Lists of American Jews

This is a list of famous Jewish Americans.

At about 6 1/2 million, the Jewish population of the United States is currently the largest Jewish population in the world. Judaism is the second most populous religion in the US after Christianity, comprising over 2% but no more than 3% of the total US population. Here is a list of some prominent Jewish Americans, arranged by field of activity.

Sports

Baseball

• Cal Abrams, baseball player
• Brad Ausmus, baseball player (Jewish mother)
• Bo Belinsky, baseball player (Jewish mother)
• Moe Berg, baseball player & spy
• Ron Blomberg, baseball player, MLB's first designated hitter
• Lou Boudreau, baseball player, MVP 1948, HoF (Jewish mother)
• Harry Danning, baseball player
• Barney Dreyfuss, co-founder of the World Series
• Ken Eppers, baseball player (Jewish father, converted)
• Theo Epstein, general manager of the Boston Red Sox
• Shawn Green, baseball player
• Adam Greenberg, baseball player
• Hank Greenberg, baseball player, MVP 1935/1940, HoF
• Ken Holtzman, baseball player
• Gabe Kapler, baseball player
• Sandy Koufax, baseball player, MVP 1963, HoF
• Mike Lieberthal, baseball player (Jewish father)
• Jason Marquis, baseball player
• Levi Meyerle, credited with first double and triple (1876)
• Marvin Miller, first director of the MLBPA
• Buddy Myer, baseball player
• Lip Pike, 19th century player
• Al Rosen, baseball player, MVP 1953
• Goody Rosen. baseball player
• Scott Schoeneweis, baseball player
• Bud Selig, baseball commissioner
• Larry Sherry, baseball player
• Norm Sherry, baseball player
• Steve Stone, baseball player
• Adam Stern, baseball player
• Phile Weintraub, baseball player
• Kevin Youkilis, baseball player

Basketball

• Red Auerbach, basketball coach, HoF
• Senda Berenson, educator & sportswoman, HoF
• Sue Bird, basketball player (Jewish father)
• Larry Brown, basketball coach
• Mark Cuban , owner Dallas Mavericks
• Marty Friedman (basketball)
• Marty Friedman, basketball player, HoF
• Eddie Gottlieb, NBA co-founder, HoF
• Nat Holman, basketball player & coach, HoF
• Red Holzman, basketball coach, HoF
• Nancy Lieberman, basketball player, HoF
• Harry Litwack, basketball coach, HoF
• Maurice Podoloff, basketball commissioner, HoF
• Abe Saperstein, creator of the Harlem Globetrotters, HoF
• Dolph Schayes, basketball player, HoF
• Ossie Schectman, scored first basket of NBA (1946)
• Barney Sedran, basketball player, HoF
• David Stern, basketball commissioner

Boxing

• Ray Arcel, boxing trainer, HoF
• Bob Arum, boxing promoter, HoF
• Abe Attell, world featherweight champion, HoF
• Max Baer, world heavyweight champion (Jewish paternal grandfather; boxed wearing "Star of David")
• Benny Bass, world featherweight champion, HoF
• Samuel Berger, first Olympic heavyweight champion
• Joe Choynski, heavyweight fighter, HoF
• Charley Goldman, boxing trainer, HoF
• Mike Jacobs, boxing promoter, HoF
• Jackie Kallen, boxing promoter
• Louis Kid Kaplan, world featherweight champion, HoF
• Benny Leonard, world lightweight champion, HoF
• Battling Levinsky, world light-heavyweight champion, HoF
• Jill Matthews, world junior-flyweight champion
• Dana Rosenblatt, world middleweight champion
• Maxie Rosenbloom, world light-heavyweight champion, HoF
• Barney Ross, world lightweight and welterweight champion, HoF
• Mike Rossman, world light-heavyweight champion (Jewish mother)
• Sammy Sieger, talented featherweight boxer
• Lew Tendler, the "greatest southpaw in ring history", HoF

Chess

• Lev Alburt, US Chess Champion, HoF
• Joel Benjamin, US Chess Champion
• Hans Berliner, World Postal Chess Champion, HoF
• Arthur Bisguier, US Chess Champion, HoF
• Arnold Denker, US Chess Champion, HoF
• Roman Dzindzichashvili, US Chess Champion
• Esther Epstein, US Women's Chess Champion
• Larry Evans, US Chess Champion, HoF
• Reuben Fine, chess grandmaster, HoF
• Bobby Fischer, US & World Chess Champion, HoF (Jewish mother & alleged Jewish father; does not identify, and is in fact an outspoken anti-Semite)
• Gisela Gresser, US Women's Chess Champion, HoF
• Boris Gulko, US Chess Champion
• Israel Horowitz, chess player, HoF
• Isaac Kashdan, chess grandmaster, HoF
• George Koltanowski, chess grandmaster, HoF
• Irina Levitina, US Women's Chess Champion & bridge champion
• Fred Reinfeld, chess writer, HoF
• Samuel Reshevsky, US Chess Champion, HoF
• Herman Steiner, US Chess Champion
• Wilhelm Steinitz, World Chess Champion, HoF
• Michael Wilder, US Chess Champion

Football

• Lyle Alzado, football player
• Alan Arbuse, football player
• Harris Barton, football player
• Al Davis, football coach, PFHoF
• Jay Fiedler, football player
• Benny Friedman, football player, PFHoF, CFHoF
• Sid Gillman, football coach, PFHoF, CFHoF
• Marshall Goldberg, football player, CFHoF
• Marv Levy, footbal coach, PFHoF
• Benny Lom, football player
• Sid Luckman, football player, PFHoF, CFHoF
• Ron Mix, football player, PFHoF
• Igor Olshansky, football player

Golf

• Amy Alcott, golfer
• Bruce Fleisher, golfer
• Jonathan Kaye, golfer
• Cristie Kerr, golfer (Jewish father)
• Morgan Pressel, golfer

Hockey

• Gary Bettman, NHL commissioner
• Sara DeCosta, hockey player
• Jeff Halpern, hockey player
• Mathieu Schneider, hockey player

Mind sports

• Billy Eisenberg, bridge & backgammon champion
• Charles Goren, bridge player & writer
• Oswald Jacoby, bridge & backgammon champion
• Joel Sherman, scrabble champion

Miscellaneous Sports

• Alan Gelfand, skateboarder, Ollie inventor
• Albert Axelrod, fencer
• Gary Auerbach, frisbee champion
• Sidney Franklin, bullfighter
• Vic Hershkowitz, handball champion
• Marshall Holman, bowling champion
• Jimmy Jacobs, handball champion, boxing coach
• Sada Jacobson, fencer
• Mark Roth, bowling champion
• Kerri Strug, gymnast

Motor sports

• Kenny Bernstein, drag racer
• Paul Newman, auto racer & team owner (Jewish father)
• Peter Revson, F1 racer
• Mauri Rose, Indy 500 racer

Poker

• Mickey Appleman, poker champion (4 WSOP bracelets)
• Lyle Berman, poker player & business executive (3 WSOP bracelets)
• Barry Greenstein, poker player & philanthropist (1 WSOP braclet)
• Perry Green, poker player (3 WSOP bracelets)
• Jay Heimowitz, poker player (6 WSOP bracelets)
• Howard Lederer & Annie Duke, poker players (2 & 1 WSOP bracelets) (unconfirmed)
• Mike "The Mouth" Matusow, poker player (2 WSOP bracelets)
• David Sklansky, poker player & author (3 WSOP bracelets) (unconfirmed)
• Jack Straus, poker player (2 WSOP bracelets, 1 championship)
• Stu Ungar, poker player (5 WSOP bracelets, 3 championships)

Power sports

• Isaac Berger, Olympic weightlifter (1g2s)
• Bill Goldberg, professional wrestler
• Scott Levy, professional wrestler (Raven)
• Dean Malenko, professional wrestler
• Amy Weisberger, powerlifter
• Henry Wittenberg, Olympic wrestler (1g1s)

Skating

• Sasha Cohen, figure skater
• Scott Cohen, free skating champion
• Aaron Feinberg, rollerblading champion
• Sarah Hughes, figure skating champion (Jewish mother)
• Irving Jaffee, speed skating champion

Soccer

• Yari Allnut, soccer player
• Jeff Agoos, soccer player
• Dan Calichman, soccer player
• Don Garber, soccer comissioner
• Shep Messing, soccer player
• Sara Whalen, soccer player
• Ethan Zohn, soccer player

Swimming

• Tiffany Cohen, Olympic swimmer (2g)
• Anthony Ervin, Olympic swimmer (1g1s) (Jewish mother)
• Lenny Krayzelburg, Olympic swimmer (3g)
• Jason Lezak, Olympic swimmer (2g1s1b)
• Keena Rothhammer, Olympic swimmer (1g1s)
• Mark Spitz, Olympic swimmer (9g1s1b)
• Dara Torres, Olympic swimmer (4g1s4b) (Jewish father)

Tennis and racquet sports

• Joey Cornblit, jai-alai player
• Brad Gilbert, tennis player & coach
• Brian Gottfried, tennis player
• Marty Hogan, racquetball player
• Aaron Krickstein, tennis player
• Victor Niederhoffer, squash player
• Dr. Renée Richards, tennis player
• Dick Savitt, tennis player
• Mike Yellen, racquetball player

Track and Field

• Lillian Copeland, Olympic field athlete (2g1s)
• Doug Heir, Paralympic athlete (6g2s2b)
• Deena Kastor, long-distance runner
• Abel Kiviat, middle-distance runner
• Lon Myers, 19th century running champion
• Myer Prinstein, Olympic jumper (4g1s)

Business

Finance

• Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg, mayor of New York, philanthropist
• Eli & Edythe Broad, business leader & philanthropists
• Steven Cohen, billionaire founder of SAC Capital Management
• Marcus Goldman & Samuel Sachs, founders of Goldman Sachs
• Robert Rubin, Marc Benioff, Steven Friedman, & Edward S Lampert of Goldman Sachs (more Jewish partners, chairmen, CEOs, etc. have belonged to the group but are not listed and/or unconfirmed)
• Guggenheim family, business leaders, philanthropists & art patrons
• Carl Icahn, billionaire Investments Takeovers
• Jerome Kohlberg, billionaire co-founder of KKR leveraged buyout
• Bruce Kovner, billionaire owner of Caxton Associates
• Henry Kravis, leveraged buyout pioneer and philanthropist co-founder of KKR
• Alexandre, Simon & Elie Lazard, founders of Lazard
• Edward Lampert, billionaire founder of ESL Investments
• Thomas Lee, billionaire leveraged bayout
• Henry, Emanuel & Henry Lehman, founders of Lehman Brothers
• Norma Lerner, billionaire co-owner of MBNA Financial
• Randolph Lerner, billionaire co-owner of MBNA Financial
• Nancy Lerner Beck, billionaire co-owner of MBNA Financial
• Michael Milken, junk bond king, fraudster & philanthropist
• Jack Nash co-owner of Odissey Partners leveraged bayout
• Roy Neuberger, financier & art dealer
• Nelson Peltz, billionaire leveraged buyout
• Michael Price, billionaire investor (one jewish parent)
• George Roberts, billionaire co-founder of KKR leveraged buyout
• David Saperstein, philanthropist, founder of Five S Capital, wealthiest man in Los Angeles, 381st richest American
• Jacob Schiff, financier & philanthropist
• Muriel Siebert, first woman to purchase a seat on NYSE
• George Soros, financier & philanthropist
• Sandy Weill, ex-CEO of Citigroup, philanthropist

Retail and rental

• Max Azria, founder of BCBG
• Arthur Blank & Bernie Marcus, founders of Home Depot, philanthropists
• Nehemiah Cohen & Samuel Lehrman, founders of Giant Food
• Isaac & Bernard Gimbel, founders of Gimbel's, Saks Fifth Avenue
• John Hertz, founder of Yellow Cab, owner of The Hertz Corporation (unconfirmed)
• Donna Karan, founder of DKNY
• Sidney Kimmel, retailer & philanthropist
• Calvin Klein, founder of Calvin Klein
• Ralph Lauren, founder of Polo Ralph Lauren, acquired Club Monaco
• Paul, Georges, Maurice & Armand Marciano, founders of Marciano and Guess?
• Morris Markin, founder of Checker Cabs
• David May, founder of May Department Stores (Robinsons-May, Famous-Barr, Filene's, Foley's, Hecht's, Kaufmann's, L.S. Ayres, Marshall Field's, Meier & Frank, Strawbridge's & The Jones Store)
• Joe, Ralph & Avi Nakash, founders of Jordache
• Al Neiman, Carrie Neiman & Herbert Marcus, founders of Neiman-Marcus
• Julius Rosenwald, head of Sears & Roebuck & Kmart, philanthropist
• Allen Schwartz, founder of ABS
• Isador Straus, head of Macy's, Titanic victim
• Levi Strauss, founder of Levi's
• Nathan Swartz, founder of Timberland
• Leslie Wexner, founder of Victoria's Secret, Limited Brands (Limited, Bath & Body Works, Express, White Barn Candle Co., Aura Science, Henri Bendel)
• Mel Ziegler, Pat Ziegler & Bill Rosenzweig, founders of Banana Republic

Toys

• Beatrice Alexander, founder of the Alexander Doll Company
• Ralph Baer, inventor of the games console
• Joshua Lionel Cowen, toy train manufacturer, founder of Lionel Corporation
• Maurice Greenberg, founder of Coleco
• Nathan Greenman, toy manufacturer
• Ruth Handler, inventor of Barbie, founder of Mattel
• Henry & Helal Hassenfeld, founders of Hasbro
• Isaac Larian, founder of MGA Enretainment inventor of Bratz doll
• Charles Lazarus, founder of Toys R Us
• Rose & Morris Michtom, inventors of the teddy bear
• David Rosen, founder of SEGA (unconfirmed)

Confectionery

• Louis Auster, inventor of egg cream
• Burton Baskin & Irving Robbins, founders of Baskin Robbins
• Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield, founders of Ben & Jerry's
• Joseph Friedman, inventor of the flexistraw
• Hyman Golden, Arnold Greenberg & Leonard Marsh, founders of Snapple
• Herb Hyman, founder of The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
• Charles Lubin, founder of Sara Lee
• Rabbi Dov Behr Manischewitz, founder of Manischewitz
• Reuben Mattus, founder of Häagen-Dazs
• Bill Rosenberg, founder of Dunkin' Donuts
• Howard Schultz, head of Starbucks, co-owner of Jamba Juice
• Soofer family, founder of Soofer Company and Sadaf

Electronics

• Beny Alagem, founder of Packard Bell
• Michael Dell, founder of Dell, philanthropist
• Donna Dubinsky, co-founder of Palm Computing
• Lee Felsenstein, moderator of the Homebrew Computer Club
• Andrew Grove, co-founder of Intel
• Eugene Kleiner, co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor, venture capitalist
• Jaron Lanier, virtual reality products
• Arthur Rock, hi-tech venture capitalist (Intel, Apple)
• Ben Rosen, hi-tech venture capitalist (Compaq, Lotus)
• Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore International
• Andrew Viterbi & Irwin Jacobs, founders of Qualcomm

Software and Internet

• Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft (Jewish mother)
• Dan Bernstein, creator of qmail
• Dan Bricklin & Bob Frankston, creators of Visicalc
• Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google
• Bram Cohen, creator of BitTorrent
• Mark Cuban, founder of Broadcast.com, owner of the Dallas Mavericks
• Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle
• Ken Eppers, founder of Chilliware (Jewish father, converted)
• Rob Glaser, founder of RealNetworks
• Max Goldberg, creator of YTMND.com
• Andy Hertzfeld, programmer on Mac OS
• Larry Kaplan, co-founder of Activision
• Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Software, co-founder of EFF
• Raymond Kurzweil, artificial intelligence software
• Phil Katz, creator of PKZip
• Leslie Lamport, initial developer of LaTeX
• Max Levchin, founder of PayPal
• Elias Levy (aka Aleph One), long-time moderator of Bugtraq
• Jef Raskin, interface designer for Apple Macintosh
• Seymour I. Rubinstein, creator of WordStar
• Jonathan Sachs, chief programmer on Lotus Software
• Joshua Schachter, creator of del.icio.us
• Richard Stallman, programmer of Emacs, founder of GNU
• Larry Tesler, creator of Gypsy
• Dave Winer, content management, XML-RPC
• Yair Goldfinger, Arik Vardi, Sefi Vigiser, Amnon Amir & Ariel Yarnitsky, founders of Mirabilis and ICQ

Media

• Jack & Harry Cohn, co-founders of Columbia Pictures
• Michael Eisner, head of The Walt Disney Company
• William Fox, Joseph Schenk, co-founders of 20th Century Fox
• Leonard Goldenson, head of ABC
• Irving Kahn, co-founder of TelePrompTer
• Carl Laemmle, founder of Universal Studios
• Marcus Loew, Samuel Goldwyn, Louis B. Mayer, co-founders of MGM
• William S. Paley, head of CBS
• Sumner Redstone, head of Viacom
• Ralph Roberts, Daniel Aaron, Julian Brodsky, founders of Comcast
• David Sarnoff, head of RCA
• Robert Shaye, founder of New Line Cinema
• Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Geffen, founders of Dreamworks SKG
• Harry, Albert, Sam & Jack Warner, founders of Warner Brothers
• Bob & Harvey Weinstein, founders of Miramax
• Adolph Zukor, founder of Paramount Pictures

Publishing

• Walter Annenberg, publisher & philanthropist
• Alfred & Blanche Knopf, founders of Knopf Publishing
• Samuel Irving Newhouse, founder of Advance Publications
• Adolph Ochs, former head of the New York Times
• Joseph Pulitzer, publisher (Jewish father)
• Barney Rossett, founder of Grove Press (Jewish father)
• Richard L. Simon & Max Schuster, founders of Simon and Schuster
• Roger W. Straus, Jr., co-founder of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Daniel Dirk Robert Zif, owners of Zif Davis Publishing
• Mortimer Zuckerman, owner of New York Daily News and US News and World Report

Advertising

• Edward Bernays, father of public relations
• Bill Bernbach, advertising pioneer
• Jay Chiat, advertiser
• Stan Freberg, advertiser & radio personality
• Oscar Goldstein, creator of Ronald McDonald
• Albert Lasker, advertising pioneer, founder of the Lasker Award
• Shirley Polykoff, advertiser
• Ron Popeil, inventor & father of infomercials
• Jay Schulberg, creator of Got Milk?

Models

• Angelyne, model, LA billboard icon
• Barbi Benton, model, actress
• Caprice Bourret, model
• Brooke Burke, model (Jewish mother, raised Jewish)
• Cindy Margolis, model
• Bess Myerson, Miss America
• Simon Rex, model, actor, MTV VJ
• Lindsey Vuolo, model
• Nikki Schieler Ziering, model (converted)

Artists

• See also List of Jewish Recipients of National Medal of Arts in U.S.

Visual artists

• Leonard Baskin, sculptor & graphic artist
• Bernard Berenson, art critic
• Wallace Berman, assemblage artist
• Ross Bleckner, painter
• Victor David Brenner, designer of the US penny
• Judy Chicago, feminist painter
• Jo Davidson, sculptor
• Jim Dine, pop artist
• Henry Dreyfuss, industrial designer
• Jacob Epstein, UK-based sculptor
• Helen Frankenthaler, abstract expressionist
• Milton Glaser, graphic designer
• Jack Goldstein, multi media
• Leon Golub, political painter
• Adolph Gottlieb, abstract exppresionist
• Clement Greenberg, art critic
• Philip Guston, abstract expressionist
• Eva Hesse, minimalist sculptor
• R.B. Kitaj, UK-based painter
• Lee Krasner, abstract expressionist
• Tamara de Lempicka, art deco painter (half Jewish)
• Sol LeWitt, sculptor
• Roy Lichtenstein, pop artist
• Jacques Lipchitz, cubist sculptor
• Morris Louis, abstract expressionist
• Herb Lubalin, graphic designer
• Peter Max, pop artist
• Louise Nevelson, abstract expressionist sculptor
• Barnett Newman, abstract expressionist
• Paul Rand, graphic designer
• Larry Rivers, pop artist
• Susan Rothenberg, painter
• Mark Rothko, abstract expressionist
• Julian Schnabel, neo-expressionist
• George Segal, pop art sculptor
• Richard Serra, minimalist sculptor (half Jewish)
• Ben Shahn, social realist painter
• Nancy Spero, painter, collage artist
• Max Weber, cubist painter

Architects

• Dankmar Adler, architect
• Marcel Breuer, architect
• Arnold Brunner, architect
• Gordon Bunshaft, architect
• Peter Eisenman, deconstructionist architect
• Frank Gehry, architect, Pritzker Prize (1989)
• Victor Gruen, father of the shopping mall
• Frank Israel, architect
• Albert Kahn, industrial architect
• Louis I. Kahn, architect
• Morris Lapidus, architect
• Daniel Libeskind, architect
• Richard Meier, architect, Pritzker Prize (1984)
• Robert Moses, urban planner
• Richard Neutra, modernist architect
• Robert A. M. Stern, architect

Photographers

• Diane Arbus, photographer
• Eve Arnold, photojournalist
• Richard Avedon, photographer
• Margaret Bourke-White, photojournalist (half Jewish)
• Robert Capa, war photographer
• Alfred Eisenstaedt, photographer
• Elliott Erwitt, photographer (half Jewish)
• Robert Frank, photographer
• Lee Friedlander, photographer
• Nan Goldin, photographer
• Philippe Halsman, photographer
• André Kertész, photographer
• William Klein, photographer
• Annie Leibovitz, photographer
• Helen Levitt, photographer
• Linda McCartney, photographer
• Lisette Model, photographer (half Jewish)
• Arnold Newman, photographer
• Irving Penn, photographer
• Man Ray, dadaist photographer
• Herb Ritts, photographer
• Joe Rosenthal, war photographer
• Arthur Rothstein, photographer
• David Seymour, photojournalist
• Cindy Sherman, photographer
• Aaron Siskind, photographer
• Alfred Stieglitz, photographer
• Paul Strand, photographer
• Doris Ulmann, photographer
• Weegee, photojournalist
• Garry Winogrand, photographer

Fashion designers

• Gilbert Adrian, Hollywood fashion designer
• Hattie Carnegie, fashion designer
• Kenneth Cole, fashion designer
• Pamela Dennis, fashion designer
• Marc Ecko, fashion designer
• Rudi Gernreich, fashion designer
• Marc Jacobs, fashion designer
• Alexander Julian, fashion designer (half Jewish)
• Donna Karan, fashion designer
• Calvin Klein, fashion designer
• Michael Kors, fashion designer (half Jewish)
• Estée Lauder, cosmeticist
• Ralph Lauren, fashion designer, founder of Polo Ralph Lauren
• Shoshanna Lonstein, fashion designer
• Hinda Miller, inventor of the sports bra
• Isaac Mizrahi, fashion designer
• Robert Lee Morris, jewelry designer (half Jewish)
• Norman Norell, fashion designer
• Zac Posen, fashion designer
• Charles Revson, cosmetics industrialist (Revlon)
• Ida Rosenthal, founder of Maidenform Brassieres
• Helena Rubinstein, cosmetics industrialist
• Levi Strauss, German-born clothing manufacturer; "father of the Jeans"
• Pauline Trigère, fashion designer
• Diane von Furstenberg, Belgian-born fashion designer

Cartoonists, animators, and comics writers

• Jessica Abel, comic book writer & artist (Artbabe)
• Ralph Bakshi, animator (Fritz the Cat, Lord of the Rings)
• Brian Michael Bendis, comics book writer
• Dave Berg, cartoonist
• Al Capp, cartoonist (Li'l Abner)
• Roz Chast, cartoonist (New Yorker)
• Howard Chaykin, comic book writer
• Daniel Clowes, alternative comics writer (Ghost World)
• Peter David, comics writer & "writer of stuff"
• Will Eisner, comics artist (The Spirit)
• Jules Feiffer, cartoonist
• Bill Finger, comics artist (Batman)
• Dave Fleischer, animator; brother of Max Fleischer
• Max Fleischer, animator (Popeye, Betty Boop); father of director Richard Fleischer
• Fritz Freleng, animator (Looney Tunes)
• William Gaines, comics artist and MAD founder
• Rube Goldberg, cartoonist
• Herblock, cartoonist (three Pulitzer Prizes)
• Al Hirschfeld, caricaturist
• Nicole Hollander, cartoonist (Sylvia)
• Bob Kane, comics artist (Batman)
• Gil Kane, comics artist (Green Lantern)
• Ben Katchor, comics writer (Julius Knipl)
• Jack Kirby, comics artist (Captain America, Hulk)
• Joe Kubert, comics artist
• Harvey Kurtzman, comics artist and MAD editor
• Stan Lee, comics artist (Spiderman, X-Men)
• Martin Nodell, comics artist (Green Lantern)
• Harvey Pekar, comix writer (American Splendor)
• Rachel Pollack, comic book writer (Doom Patrol) see also "Authors"
• Trina Robbins, comix writer
• Julius Schwartz, comic book and magazine editor
• Joe Shuster, comics artist (Superman)
• Jerome Siegel, comics artist (Superman)
• Joe Simon, comics artist (Captain America)
• Art Spiegelman, comix writer (Maus)
• William Steig, cartoonist & children's writer
• Saul Steinberg, cartoonist & illustrator
• David Tischman, comic book writer
• Mort Weisinger, comic book and magazine editor
• Marv Wolfman, comic book writer

Authors

• Kathy Acker, writer
• Forrest J. Ackerman, science fiction author & fan
• Nelson Algren, novelist (son of convert)
• Jonathan Ames, author
• Sholem Asch, Yiddish writer
• Isaac Asimov, science fiction author
• Paul Auster, author
• Peter S. Beagle, novelist
• Saul Bellow, writer, Nobel Prize (1976)
• Robert Bloch, science fiction author
• Lawrence Block, crime novelist
• Harold Bloom, literary critic
• Judy Blume, children's author
• Jane Bowles, writer & playwright
• David Brin, science fiction author
• Michael Chabon, novelist
• Harlan Coben, mystery writer
• Anita Diamant, writer
• E. L. Doctorow, writer
• Harlan Ellison, 'speculative fiction' writer
• Jon Fasman, mystery writer
• Howard Fast, novelist
• Raymond Federman, postmodernist writer
• Edna Ferber, author
• Jonathan Safran Foer, writer
• Betty Friedan, writer
• Kinky Friedman, crime writer & singer/songwriter
• Alan Furst, novelist
• Barry Gifford, poet, novelist, playwright, screenwriter (Jewish father)
• Natalie Goldberg, author & teacher
• William Goldman, novelist & screenwriter
• Noah Gordon, author
• Joe Haldeman, science fiction author
• Daniel Handler, writer
• Sam Harris, author
• Joseph Heller, novelist
• Richard Herrnstein, author
• Mark Helprin, novelist
• Erica Jong, author
• Faye Kellerman, crime novelist; married to Jonathan Kellerman
• Jonathan Kellerman, crime novelist
• Frederick Kohner, author of Gidget
• Cyril M. Kornbluth, science fiction writer
• Jerzy Kosinski, writer
• Jonathan Kozol, writer & educator
• Edward E. Kramer, writer & editor
• Judith Krantz, romance writer
• James Howard Kunstler, novelist and New Urbanist author
• Fran Lebowitz, essayist & humorist
• Julius Lester, children's writer (convert)
• Jonathan Lethem, novelist
• Ira Levin, author
• Laura Lippman, crime novelist
• Phillip Lopate, author
• Norman Mailer, writer
• Bernard Malamud, writer
• James McBride, author (Jewish mother)
• Walter Mosley, murder-mystery novelist (Jewish mother)
• Cynthia Ozick, novelist
• Grace Paley, short story writer & poet
• Sara Paretsky, mystery writer
• Dorothy Parker, writer, poet & wit (Jewish father)
• S. J. Perelman, humorist
• Marge Piercy, novelist, poet
• Rachel Pollack, science-fiction author
• Chaim Potok, author & rabbi
• Ayn Rand, writer (atheist)
• H.A. & Margret Rey, children's writers
• Harold Robbins, author
• Philip Roth, novelist
• S.J. Rozan, author
• Louis Sachar, children's writer
• J. D. Salinger, author (Jewish father)
• Budd Schulberg, novelist & screenwriter
• Maurice Sendak, children's author
• Sidney Sheldon, novelist & screenwriter
• Robert Silverberg, science fiction author
• Shel Silverstein, children's writer, poet & musician
• Isaac Bashevis Singer, Yiddish writer, Nobel Prize (1978)
• Susan Sontag, essayist & novelist
• Danielle Steele, romance novelist (Jewish father)
• Gertrude Stein, writer, poet & playwright
• Joel Stein, columnist
• George Steiner, literary critic
• Jacqueline Susann, novelist
• Studs Terkel, author & oral historian
• Alice B. Toklas, literary figure
• Lionel Trilling, literary critic
• Scott Turow, mystery writer
• Harry Turtledove, science fiction writer
• Leon Uris, novelist
• Chris Van Allsburg, children's writer (converted)
• Irving Wallace, novelist
• Nathanael West, writer
• Elie Wiesel, writer & Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize (1986)
• Herman Wouk, author
• Elizabeth Wurtzel, author

Poets

• Charles Bernstein, poet
• Joseph Brodsky, poet, Nobel Prize (1987)
• Allen Ginsberg, beat poet
• Louise Glück, poet
• Jorie Graham, poet
• Marilyn Hacker, poet
• Anthony Hecht, poet
• Richard Howard, poet, translator
• Chester Kallman, poet, librettist
• Bob Kaufman, beat poet (Jewish father)
• Kenneth Koch, poet
• Maxine Kumin, poet
• Stanley Kunitz, poet
• Emma Lazarus, poet
• Philip Levine, poet
• Howard Nemerov, poet
• Alicia Ostriker, poet
• Carl Rakosi, Objectivist poet
• Charles Reznikoff, Objectivist poet
• Adrienne Rich, poet
• Jerome Rothenberg, poet
• Muriel Rukeyser, poet
• Delmore Schwartz, poet
• Karl Shapiro, poet
• Gerald Stern, poet
• Mark Strand, poet
• Louis Zukofsky, Objectivist poet

Playwrights

• Eve Ensler, playwright (half Jewish)
• Herb Gardner, playwright & cartoonist
• James Goldman, playwright & screenwriter
• Moss Hart, playwright & librettist
• Israel Horovitz, playwright
• Lillian Hellman, playwright
• George S. Kaufman, playwright
• Sidney Kingsley, playwright
• Arthur Kopit, playwright
• Tony Kushner, playwright
• Arthur Laurents, playwright & librettist
• Jerome Lawrence, playwright
• Craig Lucas, playwright
• David Mamet, playwright
• Donald Margulies, playwright
• Arthur Miller, playwright
• Clifford Odets, playwright
• Elmer Rice, playwright
• Martin Sherman, playwright
• Neil Simon, playwright
• Alfred Uhry, playwright
• Wendy Wasserstein, playwright

Journalists

• Carl Bernstein, Watergate reporter
• Dan Daniel, sports writer
• Barbara Ehrenreich, journalist
• Giselle Fernández, Mexican-born television journalist (Jewish mother)
• Charles Flato, American writer and Soviet agent
• Pauline & Esther Friedman, advice columnists (Dear Abby and Ann Landers)
• Thomas Friedman, columnist
• Jamie Glazov, cyberjournalist (Jewish father & maternal grandfather; identifies as Christian Jew)
• Bernard Goldberg, journalist & auther
• Jonah Goldberg, commentator (Jewish father, raised Jewish)
• David Halberstam, Vietnam reporter
• Seymour Hersh, My Lai reporter
• David Horowitz, writer, political commentator
• Michael Kinsley, journalist & commentator
• Samuel Krafsur, TASS journalist and Soviet agent
• Paul Krassner, satirist
• Charles Krauthammer, columnist
• A. J. Liebling, journalist
• Walter Lippmann, journalist & writer
• Joshua Micah Marshall, political blogger
• Shirley Povich, sports columnist
• William Safire, columnist
• George Seldes, investigative journalist
• Joel Siegel, film critic
• Gloria Steinem, journalist & feminist activist
• I. F. Stone, investigative journalist
• Walter Winchell, gossip columnist

Solo musicians

• Paula Abdul, pop singer, dancer
• Herb Alpert, leader of Tijuana Brass
• Beck, singer/songwriter (Jewish mother)
• Dan Bern, singer/songwriter
• Theodore Bikel, singer/songwriter
• Hal Blaine, session drummer
• Michael Bolton, singer/songwriter
• Shlomo Carlebach, singer
• Vanessa Carlton, singer/songwriter (Jewish mother)
• Eric Carmen, singer/songwriter
• Nick Carter, singer (Jewish father)
• Marc Cohn, singer/songwriter
• Joe Dassin, French-based singer
• Sammy Davis Jr, singer, entertainer (convert)
• Taylor Dayne, dance-pop singer
• Neil Diamond, singer/songwriter
• Ani DiFranco, singer/songwriter (Jewish mother) (unconfirmed)
• DJ AM, club deejay
• King Django, ska artist
• Alix Dobkin, folk singer
• Bob Dylan, singer/songwriter
• Kenny G, pop saxophonist
• Marvin Goldstein, pianist
• Nina Gordon, singer
• Lesley Gore, pop singer
• Eydie Gorme, pop singer
• Josh Groban, pop singer (Jewish father)
• Stefan Grossman, guitarist, educator
• Arlo Guthrie, folk singer (Jewish mother)
• Larry Harlow, salsa musician
• Janis Ian, singer/songwriter
• Billy Joel, singer/songwriter
• Lucy Kaplansky, folk singer
• Carol Kaye, bass player
• Carole King, singer/songwriter
• Lenny Kravitz, rock musician (Jewish father)
• Ben Kweller, singer/songwriter
• Tony Levin, bass player
• Lisa Loeb, singer/songwriter
• Matisyahu, singer/songwriter
• Barry Manilow, singer/songwriter
• Bette Midler, singer, actress
• Meredith Monk, vocalist, composer
• Laura Nyro, singer/songwriter (Jewish mother)
• Phil Ochs, protest singer
• Glen Phillips, singer/songwriter
• Phranc, folk singer
• Elvis Presley, rock&roll musician (Jewish great-great-grandmother)
• Lou Reed, singer/songwriter
• Jonathan Richman, proto-punk singer
• Rachael Sage, singer/songwriter
• Neil Sedaka, singer/songwriter
• Lhasa de Sela, singer/songwriter (Jewish mother)
• Dinah Shore, singer, actress
• Carly Simon, singer/songwriter (Jewish father)
• Paul Simon, singer/songwriter
• Jill Sobule, singer/songwriter
• Regina Spektor, singer/songwriter
• Brenda K. Starr, salsa singer (Jewish father)
• Barbra Streisand, singer, actress, director
• Princess Superstar, rapper
• Tiny Tim, singer (Jewish mother)
• Sophie Tucker, singer, entertainer
• Scott Walker, singer/songwriter (unconfirmed)
• Jackie Wilson, soul singer (convert)
• Steve Wynn, singer/songwriter
• Warren Zevon, singer/songwriter

Band musicians

Arranged by band name:

• 3rd Bass - MC Serch
• Adrenalin OD - Dave Scott
• Aerosmith - Joey Kramer
• The Angry Samoans - Todd Homer, Gregg Turner, Bill Vockeroth
• Anthrax - Scott Ian, Dan Lilker
• Asleep at the Wheel - Ray Benson, Lucky Oceans
• Backstreet Boys - Nick Carter (Jewish father)
• Bad Religion - Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz, Greg Hetson
• The Bangles - Susanna Hoffs
• The Beach Boys - David Marks (half Jewish)
• Beastie Boys - Michael Diamond, Adam Yauch, Adam Horovitz (Horovitz half Jewish)
• The Black Crowes - Chris & Rich Robinson (both half Jewish)
• Blondie - Chris Stein (half Jewish)
• Blood, Sweat & Tears - Al Kooper, Fred Lipsius, Randy Brecker, Jerry Weiss, Steve Katz, Bobby Colomby
• Blue Öyster Cult - Eric Bloom, Donald Roeser
• Bon Jovi - David Bryan
• The Calling - Alex Band, Aaron Kamin
• Cannibal Corpse - Paul Mazurkiewicz
• The Cars - Elliot Easton
• The Circle Jerks - Keith Clark, Greg Hetson, Lucky Lehrer, Keith Morris (half-Jewish), Zander Schloss
• Counting Crows - Adam Duritz
• Country Joe and the Fish - Joe McDonald, Barry Melton (both half Jewish)
• The Dictators - Andy Shernoff, Handsome Dick Manitoba, Ross Friedman, Scott Kempner
• Death - Chuck Schuldiner
• Disturbed - David Draiman
• Dixie Dregs - Rod Morgenstein
• The Doors - Robbie Krieger
• Dream Syndicate - Steve Wynn
• Dream Theater - Mike Portnoy, Jordan Rudess
• The E Street Band - Max Weinberg, Roy Bittan
• Elastica - Abby Travis
• Fates Warning - Mark Zonder
• Foo Fighters - Pat Smear (Jewish father)
• Fountains of Wayne - Adam Schlesinger
• The Fugs - Tuli Kupferberg
• Grateful Dead - Mickey Hart
• Guns N' Roses - Steven Adler, Slash (a.k.a. Saul Hudson) (Slash Jewish father)
• Guster - Ryan Miller, Adam Gardner, Brian Rosenworcel
• Heartbreakers - Richard Hell
• The Hooters - Rob Hyman, Eric Bazilian
• Incubus - Mike Einziger
• J. Geils Band - Peter Wolf, Stephen Bladd, Magic Dick, Seth Justman, Danny Klein
• Jane's Addiction - Eric Avery, Perry Farrell, Stephen Perkins
• Jefferson Airplane - Marty Balin, Jorma Kaukonen (both half Jewish) Paul Kantner
• KISS - Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Bruce Kulick
• The Last - Dave Nazworthy
• Letters to Cleo - Michael Eisenstein
• Linkin Park - Brad Delson, Rob Bourdon
• Liquid Tension Experiment - Mike Portnoy, Jordan Rudess
• Los Lobos - Steve Berlin
• The Mamas & the Papas - Cass Elliot
• Marilyn Manson - Madonna Wayne Gacy
• Maroon 5 - Adam Levine
• Matchbox Twenty - Brian Yale, Adam Gaynor
• Megadeth - Dave Mustaine, Marty Friedman
• The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Joe Gittleman
• The Modern Lovers - Jonathan Richman
• Moldy Peaches - Adam Green
• Morphine - Mark Sandman
• Mothers of Invention - Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman (Volman half Jewish)
• Mountain - Leslie West (also Canadian Corky Laing)
• New York Dolls - David Johansen (Jewish mother), Arthur Kane, Sylvain Sylvain
• NOFX - Fat Mike, Eric Melvin
• Patti Smith group - Lenny Kaye, Richard Sohl
• Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Mike Bloomfield
• Peter, Paul and Mary - Peter Yarrow
• Phish - Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
• Porno for Pyros - Perry Farrell, Stephen Perkins
• Quicksilver Messenger Service - David Freiberg
• Rage Against the Machine - Brad Wilk
• The Ramones - Joey Ramone, Tommy Ramone
• The Raspberries - Eric Carmen
• Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Hillel Slovak
• Scissor Sisters - Babydaddy
• The Offspring - Noodles
• The Shangri-Las - Mary Weiss, Elizabeth "Betty" Weiss, Marguerite "Marge" Ganser, Mary Ann Ganser
• Simon and Garfunkel - Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel
• Sleater-Kinney - Carrie Brownstein, Janet Weiss
• Soul Coughing - Yuval Gabay
• Sparks - Ron Mael, Russell Mael
• Spin Doctors - Chris Barron, Eric Schenkman, Aaron Comess
• Steely Dan - Donald Fagen
• The Strokes - Nick Valensi
• Television - Richard Hell, Tom Verlaine (Verlaine half-Jewish)
• Tenacious D - Jack Black
• Toad the Wet Sprocket - Glen Phillips
• Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Howie Epstein, Sam Lynch
• The Turtles - Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman (Volman half Jewish)
• Twisted Sister - Dee Snider, Jay Jay French (Snider Jewish father)
• The United States of America - Dorothy Moskowitz
• Van Halen - David Lee Roth
• Velvet Underground - Lou Reed
• Veruca Salt - Nina Gordon, Jim Shapiro
• The Voidoids - Richard Hell
• The Wallflowers - Jakob Dylan, Rami Jaffe, Greg Richling
• Was (Not Was) - David Was, Don Was
• The Weavers - Ronnie Gilbert, Fred Hellerman
• Ween - Gene Ween
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Brian Chase
• Yo La Tengo - Ira Kaplan
• Youth Brigade - Adam Stern, Mark Stern, Shawn Stern

Jazz musicans

• Joey Baron, jazz drummer
• Jay Beckenstein, Dave Samuels, members of Spyro Gyra
• Bob Berg, jazz saxophonist
• Michael Brecker, jazz saxophonist
• Randy Brecker, jazz trumpeter
• Bob Brozman, blues musician
• Uri Caine, jazz pianist
• Popa Chubby, blues singer
• Peter Cincotti, jazz pianist, singer (Jewish mother)
• Harry Connick, Jr., jazz pianist, singer (Jewish mother, raised Catholic)
• Eddie Daniels, jazz clarinetist
• Bela Fleck, bluegrass musician
• Dave Frishberg, jazz pianist, singer/songwriter
• Stan Getz, jazz saxophonist
• Benny Goodman, jazz clarinetist
• David Grisman, bluegrass musician
• Fred Hersch, jazz pianist
• Lee Konitz, jazz saxophonist
• Steve Lacy, jazz saxophonist
• Mark Levine, jazz pianist, valve trombonist, teacher
• Herbie Mann, jazz flautist
• Shelly Manne, jazz drummer
• Mezz Mezzrow, jazz clarinetist
• Alan Paul, Janis Siegel, members of The Manhattan Transfer
• Joshua Redman, jazz saxophonist (Jewish mother)
• Buddy Rich, jazz drummer (Jewish father)
• Red Rodney, jazz trumpeter
• Raymond Scott, jazz musician & inventor
• Willie "The Lion" Smith, jazz pianist
• Artie Shaw, jazz clarinetist
• Ben Sidran, jazz pianist & producer
• Mel Torme, jazz singer
• John Zorn, jazz saxophonist

Classical

• Larry Adler, harmonica player
• Vladimir Ashkenazy, pianist (Jewish father)
• Joshua Bell, violinist (Jewish mother)
• Leon Botstein, conductor, academic
• Yefim Bronfman, pianist
• Sergiu Comissiona, conductor
• Antal Dorati, conductor
• Mischa Elman, violinist
• Arthur Fiedler, conductor
• Leon Fleisher, pianist
• Richard Goode, pianist
• Gary Graffman, pianist
• Jascha Heifetz, violinist
• Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
• Eugene Istomin, pianist (Jewish mother)
• Byron Janis, pianist
• Otto Klemperer, conductor
• Fritz Kreisler, violinist (Jewish father)
• Wanda Landowska, harpsichordist
• Oscar Levant, pianist
• James Levine, conductor
• George London, baritone
• William Kapell, pianist
• Lorin Maazel, conductor
• Yehudi Menuhin, Lord Menuhin of Stoke d'Abernon; violinist and educator
• Anne Akiko Meyers, violinist (Jewish father)
• Nathan Milstein, violinist
• Pierre Monteux, conductor
• Eugene Ormandy, conductor
• Jan Peerce, tenor
• Murray Perahia, pianist
• Itzhak Perlman, violinist
• André Previn, conductor
• Fritz Reiner, conductor
• Leonard Rose, cellist
• Arthur Rubinstein, pianist
• Peter Serkin, pianist (Jewish father)
• Rudolf Serkin, pianist
• Beverly Sills, soprano
• Leonard Slatkin, conductor
• Janos Starker, cellist
• Isaac Stern, violinist
• George Szell, conductor
• Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
• Rosalyn Tureck, harpsichordist
• Bertram Turetzky, contrabassist
• Bruno Walter, conductor
• Paul Wittgenstein, pianist
• David Zinman, conductor
• Pinchas Zuckerman, violinist

Classical composers

• David Amram, composer
• Milton Babbitt, composer
• Arthur Berger, composer
• Leonard Bernstein, composer
• Marc Blitzstein, composer
• Ernest Bloch, composer
• Aaron Copland, composer
• Richard Danielpour, composer
• Mario Davidovsky, composer
• David Diamond, composer
• Jacob Druckman, composer
• Morton Feldman, composer
• Lukas Foss, composer
• George Gershwin, composer
• Philip Glass, composer
• Rubin Goldmark, composer
• Louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer (Jewish father)
• Morton Gould, composer
• Aaron Jay Kernis, composer
• Leon Kirchner, composer
• Leo Ornstein, composer
• George Perle, composer
• Shulamit Ran, composer
• Steve Reich, composer
• George Rochberg, composer
• Arnold Schoenberg, composer
• William Schuman, composer
• Ernst Toch, composer
• John Zorn, composer and saxophonist

Entertainment

Producers etc.

• Herb Alpert, co-founder of A&M Records
• Ralph Bass, R&B producer
• Brian Brater & Jarret Meyer, founders of Rawkus Records
• Leonard & Phil Chess, founders of Chess Records
• Hilly Crystal, founder of CBGB's
• Clive Davis, founder of Arista Records
• Richard Foos, founder of Rhino Records
• Alan Freed, DJ & music promoter
• Milt Gabler, founder of Commodore Records
• David Geffen, founder of Geffen Records
• Danny Goldberg, founder of Artemis Records
• Bill Graham, concert promoter
• Norman Granz, founder of Verve Records
• Dave Grusin & Larry Rosen, founders of GRP Records
• Brett Gurewitz, founder of Epitaph Records
• Jac Holzman, founder of Elektra Records
• Jimmy Iovine,founder of Interscope Records
• Alfred Lion & Frank Wolff, founders of Blue Note Records
• Richard Meltzer, rock critic
• Eddie, Leo & Ira Messner, founders of Aladdin Records
• Mitch Miller, producer, head of A&R Columbia Records
• Irving Mills, producer, manager & writer
• Syd Nathan, founder of King Records
• Mo Ostin, record executive
• Sandy Pearlman, producer, manager & writer
• Hilary Rosen, head of the RIAA
• Rick Rubin, founder of Def Jam
• Art Rupe, founder of Specialty Records
• Mickey Ruskin, founder of Max's Kansas City
• Phil Spector, producer, writer & murder suspect
• Scott Storch, hip hop producer
• Jerry Wexler, partner in Atlantic Records
• Max Yasgur, owner of the Woodstock farm
• John Zorn, founder of Tzadik Records

Songwriters

• Howard Ashman, lyricist
• Burt Bacharach & Hal David, songwriters
• Jeff Barry & Ellie Greenwich, songwriters
• Alan & Marilyn Bergman, songwriters
• Bert Berns, songwriter
• Sammy Cahn, lyricist
• Leonard Cohen, singer/songwriter
• Linda Creed, songwriter
• Mack David, songwriter; brother of lyricist Hal David
• Buddy De Sylva, lyricist
• Howard Dietz, lyricist
• AL Dubin, lyricist
• Sammy Fain & Paul Francis Webster, songwriters
• Percy Faith, Canadian-born U.S. composer, pianist and conductor
• Dorothy Fields, lyricist
• Norman Gimbel, songwriter
• Gerry Goffin & Carole King, songwriters
• Mack Gordon, lyricist
• Howard Greenfield & Neil Sedaka, songwriters
• Yip Harburg lyricist
• Lorenz Hart, lyricist
• Joel Hirschhorn & Al Kasha, songwriters
• Gus Kahn, lyricist
• Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller, songwriters
• Alan J. Lerner, lyricist
• Jay Livingston & Ray Evans, songwriters
• Johnny Mandel, songwriter
• Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil, songwriters
• Johnny Marks, songwriter
• Abel Meeropol, composer of Strange Fruit
• Bob Merrill, lyricist
• Randy Newman, songwriter, singer
• Mitchell Parish, lyricist
• Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman, songwriters
• Leo Robin, lyricist
• David Rose, pop composer
• Carole Bayer Sager, lyricist
• P.F. Sloan, songwriter, singer
• Billy Steinberg, songwriter
• Jim Steinman, songwriter
• Albert Von Tilzer, songwriter
• Harry von Tilzer, songwriter
• Diane Warren, songwriter
• George David Weiss, songwriter
• Meredith Willson, songwriter
• Jack Yellen, lyricist

Musicals writers

• Richard Adler & Jerry Ross, composer & lyricist
• Milton Ager, composer
• Lynn Ahrens, lyricist
• Harold Arlen, composer
• Burt Bacharach, composer
• Irving Berlin, composer & lyricist
• Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick, composer & lyricist
• Mel Brooks, composer & lyricist
• Jason Robert Brown, composer & lyricist
• Sammy Cahn, lyricist
• Cy Coleman, composer
• Betty Comden & Adolph Green, lyricists
• Gus Edwards, composer
• Sherman Edwards, composer
• Sammy Fain, composer
• Dorothy Fields, composer
• William Finn, composer & lyricist
• Fred Fisher, composer
• Gary William Friedman, composer
• Rudolf Friml, operetta composer
• George & Ira Gershwin, composer & lyricist
• Adam Guettel, composer & lyricist
• Marvin Hamlisch, composer
• Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist (Jewish father)
• Yip Harburg, lyricist
• Lorenz Hart, lyricist
• Jerry Herman, composer & lyricist
• Jerome Kern, composer
• John Kander & Fred Ebb, composer & lyricist
• Burton Lane, composer
• Jonathan Larson, composer & lyricist
• Carolyn Leigh, lyricist
• Mitch Leigh, composer
• Alan Jay Lerner, lyricist
• Frank Loesser, composer & lyricist
• Frederick Loewe, composer (half Jewish)
• Alan Menken & Howard Ashman, composer & lyricist
• Bob Merrill, composer & lyricist
• Joseph Meyer, composer
• Sigmund Romberg, composer
• Mary Rodgers, composer; daughter of Richard Rodgers
• Richard Rodgers, composer
• Harold Rome, composer
• Harry Ruby, composer
• Arthur Schwartz, composer
• Stephen Schwartz, composer & lyricist
• Robert & Richard Sherman, composers &lyricists
• Stephen Sondheim, composer & lyricist
• Charles Strouse & Lee Adams, composer & lyricist
• Jule Styne, British-born composer
• Harry Tobias, composer
• Kurt Weill, composer
• Frank Wildhorn, composer
• Maury Yeston, composer & lyricist

Film composers

• Elmer Bernstein, film composer
• Danny Elfman, film composer
• Percy Faith, Canadian-born film composer, pianist and arranger
• Elliot Goldenthal, film composer
• Jerry Goldsmith, film composer
• Dave Grusin, film composer
• Bernard Herrmann, film composer
• James Horner, film composer
• Michael Kamen, film composer
• Johnny Mandel, film composer
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold, film composer
• Alfred Newman, film composer
• Randy Newman, singer-songwriter and film composer
• Thomas Newman, film composer (Jewish father)
• Alex North, film composer
• David Raksin, film composer
• Leonard Rosenman, film composer
• Miklós Rózsa film composer
• Lalo Schifrin, film composer
• Marc Shaiman, film composer
• Howard Shore film composer
• Max Steiner, film composer
• Morris Stoloff, film composer
• Dimitri Tiomkin, film composer
• Franz Waxman, film composer
• Victor Young, film composer

Film directors

• Jim Abrahams, parody director
• Jeffrey Abrams, director
• Woody Allen, Oscar-winning director, actor, screenwriter and musician
• Jack Arnold, director
• Darren Aronofsky, director
• Jon Avnet, director
• George Axelrod, director, producer and screenwriter
• Ralph Bakshi, Israeli-born animation film director
• Bob Balaban, director and producer
• Andrew Bergman, director
• Curtis Bernhardt, German-born director and producer
• Peter Bogdanovich, director (Jewish mother)
• John Brahm, German-born director
• James L. Brooks, Oscar-winning director, producer
• Mel Brooks, director, actor and producer (also see Comedians, qv)
• Richard Brooks, director
• William Castle, director
• Shirley Clarke, director
• Ethan & Joel Coen, directors, screenwriters & producers
• Rob Cohen, director, producer
• Ricardo Cortez, director and actor; brother of Stanley Cortez
• George Cukor, Oscar-winning director
• Michael Curtiz, Oscar-winning director
• Paul Czinner, Hungarian-born director
• Jules Dassin, director
• Andrew Davis, director
• Cecil B. DeMille, director (Jewish mother, raised Episcopalian)
• Maya Deren, director
• Henri Diamant-Berger, French-born director, producer and screenwriter
• William Dieterle, director
• Stanley Donen, director, choreographer
• Nora Ephron, director
• Richard Fleischer, director; son of animator Max Fleischer
• Carl Foreman, director, producer and screenwriter
• Milos Forman, Oscar-winning director (Jewish father)
• John Frankenheimer, director (Jewish father)
• William Friedkin, Oscar-winning director
• Samuel Fuller, director
• Charles Guggenheim, Oscar-winning documentary director
• Todd Haynes, director (Jewish mother)
• Amy Heckerling, director
• Peter Hyams, director
• Spike Jonze, director (Jewish father)
• Jeremy Paul Kagan, director
• Phil Karlson, director
• Garson Kanin, director, screenwriter and playwright
• Lawrence Kasdan, director
• Philip Kaufman, director, screenwriter
• Irvin Kershner, director
• Zalman King, director
• William Klein, director
• Herbert Kline, documentary director
• Edwin H. Knopf, director, screenwriter and producer
• Harmony Korine, director, screenwriter
• Henry Koster, director
• Stanley Kramer, director
• Stanley Kubrick, director
• John Landis, director
• Fritz Lang, Austrian-born director (Jewish mother, raised Catholic)
• Norman Lear, director, producer and screenwriter
• Mimi Leder, director
• Michael Lehmann, director
• Mervyn LeRoy, director and producer
• Richard Lester, director
• Henry Levin, director
• Barry Levinson, Oscar-winning director
• Jerry Lewis, director, comic actor and producer
• Joseph H. Lewis, director
• Anatole Litvak, Russian-born director
• Arthur 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
• Delbert Mann, director
• Michael Mann, director
• Stuart Margolin, director and actor
• Leslie H. Martinson, director
• Elaine May, director, actress and screenwriter
• Joe May, director
• Paul Mazursky, director, producer and screenwriter
• Albert & David Maysles, documentary filmmakers
• Lothar Mendes, German-born director
• Ernö Metzner, Hungarian-born director and art director
• Nancy Meyers, director, screenwriter
• Lewis Milestone, Oscar-winning director
• Sam Newfield, director
• Paul Newman, director, actor and producer (Jewish father)
• Mike Nichols, Oscar-winning director
• Leonard Nimoy, actor and director
• Marcel Ophüls, director; son of director Max Ophüls
• Gerd Oswald, director; son of producer-director Richard Oswald
• Richard Oswald, German-born director and producer
• Frank Oz, director (Jewish father)
• Alan J. Pakula, Oscar-winning director, producer
• George Pal, Hungarian-born director, producer and special effects expert
• Jake Paltrow, TV director, NYPD Blue (Jewish father, raised Jewish)
• Norman Panama, director, producer and screenwriter
• Iván Passer, Czech-born director
• Arthur Penn, director
• Abraham Polonsky, director
• Sydney Pollack, Oscar-winning director, actor, producer
• Otto Preminger, director
• Sam Raimi, director
• Harold Ramis, director
• Brett Ratner, director
• Frank Reicher, German-born director
• Carl Reiner, director and actor; father of Rob Reiner
• Rob Reiner, director, actor
• Martin Ritt, director
• Jay Roach, director
• Jerome Robbins, Oscar-winning director, choreographer
• Stuart Rosenberg, director
• Herbert Ross, director
• Robert Rossen, director, screenwriter
• Joe Roth, director, producer and executive
• Joseph Ruben, director
• David O. Russell, director, screenwriter (Jewish father)
• Mark Rydell, director, actor and producer
• Boris Sagal, Russian-born director
• Gene Saks, director
• Sidney Salkow, director
• Mark Sandrich, director
• Jerry Schatzberg, director
• Joel Schumacher, director
• Susan Seidelman, director
• David Seltzer, director and screenwriter
• Herman Shumlin, director
• Charles Shyer, director and screenwriter
• George Sidney, director
• Don Siegel, director
• Joan Micklin Silver, director
• Frank Silvera, founder of Theatre of Being (Jewish father)
• Elliot Silverstein, director
• Alexander Singer, director
• Bryan Singer, director
• Robert Siodmak, German-born director
• Todd Solondz, director
• Barry Sonnenfeld, director
• Steven Spielberg, Oscar-winning director, producer
• Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-born director (M; Metropolis)
• Oliver Stone, Oscar-winning director (Jewish father)
• Paul Strand, documentary director
• Barbra Streisand, director, actress and singer
• Joseph Strick, director, producer and screenwriter
• Erich von Stroheim, director, actor
• James Toback, director, screenwriter and producer
• Michael Tolkin, director and screenwriter; son of TV writer Mel Tolkin
• Edgar G. Ulmer, director
• Paul & Chris Weitz, directors
• Billy Wilder, Austrian-born Oscar-winning director, screenwriter and producer
• Irwin Winkler, director
• Robert Wise, director
• Frederick Wiseman, documentary director
• William Wyler, Oscar-winning director
• Boaz Yakin, director
• Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born Oscar-winning director
• David Zucker & Jerry Zucker, parody directors, producers
• Edward Zwick, director, producer
• Terry Zwigoff, director

Film Actors/Personalities

• Bud Abbott, actor (Jewish mother)
• Jack Albertson, actor
• Broncho Billy Anderson, first major cowboy movie actor
• Alan Arkin, actor
• Tom Arnold, actor (converted to Judaism; some distant Jewish maternal ancestry)
• Alexis Arquette, David, Patricia & Rosanna Arquette, actors (Jewish mother)
• Mili Avital, Israeli-born actress
• Hank Azaria, actor
• Lauren Bacall, actress
• Barbara Bach, actress, model (Jewish father)
• Carroll Baker, actress (converted to Judaism)
• Bob Balaban, actor
• Martin Balsam, Oscar-winning actor
• Theda Bara, actress, vamp
• Ellen Barkin, actress
• Barbara Barrie, actress
• Gene Barry, actor
• Randall Batinkoff, actor
• Richard Benjamin, actor
• Robby Benson, actor
• Marisa Berenson, actress (Jewish father)
• Peter Berg, actor (Jewish father)
• Elizabeth Berkley, actress
• Corbin Bernsen, actor (Jewish father)
• Craig Bierko, actor (Jewish mother)
• Thora Birch, actress (Jewish paternal grandfather)
• Joey Bishop, actor, member of the Rat Pack
• Jack Black, actor, rock musician
• Karen Black, actress (mother of child actor Hunter Carson)
• Mel Blanc, cartoon voice actor
• Selma Blair, actress
• Richard Boone, actor (Jewish mother)
• Zach Braff, actor
• Michael Brandon, actor
• Matthew Broderick actor (Jewish mother)
• Adam Brody, actor
• Adrien Brody, Oscar-winning actor (Jewish father)
• Albert Brooks, actor, writer, director
• Mel Brooks, actor, writer, director
• Red Buttons, Oscar-winning actor
• Amanda Bynes, actress (Jewish mother)
• James Caan, actor
• Scott Caan, actor, son of James Caan
• Susan Cabot, actress
• Neve Campbell, Canadian-born actress (Sephardic Jewish ancestry on mother's side; identifies as Jewish and Catholic)
• Dyan Cannon, actress (Jewish mother)
• Eddie Cantor, actor
• Kate Capshaw, actress (converted)
• Nick and Aaron Carter, actors & singers (Jewish father; not raised Jewish)
• Seymour Cassel, actor
• Phoebe Cates, actress
• Jeff Chandler, actor
• Josh Charles, actor
• Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian-born actress
• Jill Clayburgh, actress
• Lee J. Cobb, actor
• Didi Conn, actress
• Jennifer Connelly, Oscar-winning actress (Jewish mother)
• Harry Connick, Jr., actor (Jewish mother)
• Hans Conried, actor
• Jackie Cooper, actor (Jewish father)
• Peter Coyote, actor
• Billy Crystal, actor
• Jamie Lee Curtis, Lady Haden-Guest; actress (Jewish father)
• Tony Curtis, actor; father of Jamie Lee Curtis
• Howard Da Silva, actor
• Sammy Davis Jr., all-around entertainer (converted)
• Stephen Dorff, actor (Jewish father)
• Kirk Douglas, Oscar-winning actor
• Melvyn Douglas, Oscar-winning actor (Jewish father)
• Michael Douglas, actor (Jewish father)
• Robert Downey, Jr., actor (Jewish paternal grandfather; identifies as "half Jewish")
• Fran Drescher, comic actress
• Richard Dreyfuss, Oscar-winning actor
• David Duchovny, actor (Jewish father)
• Herb Edelman, film and TV actor
• Hallie Kate Eisenberg, actress
• Jesse Eisenberg, actor
• Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., actor (Jewish father)
• Peter Falk, actor
• Jon Favreau, actor, director (Jewish mother)
• Corey Feldman, actor
• Marty Feldman, comic actor
• Carrie Fisher, actress (Jewish father)
• Harrison Ford, actor (Jewish mother)
• Ben Foster, U.S. actor
• James Franco, actor (Jewish mother)
• Paul Frees, cartoon voice actor
• Zsa Zsa Gabor and Eva Gabor, Hungarian-born actresses (Jewish mother; father's family potentially of converted Jewish descent)
• John Garfield, actor
• Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress
• Gina Gershon, actress
• Jami Gertz, actress
• Jack Gilford, actor
• Scott Glenn, actor (convert to Judaism)
• Paulette Goddard, actress (Jewish father)
• Adam Goldberg, actor (Jewish father; raised Jewish)
• Jeff Goldblum, actor
• Leo Gorcey, actor ("Dead End Kids")
• Keith Gordon, actor
• Elliott Gould, actor
• Harold Gould, actor
• Lee Grant, Oscar-winning actress
• Jennifer Grey, actress
• Joel Grey, Oscar-winning actor
• Charles Grodin, actor
• Christopher Guest, Lord Haden-Guest, 5th Baron of Saling; actor (Jewish mother)
• Steve Guttenberg, actor
• Maggie & Jake Gyllenhaal, actors (Jewish mother)
• Corey Haim, Canadian-born former child actor
• Billy Halop, actor ("Bowery Boys"); brother of Florence Halop
• Nina Hartley, porn actress (Jewish mother)
• Goldie Hawn, Oscar-winning actress (Jewish mother, raised & identifies)
• Dan Hedaya, actor
• Barbara Hershey, actress (Jewish father)
• Judd Hirsch, Oscar nominee
• Dustin Hoffman, Oscar-winning actor
• Judy Holliday, Oscar-winning actress
• John Houseman, Oscar-winning actor (Jewish father)
• Kate Hudson, actress (Jewish maternal grandmother; raised Jewish)
• Helen Hunt, Oscar-winning actress (Jewish paternal grandmother)
• Tab Hunter, actor (Jewish father)
• Amy Irving, US actress (Jewish father)
• Sam Jaffe, movie and TV actor
• David Janssen, actor (Jewish father)
• Ron Jeremy, erotic actor
• Scarlett Johansson, actress (Jewish mother)
• Al Jolson, singer, actor, early sound film star
• Madeline Kahn, actress
• Carol Kane, actress
• James Karen, actor
• Chris Kattan, actor (Jewish father)
• Omri Katz, Israeli-born actor
• Lainie Kazan, actress, singer
• Danny Kaye, actor
• Harvey Keitel, movie actor; married to actress Daphna Kastner
• Tawny Kitaen, actress (Jewish father; raised Jewish)
• Kevin Kline, actor (Jewish father; raised Catholic)
• Jack Klugman, actor
• Yaphet Kotto, actor
• Martin Kove, actor
• Lisa Kudrow, actress
• Shia LaBeouf, actor (Jewish mother; raised Jewish)
• Bert Lahr, actor
• Ricki Lake, actress
• Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born actress
• Martin Landau, Oscar-winning movie actor
• Robert Lansing, U.S. actor (convert to Judaism)
• Jack Larson, actor (Jewish mother)
• Louise Lasser, actress
• Piper Laurie, actress
• Linda Lavin, actress
• Marc Lawrence, actor
• Michele Lee, actress, singer
• Ron Leibman, actor; formerly married to Linda Lavin
• Jennifer Jason Leigh, actress
• Donovan Leitch Jr., actor (Jewish mother)
• Michael Lembeck, actor
• Michael Lerner, actor
• Ted Levine, actor
• Eugene Levy, Canadian-born actor
• Hal Linden, actor, singer
• Alex D. Linz, child actor
• Jonathan Lipnicki, child actor
• Herbert Lom, Czech-born actor
• Peter Lorre, German-born actor
• Jon Lovitz, German-born actor
• Paul Lukas, Oscar-winning actor
• Natasha Lyonne, actress
• Ali MacGraw, actress (Jewish mother)
• Gabriel Macht, actor
• Howie Mandel, Canadian born actor
• Tony Martin, actor & singer
• Marx Brothers, comic actors
• Marlee Matlin, Oscar-winning actress
• Walter Matthau, Oscar-winning actor
• Debi Mazar, actress (Jewish father)
• Monet Mazur, actress (Jewish father)
• Elaine May, actress, writer
• Debra Messing, actress
• Dina Meyer, actress
• Bette Midler, actress, singer
• Sylvia Miles, actress
• Larry Miller, actor & comedian
• Marilyn Monroe, actress (convert to Judaism)
• Rick Moranis, Canadian-born actor and comedian
• Vic Morrow, actor; father of actress Jennifer Jason Leigh
• Zero Mostel, actor
• Paul Muni, Oscar-winning actor
• Judd Nelson, actor, member of the "Brat Pack"
• Tim Blake Nelson, actor & director
• Bebe Neuwirth, actress
• Paul Newman, actor (Jewish father)
• Olivia Newton-John, actress, singer (Jewish maternal grandfather)
• Leonard Nimoy, actor
• Lilli Palmer, German-born movie actress
• Gwyneth Paltrow, actress (Jewish father); identifies as Jewish
• Eleanor Parker, actress (convert to Judaism)
• Sarah Jessica Parker, actress (Jewish mother)
• Estelle Parsons, actress
• Mandy Patinkin, actor, singer
• David Paymer, actor
• Amanda Peet, actress (Jewish mother, identifies)
• Sean Penn, actor (Jewish father)
• Rhea Perlman, actress
• Ron Perlman, actor
• Joaquin, (late) River & Summer Phoenix, actors (Jewish mother)
• Molly Picon, actress (Yiddish-speaking)
• Rebecca Pidgeon, actress (convert to Judaism)
• Jeremy Piven, actor
• Suzanne Pleshette, actress
• Kevin Pollak, actor
• Natalie Portman, actress
• Freddie Prinze, Jr., actor (Jewish grandfather)
• Mae Questel, cartoon voice actress
• Gilda Radner, original cast member of Saturday Night Live
• Luise Rainer, Oscar-winning actress (born in either Düsseldorf or Vienna)
• Harold Ramis, actor & director
• Tony Randall, comedic actor (born Leonard Rosenberg)
• John Randolph, all-media actor
• Michael Rapaport, TV and movie actor
• Nikki Reed, actress (Jewish father)
• Paul Reiser, U.S. actor
• Tommy Rettig, child actor (Jewish father)
• Simon Rex, actor & model (Jewish mother)
• Peter Riegert, actor & comedian
• Ritz Brothers, comedians
• Doris Roberts, actress
• Tanya Roberts, actress (Jewish mother)
• Edward G. Robinson, actor
• Mimi Rogers, actress (Jewish father)
• Michael Rosenbaum, actor
• Emmy Rossum, actress
• Paul Rudd, actor
• Winona Ryder, actress (Jewish father; identifies as Jewish)
• Daryl Sabara, child actor
• Adam Sandler, actor, comedian
• Fred Savage, actor
• Rob Schneider, actor, comedian (Jewish father)
• Liev Schreiber, actor (Jewish mother)
• Jason Schwartzman, actor (Jewish father)
• David Schwimmer, actor
• Steven Seagal, actor (Jewish father; Seagal later became Buddhist)
• George Segal, actor
• Peter Sellers, actor (Jewish mother)
• Jane Seymour, British-born actress (Jewish father)
• William Shatner, actor
• Norma Shearer, Oscar-winning actress (convert to Judaism)
• Ally Sheedy, actress (Jewish mother)
• Pauly Shore, actor & comedian
• Sylvia Sidney, legendary star of the 1930s/1940s
• Ron Silver, actor, activist
• Jonathan Silverman, actor
• Alicia Silverstone, actress
• Lori Singer, actress, sister of Marc Singer
• Marc Singer, actor
• Ione Skye, actress (Jewish mother)
• Helen Slater, actress
• Leelee Sobieski, U.S. actress (Jewish maternal grandfather; raised partially Jewish)
• Tori Spelling, actress; daughter of Aaron Spelling
• Daniel Stern, actor
• Fisher Stevens, U.S. actor (Jewish father)
• Ben Stiller, comedic actor
• Jerry Stiller, comedic actor
• Jill St. John, actress
• Susan Strasberg, actress
• Peter Strauss, actor
• Barbra Streisand, Oscar-winning actress, singer, director
• Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Oscar-winning actress (converted)
• Renee Taylor, actress
• George Tobias, actor
• Topol, actor
• Michelle Trachtenberg, actress (Jewish father)
• Michael Vartan French-born US actor (Jewish mother)
• Erich Von Stroheim, German-born actor
• Eli Wallach, actor
• Sam Wanamaker, actor
• Lesley Ann Warren, actress
• Mae West, actress (Jewish mother)
• Jack Weston, actor
• Cornel Wilde, actor
• Gene Wilder, actor
• Mara Wilson, actress (Jewish mother; raised Jewish)
• Debra Winger, actress
• Henry Winkler, actor
• Mare Winningham, actress (convert to Judaism, reported to be quite devout)
• Alex Winter, actor
• Dame Shelley Winters, Oscar-winning actress
• Scott Wolf, actor
• Evan Rachel Wood, actress
• Noah Wyle, actor (Jewish father; raised Jewish)
• Ed Wynn, actor, father of Keenan Wynn
• Keenan Wynn, actor, son of Ed Wynn (Jewish father; raised Catholic)
• Harris Yulin, actor
• Efrem Zimbalist Jr., actor; father of Stephanie Zimbalist

Television Actors/Actresses

• 20/20 - Barbara Walters, John Stossel, Connie Chung (Chung converted)
• 24 - Jonathan Ahdout, Sara Gilbert, Mia Kirshner
• 3rd Rock From The Sun - Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• The Addams Family - Carolyn Jones (converted)
• ALF - Anne Meara (converted)
• Alias - Victor Garber, Amy Irving, Greg Grunberg, Ron Rifkin, Joey Slotnick, Michael Vartan, Kevin Weisman
• Alice - Linda Lavin
• Arrested Development - Jeffrey Tambor, Jessica Walter, David Cross
• Babylon 5 - Mira Furlan, Stephen Furst, Melissa Gilbert, Walter Koenig, Stephen Macht, Robin Sachs
• Barney Miller - Hal Linden, Barbara Barrie, Steve Landesberg, Abe Vigoda
• Battlestar Galactica - Lorne Greene
• Baywatch - Jason Brooks, David Charvet, Yasmine Bleeth, Nicole Eggert (Bleeth & Eggert Jewish father)
• The Ben Stiller Show - Ben Stiller, David Cross
• Beverly Hills 90210 - Ian Ziering, Gabrielle Carteris, Tori Spelling
• Bewitched - Mabel Albertson, George Tobias
• The Bob Newhart Show - Suzanne Pleshette
• The Bold And The Beautiful - Sean Kanan
• Bonanza - Lorne Greene, Michael Landon (Landon Jewish father)
• Boy Meets World - Ben Savage
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seth Green, Alyson Hannigan (Jewish mother), Juliet Landau, Amber Benson, Michelle Trachtenberg (Benson & Trachtenberg - Jewish father)
• The Carol Burnett Show - Harvey Korman, Dinah Shore
• Charlie's Angels - Tanya Roberts, Jaclyn Smith (Roberts Jewish mother, Smith Jewish father)
• Cheers - Rhea Perlman, Bebe Neuwirth
• Chicago Hope - Mandy Patinkin, Adam Arkin, Peter Berg, Barbara Hershey (Berg & Hershey Jewish father)
• Chico and the Man - Jack Albertson, Freddie Prinze (Prinze Jewish father)
• Columbo - Peter Falk
• The Cosby Show - Lisa Bonet (Jewish mother)
• The Critic (animated series) - Jon Lovitz
• Curb Your Enthusiasm - Larry David, Jeff Garlin, Susie Essman, Richard Lewis
• Days of Our Lives - Sean Kanan, Jason Brooks
• Dear John - Judd Hirsch, Ben Savage
• The Dick van Dyke Show - Morey Amsterdam, Carl Reiner, Jerry Paris
• Dukes of Hazzard - Sorrell Booke
• Dynasty - Joan Collins (Jewish father)
• Even Stevens - Shia LaBeouf (Jewish mother), Donna Pescow
• Empty Nest - Dinah Manoff, Estelle Getty
• ER - Noah Wyle, Julianna Margulies (Margulies' mother converted to Catholicism, raised Margulies Catholic)
• Everybody Loves Raymond - Doris Roberts, Brad Garrett, Monica Horan (Horan Jewish father)
• The Facts of Life - Charlotte Rae, Mindy Cohn
• Family Guy (animated series) - Alex Borstein, Mila Kunis, Seth Green
• Friends - Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer
• Full House - Bob Saget, Scott Weinger, Marla Sokoloff
• Futurama - Katey Sagal (Jewish father)
• General Hospital - Stuart Damon, Steve Bond
• The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show - George Burns
• Get Smart - Don Adams (Jewish father; raised Catholic), Bernie Kopell
• Gilligan's Island - Tina Louise, Natalie Schafer
• Gimme a Break! - Nell Carter (convert to Judaism), Lara Jill Miller, Jonathan Silerman, Paul Sand (Jewish father)
• The Goldbergs - Gertrude Berg, Philip Loeb
• The Golden Girls - Bea Arthur, Estelle Getty
• The Goon Show - Peter Sellers
• Growing Pains - Jeremy Miller
• Happy Days - Henry Winkler, Tom Bosley, Anson Williams, Don Most
• Homicide: Life on the Street - Yaphet Kotto, Richard Belzer
• Hogan's Heroes - Leon Askin, Werner Klemperer, Howard Caine, John Banner & Robert Clary
• The Howard Stern Show & The Howard Stern Radio Show - Howard Stern
• Joey - Paulo Costanzo (Jewish mother)
• Judge Judy - Judge Judy Sheindlin
• Just Shoot Me! - George Segal
• King of Queens - Jerry Stiller, Leah Remini (Jewish mother)
• Knots Landing - Michele Lee, Claudia Lonow
• L.A. Law - Michael Tucker, Alan Rachins, Corbin Bernsen (Jewish father)
• Late Night with David Letterman - Paul Shaffer
• The Larry Sanders Show - Garry Shandling, Jeffrey Tambor
• Law & Order - Steven Hill, Jerry Orbach (Orbach Jewish father)
• Let's Make a Deal - Monty Hall
• Life As We Know It - Jon Foster, Kelly Osbourne (Jewish maternal grandfather)
• Little House on the Prairie - Melissa Gilbert, Michael Landon (Jewish father; raised Jewish)
• Live with Regis and Kelly - Michael Gelman
• Lizzie McGuire - Adam Lamberg
• Lost In Space - Jonathan Harris
• Lou Grant - Ed Asner, Mason Adams
• The Love Boat - Bernie Kopell
• The L Word - Mia Kirshner, Erin Daniels
• Mad About You - Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt (Jewish paternal grandmother), Richard Kind
• Malcolm In The Middle - Justin Berfield, Kenneth Mars
• Married... with Children - Katey Sagal (Jewish father)
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Ed Asner, Mary Tyler Moore (Jewish paternal grandfather)
• Maude - Bea Arthur, Bill Macy
• Mission Impossible - Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Steven Hill
• The Mod Squad - Peggy Lipton
• The Munsters - Al Lewis
• My Two Dads - Paul Reiser, Florence Stanley
• The Nanny - Fran Drescher, Renee Taylor, Rachel Chagall
• Night Court - Selma Diamond, Florence Halop
• Nip/Tuck - Jessalyn Gilsig
• Northern Exposure - Rob Morrow
• numb3rs - Judd Hirsch, Rob Morrow, David Krumholtz
• The O.C. - Adam Brody (Minor character: Linda Lavin)
• The Odd Couple - Jack Klugman, Tony Randall
• One Day at a Time - Bonnie Franklin
• One Tree Hill - Bryan Greenberg
• Party of Five - Scott Wolf, Neve Campbell (Campbell identifies as Catholic and Jewish)
• Passions - Galen Gering, Lindsay Hartley (both Jewish father)
• The People's Court - Judge Gerald Sheindlin
• Phil Of The Future - Ricky Ullman
• The Phil Silvers Show - Phil Silvers
• The Practice - Camryn Manheim, Marla Sokoloff
• The Pretender - Michael T. Weiss
• Punky Brewster - Soleil Moon Frye (Jewish mother; raised Jewish)
• Rhoda - David Groh, Julie Kavner, Harold Gould
• Roseanne - Roseanne Barr, Sandra Bernhard, Sara Gilbert, Tom Arnold (convert to Judaism), Michael Fishman , Estelle Parsons, Shelley Winters, John Randolph
• Roswell - Shiri Appleby
• St. Elsewhere - Howie Mandel, Stephen Furst, Florence Halop
• Santa Barbara - Steve Bond, Nancy Lee Grahn (Jewish mother)
• Saturday Night Live (original cast) - Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner
• Saved by the Bell - Dustin Diamond, Elizabeth Berkley
• Scrubs - Zach Braff
• Seinfeld - Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Jewish paternal grandfather), Jerry Stiller, Estelle Harris
• Sex and the City - Sarah Jessica Parker (Jewish mother) (Minor character: Evan Handler)
• The Simpsons (animated series) - Hank Azaria, Julie Kavner, Harry Shearer
• Sixty Minutes (original) - Mike Wallace, Morley Safer
• Smallville - Michael Rosenbaum
• South Park - Matt Stone (Jewish mother), Mary Kay Bergman, Eliza Schneider
• The Sopranos - Jamie-Lynn DiScala
• Space: 1999 - Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Joan Collins (Jewish father)
• Spin City - Richard Kind
• Starsky and Hutch - Paul Michael Glaser
• Star Trek - William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Walter Koenig
• Star Trek: The Next Generation - Brent Spiner
• Star Trek: Deep Space 9 - Armin Shimerman
• Sunset Beach - Sean Kanan, Randy Spelling, Bernie Kopell
• Taxi - Judd Hirsch, Carol Kane, Andy Kaufman
• That '70s Show - Mila Kunis, Tanya Roberts, Laura Prepon (Roberts Jewish mother, Prepon Jewish father)
• thirtysomething - Ken Olin, Melanie Mayron
• Three's Company - Norman Fell, Richard Kline
• Today Show (NBC) - Matt Lauer, Katie Couric (Lauer Jewish father, Couric Jewish mother)
• Welcome Back, Kotter - Gabe Kaplan, Marcia Strassman
• The West Wing - Richard Schiff, Joshua Malina
• What I Like About You - Amanda Bynes, Simon Rex (Bynes & Rex Jewish mother), Leslie Grossman
• Who's the Boss? - Judith Light
• The Wild Wild West - Ross Martin, Robert Conrad (Jewish mother)
• Will & Grace - Debra Messing, Shelley Morrison (Minor characters: Sydney Pollack, Lesley Ann Warren)
• Wings - Steven Weber, Rebecca Schull
• The Wonder Years - Fred Savage, Josh Saviano, Jason Hervey, Ben Stein, Lindsay Sloane, Dustin Diamond, Daniel Stern
• The X-Files - David Duchovny (Jewish father)
• Your Show of Shows - Sid Caesar, Howard Morris
• Zoey 101 - Sean Flynn-Amir

TV and radio presenters

• Dan Abrams, MSNBC anchor
• Marv Albert, sportscaster
• Mel Allen, radio sportscaster
• Chuck Barris, presenter of Dating Game, Gong Show
• Wolf Blitzer, CNN reporter
• Kitty Carlisle, panelist on To Tell the Truth, arts advocate
• Connie Chung, news anchor (converted)
• Liz Claman, host of CNBC Morning Call
• Howard Cosell, sportscaster
• Katie Couric, presenter of The Today Show (Jewish mother)
• Jim Cramer, tv reporter
• Don Francisco, presenter of Sabado Gigante
• Allen Funt, presenter of Candid Camera
• Ira Glass, presenter of This American Life
• Amy Goodman, presenter of Democracy Now
• Daryn Kagan, host of CNN Live Today
• Larry King, CNN reporter, host of Larry King Live
• Ted Koppel, presenter of Nightline
• Ricki Lake, presenter of Ricki
• Bill Maher, ex-presenter of Politically Incorrect (Jewish mother, raised Catholic)
• Al Michaels, sportscaster
• Maury Povich, talk-show host
• Geraldo Rivera, news reporter (Jewish mother)
• Laura Schlessinger, radio talk-show host of Dr. Laura
• Daniel Schorr, tv reporter
• Dinah Shore, television host, singer
• Herb Stempel, quiz show contestant
• Bill Stern, radio sportscaster
• Howard Stern, radio shock jock
• Jon Stewart, comedian, presenter of The Daily Show
• Mike Wallace, correspondent for 60 Minutes
• Barbara Walters, presenter of Today Show, 20/20

Producers and creators

• Irwin Allen, producer & director
• Judd Apatow, screenwriter
• George Axelrod, screenwriter
• David Benioff, screenwriter
• Steven Bochco, creator of LA Law, Murder One
• Jerry Bruckheimer, producer
• Seymore Butts, adult film producer & director
• Paddy Chayefsky, screenwriter
• Norman Corwin, radio writer, producer
• David Crane, screenwriter, producer, co-creator of Friends
• Robert Evans, producer, studio executive
• William Goetz, producer
• Leonard Goldberg, producer
• Akiva Goldsman, Oscar-winning screenwriter, producer
• Carl Gottlieb, screenwriter
• Ben Hecht, screenwriter
• Don Hewitt, executive producer of 60 minutes
• Lawrence Kasdan, screenwriter and director
• Marta Kauffman, producer, screenwriter, co-creator of Friends
• Charlie Kaufman, screenwriter
• David Kohan, executive producer of Will & Grace, Good Morning Miami, Twins, Four Kings, screenwriter of The Wonder Years
• Ernest Lehman, screenwriter
• Max Mutchnick, executive producer of Will & Grace, Good Morning Miami, Twins, Four Kings, screenwriter of The Wonder Years
• Marc Platt, producer
• Sydney Pollack, Oscar-winning director
• Carl Reiner, comedian, creator of The Dick Van Dyke Show
• Leon Schlesinger, producer
• Josh Schwartz, screenwriter, creator of The OC
• Sherwood Schwartz, creator of Gilligan's Island, Brady Bunch
• Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone
• Joel Silver, producer and co-inventor of Ultimate Frisbee
• Aaron Sorkin, creator of West Wing
• Aaron Spelling, producer, Starsky & Hutch, Charlie's Angels, Beverly Hills, 90210, Vega$, Family, Dynasty, Melrose Place, Charmed, 7th Heaven, Summerland
• Darren Star, creator of Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place, Sex and the City
• Matt Stone, creator of South Park (Jewish mother)

Comedians

• Bud Abbott, half of Abbott & Costello (Jewish mother)
• Woody Allen, comedian, director, actor
• Dave Attell, comedian
• Roseanne Barr, comedian
• Jack Benny, entertainer
• Milton Berle, entertainer, actor
• Shelley Berman, comedian
• Sandra Bernhard, comedian
• Lewis Black, comedian
• Victor Borge, comedian, pianist
• Fanny Brice, entertainer
• Albert Brooks, comedian, actor
• Mel Brooks, comedian
• Lenny Bruce, comedian
• George Burns, entertainer, actor
• Eddie Cantor, entertainer, actor
• Sid Caesar, actor, writer
• Andrew Dice Clay, comedian
• David Cross, comedian, actor
• Rodney Dangerfield, comedian
• Larry David, comedian
• Larry Fine, the Three Stooges
• Al Franken, comedian, activist
• Elon Gold, comedian, actor
• Gilbert Gottfried, comedian, actor
• Charles Grodin, comedian, actor
• Buddy Hackett, comedian
• Moe, Shemp & Curly Howard, the Three Stooges
• Andy Kaufman, comedian, actor
• Danny Kaye, entertainer, actor
• Alan King, comedian
• Robert Klein, comedian
• Tom Lehrer, satirist, musician
• Jerry Lewis, comedian, actor
• Richard Lewis, comedian
• Jackie Mason, comedian
• Lorne Michaels, creator of Saturday Night Live
• Freddie Prinze, comedian, actor (Jewish father)
• Gilda Radner, comic actress
• Don Rickles, comedian, actor
• Joan Rivers, comedienne
• Rita Rudner, comedian
• Robert Schimmel, comedian
• Jerry Seinfeld, comedian, actor
• Allan Sherman, satirist, musician
• Pauly Shore, comedian
• Sarah Silverman, comic
• Jon Stewart, comic, TV host
• Rich Vos, Comic
• Henny Youngman, comedian

Theatre

• Jacob Pavlovitch Adler, actor
• Stella Adler, acting teacher & actress
• Julian Beck & Judith Malina, founders of Living Theatre
• Sarah Bernhardt, legendary French thespian (Jewish mother)
• Joseph Chaikin & Peter Feldman, founders of Open Theatre
• Anna Held, stage performer
• Judy Kaye, actress & singer
• Larry Kert, actor & singer
• Judy Kuhn, actress & singer
• James Lapine, director & librettist
• Lucille Lortel, Off-Broadway producer, Lucille Lortel Theatre named after her
• Sanford Meisner, founder of Neighbourhood Playhouse
• Idina Menzel, actress, singer and songwriter
• David Merrick, producer & director
• Zero Mostel, actor
• Alla Nazimova, actress
• Bebe Neuwirth, actress
• Joseph Papp a.k.a Joe Papp, founded the non-profit NYC Public Theater
• Mandy Patinkin, actor & singer
• Harold Prince, director
• Tony Randall, actor, founder of National Actors Theatre
• Max Reinhardt, director
• Lee Strasberg & Harold Clurman, co-founders of Group Theatre
• Julie Taymor, director

Magicians

• David Blaine, stunt performer (Jewish single mother)
• David Copperfield, illusionist
• Horace Goldin, illusionist
• Harry Houdini, escape artist
• Max Maven, mentalist
• Ricky Jay, card tricks
• Shari Lewis, ventriloquist
• Raymond Teller, half of Penn and Teller (Jewish father)

Dance

• Paula Abdul, dancer, choreographer, singer
• Michael Bennett, choreographer (Jewish mother)
• Eliot Feld, dancer & choreographer
• Ron Field, director & choreographer
• Anna Halprin, dancer, choreographer & teacher
• Michael Kidd, choreographer
• Lincoln Kirstein, dance impressario
• Liz Lerman, choreographer & activist
• Bella Lewitzky, dancer, choreograher, teacher
• Arthur Murray, dance instructor
• Jerome Robbins, director & choreographer
• Anna Sokolow, dancer & choreographer

Academics

Philosophers

• Mortimer Adler, philosopher
• Paul Benacerraf, philosopher
• Max Black, analytic philosopher
• Ned Block, philosopher of mind
• George Boolos, logician
• Stanley Cavell, philosopher
• Morris Raphael Cohen, philosopher
• Arthur Danto, philosophy of aesthetics
• Hubert Dreyfus, critic of cognitivism
• Ronald Dworkin, legal philosopher
• Herbert Feigl, philosopher of science
• Solomon Feferman, logician
• Stanley Fish, literary theorist
• Jerry Fodor, philosopher of mind
• Philipp Frank, logical positivist
• Nelson Goodman, new riddle of induction
• Sidney Hook, philosopher
• Hans Jonas, philosopher
• Walter Kaufmann, philosopher
• Saul Kripke, logician
• Thomas Kuhn, philosopher of science
• Ruth Barcan Marcus, logician
• Ernest Nagel, philosopher of science
• Thomas Nagel, philosophy of mind
• Robert Nozick, libertarianism
• Martha Nussbaum, ethics (converted)
• Hilary Putnam, functionalism
• Ayn Rand, objectivism
• Michael Sandel, communitarianism
• Leo Strauss, political philosopher
• Judith Jarvis Thomson, moral philosopher

Social and Political Scientists

• Theodor Adorno, sociologist & philosopher (Jewish father)
• Hannah Arendt, political theorist
• Daniel Bell, sociologist
• Reinhard Bendix, sociologist
• Sanford Berman, radical librarian
• Peter Blau, sociologist
• Franz Boas, cultural anthropologist
• Kate Bornstein, gender theorist
• Judith Butler, queer theorist
• Lewis A. Coser, sociologist
• Amitai Etzioni, sociologist
• Norman Finkelstein, political theorist
• Mark Granovetter, sociologist
• Marvin Harris, anthropologist
• Melville J. Herskovits, anthropologist
• Lenore Jacobson, experimental sociologist
• Evelyn Fox Keller, science & gender theorist
• Irving Kristol, neoconservative
• Paul Lazarsfeld, sociologist
• Seymour Martin Lipset, political sociologist
• Robert Lowie, anthropologist
• Herbert Marcuse, sociologist, New Left figurehead
• Robert King Merton, sociologist
• Ashley Montagu, anthropologist
• Paul Radin, anthropologist
• David Riesman, sociologist
• Robert Rosenthal, experimental sociologist
• Marshall Sahlins, anthropologist
• David Schneider, cultural anthropologist
• Alfred Schütz, sociologist & philosopher
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, queer theorist
• Louis Wirth, sociologist
• Eric Wolf, anthropologist
• Milford H. Wolpoff, physical anthropologist
• Kaley Zeitouni, founder of Youth Against MS

Linguists

• Leonard Bloomfield, linguist
• Noam Chomsky, linguist and political philosopher
• Joshua Fishman, sociolinguist
• Joseph Greenberg, language classification
• Morris Halle, linguist
• Zellig Harris, structural linguist
• Ray Jackendoff, linguist
• Roman Jakobson, Prague School of linguistics
• Jay Jasanoff, historical linguist
• William Labov, sociolinguist
• George Lakoff, sociolinguist
• Fred Lukoff, linguist
• Edward Sapir, anthropologist-linguist
• Morris Swadesh, linguist
• Deborah Tannen, sociolinguist
• Michael Thomas, language teacher
• Max and Uriel Weinreich, linguists

Psychologists

• Solomon Asch, Gestalt psychologist
• Aaron Beck, cognitive behavior theory
• Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist
• Susan Block, sex therapist
• Jerome Bruner, cognitive learning theorist
• Paul Ekman, facial expressions
• Albert Ellis, psychologist
• Erik Erikson, developmental psychologist (Jewish mother)
• Leon Festinger, Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
• Erich Fromm, psychologist & humanistic philosopher
• Carol Gilligan, psychologist & ethicist
• Gail Gornick, psychotherapist, Teen Line coordinator 1
• Didi Hirsch, founder of Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Center 1
• Irving Janis, social psychologist
• Jerome Kagan, child psychologist
• Daniel Kahneman, prospect theory, Nobel Prize (2002)
• Lawrence Kohlberg, developmental psychologist
• Marilyn Kroplick, psychiatrist
• Elizabeth Loftus, memory psychologist
• Robert Lifton, psychiatrist
• Abraham Maslow, humanistic psychologist
• Stanley Milgram, small world and Milgram experiments
• Walter Mischel, experimental psychologist
• Hugo Munsterberg, industrial psychologist
• Ulric Neisser, cognitive psychologist (Jewish father)
• Anatol Rapoport, mathematical psychologist
• Fritz Perls, Gestalt therapy
• Steven Pinker, psychologist & writer
• Theodor Reik, psychoanalyst
• David Rosenhan, Rosenhan experiment
• Stanley Schachter, social psychologist
• Martin Seligman, Positive psychologist
• Herbert Simon, cognitive psychologist, Nobel Prize (1978)
• Robert Sternberg, intelligence & creativity
• David Wechsler, intelligence testing
• George Weinberg, coiner of the word "homophobia"
• Joseph Wolpe, psychiatrist

Economists

• George Akerlof, economist, Nobel Prize (2001)
• Kenneth Arrow, Arrow's impossibility theorem, Clark Medal (1957), Nobel Prize (1972)
• Gary Becker, economist, Clark Medal (1967), Nobel Prize (1992)
• Martin S. Feldstein, economist, Clark Medal (1977)
• Franklin M. Fisher, economist, Clark Medal (1973)
• Robert Fogel, new economic history, Nobel Prize (1993)
• Milton Friedman, monetarist economist, Clark Medal (1951), Nobel Prize (1976)
• Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve
• Zvi Griliches, econometrist, Clark Medal (1965)
• Sanford J. Grossman, economics of information, Clark Medal (1987)
• John Harsanyi, game theorist, Nobel Prize (1994)
• Jerry A. Hausman, econometrist, Clark Medal (1985)
• Robert Heilbroner, leftist economist
• Israel Kirzner, Austrian School economist
• Lawrence Klein, econometric models, Clark Medal (1959), Nobel Prize (1980)
• David M. Kreps, economist, Clark Medal (1989)
• Paul Krugman, economist & journalist, Clark Medal (1991)
• Simon Kuznets, econometrics, Nobel Prize (1971)
• Wassily Leontief, Input-Output method, Nobel Prize (1973) (Jewish mother)
• Steven Levitt, economist, Clark Medal (2003)
• Harry Markowitz, economist, Nobel Prize (1990)
• Robert Merton, Black-Scholes equation, Nobel Prize (1997) (Jewish father)
• Merton Miller, economist, Nobel Prize (1990)
• Ludwig von Mises, Austrian School economist
• Franco Modigliani, economist, Nobel Prize (1985)
• Oskar Morgenstern, game theorist
• Marc Leon Nerlove, economist, Clark Medal (1969)
• Matthew Rabin, economist, Clark Medal (2001)
• Murray Rothbard, Austrian School economist
• Jeffrey Sachs, economic shock therapy
• Paul Samuelson, economic analysis, Clark Medal (1947), Nobel Prize (1970)
• Andrei Shleifer, economist, Clark Medal (1999)
• Myron Scholes, Black-Scholes equation, Nobel Prize (1997)
• Robert Solow, economic growth, Clark Medal (1961), Nobel Prize (1987)
• Joseph Stiglitz, economist & author, Clark Medal (1979), Nobel Prize (2001)
• Lawrence Summers, economist, Clark Medal (1993)
• Jacob Viner, economist

Historians

• Herbert Aptheker, Marxist historian
• Bernard Bailyn, historian
• Daniel Boorstin, historian
• Alan Brinkley, historian (half Jewish)
• Norman Cantor, medieval historian
• Ariel Durant, The Story of Civilization
• Eric Foner, historian
• Peter Gay, historian
• Oscar Handlin, historian
• Raul Hilberg, holocaust historian
• Richard Hofstadter, historian (Jewish father)
• Gerda Lerner, feminist historian
• Bernard Lewis, historian of Islam
• Deborah Lipstadt, Holocaust historian
• Erwin Panofsky, art historian
• Meyer Schapiro, art historian
• Barbara Tuchman, historian
• Howard Zinn, leftist historian

Physicists

See also List of Jewish Members of the National Academy of Sciences

• ...........List of Jewish Recipients of National Medal of Science

• Ralph Alpher, background radiation
• John Bahcall, astrophysicist
• Hans Bethe, nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize (1967) (Jewish mother)
• Felix Bloch, nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize (1952)
• David Bohm, quantum physicist, philosopher of science
• Gregory Breit, physicist
• Leon Cooper, BCS theory, Nobel Prize (1972)
• Martin Deutsch, positronium
• Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize (1921)
• Herman Feshbach, nuclear physicist
• Richard Feynman, quantum physicist, Nobel Prize (1965)
• David Finkelstein, physicist
• James Franck, physicist, Nobel Prize (1925)
• Edward Fredkin, digital physicist
• Jerome Friedman, physicist, Nobel Prize (1990)
• Murray Gell-Mann, quarks, Nobel Prize (1969)
• Sheldon Glashow, physicist, Nobel Prize (1979)
• Donald A. Glaser, bubble chamber, Nobel Prize (1960)
• Thomas Gold, cosmologist (Jewish father)
• Daniel S. Goldin, NASA administrator
• Samuel Goudsmit, electron spin
• Brian Greene, string theorist
• David Gross, string theorist, Nobel Prize (2004)
• Alan Guth, cosmic inflation
• Robert Hofstadter, physicist, Nobel Prize (1961)
• Herman Kahn, nuclear physicist
• Walter Kohn, physicist, Nobel Prize (1998)
• Theodore von Kármán, aeronautical engineer
• Daniel Kleppner, atomic research
• Leon M. Lederman, physicist, Nobel Prize (1988)
• David Morris Lee, superfluidity, Nobel Prize (1996)
• Fritz London, quantum chemistry
• Theodore Maiman, first operable laser
• Ben Roy Mottelson, physicist, Nobel Prize (1975)
• Albert Michelson, speed of light, Nobel Prize (1907)
• Robert Oppenheimer, nuclear physicist
• Douglas D. Osheroff, superfluidity, Nobel Prize (1996)
• Jeremiah P. Ostriker,
• Abraham Pais, historian of science
• Wolfgang Pauli, nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize (1945) (Jewish father, half-Jewish mother)
• Arno Allan Penzias, background radiation, Nobel Prize (1978)
• Martin Lewis Perl, physicist, Nobel Prize (1995)
• H. David Politzer, physicist, Nobel Prize (2004)
• Isidor Isaac Rabi, physicist, Nobel Prize (1944)
• Simon Ramo, physicist, engineer
• Frederick Reines, neutrino experiment, Nobel Prize (1995)
• Burton Richter, physicist, Nobel Prize (1976)
• Carl Sagan, astronomer & science popularizer
• Arthur Schawlow, laser spectroscopy, Nobel Prize (1981) (Jewish father)
• John Schwarz, string theorist
• Melvin Schwartz, physicist, Nobel Prize (1988)
• Emilio G. Segrè, anti-proton, Nobel Prize (1959)
• Julian Schwinger, quantum physicist, Nobel Prize (1965)
• Lee Smolin, loop quantum gravity
• Alan Sokal, Sokal affair
• Jack Steinberger, physicist, Nobel Prize (1988)
• Otto Stern, physicist, Nobel Prize (1943)
• Andrew Strominger, string theory
• Leonard Susskind, string theory (Jewish father)
• Leo Szilard, nuclear physicist
• Edward Teller, nuclear physicist
• Immanuel Velikovsky, controversial writer on cosmology
• Steven Weinberg, electroweak force, Nobel Prize (1979)
• Stephen Wiesner, quantum cryptography
• Victor Weisskopf, physicist
• Eugene Wigner, quantum physicist, Nobel Prize (1963)
• George Zweig, quarks

Chemists

• Christian B. Anfinsen, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1972) (converted)
• Sidney Altman, chemist, Nobel Prize (1989)
• Paul Berg, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1980)
• R. Stephen Berry, physical chemist
• Herbert C. Brown, chemist, Nobel Prize (1979)
• Melvin Calvin, calvin cycle, Nobel Prize (1961)
• Erwin Chargaff, DNA pioneer
• Morris Cohen, metallurgist
• Camille & Henry Dreyfus, cellulose acetate, founders of Celanese
• Kasimir Fajans, isotopes, identified protactinium
• Walter Gilbert, DNA sequencing, Nobel Prize (1980)
• Henry Gilman, organometallic chemist
• Moses Gomberg, free radicals
• Norman Hackerman, chemist
• Herbert A. Hauptman, chemist, Nobel Prize (1985)
• Roald Hoffmann, chemist & writer, Nobel Prize (1981)
• Martin Kamen, Carbon 14
• Martin Karplus, theoretical chemist
• Izaak Kolthoff, analytical chemist
• Phoebus Levene, nucleic acid pioneer
• Rudolph A. Marcus, chemist, Nobel Prize (1992)
• Jacob A. Marinsky, discovered promethium
• Herman Mark, polymers (half Jewish)
• George Olah, chemist, Nobel Prize (1994)
• Stuart A. Rice, physical chemist
• Irwin Rose, biologist, Nobel Prize (2004)
• William Stein, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1972)

Biologists and physicians

• Richard Axel, olfactory system, Nobel Prize (2004)
• Julius Axelrod, neurotransmitters, Nobel Prize (1970)
• David Baltimore, reverse transcriptase, Nobel Prize (1975)
• Baruj Benacerraf, immunologist, Nobel Prize (1980)
• Konrad Bloch, cholesterol, Nobel Prize (1959)
• Samuel Blum, excimer laser surgery
• Baruch Blumberg, hepatitis B vaccine, Nobel Prize (1976)
• Michael S. Brown, molecular geneticist, Nobel Prize (1985)
• Stanley Cohen, neurologist, Nobel Prize (1986)
• Stanley N. Cohen, genetic engineering
• Gerty Cori, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1947)
• Jared Diamond, evolutionary biologist & biogeographer
• Carl Djerassi, contraceptive pill
• Gerald Edelman, biologist, Nobel Prize (1972)
• Gertrude Elion, drug development, Nobel Prize (1988)
• Joseph Erlanger, physiologist, Nobel Prize (1945)
• Edmond H. Fischer, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1992) (Jewish father)
• Judah Folkman, cancer angiogenesis
• Casimir Funk, vitamins
• Robert F. Furchgott, pharmacologist, Nobel Prize (1998)
• Herbert Gasser, physiologist, Nobel Prize (1945) (Jewish father)
• Alfred G. Gilman, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1994)
• Avram Goldstein, opiate receptors
• Joseph L. Goldstein, molecular geneticist, Nobel Prize (1985)
• Michael Gottlieb, early identifier of AIDS
• Paul Greengard, neuroscientist, Nobel Prize (1990)
• Stephen Jay Gould, evolutionary biologist & writer
• Michael Heidelberger, immunochemist
• H. Robert Horvitz, biologist, Nobel Prize (2002)
• Jerome Horwitz, AZT
• Eric R. Kandel, neuroscientist, Nobel Prize (2000)
• Charles Kelman, cataract surgery
• Carl Koller, local anesthesia
• Arthur Kornberg, DNA replication, Nobel Prize (1959)
• Eric Lander, Human Genome Project
• Joshua & Esther Lederberg, molecular biologists, Nobel Prize (1958)
• Rita Levi-Montalcini, neurologist, Nobel Prize (1986)
• Jay Levy, AIDS researcher
• Richard Lewontin, evolutionary biologist
• Fritz Lipmann, coenzyme A, Nobel Prize (1953)
• Otto Loewi, acetylcholine, Nobel Prize (1936)
• Salvador Luria, bacterial evolution, Nobel Prize (1969)
• Lynn Margulis, Gaia theory
• Matthew Messelson, DNA replication
• Otto Meyerhof, glycolysis, Nobel Prize (1922)
• Stanley Miller, Miller-Urey experiment
• Irving Millman, viral hepatitis vaccine
• Hermann Muller, geneticist, Nobel Prize (1946) (Jewish mother)
• Daniel Nathans, microbiologist, Nobel Prize (1978)
• Marshall Nirenberg, genetic code, Nobel Prize (1968)
• Gregory Pincus, contraceptive pill
• Stanley Prusiner, neurologist, Nobel Prize (1997)
• Martin Rodbell, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1994)
• Albert Sabin, oral polio vaccine
• Jonas Salk, polio vaccine
• Andrew V. Schally, endocrinologist, Nobel Prize (1977)
• Albert Schatz, streptomycin
• Béla Schick, diphtheria test
• Rudolf Schoenheimer, radioactive tracers
• Alexander Shulgin, pharmacologist, populariser of ecstasy
• Karl Prigram, neurologist
• Adolphus Solomons, co-founder of the American Red Cross
• Leo Sternbach, valium
• Howard Temin, reverse transcriptase, Nobel Prize (1975)
• Max Tishler, synthetic vitamins
• Harold Varmus, virologist, Nobel Prize (1989)
• George Wald, retina pigmentation, Nobel Prize (1967)
• Selman Waksman, streptomycin, Nobel Prize (1952)
• Joel Weisman, early identifier of AIDS
• Charles Weissmann, interferon cloning
• Rosalyn Yalow, medical physicist, Nobel Prize (1977)
• Charles Yanofsky, geneticist

Mathematicians

• Kenneth Appel, four-color problem
• Richard Bellman, dynamic programming (Jewish mother, half Jewish father)
• Salomon Bochner, harmonic analysis
• Raoul Bott, geometry (half Jewish)
• Richard Brauer, modular representation theory
• Eugenio Calabi, differential geometry
• Paul Cohen, set theorist, Fields Medal (1966)
• Richard Courant, algebraic topology
• George Dantzig, simplex algorithm
• Martin Davis, mathematician
• Persi Diaconis, statistician
• Jesse Douglas, mathematician, Fields Medal (1936)
• Samuel Eilenberg, category theorist
• Noam Elkies, mathematician
• Charles Fefferman, mathematician, Fields Medal (1978)
• Mitchell Feigenbaum, chaos theorist
• William Feller, probability theory
• Michael Freedman, mathematician, Fields Medal (1986) (Jewish father)
• Solomon Golomb, polyominoes
• Paul Halmos, mathematician
• Mark Kac, mathematician
• Edward Kasner, mathematician
• Martin Kruskal, mathematician
• Peter Lax, mathematician, Abel Prize (2005)
• Solomon Lefschetz, algebraic topology
• Norman Levinson, mathematician
• Barry Mazur, mathematician
• Louis Mordell, number theorist
• George Pólya, mathematician (Jewish father)
• Emil Post, logician
• Herbert Robbins, statistician
• Abraham Robinson, nonstandard analysis
• Isadore Singer, mathematician, Abel Prize (2004)
• Richard P. Stanley, mathematician
• Elias Stein, mathematician
• Stanislaw Ulam, mathematician
• André Weil, mathematician
• Edward Witten, M-theory, Fields Medal (1990)
• Oscar Zariski, algebraic geometry

Computer scientists

• Hal Abelson, artificial intelligence
• Norman Abramson, ALOHAnet
• Len Adleman, RSA cryptography, DNA computing, Turing Award (2002)
• Paul Baran, packet switching
• Dan Bernstein, cryptologist (unconfirmed)
• Manuel Blum, computational complexity, Turing Award (1995)
• Gregory Chaitin, algorithmic information theory
• Peter Elias, information theory
• Robert Fano, information theory
• Edward Feigenbaum, artificial intelligence, Turing Award (1994)
• William F. Friedman, cryptologist
• Eugene Garfield, library & information scientist
• David Gelernter, parallel computation, Unabomber victim
• Adele Goldberg, Smalltalk design team
• Herman & Adele Goldstine, developers of ENIAC
• Shafi Goldwasser, cryptographer
• Martin Hellman, public key cryptography
• Douglas Hofstadter, academic & author (half Jewish)
• Bob Kahn, TCP/IP
• Richard Karp, computational complexity, Turing Award (1985)
• John Kemeny, BASIC
• Leonard Kleinrock, packet switching
• Joseph Kruskal, Kruskal's algorithm
• Solomon Kullback, cryptographer
• Raymond Kurzweil, OCR, speech recognition
• Leslie Lamport, LaTeX
• Jaron Lanier, virtual reality
• Leonid Levin, computational complexity
• John McCarthy, inventor of the term "artificial intelligence" (half Jewish)
• Marvin Minsky, artificial intelligence, neural nets, Turing Award (1969)
• John von Neumann, computer scientist, mathematician & economist
• David Parnas, software engineering
• Seymour Papert, LOGO
• Judea Pearl, Bayesian networks
• Ken Perlin, fractal noise
• Alan J. Perlis, compilers, Turing Award (1966)
• Lawrence Rabiner, digital signal processing
• Frank Rosenblatt, perceptrons
• Azriel Rosenfeld, image analysis
• Jean E. Sammet, language design
• Bruce Schneier, cryptographer
• Herbert Simon, cognitive & computer scientist, Turing Award (1975)
• Abraham Sinkov, cryptanalyst
• Daniel Sleator, splay trees (Jewish mother)
• Gustave Solomon, error correction
• Ray Solomonoff, algorithmic information theory
• Richard Stallman, GNU, FSF
• Gerald Jay Sussman, Scheme
• Jeffrey D. Ullman, compilers
• Leslie Valiant, parallel computing
• Andrew Viterbi, Viterbi algorithm
• Peter J. Weinberger, awk
• Joseph Weizenbaum, ELIZA, artificial intelligence critic
• Avi Wigderson, randomized algorithms
• Norbert Wiener, cybernetics
• Terry Winograd, SHRDLU
• Jacob Wolfowitz, information theory
• Lotfi Zadeh, fuzzy logic (Jewish mother)

Engineers

See also List of Jewish Members of the National Academy of Engineering

• ...........List of Jewish Recipients of National Medal of Technology

• Daniel Drucker, structial engineer, stress analysis
• Daniel Goldin, NASA Administrator 1992-2001 9th
• Henry Goldmark, engineer designer of Panama Channel locks
• Peter Goldmark, color television system
• Donald Katz, chemical engineering
• Raymond Kurzweil, Reading Machine
• George Low, NASA Deputy Administrator 1969-76
• Jakob Mimon, thermodinamics heat transfer
• Raymond Mindlin, applied mechanics
• Nathan Newmark, Civil Engineering
• Simon Ramo, co founder of TRW
• Ben Rich, aeronautical engineer co developer of F17a Stealth Fighter
• Robert Rines, invention of sonogram sonar
• Jerome Sackman, Civil Engineering (unconfirmed)
• Abe Silverstein, Director of NASA 1961-69
• Peter Swerling, radar theoretican
• Abel Wolman, enviromental engineering

Inventors

See also: List of Jewish Inductees of Hall of Fame (National Inventors Hall of Fame U.S.A.)

• Robert Adler, remote control
• Zora Arkus-Duntov, father of the Corvette
• Ralph Baer, games console
• Emile Berliner, gramophone
• Richard Frenkiel & Joel Engel cellular technology pioneers
• Joseph Friedman, flexistraw
• Charles Ginsburg, video recorder
• Leopold Godowsky, Jr. & Leopold Mannes, Kodachrome
• Sylvan Goldman, shopping cart
• Peter Goldmark, LP record, color television
• Bernard Gordon, inventor founder of Analogic Corporation
• Gordon Gould, laser
• Al Gross, pager, walkie-talkie (unconfirmed)
• Dean Kamen, inventor (unconfirmed)
• Edwin Land, polaroid
• Jerome Lemelson, inventor 500 patents
• Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, pre-transistor 1920
• Theodore Maiman, co-inventor of laser
• Michel Mirowski, Polish-born U.S. inventor implantable cardioverter defiblillator
• Morton Mower, U.S. inventor implantable cardioverter defiblillator
• Stanford Ovshinsky, inventor
• Ron Popeil, inventor (Jewish father)
• Jacob Rabinow, inventor
• Robert Rines, invention of sonogram sonor
• Harold Rosen, geosynchronous satellite
• Raymond Scott sequencer, portable synthesizer

Politics

Presidential candidates

• Katharine Dukakis, wife of presidential candidate
• Barry Goldwater, presidential candidate (raised Episcopalian, father was born Jewish)
• Janet Jagan, president of Guyana (1997-99)
• John Kerry, presidential candidate (Jewish paternal grandparents)
• Joseph Lieberman, vice-presidential candidate

Cabinet members and senior administration officials

• Judah Benjamin, confederate secretary of war (1861) & state (1862-64)
• Oscar Straus, secretary of commerce & labor (1906-09)
• Henry Morgenthau, Jr., secretary of the treasury (1934-45)
• Pierre Salinger, white house press secretary (1961-64) (Jewish father)
• James Schlesinger, CIA Director 1973 Secretary of Defense (1973-75) (Converted to Christianity)
• Henry Kissinger, national security advisor (1969-75), secretary of state (1973-77)
• W. Michael Blumenthal, secretary of the treasury (1977-79)
• Harold Brown, secretary of defense (1977-81)
• Robert Reich, secretary of labor (1993-97)
• John M. Deutch, Belgian-born CIA director (1995-96)
• Robert Rubin, secretary of the treasury (1995-99)
• Madeline Albright, secretary of state (1997-01) (raised Episcopalian)
• Sandy Berger, national security advisor (1997-01)
• William Cohen, secretary of defense (1997-01) (Jewish father)
• Larry Summers, secretary of the treasury (1999-01)
• Ari Fleischer, white house press secretary (2001-03)
• Michael Chertoff, homeland security secretary (2005-)

Senators

• David Levy Yulee, senator (D-FL: 1845-51, 1855-61)
• Judah Benjamin, senator (Whig-LA: 1853-61)
• Benjamin F. Jonas, senator (D-LA: 1879-85)
• Joseph Simon, senator (R-OR: 1898-03)
• Isidor Rayner, senator (D-MD: 1905-12)
• Simon Guggenheim, senator (R-CO: 1907-13)
• Herbert Lehman, senator (D-NY: 1949-57)
• Richard L. Neuberger, senator (D-OR: 1955-60)
• Jacob Javits, senator (R-NY: 1957-81)
• Ernest Gruening, senator (D-AK: 1959-69)
• Abraham Ribicoff, senator (D-CT: 1963-81)
• Howard Metzenbaum, senator (D-OH: 1974, 1976-95)
• Richard Stone, senator (D-FL: 1975-80)
• Edward Zorinsky, senator (D-NE: 1976-87)
• John Kerry,senator, (raised as Roman Catholic)
• Rudy Boschwitz, senator (R-MN: 1978-91)
• Carl Levin, senator (D-MI: 1979-)
• Warren Rudman, senator (R-NH: 1980-93)
• Arlen Specter, senator (R-PA: 1981-)
• Frank Lautenberg, senator (D-NJ: 1982-01, 2003-)
• Jacob Hecht, senator (R-NV: 1983-89)
• Herb Kohl, senator (D-WI: 1989-)
• Joseph Lieberman, senator (D-CT: 1989-)
• Paul Wellstone, senator (D-MN: 1991-02)
• Dianne Feinstein, senator (D-CA: 1992-)
• Barbara Boxer, senator (D-CA: 1992-)
• Russ Feingold, senator (D-WI: 1993-)
• Ron Wyden, senator (D-OR: 1996-)
• Charles Schumer, senator (D-NY: 1999-)
• Norm Coleman, senator (R-MN: 2003-)

Representatives

Prominent representatives only – for a full list see jewishvirtuallibrary.org.

• Francis Salvador, first jewish member of a colonial legislature.
• Lewis Charles Levin, first Jewish representative (Amer-PA: 1845-51)
• Victor L. Berger, socialist (Soc-WI: 1911-13, 1919, 1923-29)
• Florence P. Kahn, first Jewish woman representative (R-CA: 1925-37)
• Allard K. Lowenstein, civil rights activist (D-NY: 1968-1970)
• Bella Abzug, feminist leader & gay rights activist (D-NY: 1971-77)
• Henry Waxman, liberal leader (D-CA: 1975-)
• Tom Lantos, holocaust survivor (D-CA: 1981-)
• Barney Frank, liberal, openly gay politician (D-MA: 1981-)
• Bernie Sanders, independent (Ind-VT: 1991-)
• Jerrold Nadler, WTC district congressman during 9/11 (D-NY: 1992-)
• Adam Schiff (D-CA: 1998-)

Governors

• Moses Alexander, governor of Idaho (D-ID: 1915-19)
• Simon Bamberger, governor of Utah (D-UT: 1917-21)
• Arthur Seligman, governor of New Mexico (D-NM: 1931-33)
• Julius L. Meier, governor of Oregon (Ind-OR: 1931-35)
• Henry Horner, governor of Illinois (D-IL: 1933-40)
• Herbert H. Lehman, governor of New York (D-NY: 1933-42)
• Ernest Gruening, territorial governor of Alaska (D-AK: 1939-53)
• Abraham Ribicoff, governor of Connecticut (D-CT: 1955-61)
• Samuel H. Shapiro, governor of Illinois (D-IL: 1968-69)
• Frank Licht, governor of Rhode Island (D-RI: 1969-73)
• Marvin Mandel, governor of Maryland (D-MD: 1969-77)
• Milton Shapp, governor of Pennsylvania (D-PA: 1971-79)
• Madeleine M. Kunin, governor of Vermont (D-VT: 1985-91)
• Neil Goldschmidt, governor of Oregon (D-OR: 1987-91)
• Bruce Sundlun, governor of Rhode Island (D-RI: 1991-95)
• Linda Lingle, governor of Hawaii (R-HI: 2002-)
• Ed Rendell, governor of Pennsylvania (D-PA: 2002-)

Mayors

Prominent mayors/major cities only.

• Cincinnati: Bill Gradison (1971), Jerry Springer (1977-78)
• Las Vegas: Oscar Goodman (1999-)
• Louisville: Jerry E. Abramson (1985-98, 2002-)
• New York: Fiorello LaGuardia (1934-45; Jewish mother), Abe Beame (1974-77), Ed Koch (1978-89), Michael Bloomberg (2002-)
• Philadelphia: Edward Rendell (1992–2000)
• Portland, Oregon: Vera Katz (1992-2004)
• San Francisco: Adolph Sutro (1894-96), Dianne Feinstein (1976–88)
• Seattle: Bailey Gatzert (1875-76)

Economists

• Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve (since 1987)
• Eugene Meyer, chairman of the Federal Reserve (1930-1933), president of the World Bank (1946)
• James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank (1995-2005)
• Paul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank (since 2005)

Legal System

Supreme Court

• Louis Brandeis, supreme court justice (1916-39)
• Benjamin N. Cardozo, supreme court justice (1932-38)
• Felix Frankfurter, supreme court justice (1939-62)
• Arthur Goldberg, supreme court justice (1962-65)
• Abe Fortas, supreme court justice (1965-69)
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg, supreme court justice (1993-)
• Stephen Breyer, supreme court justice (1994-)

Legal Advocates

• Gloria Allred, feminist lawyer
• Marcia Clark, lawyer
• Roy Cohn, McCarthyist lawyer
• Alan Dershowitz, lawyer
• William Kunstler, civil rights lawyer
• Samuel Leibowitz, lawyer, defender of the Scottsboro Boys
• Edward Levi, US attorney general (1975-77)
• Peter Neufeld, Innocence Project
• Barry Scheck, Innocence Project
• Robert Shapiro, lawyer
• Eliot Spitzer, New York attorney general

Military

• Julius O. Adler, brigadier general
• Jeremy Michael Boorda, admiral, Chief of Naval Operations
• Wesley Kane Clark, general, NATO supreme allied commander (Jewish father, raised Baptist, converted to Catholicism)
• William F. Friedman, army cryptologist
• Leopold Karpeles, sergeant, Congressional Medal of Honor
• Uriah P. Levy, commodore, abolished flogging
• Ben Moreel, admiral, founder of the Seabees
• Ben Rich, co-inventor of the stealth fighter
• Hyman Rickover, admiral, father of the nuclear navy
• Maurice Rose, general, killed in action
• Edward S. Salomon, brigadier general
• Haym Salomon, financer of the War of Independence
• Francis Salvador, "Paul Revere of the South"
• Joseph Seligman, unionist civil war financer
• Sophie Staroff, The Abraham Lincoln Brigade, fighting Franco's fascism
• Milton Wolff, head of The Abraham Lincoln Brigade, fighting Franco's fascism

Activists

Social leaders

• Saul Alinsky, social organizer
• Daniel De Leon, socialist leader
• David Dubinsky, labor leader
• Emma Goldman, anarchist leader
• Samuel Gompers, labor leader
• Sidney Hillman, labor leader
• Abbie Hoffman, social activist, Yippie
• Jackie Presser, labor leader, racketeer
• Jerry Rubin, social activist, Yippie

Political and civil rights activists

• Michael Albert, co-founder of Z Magazine
• Leslie Cagan, founder of UPJ
• Ben Cohen, founder of TrueMajority
• Jeff Cohen, founder of FAIR
• Daniel Ellsberg, leaked the Pentagon Papers (Jewish parents)
• Felix Frankfurter, helped found the ACLU
• Mitch Kapor, co-founder of EFF
• William Kunstler, civil rights lawyer
• Aryeh Neier, head of HRW, ACLU, OSI
• Eli Pariser, campaigns director of MoveOn.org
• Bruce Perens, open source advocate, co-founder of SPI
• Marcus Raskin, co-founder of IPS
• Kenneth Roth, head of HRW
• George Soros, founder of OSI
• Richard Stallman, founder of FSF
• Nadine Strossen, head of ACLU (father half Jewish holocaust survivor)

Anti-racism

• Abraham Foxman, head of the ADL
• Kivie Kaplan, head of the NAACP
• Winona LaDuke, Native American acitivst & environmentalist (Jewish mother)
• Stanley Levison, advisor of Martin Luther King
• Abel Meeropol, composer of Strange Fruit
• Michael Schwerner & Andrew Goodman, CORE activists, KKK victims
• Joel & Arthur Spingarn, early NAACP leaders
• Helen Suzman, South African anti-apartheid activist
• Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi-hunter
• Tim Wise, anti-racism activist

Feminism and gay rights

• Bella Abzug, feminist politician
• Gloria Allred, feminist lawyer
• Andrea Dworkin, feminist writer
• Susan Faludi, feminist writer
• Leslie Feinberg, transgender activist & author
• Betty Friedan, co-founder & first president of NOW
• Arnie Kantrowitz, co-founder of GLAAD
• Harvey Milk, murdered gay rights activist & openly-gay politician
• Robin Morgan, editor of Ms. Magazine
• Ernestine Rose, feminist
• Gloria Steinem, founder of Ms. Magazine (Jewish father)
• Rebecca Walker, feminist writer (Jewish father)
• Naomi Wolf, feminist writer
• Evan Wolfson, gay marriage activist

Health and environment

• Judi Bari, environmentalist (Jewish mother)
• Bernard Lown, co-founder of IPPNW, Nobel Peace Prize (1985)
• Ed Rosenthal, canabbis activist
• Elizabeth Glaser, founder of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
• Rose Kushner, breast cancer activist
• Mathilde Krim, founder of amFAR (converted)
• Larry Kramer, co-founder of GMHC
• Henry Spira, animal rights activist
• Irving & Dorothy Stowe, co-founders of Greenpeace
• George Waldbott, physician, allergy research pioneer, leading opponent of fluoridation

Controversial

Criminals

• Lori Berenson, activist convicted of terrorism in Peru
• David Berkowitz, Son of Sam, serial killer (adopted by Italian father & Jewish mother, raised Catholic)
• Otto Berman, gangster
• Louis Buchalter, gangster
• Samuel Byck, failed assassin of Richard Nixon
• Benny Fein, gangster
• Heidi Fleiss, Hollywood Madam
• Mickey Cohen, gangster
• Frank Collin, neo-nazi
• Maxie Eisen, gangster
• Waxey Gordon, gangster
• Jake Guzik, gangster
• Nathan Kaplan, gangster
• Dylan Klebold, Columbine massacre (Jewish maternal grandfather, raised Lutheran)
• Abe Landau, gangster
• Meyer Lansky, gangster
• Jean Lafitte, pirate ('part-Jewish')
• Nathan Leopold, Jr. and Richard Loeb, murderers
• Kevin Mitnick, hacker
• Sara Jane Moore, failed assassin of Gerald Ford
• Willie Moretti, gangster
• Jacob Orgen, gangster
• Jonathan Pollard, jailed spy
• Abe Reles, gangster
• Ethel & Julius Rosenberg, executed spies
• Louis Rosenberg, gangster
• Joseph Rosenzweig, gangster
• Lou Rothkopf, gangster
• Arnold Rothstein, gangster
• Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald
• Joe Saltis, gangster
• Dutch Schultz, gangster
• Bugsy Siegel, gangster, 'father of Las Vegas'
• Johnny Spanish, gangster
• Harry Strauss, gangster
• Albert Tannenbaum, gangster
• Adam Worth, Victorian thief, model for Moriarty
• Jack Zuta, gangster
• Abner Zwillman, gangster

Other

• Alan Berg, murdered radio host
• Nick Berg, beheaded entrepreneur
• Josephine Earp, wife of Wyatt Earp
• Leo Frank, lynching victim
• Jeremy Glick (1), September 11 victim (UA flight 93)
• Jeremy Glick (2), activist & son of September 11 victim (WTC)
• Ronald Goldman, murdered friend of Nicole Brown Simpson
• Meir Kahane, orthodox rabbi
• Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan
• Jonathan Levin, teacher son of executive Gerald Levin; tortured and killed by a student
• Chandra Levy, disappeared intern
• Monica Lewinsky, sex scandal intern
• Joshua A. Norton, eccentric & self-proclaimed emperor
• Daniel Pearl, beheaded journalist
• Judith Resnik, Space Shuttle Challenger victim
• Mickey Schwerner & Andrew Goodman, KKK victims
• William James Sidis, child prodigy
• Nancy Spungen, murdered girlfriend of Sid Vicious