known for co-directing films The Wizard of Oz (1939), and Gone with the Wind (1939)
- Lowell Ganz, writer, producer on The Odd Couple, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, screenwriter for Parenthood, City Slickers, A League of Their Own
- Larry Gelbart, writer
- Barry Gifford, author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and film noir- and Beat Generation-influenced literary madness
- William Goetz, producer
- Leonard Goldberg, producer
- Akiva Goldsman, Oscar-winning screenwriter, producer
- Carl Gottlieb, screenwriter
- Christopher Guest (born 1948), Lord Haden-Guest, actor, writer, director, composer, musician, and Spinal Tap member[517][533]
- Seth Green, actor, writer, producer; is the "creator, head writer, and producer of the stop motion animated TV series" Robot Chicken, together with fellow Jewish co-Head Writers Douglas Goldstein, Matthew Senreich, and Tom Root; writes and provides voices on Family Guy
- Ben Hecht, idiosyncratic screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, and novelist known as "the Shakespeare of Hollywood", who received screen credits, for the stories or screenplays of 70 films and as a prolific storyteller, authored 35 books
- Allan Heinberg — writer and producer on Party of Five, Sex and the City, The O.C.[534]
- Jerry Heller, Mangager of West Coast rap groups N.W.A. and Eazy E. He is co-founder and CEO of Ruthless Records
- Don Hewitt, executive producer of 60 minutes
- Kenny Hotz, writer, director, actor, comedian, producer, photographer; the creator and co-star of the TV show Kenny vs. Spenny, and creator and co-writer of the Showcase/FX series Testees.
- Mitchell Hurwitz, executive producer and creator of Arrested Development
- Dave Jeser, executive producer and co-creator of Drawn Together
- Lawrence Kasdan, screenwriter and director
- Jonathan Katz, stand-up comedian, actor, voice-actor; known for creating, writing, and starring in the animated sitcom Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
- Jeffrey Katzenberg (born 1950), film producer, director and co-founder of DreamWorks SKG[535]
- Sam Katzman, producer of East Side Kids, which later became the Bowery Boys
- Marta Kauffman, producer, screenwriter, co-creator of Friends, with fellow Jewish screenwriter and producer David Crane
- Charlie Kaufman, screenwriter
- Don Kirshner, musical coordinator of The Monkees
- David Kohan, executive producer of Will & Grace, Good Morning Miami, Twins, Four Kings, screenwriter of The Wonder Years
- Paul Kohner (1902–88), film producer and manager
- Zvi Kolitz co-producer of Israel's first film (1955's Hill 24 Doesn't Answer).
- Stanley Kubrick, film director, screenwriter, producer, photographer of films
- John Landis (born 1950), movie actor, director, writer, and producer[521]
- Norman Lear, creator, head screenwriter and producer of the taboo-breaking sitcom All in the Family
- Ron Leavitt, producer and writer of Married With Children
- Ernest Lehman, screenwriter
- Shuki Levy, singer and songwriter, composer, TV writer, director, and executive producer
- Bill Maher, creator and host of "Real Time"
- Herman J. Mankiewicz, screenwriter; wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane for which he won the films' only Academy Award; pioneered the style known as “Mankiewicz humor”, that consisted of a slick, satirical, and witty humor, which depended largely on dialogue to carry the film, as seen in his films
- Sam Mendes, filmmaker, director, producer; directed American Beauty, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director
- Bob Mosher, creator of Leave it to Beaver
- Max Mutchnick, executive producer of Will & Grace, Good Morning Miami, Twins, Four Kings, screenwriter of The Wonder Years
- Sam Nazarian (born 1976), SBE Entertainment Group, film producer and financier[536]
- Sam Newfield, producer of westerns like Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
- Ken Olin (born 1954), actor, director and producer[524]
- Marc E. Platt, producer
- Sydney Pollack, Oscar-winning director
- Bob Rafelson, producer of The Monkees
- Nikki Reed (born 1988), screenwriter & actress (Thirteen)[63][537]
- Carl Reiner, comedian, creator of The Dick Van Dyke Show
- Eli Roth (born 1972), film actor, director, producer and writer[526]
- Eric Roth (born 1943), Academy Award-winning screenwriter (Munich, Forrest Gump)[538]
- Joe Roth, film producer, director
- Adam Sandler (born 1966), see "Actors" above[254]
- Leon Schlesinger, producer
- Josh Schwartz, screenwriter, creator of The OC
- Sherwood Schwartz (born 1916), creator of Gilligan's Island, Brady Bunch[539]
- Sam Seder (born 1966), see "Actors" above
- David Selznick, producer
- Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone
- Amy Sherman-Palladino, director, writer, producer
- Bert Schneider, producer of The Monkees
- Joel Silver, producer and co-inventor of Ultimate
- Matt Silverstein, executive producer and co-creator of Drawn Together
- Sam Simon, TV producer and writer, most notable as "one of the original creators, developers and head writers of" The Simpsons; created many of the Simpsons characters; also a writer for The George Carlin Show, Taxi, Cheers, The Tracey Ullman Show, and The Drew Carey Show
- Aaron Sorkin (born 1961), screenwriter, producer and playwright, creator of The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip[540]
- Spencer Rice (aka Spenny), writer, director, producer, and comedian; co-star of Kenny vs. Spenny.
- Sam Spiegel film producer
- Aaron Spelling, producer, Starsky & Hutch, Charlie's Angels, Beverly Hills, 90210, Dynasty, Charmed
- Darren Star, creator of Beverly Hills 90210, Sex and the City
- Matt Stone, animator, film director, screenwriter, actor, voice actor, and creator of South Park
- Genndy Tartakovsky, animator, director, writer and producer; created Dexter's Laboratory, 2 Stupid Dogs, The Powerpuff Girls.
- Irving Thalberg, Oscar-winning producer
- Eliot Wald, screenwriter for "See No Evil, Hear No Evil," "Camp Nowhere," and "Down Periscope."
- Marc Weiner (born 1952), producer, comedian, puppeteer known for his TV show Weinerville and his act Rockin Rocko and Tony on the Bizarre Show
- Josh Weinstein, writer for TV show The Simpsons
- Tom Werner (born 1950), TV producer and businessman[541]
- Woodstock, all four organizers of the music festival were of Jewish descent as was Max Yasgur who owned the farm
- Bob Yari (born 1962), film producer, director[542]
- Laura Ziskin (born 1950), film producer (Spider-Man)[543]
- David Zuckerman, "one of the original creators, developers, and head writers of the animated series" Family Guy, who also wrote and produced on King of the Hill, and American Dad
Film and TV executives
- Barney Balaban, former president of Paramount Pictures
- Harry Cohn, founder of Columbia Pictures
- Barry Diller, president of Fox Tv
- William Fox, founder of Fox
- Leonard Goldenson, president of ABC
- Samuel Goldwyn, founder of MGM with Canadian Louis B. Mayer (also of Jewish descent)
- Carl Laemmle, founder of Universal
- Marcus Loew, founder of Loews Theatres
- David Sarnoff, inventor, and major pioneer of radio and television; founder of NBC, and leader of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA); known as "The General".
- Jules Stein, founder of MCA
- Laurence Tisch, president of CBS
- Warner Brothers, Canadian founders of Warner Brothers
- Lew Wasserman, former president of Universal Pictures, who is credited with first creating and then taking apart the studio system in a career spanning more than six decades
- Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein, founders of Miramax
- Jeff Zucker, president of NBC
- Adolph Zukor, film mogul and founder of Famous Players and later Paramount Pictures
TV and radio presenters
- Kitty Carlisle, panelist on To Tell the Truth, arts advocate
- Connie Chung, news anchor (converted)
- Liz Claman, host of CNBC Morning Call;
- Myron Cope, sportscaster
- Howard Cosell, sportscaster
- Jim Cramer, TV reporter
- Don Francisco, presenter of Sabado Gigante
- Joe Frank, radio personality
- Al Franken (born 1951), see "Actors" above
- Allen Funt, presenter of Candid Camera
- Ira Glass, presenter of This American Life
- Marty Glickman, sports announcer
- Terry Gross, host of NPR Fresh Air
- Mary Hart (born 1950), see "Actors" above[544]
- Daryn Kagan (born 1963), host of CNN Live Today[545]
- Murray Kaufman, "Murray the K", New York disc jockey who helped promote the Beatles; called "The Fifth Beatle" by George Harrison
- Ted Koppel, presenter of Nightline
- Ricki Lake, presenter of Ricki
- Matt Lauer, host of The Today Show
- Dave Lieberman, presenter of Good Deal with Dave Lieberman
- Bill Maher, ex-presenter of Politically Incorrect
- Howie Mandel, host of Deal or no Deal
- Dave Marash, Al Jazeera English anchor
- Al Michaels [546]
- Bill Nye, comedian, TV host, science educator, and mechanical engineer; "Bill Nye the Science Guy"
- Suze Orman, financial advisor, author, motivational speaker, and TV host of The Suze Orman Show on CNBC; six consecutive New York Times Best Sellers; has written, co-produced, and hosted six PBS specials based on her books; the most successful fundraiser in the history of public television
- Amy Wynn Pastor (born 1976), carpenter on Trading Spaces[547]
- Ron Popeil, inventor and marketing personality; “the Salesman Inventor of the Century”, and “the Father of the Infomercial”; sold his inventions on a TV concept (the infomercial) that he pioneered; related to Jewish singer/actress Ashley Tisdale
- Maury Povich, talk-show host
- Geraldo Rivera, news reporter (Jewish mother)
- Joan Rivers (born 1933), talk show host, stage actress/writer, comedienne, and celebrity[392]
- Peter Sagal host of "Wait, Wait..don't Tell Me" on NPR
- Michael Savage, KNEW radio host
- Morley Safer, journalist for 60 Minutes born in Canada but lives in New York
- Carl Sagan, astronomer, astrochemist, author, and popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural sciences, who wrote and presented the most widely watched PBS program in history; Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which was based on his own books, and also pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
- Judith Sheindlin, aka Judge Judy
- Laura Schlessinger, radio talk-show host of Dr. Laura
- Daniel Schorr (1916–2010), journalist covered the world for more than 60 years, last as a senior news analyst for National Public Radio[548]
- Elliot Segal, host of radio show, Elliot in the Morning
- Dinah Shore, see "Actors" above
- Howie Schwab, sports trivia expert on ESPN
- Special K. (Kiss FM)) DJ
- Jerry Springer (born 1944), host of The Jerry Springer Show[549]
- Dave Spector, personality and commentator
- Herb Stempel, quiz show contestant
- Bill Stern, radio sportscaster
- Howard Stern, radio shock jock, author, actor and producer
- Symphony Sid Torin, jazz disc jockey and personality
- Jon Stewart, see "Actors" above
- Teresa Strasser, writer and TV personality known for hosting the home makeover show While You Were Out on TLC, and for being a co-host on The Adam Carolla Show
- Mike Wallace (born 1918), journalist, 60 Minutes correspondent[550]
- Barbara Walters (born 1929), media personality, regular fixture on morning TV shows (Today and The View), evening news magazines (20/20), and on The ABC Evening News, as the first female evening news anchor[551]
Producers and Directors (Theater)
Persons listed with a double asteriks (**) are producers who have won the Tony Award for Best Musical and/or the Tony Award for Best Play. Those listed with a triple asteriks (***) have won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical and/or Play. Those listed with a quadruple asteriks (****) have won the Tony Award for Best Actor or Best Actress in a Musical or Play.
- Herb Alpert, producer, and composer, songwriter, lead singer, and horn player with Tijuana Brass
- Boris Aronson, set designer, costume designer and lighting designer
- George Axelrod, producer & director
- Julian Beck and Judith Malina, founders of Living Theatre
- David Belasco, producer & director
- Michael Bennett, director & producer, choreographer, dancer **
- Rudolf Bing (1902–97), opera impresario, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York from 1950 to 1972[552]
- Robert Brustein, producer, writer, director, critic, educator
- Abe Burrows, director ***
- Joseph Chaikin & Peter Feldman, founders of Open Theatre
- Paddy Chayefsky, director
- Heinrich Conried, theatre owner/operator & producer
- Norman Corwin, director
- Clive Davis, producer
- Cy Feuer, producer, director & theatre owner/operator **
- Ron Field, director ***
- David Geffen, producer **
- Leonard Goldberg, producer
- Arthur Hammerstein, producer & director (uncle of Oscar Hammerstein II)
- Oscar Hammerstein I, producer & theater director/operator (grandfather of Oscar Hammerstein II)
- Oscar Hammerstein II, producer & director
- Ben Hecht, idiosyncratic screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, and novelist. Known as "the Shakespeare of Hollywood".
- Sidney Howard, producer & director
- George Jessel, see "Actors (Theater)" above
- Robert Kalfin, producer, director, writer **
- Mickey Katz, see "Actors (Theater)" above
- George S. Kaufman, producer, director, and theater owner/operator
- Michael Kidd, director and producer
- Alan King, see "Actors (Theater)" above
- James Lapine, director & librettist
- Norman Lear, creator, head screenwriter, and producer of taboo breaking sitcom All in the Family, which was a big influence on South Park; also created Maude and The Jeffersons
- Ernest Lehman, producer
- Sam Levene, see "Actors (Theater)" above
- Lucille Lortel, Off-Broadway producer, Lucille Lortel Theatre named after her
- Sanford Meisner, founder of Neighbourhood Playhouse
- David Merrick, producer & director **
- Lorne Michaels, comedian, writer, director, producer, the sole creator, writer, director and producer of Saturday Night Live; also produced film and TV projects that spun off from it
- Arthur Miller, playwright
- Mitch Miller, producer
- Isaac Mizrahi (born 1961), fashion designer[553]
- Mike Nichols (born 1931), Emmy, Grammy, Tony and Academy Award-winning film and stage director[324]
- Joseph Papp a.k.a Joe Papp, founded the non-profit NYC Public Theater **
- Marc Platt, producer
- Harold Prince, director **, ***
- Elmer Rice, director & producer
- Jerome Robbins, producer & director ***
- Billy Rose, director, producer, and theater operator
- Morrie Ryskind, director
- Rebecca Schull, actress
- Shubert family, producers & theater owners **
- Anna Sokolow, director
- Lee Strasberg and Harold Clurman, co-founders of Group Theatre
- Julie Taymor, director ***
- Bob Weinstein, producer
- Harvey Weinstein, producer
- Florenz Ziegfeld, director, producer, and creator of theatre shows; known as "The Father of American burlesque", pioneered the vaudeville and burlesque art forms through series of theatrical revues, the Ziegfeld Follies
- Efrem Zimbalist Jr., see "Actors (Theater)" above
- David Zippel, director
Circus
- Abe Goldstein, was regarded as "the Greatest Irish Cop Clown" in the business and worked for Ringling Bros. and other circuses
- Paul Binder, co-founder, ringmaster and artistic director of the Big Apple Circus
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