List of Sephardic Jews
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The following is a list of Sephardic Jews. See also List of Iberian Jews.
This is a list of notable Jews of Sephardic ancestry.
A
- Abraham Amigo, Palestinian rabbi of Sepharadi descent[1]
- Benjamin Artom, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Great Britain[2]
B
- Yves Béhar, designer, entrepreneur and sustainability advocate[3]
- Maurice Berger, cultural historian, art critic, curator (Sephardic mother; father Ashkenazi Jew)[4]
- Sam Benguaich, Canadian boater, handyman, diehard Leafs fan
- Can Bonomo, Turkish singer
- Alain de Botton, Swiss writer and philosopher
- Alain Boublil, Tunisian-born lyricist of the musical Les Misérables
- Caryl Brahms, writer[5]
- June Brown, British actress
- Tony Bullimore,[6] British yachtsman
C
- Neve Campbell (1973 - ), Canadian film and television actress (Scream)[7]
- Isaac and Daniel Carasso, founders of Danone[8]
- Maurice Abraham Cohen, educator
G
- Lewis Goldsmith, journalist and political writer[9]
- Philip Guedalla, biographer[10]
H
- Sir Basil Henriques,[11] philanthropist
K
- Paul Kodish, professional drummer
M
- Fred Melamed, American actor and writer
- Raphael Meldola, chemist and first president of the Maccabaeans[12]
- Daniel Mendoza, 19th-century pugilist, prizefighter
- Frederic Mocatta, philanthropist [13]
P
- Abraham Palacci, grand rabbi of Izmir
- Rahamim Nissim Palacci, grand rabbi of Izmir
- Joseph Palacci rabbi of Izmir
- Charles Palache, American mineralogist
- Haim Palachi, grand rabbi of Izmir
- Samuel Pallache, Moroccan-Dutch envoy, corsair
- Murray Perahia, American concert pianist
- Inês Pires, Mistress of King John I of Portugal; ancestor of Dukes and Portuguese Kings of the House of Braganza and many of European royalty and nobility[14]
S
- Peter Sellers, comedian and actor; Knight of the Realm.; born Richard Henry Sellers
- David Serero, opera singer and actor; Sephardi descendant from Morocco
- Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher of Sephardic Portuguese origin.
See also
- List of Iberian Jews
- Sephardi Jews
- Lists of Jews
- List of Portuguese
- List of Spaniards
- Spanish Inquisition
- Portuguese Inquisition
Footnotes
- ^ http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1399-amigo-abraham
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ "The Maker's Mark". Smart Furniture. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ^ Lee, Felicia. "Facing Down His Color as a Path to Privilege," The New York Times (5 May 1999), pp. E1, 10; reprinted as "A Writer Confronts His Color as A Path to Privilege," in The International Herald Tribune (6 May 1999)
- ^ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle Dec 10, 1982 p.12
- ^ "Bullimore's sister buoyed by rabbis' support", Jewish Chronicle January 24, 1997 p.1
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-03-11. Retrieved 2007-02-03.
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- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "he was of Portuguese Jewish descent"
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only son of David Guedalla, an almond broker in Mincing Lane, who came from a Spanish-Jewish family... He was buried in Golders Green Jewish cemetery"
- ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born into old, established Jewish family"
- ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica 11:1290
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "The Mocatta family were Jews driven from the Iberian peninsula in 1492"
- ^ Isabel Violante Pereira, "De Mendo da Guarda a D. Manuel I," Lisbon: Livros Horizonte, 2001. Notice that Inês Pires is only presently presented as a conversa, and that for centuries there was no known doubt regarding her non-Jewish Portuguese ethnicity (which, of course could have been hidden for religious and political reasons, her being the mother of Afonso, 1st Duke of Braganza).