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