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This page is a list of people identified as Jews, either by themselves or by others. "Jewishness" has the meanings both of "adherence to the religion of Judaism" and "membership in the ethnic group 'Jews'". People of both groups are listed here.

This page does not differentiate between Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism, Reform Judaism or Reconstructionist Judaism. It also does not take into account whether those listed acknowledge their Jewish identity or origins. Many may have spent their lives disguising their Jewish origins, and married gentile (non-Jewish) spouses. In many cases the individuals listed may have only one Jewish parent. They may have never practiced Judaism, and may even have adopted another faith, or may be secular or atheist.

Arts (Performing)

Actors / actresses

Comedians

Directors

Hollywood bosses

Illusionists

Business

Cartoons and comics

  • Al Capp, US cartoonist; creator of Li'l Abner
  • Will Eisner, US cartoonist; (The Spirit)
  • Mark Evanier, US comics and animated cartoons writer for Disney and Hanna-Barbera
  • Max Fleischer, US animated cartoonist; (Popeye, Superman)
  • Bob Kane, US cartoonist; creator of Batman
  • Jack Kirby, US comics and animated cartoons creator; co-creator of Captain America, (Fantastic Four, Hulk)
  • Stan Lee, US cartoon writer and creator of Marvel Comics and its heroes
  • Harvey Pekar, US comic book writer; (American Splendor)
  • Julius Schwartz, US comic book and magazine editor; (The Flash; Green Lantern).
  • Joe Shuster, Canadian-US comics artist; co-creator of Superman
  • Jerome Siegel, US comics artist; co-creator of Superman
  • Joe Simon, US cartoonist; co-creator of Captain America'
  • Art Spiegelman, Swedish-US comic-book artist; creator of Maus
  • Mort Weisinger, US comic book and magazine editor; (Superman, Supergirl)

Clothing

Crime

Fictional characters

See also: List of Jewish superheroes

Law

Literature and journalism

Media

Military

Israeli military

  • Ron Arad, Israeli pilot, missing in action
  • Moshe Dayan, former Israeli chief of staff, minister of defense
  • Arie Eldad, former medical officer and surgeon
  • Uziel Gal, Israeli designer of the UZI submachine gun
  • Israel Galili, Israeli designer of the Galil assault rifle
  • David (Mickey) Marcus US colonel, assisted Israel in 1948 war, first Israeli Brigadier general
  • Shaul Mofaz, Israeli general, former chief of staff, minister of defense
  • Yoni Netanyahu, Israeli commander of Operation Entebbe, killed in action
  • Yitschak Rabin, Israeli chief of staff, Prime Minister of Israel
  • Ilan Ramon, Israeli pilot attacked Iraqi reactor; Israel's first astronaut, died on Columbia space shuttle
  • Ariel Sharon, Israeli general, Prime Minister of Israel
  • Israel Tal, Israeli general, oversaw development of Israel's Merkava tank
  • Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian soldier , founded Zion Mule Corps, killed in early Palestine
  • Moshe Yaalon, Israeli general and chief of staff

US generals

Music and song

Nobel Prize winners

Biomedical Sciences

  • Julius Axelrod, US, discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation
  • David Baltimore, US, discoveries concerning the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell
  • Robert Barany, Austria, for work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus
  • Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuela, discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions
  • Konrad Bloch, Germany, discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism
  • Baruch Blumberg, US, discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases
  • Sydney Brenner, South Africa, discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death
  • Michael Brown, US, discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism
  • Ernst Chain, Germany, discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases
  • Stanley Cohen, US, discoveries of growth factors
  • Gerty Theresa Cori, Czechoslovakia, discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen
  • Paul Ehrlich, Germany, for work on immunity
  • Gerald Edelman, US, discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies
  • Gertrude Elion, US, discoveries of important principles for drug treatment
  • Joseph Erlanger, US, for discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibers
  • Robert Furchgott, US, discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system
  • Alfred Gilman, US, discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells
  • Joseph Goldstein, US, discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism
  • Paul Greengard, US, for signal transduction in the nervous system
  • Francois Jacob, France, discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis
  • Robert Horvitz, US, discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death
  • Eric Kandel, Austria, for signal transduction in the nervous system
  • Bernard Katz, Germany, discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation
  • Arthur Kornberg, US, discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid
  • Hans Adolf Krebs, Germany, discovery of the citric acid cycle
  • Karl Landsteiner, Austria, for discovery of human blood groups
  • Joshua Lederberg, US, discovered genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria
  • Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italy, discoveries of growth factors
  • Fritz Lipmann, Germany, discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism
  • Otto Loewi, Austria, for discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses
  • Salvador Luria, Italy, discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses
  • Andre Lwoff, France, discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis
  • Elie Mechnikov, Russia, for work on immunity
  • Otto Meyerhof, Germany, for discovery of the relationship between consumption of oxygen and the metabolism of lactic acid in the muscle
  • Cesar Milstein, Argentina, theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies
  • Hermann Muller, US, discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation
  • Daniel Nathans, US, discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics
  • Marshall Nirenberg, US, interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis
  • Stanley Prusiner, US, discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection
  • Tadeus Reichstein, Poland, discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects
  • Martin Rodbell, US, discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells
  • Andrew Schally, Poland, discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain
  • Howard Temin, US, discoveries concerning the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell
  • Harold Varmus, US, discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes
  • Selman Waksman, Russia, discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis
  • George Wald, US, discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye
  • Rosalyn Yalow, US, for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones

Chemistry

  • Sidney Altman, Canada, discovery of catalytic properties of RNA
  • Christian Anfinsen, US, work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation
  • Paul Berg, US, for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA
  • Herbert Brown, Ukraine, development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis
  • Melvin Calvin, US, research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants
  • George de Hevesy, Hungary, the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes
  • Walter Gilbert, US, contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids
  • Fritz Haber, Germany, for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements
  • Herbert Hauptman, US, development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures
  • Alan Heeger, US, for the discovery and development of conductive polymers
  • Roald Hoffmann, Poland, theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions
  • Jerome Karle, US, development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures
  • Aaron Klug, Lithuania, development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes
  • Walter Kohn, Austria, for his development of the density-functional theory
  • Rudolph Marcus, Canada, contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems
  • Henri Moissan, France, for investigation and isolation of the element fluorine, and for the adoption in the service of science of the electric furnace called after him
  • George Olah, Hungary, for his contribution to carbocation chemistry
  • Max Perutz, Austria, studies of the structures of globular proteins
  • Ilya Prigogine, Russia, contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures
  • William Stein, US, contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active center of the ribonuclease molecule
  • Adolf von Baeyer, Germany, for services in the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds
  • Otto Wallach, Germany, pioneer work in the field of alicyclic compounds
  • Richard Willstatter, Germany, for his researches on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll

Philosophy and academic

Politics

Activists

Israeli politicians

Revolutionaries

US politicians

World politicians

Religious figures

Biblical Tanakh ("Old Testament") figures

(The historicity of these figures is doubted by secular scholars)

Rabbis (Talmudic)

  • Abbahu, 4th century Talmudist
  • Abaye, 3rd century Talmudist
  • Abba Arika, 3rd century Talmudist
  • Rabbi Akiva, 1st century Judea, central scholar in Mishnah
  • Rav Ashi, 5th century Babylonian Talmudic sage
  • Hillel the Elder, 1st century BCE, in Judea, considered the greatest sage of the Second Temple period.
  • Hillel II, 4th century creator of the Hebrew calendar, in Judea, son of Judah Nesiah, grandson of Gamaliel IV
  • Hillel, son of Gamaliel III, 3rd century, in Judea, grandson of Judah ha-Nasi, and younger brother of Judah Nesiah
  • Judah haNasi, 2nd century, Judah the Prince, in Judea, redactor (editor) of the Mishnah
  • Eleazar Kalir, early Talmudic liturgist and poet
  • Shammai, 1st Century BCE, in Judea, key scholar in Mishnah
  • Simeon bar Yohai, 1st century mystic, reputed author of the Zohar
  • Ben Sira, 2nd century BCE, Egypt, ethics and wisdom teacher
  • Yohanan ben Zakkai, 1st century sage in Judea, key to the development of the Mishnah

Rabbis (Middle Ages)

  • Abba Mari, (Minhat Kenaot), 13th Century French Talmudist
  • Isaac Abendana, 17th century Sephardic scholar in England
  • Jacob Abendana, 17th century Sephardic rabbi in England
  • Abraham ibn Daud, (Sefer HaKabbalah), 12th century Spanish philospher
  • Abraham ibn Ezra, (Even Ezra), 12th century Spanish-North African Biblical commentator
  • Asher ben Jehiel, (Rosh), 13th century German-Spanish Talmudist
  • Yair Bacharach, (Havvot Yair), 17th century German Talmudist
  • Bahya ibn Paquda, (Hovot ha-Levavot), 11th century Spanish philosopher and moralist
  • Rabbenu Gershom, 11th century German Talmudist and legalist
  • Gersonides, Levi ben Gershom, (Ralbag), 14th century French Talmudist and philosopher
  • Jacob ben Asher, (Baal ha-Turim), 14th century German-Spanish legal scholar, wrote Arba'ah Turim codes
  • Judah Low ben Bezalel, (Maharal), 16th century Prague mystic and Talmudist
  • Hillel ben Eliakim, (Rabbeinu Hillel), 12the century Talmudist and disciple of Rashi
  • Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi, (Bet Hillel), 17th century Lithuanian scholar
  • Yosef Karo, (Mechaber), 16th centuray Spanish and Land of Israel legal codifier of the Shulkhan Arukh code of Torah Law
  • Isaac Luria, (Ari), 16th century Holy Land mystic, founder of Lurianic Kabbalah
  • Maimonides, Moshe Ben Maimon, (Rambam), 13th century Spanish-North African Talmudist, philosopher, and law codifier
  • Nahmanides, Moshe ben Nahman, (Ramban), 13th century Spanish and Holy Land mystic and Talmudist
  • Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno, (Sforno), 16th century Italian scholar and rationalist
  • Solomon ben Isaac, (Rashi), 11th century Talmudist used as the main teacher of Talmud to this day
  • Sforno, 15th, 16th, and 17th century family of Italian Torah scholars and philosophers
  • Tosafists, 11th, 12th and 13th century Talmudic scholars, France and Germany, parallel Rashi in importance
  • Yehuda Halevi, (Kuzari), 12th century Spanish-Zionist philosopher and poet, lover of Zion

Rabbis (Orthodox)

Rabbis (Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist, and other)

Religious leaders (other)

Science and mathematics

Spies

  • Sarah Aaronsohn, British-Palestine head of anti-Turk Nili spy-ring
  • Denise Bloch, French World War II Special Operations Executive agent
  • Eli Cohen, Israeli spy, hanged by Syria
  • Jonathan Pollard, United States Navy intelligence analyst, passed information to Israel
  • Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, US Communist spies, gave nuclear information to USSR
  • Krystyna Skarbek, Polish-born British Special Operations Executive agent
  • Hannah Szenes, Hungarian-born British-Palestine, Special Operations Executive agent
  • Mordechai Vanunu, Moroccon-born Israeli, spied on Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor, (converted to Christianity)

Sports

Victims

  • Menahem Mendel Beilis, Russian victim of Russian blood libel mistrial
  • Alan Berg, US radio personality, killed by neo-Nazis
  • Nick Berg, US entrepreneur, beheaded by Iraqi terrorists
  • Alfred Dreyfus, French army officer falsely accused of treason
  • Anne Frank, Dutch teenage Holocaust victim and writer
  • Leo Frank, lynched in Georgia, USA.
  • Ronald Goldman, murdered together with Nicole Brown Simpson. O.J. Simpson was found guilty for his wrongful death and ordered to pay $8.5 million to the Goldman family
  • Herschel Grynszpan, Holocaust victim, killed Nazi
  • Chandra Levy, US intern, mysteriously murdered in Washington, DC
  • Mel Mermelstein, Holocaust survivor who sued for damages
  • Edgardo Mortara, Jewish Italian child kidnapped by Catholics
  • Daniel Pearl, Wall Street Journal journalist, beheaded by Islamic terrorists
  • Nancy Spungeon, US girlfriend (who was murdered) of Sid Vicious

Visual arts

Miscellaneous

Personalities with unproven and/or distant Jewish heritage

See also

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