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 listed here may have spent their
lives ignoring or even actively disguising their Jewish origins, and
married gentile
(non-Jewish) spouses. Individuals listed may have only one Jewish
parent (though that is usually noted). They may have never practiced
Judaism, and may even have adopted another faith, or may be secular or atheist.
Some Jews would not agree with listing as "Jewish" someone who was not
brought up Jewish, who does not adhere to Jewish beliefs or practice,
and who does not identify as Jewish; however others would. For
instance, traditional Rabbinic law defines a Jew as a person with a
Jewish mother, where the first Jews are defined to be those who entered
the covenant at Sinai, as described in the Biblical narrative, even
though the person may be nonpracticing and even not acknowledge himself
or herself as a Jew. Others would identify as Jewish somebody with a
Jewish father only, even though by Orthodox tradition, such a person is
not. This list takes the widest view to include most individuals who
might be in some way identified as Jewish, but attempts to note such
issues in order that more restrictive definitions may be applied by the
reader.
Arts (performing)
Actors / Actresses
- Bud Abbott U.S. actor (Jewish
mother)
- Anouk Aimee, French actress
- Woody Allen, U.S. actor, film
director
- Jack Albertson U.S. actor
- Jason Alexander, U.S.
actor, known from Seinfeld; born Jason
Greenspan
- Broncho Billy Anderson
U.S. actor (first cowboy star)
- Allan Arbus U.S. actor
- Adam Arkin U.S. actor
- Alan Arkin U.S. actor
- Tom Arnold U.S. actor (Jewish
paternal grandmother; converted to Judaism as well)
- David Arquette, U.S. actor
(Jewish mother)
- Patricia Arquette, U.S.
actress (Jewish mother)
- Rosanna Arquette, U.S.
actress (Jewish mother)
- Bea Arthur, U.S. actress, known
from Maude and The Golden Girls
- Leon Askin, Austrian actor,
known from Hogan's Heroes
- Ed Asner, U.S. actor
- Harvey
Atkin, Canadian actor and cartoon voice
- Jean-Pierre Aumont
French actor (Jewish father)
- Hank Azaria, U.S. actor
- Lauren Bacall, U.S. actress
- Max Baer, Jr., U.S. actor,
best known as Jethro
Bodine in the television series, The Beverly Hillbillies,
son of champion boxer Max Baer
- Barbara Bain, U.S. actress,
known from Mission Impossible
and Space: 1999
- Bob Balaban U.S. actor
- Martin Balsam U.S. actor
- John Banner, Austrian-born
U.S. actor, Sargeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes
- Theda Bara, U.S. actress
- Sacha Baron Cohen,
British actor, known from Da Ali G Show
- Roseanne Barr, U.S. TV
actress
- Gene Barry U.S. actor
- Randall Batinkoff U.S.
actor
- Richard Belzer, U.S. actor
and comedian
- Richard Benjamin U.S.
actor
- Jack Benny U.S. actor
- Robby Benson U.S. actor
- Justin Berfield U.S. actor
- Peter Berg U.S. actor &
director (Jewish father)
- Milton Berle U.S. actor
- Sandra Bernhard, U.S.
actress
- Sarah Bernhardt, French
actress and dancer
- Corbin Bernsen U.S. actor
(Jewish father)
- Joe Besser U.S. actor
- Mike
Binder U.S. actor & director
- Joey Bishop, U.S. actor,
member of the Rat Pack
- Jack Black, U.S. actor and rock
musician
- Mel Blanc, U.S. cartoon voice
actor
- Selma Blair, U.S. actress
- Yasmine Bleeth, U.S.
actress (Jewish father)
- Orlando Bloom, English actor
- Hart
Bochner U.S. actor
- Lisa Bonet, U.S. actress, known
from The Cosby Show
(Jewish mother)
- Richard Boone U.S. actor
(Jewish mother)
- Alex Borstein, U.S. actress
- Tom Bosley, U.S. actor
- Zach Braff, U.S. actor, best
known from NBC comedy Scrubs
- Matthew Broderick U.S.
actor (Jewish mother)
- Adam Brody U.S. actor
- Adrien Brody U.S. actor
(Jewish father)
- Albert Brooks, U.S. actor
- Mel Brooks, U.S. comedian,
filmmaker
- Brooke Burke, U.S. actress
(Jewish mother)
- George Burns U.S. actor
- Red Buttons U.S. actor
- Amanda Bynes U.S. actress
(Jewish mother)
- James Caan, U.S. actor
- Scott Caan U.S. actor (Jewish
father)
- Sid Caesar U.S. actor
- Michael
Callan U.S. actor
- Eddie Cantor U.S. actor
- Neve Campbell, U.S. actress
(Sephardic Jewish ancestry on mother's side; identifies both as Jewish
and Catholic)
- Dyan Cannon, U.S. actress
(Jewish mother)
- Kate Capshaw, U.S. actress
(converted)
- Aaron Carter, U.S. actor
& singer (Jewish father)
- Nell Carter, U.S. actress
(converted)
- Nick Carter, U.S. actor
& singer (Jewish father)
- Seymour Cassel U.S. actor
- Jeff Chandler U.S. actor
- Josh Charles U.S. actor
- David Charvet U.S. actor
- Robert
Clary, French-born U.S. actor, Cpl Louis Lebeau from Hogan's Heroes
- Jill Clayburgh, U.S.
Oscar-nominated actress
- Lee J. Cobb, U.S. actor
- Mindy Cohn, U.S. television
actress on The Facts of Life
- Joan Collins, British
actress, known from Dynasty (Jewish
father)
- Jennifer Connelly, U.S.
actress (Jewish mother)
- Harry Connick, Jr. U.S.
actor (Jewish mother)
- Hans Conried U.S. actor
- Jackie Cooper U.S. actor
(Jewish father)
- Ricardo
Cortez U.S. actor
- Paulo Costanzo, U.S. TV
actor (Jewish mother)
- Allen
Covert U.S. actor
- Peter Coyote U.S. actor
- David Cross U.S. actor
- Billy Crystal, U.S. actor
and comedian
- Jamie Lee Curtis, U.S.
actress (Jewish father)
- Tony Curtis, U.S. actor
- Howard
Da Silva U.S. actor
- Marcel
Dalio French actor
- Stuart Damon U.S. actor
- Rodney Dangerfield U.S.
actor
- Henry
Daniell English actor
- Larry David, U.S. actor and
comedy writer
- Sammy Davis Jr., U.S.
actor and performer (converted)
- Daniel Day-Lewis, British
actor (Jewish mother)
- Charles
Denner French actor
- Neil Diamond U.S. actor
- Arielle Dombasle, actress
- Stephen Dorff U.S. actor
(Jewish father)
- Kirk Douglas, U.S. actor
- Melvyn Douglas U.S. actor
(Jewish father)
- Michael Douglas, U.S.
actor, (Jewish father), son of Kirk Douglas
- Rachel Dratch, U.S. actress
known for Saturday Night Live
- Richard Dreyfuss, U.S.
actor
- Fran Drescher, U.S. actress
- David Duchovny, U.S. actor
(Jewish father)
- Lisa
Edelstein, U.S. actress
- Jesse Eisenberg U.S. actor
- Stephen Elliott U.S. actor
- Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
U.S. actor (Jewish father)
- Peter Falk, U.S. actor
- Jon Favreau U.S. actor (Jewish
mother)
- Itzik Feffer, Russian Yiddish
actor
- Oded Fehr Israeli actor
- Fritz Feld U.S. actor
- Corey Feldman, U.S. actor
- Marty Feldman English actor
- Norman Fell, U.S. actor, best
known as Mr. Roper on Three's Company
- Mark
Feuerstein U.S. actor
- Harvey Fierstein, U.S.
actor
- Larry Fine U.S. actor
- Fyvush Finkel, U.S. actor
- Carrie Fisher, U.S. actress,
(Jewish father), star of Star
Wars movies
- Harrison Ford, U.S. actor,
(Jewish mother)
- Ben
Foster U.S. actor
- Don Francisco,
Chilean host of S�bado Gigante
- James Franco U.S. actor
(Jewish mother)
- Al Franken, U.S. actor and
comedy writer
- Bonnie Franklin, U.S.
actress, known from One
Day at a Time
- Paul Frees U.S. actor
- Leonard Frey U.S. actor
- Stephen Fry U.S. actor (Jewish
mother)
- Allen Funt, U.S. TV
personality, creator of Candid
Camera
- Dan
Futterman, U.S. actor
- Victor Garber U.S. actor
- Allen
Garfield U.S. actor
- John Garfield U.S. actor
- Jeff Garlin U.S. actor
- Brad Garrett, U.S. actor
- Sarah Michelle Gellar,
U.S. actress
- Kurt Gerron U.S. actor
- Jami Gertz, U.S. actress
- Estelle Getty, U.S. actress,
known from Golden Girls
- Kathie Lee Gifford,
U.S. talkshow host (Jewish father, raised Christian)
- Melissa Gilbert, U.S.
actress, known from Little
House on the Prairie, much older sister of Sara Gilbert
- Sara Gilbert, U.S. actress,
best known from Roseanne.
Much younger sister of Melissa Gilbert
- Jack Gilford U.S. actor
- Paul Michael Glaser
U.S. actor
- Scott Glenn U.S. actor
(converted to Judaism)
- Judith Godr�che, French
actress
- Adam Goldberg, U.S. actor
- Jeff Goldblum, U.S. actor
- Tony Goldwyn U.S. actor
(Jewish paternal grandfather)
- Henry Goodman English actor
- Leo Gorcey U.S. actor ("Dead
End Kids")
- Bernard
Gorcey U.S. actor
- Keith Gordon U.S. actor
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
U.S. actor
- Cliff
Gorman U.S. actor
- Gilbert Gottfried U.S.
actor
- Elliott Gould, U.S. actor
- Cary Grant English actor
(sometimes claimed to be half Jewish)
- Seth Green, U.S. actor
- Lorne Greene, Canadian actor
- Jennifer Grey, U.S. actress
- Joel Grey, U.S. actor
- Max
Grodenchik U.S. actor (Rom on Star Trek:Deep Space Nine)
- Charles Grodin, U.S. actor
- Arye
Gross U.S. actor
- Christopher Guest U.S.
actor (Jewish mother)
- Steve Guttenberg, U.S.
actor
- Jake Gyllenhaal, U.S.
actor (Jewish mother), brother of Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Maggie Gyllenhaal, U.S.
actor (Jewish mother), sister of Jake Gyllenhaal
- Budy
Hackett U.S. actor
- Corey Haim, U.S. Actor
- Billy Halop U.S. actor
- Alyson Hannigan U.S.
actress (Jewish mother)
- Jonathan Harris U.S. actor
- Laurence Harvey,
Lithuanian-born British actor
- Nina Hartley, U.S.
pornographic film actress (parents converted to Zen Buddhism)
- Cole
Hauser U.S. actor (Jewish mother)
- Goldie Hawn, U.S. actress
(Jewish mother)
- Dan Hedaya U.S. actor
- Buck Henry U.S. actor
- Charles
Herbert U.S. actor
- Steven Hill, U.S. actor best
known on Law & Order
- Aaron Himelstein, U.S.
actor, plays "Friedman" on Joan of Arcadia
- Judd Hirsch, U.S. actor
- Dustin Hoffman, U.S. actor
- Judy Holliday, U.S.
Oscar-winning actress
- John Houseman, Romanian-born
U.S. actor (Jewish father)
- Leslie Howard, UK actor,
born Hungary,"Pygmalion", Ashley in "Gone with the Wind".
- Kate Hudson, U.S. actress,
daughter of Goldie Hawn (Jewish grandmother)
- Oliver Hudson, U.S. actor,
son of Goldie Hawn (Jewish grandmother)
- Helen Hunt U.S. actor (Jewish
father)
- Tab Hunter U.S. actor (Jewish
father)
- Amy Irving, U.S. actress
(Jewish father)
- Jason Isaacs English actor
- Sid James South African actor
- David Janssen U.S. actor
(Jewish father)
- Ron Jeremy, U.S. pornographic
and mainstream actor
- Scarlett Johansson,
U.S. actress (Jewish mother)
- Al Jolson, U.S. singer, actor,
early sound film star
- Carolyn Jones, U.S. actress,
known from The Addams
Family (converted)
- Erland Josephson Swedish
actor
- Madeline Kahn, U.S. actress
- Gabriel Kaplan, U.S. actor
- James Karen U.S. actor
- Chris Kattan, U.S. actor and
comedian. (Jewish father, parents practiced Buddhism.)
- Omri Katz Israeli actor
- Andy Kaufman, U.S. actor and
comedian, known from "SNL" and "Taxi"
- Julie Kavner, U.S. actress,
known from The Simpsons
- Danny Kaye, U.S. actor, dancer,
and singer
- Harvey Keitel, U.S. actor
- Richard Kind U.S. actor
- Alan King U.S. actor
- Ben Kingsley English actor
(Jewish maternal heritage)
- Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
- Robert Klein U.S. actor
- Werner Klemperer,
German-born U.S. actor, Colonel Klink from Hogan's Heroes
(Jewish father)
- Kevin Kline, U.S. actor
(father Jewish)
- Richard
Kline, U.S. actor, best known as Larry Dallas on Three's Company
- Jack Klugman, U.S. actor
- Walter Koenig, U.S. actor,
best known as Chekov on Star Trek
- Harvye
Korman U.S. actor
- Yaphet Kotto, U.S. actor
- Martin
Kove U.S. actor
- Jeroen Krabbe Dutch actor
(Jewish mother)
- David Krumholtz, U.S.
actor, Charlie Eppes on CBS's Numb3rs
- Lisa Kudrow, U.S. actress
- Mila Kunis, Ukrainian-born U.S.
actress
- Shia LaBeouf U.S. actor
(Jewish mother)
- David
Ladd U.S. actor (Jewish mother; son of Alan Ladd)
- Bert Lahr U.S. actor
- Rikki Lake, U.S. actress
- Hedy Lamarr,
Austrian-born U.S. actress (also inventor, during World War II
co-invented "shared spectrum" which is a vital component of how
cellphones work)
- Michael Landon U.S. Actor
(Jewish father)
- Juliet Landau, U.S. actress,
daughter of Martin Landau and Barbara Bain
- Martin Landau, U.S. actor
- Stephen
Lang U.S. actor (Jewish father)
- Robert Lansing U.S. actor
(Converted to Judaism)
- Jack
Larson U.S. actor (Jewish mother)
- Piper Laurie, U.S. actress
- Linda Lavin, U.S. actress
- Jennifer Jason Leigh,
U.S. actress (daughter of Vic Morrow)
- Marc Lawrence U.S. actor
- Ron Leibman U.S. actor
- Donovan Leitch U.S. actor
(Jewish mother)
- Michael Lerner U.S. actor
- Eugene Levy, Canadian actor
- Al Lewis, U.S. actor, Grandpa on The Munsters
- Shari Lewis, U.S. actress,
known as companion of Lambchop
- Jerry Lewis U.S. actor
- Hal Linden, U.S. actor
- Max Linder French actor
- Jonathan Lipnicki, U.S.
child actor
- Peggy
Lipton, U.S. actress, known from the Mod Squad
- Herbert Lom Czech-born actor
- Peter Lorre, U.S. actor
- Tina Louise, U.S. actress
- Jon Lovitz, U.S. actor and
comedian
- Natasha Lyonne, U.S. actress
- Ali MacGraw, U.S. actress
(Jewish mother)
- Gabriel
Macht U.S. actor
- Stephen
Macht U.S. actor
- Bill Macy, U.S. actor, played Maude's husband
(not to be confused with William H. Macy, who is
not Jewish)
- Howie Mandel, U.S.
Oscar-winning deaf actress
- Marcel Marceau French actor
- James Marshall U.S. actor
(Jewish father)
- Tony Martin U.S. actor
- Walter Matthau, U.S. actor
- Debra Messing, TV actress
(Will and Grace)
- Solomon Mikhoels, Russian
Yiddish actor
- Bette Midler, U.S. singer and
actress
- Larry Miller U.S.
actor
- Marilyn Monroe, U.S.
actress (converted)
- Rick Moranis, Canadian/U.S.
actor and comedian
- Rob Morrow U.S. actor
- Vic Morrow, U.S. actor, father
of Jennifer Jason Leigh
- Zero Mostel U.S. actor
- Paul Muni U.S. actor
- Bess Myerson, U.S. TV
entertainer
- Judd Nelson, U.S. actor,
member of the Brat Pack
- Tim Blake Nelson U.S.
actor
- Anthony Newley, British
actor and singer (Jewish maternal grandmother)
- Barry
Newman U.S. actor
- Laraine Newman, U.S.
actress, known from Saturday
Night Live
- Paul Newman, U.S. actor
(Jewish father)
- Leonard Nimoy, U.S. actor,
known from Star Trek
- Cynthia Nixon, U.S. actress,
known from Sex and the
City
- Sophie Okonedo, British
actress, 2005 Oscar nominee (Jewish mother)
- Ken Olin U.S. actor
- Jerry Orbach, U.S. actor
(father Jewish)
- Sharon Osbourne, TV
talkshow host, Reality Show alumni (Jewish father)
- Frank Oz U.S. actor (Jewish
father)
- Gwyneth Paltrow, U.S.
actress (Jewish father)
- Sara Jessica Parker,
U.S. actress (Jewish mother)
- Mandy Patinkin U.S. actor
- Tera Patrick, U.S. porn/adult
films actress (Jewish father)
- David Paymer U.S. actor
- Sean Penn, U.S. actor (Jewish
father)
- Rhea Perlman, U.S. actress
- Ron Perlman U.S. actor
- Lee
Phillips U.S. actor
- Jeremy Piven, U.S. actor
- Joaquin Phoenix U.S. actor
(Jewish mother)
- River Phoenix U.S. actor
(Jewish mother)
- Jeremy Piven U.S. actor
- Suzanne Pleshette, U.S.
actress
- Kevin Pollak, U.S. actor
- Tracy Pollan, U.S. actress
- Natalie Portman,
Israeli-born, U.S. actress
- Laura Prepon, U.S. actress,
known as Donna on That '70s Show
(Jewish father)
- Rachel, French actress
- Gilda Radner, U.S. actress,
known from Saturday
Night Live
- Charlotte Rae, U.S. actress
- Ted Raimi U.S. actor
- Harold Ramis, U.S. actor
- Tony Randall U.S. actor
- Michael Rapaport U.S.
actor
- Nikki Reed U.S. actress
- Roger Rees Welsh actor
(Converted to Judaism)
- Paul Reiser U.S. actor
- Tommy Rettig U.S. actor
- Simon Rex U.S. actor (Jewish
mother)
- Peter
Mark Richman U.S. actor
- Don Rickles U.S. actor
- Peter Riegert U.S. actor
- Ron Rifkin U.S. actor
- Doris Roberts, U.S. actress
- Tony
Roberts U.S. actor
- Edward G. Robinson U.S.
actor
- Michael Rosenbaum U.S.
actor
- Tracey
Ellis Ross, U.S. actress, daughter of Diana Ross (Jewish father)
- Saul Rubinek, German-born
Canadian actor
- Paul Rudd U.S. actor
- Winona Ryder, U.S. actress
(Jewish father)
- Daryl Sabara, U.S. actor
- Andrew Sachs, British actor,
known from Fawlty Towers
- Katey Sagal, U.S. actress
(Jewish father), best known from Married with Children
and 8 Simple Rules
- Bob Saget U.S. actor
- Emma Samms, British actress,
known from Dynasty
- Adam Sandler, U.S. actor,
comedian
- Fred Savage U.S. actor
- Ben Savage U.S. actor
- Richard Schiff U.S. actor
- Rob Schneider U.S. actor
(Jewish father)
- Liev Schreiber U.S. actor
(Jewish mother)
- Jason Schwartzman U.S.
actor (Jewish father)
- Robert Schwartzman U.S.
actor (Jewish father)
- David Schwimmer, U.S. actor
- Steven Seagal U.S. actor
(Jewish father; Seagal himself is a Buddhist)
- George Segal U.S. actor
- Jerry Seinfeld U.S. actor
- Peter Sellers, British actor
(Jewish mother)
- William Shatner, Canadian
actor, known from Star Trek
- Harry Shearer, U.S. actor,
several voices on The Simpsons
- Ally Sheedy, U.S. actress
(Jewish mother)
- Armin Shimerman actor
(Quark on Star Trek)
- Dinah Shore, U.S. actress
- Pauly Shore U.S. actor
- Andrew Shue, U.S. actor,
brother of Elisabeth Shue (Jewish father, not raised Jewish)
- Elisabeth Shue, U.S.
actress, sister of Andrew Shue (Jewish father, not raised Jewish)
- Simone Signoret, French
actress
- Ron Silver, U.S. actress
- Jonathan Silverman,
U.S. actor
- Sarah Silverman, U.S.
actress
- Marc Singer, U.S. actor
- Gregory Smith U.S. actor
- Rena Sofer, U.S. actress
- Olga Sosnovska, Polish-born
U.S./British actress, known from All My Children
and spooks (called MI-5 in the U.S.)
(Jewish father)
- Brent Spiner (Commander Data
on Star Trek)
- Kevin
(Blair) Spirtas, U.S. actor
- Jill St. John, U.S. actress
- Rod Steiger, U.S. actor
(biological father Jewish)
- Ben Stein, U.S. actor
- Daniel Stern, U.S. actor
- Howard Stern, U.S. radio
personality
- Fisher Stevens, U.S. actor
(Jewish father)
- Jon Stewart, U.S. actor
- Ben Stiller, U.S. comic actor
(Jewish father, son of Jerry Stiller)
- Jerry Stiller, U.S. comic
actor and comedian
- Peter Strauss, U.S. actor
- Barbra Streisand, U.S.
actress and singer
- David Suchet, British actor
(Jewish father; raised Christian)
- Jeffrey Tambor, U.S. actor
- Elizabeth Taylor,
British-born U.S. actress (converted)
- Eddie
Kaye Thomas, U.S. actor
- Kleo
Thomas, U.S. actor (Jewish mother)
- Boris Thomashevsky,
star of Yiddish theater
- Chaim Topol, Israeli actor
- Michelle Trachtenberg
U.S. actress (Jewish father)
- Michael Vartan U.S. actor
(Jewish mother)
- Erich Von Stroheim,
German actor
- Anton Walbrook, German
- Eli Wallach, U.S. actor
- Sam Wanamaker, U.S. actor
- David Warner, English actor
- Al Waxman, Canadian actor
- Steven Weber, U.S. actor
- Michael T. Weiss, U.S.
actor
- Rachel Weisz, British actress
- Cornel Wilde, U.S. actor
- Gene Wilder, U.S. comic actor
- Henry Winkler, U.S. actor
- Mare
Winningham, U.S. actress (converted, reported to be quite
devout)
- Alex Winter, U.S. actor
- Shelley Winters U.S.
actress -Oscars for Diary of Anne Frank,
(1959) and A Patch of Blue,
(1965)
- Scott Wolf, U.S. actor, known
from Party of Five
and Everwood
- Evan Rachel Wood, U.S.
actress
- Robert Wuhl U.S. actor
- Noah Wyle, U.S. actor
- Ian Ziering U.S. actor
- Nikki Schieler Ziering,
U.S. actress, (converted for marriage and remained Jewish after divorce)
- Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
U.S. actor
- Stephanie Zimbalist
U.S. actress (Jewish father; raised Christian)
Comedians
- Woody Allen, U.S. comedian
- Dave Attell, U.S. comedian
- David Baddiel, British
comedian
- Roseanne Barr, U.S.
comedienne
- Richard Belzer, U.S. actor
and comedian
- Jack Benny, U.S. comedian
- Milton Berle, U.S. comedian
- Mel Brooks, U.S. comedian
- David
Brenner, U.S. comic
- Fanny Brice, U.S. comedienne
- Lewis Black, U.S. comedian
- Lenny Bruce, U.S. satirist
- George Burns, U.S. comedian
- Sid Caesar, U.S. comedian
- Alain
Chabat, French comedian, actor and director
- Bill Dana, U.S. Comedian
- Andrew "Dice" Clay, U.S.
comedian
- David Cross, U.S. actor and
comedian
- Billy Crystal, U.S. actor
and comedian
- Rodney Dangerfield,
U.S. comedian, born Jacob Cohen
- Fran Drescher, U.S.
comedienne
- Marty Feldman, British
comedian
- Larry Fine, U.S. actor
and comedian, Larry
of the Three Stooges
- Gilbert Gottfried, U.S.
comedian
- Gary Gulman, U.S. standup
comedian
- Buddy Hackett, U.S. comedian
- Jerome Howard, U.S. actor and
comedian, Curly
of the Three Stooges
- Moses Howard, U.S. actor and
comedian, Moe
of the Three Stooges
- Shmuel Howard, U.S. actor and
comedian, Shemp
of the Three Stooges
- Sid James, British comedian
- Andy Kaufman, U.S. comedian,
actor, performance artist
- Alan King, U.S. Show business
personality and comic
- Richard Lewis, U.S. comedian
- Jerry Lewis, U.S. actor and
comedian
- Bill Maher, U.S. comedian
(Jewish mother)
- Howie Mandel, Canadian
comedian
- Chico Marx, U.S. vaudeville and film comic actor
- Groucho Marx, U.S. vaudeville and film comic actor
- Gummo Marx, U.S. vaudeville actor
- Harpo Marx, U.S. vaudeville and film comic actor
- Zeppo Marx, U.S. vaudeville and film comic actor
- Anne Meara, U.S. comedienne and
actress (converted)
- Dave Osborne, U.S. comic
- Mandy Patinkin U.S. comic
actor
- Kevin Pollak, U.S. actor and
comedian
- Freddie
Prinze Sr., U.S. comedian (Jewish father)
- Gilda Radner, U.S. comedienne
- Tony Randall, U.S. comedian, The Odd Couple
- Carl Reiner, U.S. comedian,
writer, actor, director
- Don Rickles, U.S. comic, actor
- Joan Rivers, U.S. comedienne
- Rita Rudner, U.S. comedienne
- John Safran, Australian
comedian
- Bob Saget, U.S. comedian, actor
- Mort Sahl, U.S. comedian
- Adam Sandler, U.S. comedian,
actor
- Alexei Sayle, UK comedian,
actor
- Jerry Seinfeld, U.S.
comedian
- Robert Schimmel, U.S.
comedian
- Rob Schneider, U.S. comedian
(Jewish father)
- Garry Shandling, U.S.
comedian, actor
- Frank Shuster, Canadian
comedian
- Sarah Silverman, U.S.
comedian, actor
- Bobby
Slayton, U.S. comedian, actor, radio host
- Yakov Smirnov, U.S./Russian
comedian
- Jon Stewart, U.S. comedian
- Jerry Stiller, U.S. radio
comic, actor
- Soupy
Sales, U.S. comedian
- Raymond Teller, U.S.
comedian, magician, part of Penn and Teller duo
(Jewish father)
- Ovadia
A. Vaknin, Israeli comedian
Directors
- Chantal Akerman, Belgian
director
- Ramzi Abed, U.S. director
(Jewish mother)
- Darren Aronofsky, U.S.
director (Jewish father)
- Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, U.S.
writer-producer-director team
- George Cukor. U.S. director
- Jules Dassin, American
director
- Sergei Eisenstein,
Soviet director (Jewish father)
- John Frankenheimer,
U.S. director
- Sam
Fuller, U.S. director and screenwriter
- Bruce Geller, director,
producer, screenwriter
- Henry
Jaglom, U.S. director
- Spike Jonze, U.S. director
(Jewish father)
- Lloyd Kaufman, U.S. director
- Stanley Kubrick, U.S.
director
- Fritz Lang, German director
(Jewish father)
- Ernst
Lubitch,Europe-U.S. director
- Sidney Lumet, U.S. director
- Bill
Lustig, U.S. director
- Branko Lustig, U.S.-Croatian
film director
- Leo Penn, U.S. director and
actor, father of actor Sean Penn
- Roman Polanski, Polish-born
U.S. director
- Sydney Pollack, U.S.
director
- Abraham Polonsky, U.S.
director
- Otto Preminger,
Austrian-born U.S. director
- John Schlesinger, British
director
- Steven Spielberg, U.S.
director
- Mauritz Stiller, Swedish
film director
- Oliver Stone, U.S. director
(Jewish father)
- Erik Per Sullivan, U.S.
child actor, Dewey from Malcolm in thge Middle
- Edgar G. Ulmer, German-born
U.S. director
- Billy Wilder, Austrian-born
U.S. director
- Michael Winner, British
director
- Rob Reiner,U.S. director
- Zucker brothers,U.S.
parody directors
Hollywood
- William Fox (Fox Film
Corporation; 20th Century-Fox)
- Michael Eisner (Paramount
Pictures; Disney Studios)
- Robert Evans (Paramount
Pictures)
- David Geffen (Warner
Brothers; DreamWorks SKG)
- William Goetz, president of
Universal Studios
- Samuel Goldwyn, (the "G" in
MGM)
- Edith Head, costume designer
- Jeffrey Katzenberg
(Paramount Pictures; DreamWorks SKG)
- Leonard Katzman,
television producer
- Sam Katzman, film producer
- Carl Laemmle (Universal
Pictures)
- Carl Laemmle Jr (Universal
Studios)
- Jesse L. Lasky (Famous
Players-Lasky)
- Marcus Loew (MGM)
- Joe Pasternak, film producer
- Joseph Schenck (20th
Century Pictures)
- Steven Spielberg
(DreamWorks SKG)
- Louis B. Mayer, (the "M" of
MGM)
- Jack Warner (Warner Brothers)
- Lew Wasserman (Universal
Studios)
- Bob
Weinstein (Miramax)
- Harvey Weinstein (Miramax)
- Adolph Zukor (Paramount
Pictures)
- Irving Thalberg "the Last
Tycoon"
Illusionists
- David Blaine, U.S.
illusionist (Jewish mother)
- David Copperfield,
U.S. illusionist
- Uri Geller, Israeli spoon
bending magician
- Harry Houdini, U.S.
illusionist
- Ricky Jay, U.S. magician
Musicians
Film composers and Hollywood/Broadway song
writers
- Burt Bacharach, U.S.
musician and songwriter
- Irving Berlin, song writer
- Elmer Bernstein, film
composer
- Danny Elfman, film composer
- George Gershwin, song
writer and composer
- Elliot
Goldenthal, film composer
- Jerry Goldsmith, film
composer
- Bernard Herrmann, film
composer
- James Horner, film composer
- Michael Kamen, film composer
- Jerome Kern, song writer
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold,
film composer
- Alfred Newman, film composer
- Alex North, film composer
- David Raksin, film composer
- Richard Rogers, song writer
- Leonard
Rosenman, film composer
- Marc Shaiman, film composer
- Max Steiner, film composer
- Dimitri Tiomkin, film
composer
- Franz Waxman, film composer
- Victor Young, film composer
Classical musicians
- Milton Ager, American
musician, composer
- Charles-Valentin Alkan,
French composer and virtuoso pianist
- Vladimir Ashkenazy,
Russian pianist and conductor
- Emanuel Ax, U.S. pianist
- Daniel Barenboim,
Argentine-Israeli classical musician and conductor
- Len
Barry born Leonard Borisoff
- Roy C. Bennett, songwriter
- Bart Berman, Dutch-Israeli
pianist, composer
- Lazar Berman, Russian
classical pianist
- Dan Bern, U.S. songwriter, singer
- Leonard Bernstein, U.S.
conductor, composer
- Hal Blaine, U.S. session drummer
- Ernest Bloch, Swiss-born U.S.
composer
- Cristian Castro, Mexican
singer
- Aaron Copland, U.S. composer
- Paul Dukas, French composer
- Marvin Goldstein, U.S.
pianist (converted to LDS Church)
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk,
U.S. composer (Jewish father)
- Jascha Heifetz, U.S.
violinist
- Otto Klemperer, German-born
U.S.-Israeli conductor
- James Levine, U.S. conductor
- Gy�rgy Ligeti, Hungarian
composer
- Lorin Maazel, U.S. conductor
- Gustav Mahler,
Austro-Hungarian Viennese composer (converted to Catholicism)
- Fritzi Massary, Austrian
singer
- Felix Mendelssohn,
German Romantic composer (converted to Christianity)
- Yehudi Menuhin,
U.S.-British violinist, conductor, educator
- Giacomo Meyerbeer,
German opera composer
- Darius Milhaud, French
composer
- Nathan Milstein, U.S.
violinist
- Jacques Offenbach,
French composer
- Murray Perahia, U.S. pianist
- Itzhak Perlman,
Israeli-U.S. violinist
- Anton Rubinstein, Russian
pianist and composer
- Curt Sachs, German-U.S.
musicologist
- Artur Schnabel,
Polish-Austrian-U.S. classical pianist
- Arnold Schoenberg,
Austrian composer
- Franz Schreker,
Austrian-German composer (Jewish father)
- Rudolph Serkin,
Austrian-U.S. pianist
- Georg Solti, Hungarian-U.S.
conductor
- Isaac Stern, U.S. violinist
- Oscar Straus,
Austrian composer
- George Szell, Hungarian-U.S.
conductor
- Wadysaw Szpilman,
Polish pianist, author of The
Pianist
- Sid
Tepper, songwriter
- Michael Tilson-Thomas,
U.S. conductor
- Richard Tucker, U.S. opera
singer
- Kurt Weill, German-U.S. composer
- Jack Yellen, American lyricist
- Maurice Zbriger, Canadian
violinist, songwriter
Popular, rock, jazz
- Paula Abdul, U.S. singer,
former LA Laker Girl, panelist on American Idol
- Herb Alpert, U.S. musician
- Babydaddy
(aka Scot Hoffman), U.S. bassist, keyboardist, composer for Scissor Sisters.
- Marty Balin Singer, Jefferson Airplane born
Marty Buchwald
- The Beastie Boys,
American rap group
- Beck (Hansen), singer and musician.
Ethnically Jewish, currently a Scientologist.
- Walter Becker, U.S. bass
player, guitarist, songwriter, founding member of Steely Dan
- Jay
Black Lead singer of Jay and the Americans,
born David Blatt
- Mike Bloomfield, U.S.
guitarist and Bob Dylan session musician
- Marc Bolan, British rock
musician for band T. Rex, born Marc Feld
- Michael Bolton, U.S. singer
- Ross
the Boss the Dictators, born Ross Friedman
- Harvey
Brooks session musician, born Harvey Goldstein
- Mike Burkett, U.S. singer,
bass player in punk band NOFX
- Eddie Cantor, U.S. pop
singer, comedian, actor
- Eric Carmen, U.S. musician,
songwriter
- Leonard Cohen, Canadian
singer (converted to Buddhism)
- Sammy Davis, Jr., U.S.
singer (converted to Judaism)
- Mike
Diamond (a.k.a. Mike D), U.S. rapper with the group Beastie Boys
- Neil Diamond, U.S. singer
- Kevin
Dubrow, lead singer of 1980's U.S. heavy-metal band Quiet Riot
- Adam Duritz, U.S. singer,
songwriter for band Counting Crows
- Bob Dylan, U.S. singer,
songwriter (born to a jewish family, converted to Christianity, current
religious affiliation uncertain)
- Jakob Dylan, U.S. singer for
band The Wallflowers (born to a
jewish family, current religious affiliation uncertain)
- Mama Cass Elliott, U.S.
singer with the group The Mamas and The Papas
- Ziggy
Ellman, U.S. jazz musician
- Howie Epstein, bassist in
Tom Petty's band The Heartbreakers
- Donald Fagen, U.S. keyboard
player, singer, songwriter, founding member of Steely Dan
- Perry Farrell, U.S.
musician, bandleader in Jane's Addiction, Porno
For Pyros.
- Giora
Feidman, clarinet player and Klezmer musician
- Anthony Field, member of
Australian children's music band The Wiggles
- Jon Fishman, U.S. musician,
drummer for Phish
- Flo
and Eddie U.S. musicians
- Jackie
Fox, U.S. bassist of band The Runaways
- Jay
Jay French, lead guitarist of 1980's heavy metal band Twisted Sister; born John
Fred Segal
- Kinky Friedman, U.S.
country singer, author
- Kenny G, U.S. musician, born Kenny
Gorelick
- Serge Gainsbourg, French
singer, songwriter
- Art Garfunkel, U.S. singer
- J. Geils, U.S. rock musician
- Benny Goodman, U.S.
musician, bandleader
- Mike Gordon, U.S. musician,
bassist for Phish
- 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, U.S.
musician, best known for hit Spirit
in the Sky
- Brett Gurewitz, U.S.
musician and founder of Epitaph Records and punk rock group Bad Religion
- Richard Hell, U.S. rock
musician, poet
- Susanna Hoffs, U.S. member
of band The Bangles
- Adam Horovitz (a.k.a.
Ad-Rock), U.S. rapper with the group Beastie Boys
- Scott Ian, U.S. rock musician in
group Anthrax
- Billy Joel, U.S. singer
- Al Jolson, U.S. singer
- Mick Jones, British
rock musician, member of the Clash
- Howard
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- [[Carole King, U.S. singer and
songwriter
- Ed King, U.S. rock guitarist of Strawberry Alarm Clock
and Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Mark Knopfler, British
guitarist, founder of rock group Dire
Straits (Jewish father)
- Lee Konitz, U.S. jazz musician
- Lenny Kravitz, U.S. musician
(Jewish father)
- Steve Lacy, U.S. jazz musician
- Steve Lawrence, U.S. singer
- Geddy Lee, Canadian musician,
lead singer of rock group Rush
- Tom Lehrer, singer/songwriter
- Adam Levine, Lead singer, Maroon 5
- Ted Lewis, U.S.
musician, entertainer
- Jerry Leiber,
half of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller songwriting team
- Lisa Loeb, U.S. pop singer
- Courtney Love, half
jewish[http://www.beliefnet.com/story/43/story_4373_1.html; widow of Kurt Cobain
- Evan and Jaron Lowenstein,
identical twin U.S. pop singers. Orthodox Jews who keep the sabbath
even while on tour, avid zionists
- Ron Mael and Russell Mael,U.S. rock band
stars of Sparks
- Barry Manilow, U.S.
entertainer (Jewish mother, half-Jewish father)
- Handsome Dick Manitoba Lead singer
for the Dictators, born Richard Blum
- Kal Mann, U.S. songwriter
- Manfred Mann, South African
born British rock musician
- Shelly Manne, U.S. jazz
musician
- Linda McCartney, n�e
Eastman, U.S.-born photographer
- Malcolm McLaren, British
impresario and recording artist (Jewish mother)
- Eric Melvin, Guitarist for punk band NOFX
- Mezz Mezzrow, U.S. jazz
musician
- Daniel Miller, UK producer,
founder of Mute records
- Sandy
Nelson, U.S. musician
- Randy Newman, U.S. singer
- Phil Ochs, U.S. singer,
songwriter
- Steven Page, Canadian singer,
guitarist for Barenaked Ladies
- Sean Paul
(born Sean Paul Henriques), Jamaican reggae and hip-hop star very
popular in the U.S. (sources dispute whether only his paternal
grandfather is Jewish vs. his father)
- Stephen Perkins, U.S.
musician, drummer in Jane's Addiction, Porno
For Pyros.
- Pink, U.S. rock and hip
hop singer (born Alecia Moore, mother Jewish)
- Joey Ramone, U.S. rock singer,
lead singer of group The Ramones
- Lou Reed, U.S. singer, songwriter
- Buddy Rich, U.S. jazz musician
- Jonathan Richman, U.S.
singer, songwriter
- Lee
Rocker, Stray Cats, born Lee Drucker
- David Lee Roth, U.S. rock
singer, lead singer of Van Halen
- Rick Rubin, musician, producer
and co-founder of Def Jam records
- Adam Sandler, Musician,
actor, comedian.
- Hank Sapoznik, klezmer
musician
- Neil Sedaka, U.S. singer,
songwriter
- Artie Shaw, U.S. jazz musician,
bandleader
- Shel Silverstein, U.S.
songwriter
- Gene Simmons, U.S.-Israeli
bass player for rock group KISS
- Carly Simon, U.S. Singer,
songwriter (Jewish father)
- Paul Simon, U.S. musician
- P.F. Sloan, U.S. singer,
songwriter
- Pat Smear, U.S. rock musician,
member of the Foo Fighters
- Willie "The Lion" Smith,
U.S. pianist
- Dee Snider, U.S. rock musician,
lead singer of 1980's heavy metal band Twisted Sister (Jewish
father)
- Phil Spector, U.S. record
producer and songwriter
- Paul Stanley, U.S. guitar
player for rock band KISS, born Stanley Eisen
- Mike Stoller,
half of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller songwriting team
- Scott Storch, U.S. hip
hop/R&B; keyboardist and producer
- Barbra Streisand, U.S.
singer, actress
- Sylvain Sylvain,
Egyptian-born U.S. rock musician, guitarist for the New York Dolls.
- Mel Torme, U.S. jazz singer
- Sophie Tucker, Russian-born
U.S. singer and entertainer
- Nick Valensi, U.S. guitarist
for rock band The Strokes
- Kenny
Vance of Jay and the Americans
(n� Rosenberg),
- Don Was Was/Not
Was, born Don Fagenson
- Louise Wener, British rock
singer and author
- Leslie West, U.S. rock
guitarist
- Max Weinberg, U.S. drummer
for Bruce
Springsteen and the E Street Band and leader of the Max Weinberg Seven
- Jane Wiedlin, U.S. member of
band The Go-Gos
- Peter Wolf, U.S. rock singer,
formerly of J Geils Band
- Sandy
Yagoda of Jay and the Americans
- Adam Yauch (a.k.a. MCA), U.S.
rapper with the group Beastie Boys (converted to
Buddhism)
- Warren Zevon, U.S. rock
songwriter, singer (Jewish father)
- John Zorn, U.S. saxophonist and
composer
Arts, Visual
Artists and architects
- Dankmar Adler American
architect -Chicago
- Diane Arbus, U.S. fashion
photographer
- Richard Avedon, U.S.
portrait photographer
- Doris
Bloom, South African-born Danish artist and sculptor
- Helen Berman, Dutch-Israeli
painter
- Wallace Berman, U.S. (Los
Angeles-born) artist
- Ross Bleckner, U.S. painter
- Marcel Breuer, Founder of
The famous "BAUHAU.S." school , Architect and Designer.
- Marc Chagall, Russian-French
painter and stained glass artist
- Judy Chicago, U.S. feminist
painter; (The Dinner
Party)
- Jim Dine, U.S. pop artist
- Peter Eisenman, U.S.
architect
- Robert Frank, Swiss-American
photographer; (The
Americans)
- Frank Gehry, Canadian-U.S.
architect, art museum designer
- Rube Goldberg, U.S.
cartoonist, sculptor, and author; (Rube
Goldberg machine)
- Adolph Gottlieb U.S.
abstract expressionist painter
- Al Hirschfeld, U.S.
caricaturist, featured in New
York Times
- Max Jacob, French artist
(converted to Catholicism)
- Arne
Jacobsoen, Father of Danish Design and Architecture
- Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter,
friend of Leon Trotsky, (Jewish father, Catholic mother)
- Albert Kahn German born
American architect - Detroit
- Louis Kahn, Estonian-born U.S.
architect
- Pinchus Kremegne,
Russian-born French sculptor and painter
- Michel Kikoine,
Russian-born French painter
- John Lautner, U.S. architect,
worked under Frank Lloyd Wright
- Daniel Libeskind,
Polish-born U.S. architect, designer of new World Trade Center; (Freedom Tower)
- Roy Lichtenstein, U.S.
popular art painter
- El Lissitzky, Russian painter
- Peter Max, German-born
Israeli-U.S. artist
- Richard Meier , U.S.
architect
- 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, U.S.-French surrealist
photographer and film director
- H.A. Rey and Margret Rey, German-U.S.
illustrators; (Curious
George)
- Larry Rivers, U.S. pop art
painter
- Mark Rothko, U.S. abstract
expressionist painter
- Cindy Sherman, U.S.
photo-based artist
- Chaim Soutine, Russian-born
French expressionist painter
- William Steig, U.S.
cartoonist and illustrator, "King of Cartoons"; (Shrek)
- Arthur Szyk, Poland-born U.S.
artist and World War II political
cartoonist
- Felix Tikotin, art
collector, museum founder
- Weegee, Austrian-Polish-born U.S.
photographer and photojournalist; (Naked
City)
Cartoons and comics
- Al Capp, U.S. cartoonist; creator
of Li'l Abner
- Will Eisner, U.S. cartoonist; (The Spirit)
- Mark Evanier, U.S. comics and
animated cartoons writer for Disney and Hanna-Barbera
- Max Fleischer, U.S. animated
cartoonist; (Popeye,
Superman)
- Bob Kane, U.S. cartoonist;
creator of Batman
- Gil Kane, Latvian-born U.S.
comics artist. First to draw Silver Age Green Lantern and the Atom.
- Jack Kirby, U.S. comics and
animated cartoons creator; co-creator of Captain America, (Fantastic Four, Hulk)
- Stan Lee, U.S. cartoon writer and
creator of Marvel Comics and its heroes
- Harvey Pekar, U.S. comic book
writer; (American
Splendor)
- Julius Schwartz, U.S.
comic book and magazine editor; (The
Flash; Green
Lantern).
- Joe Shuster, Canadian-U.S.
comics artist; co-creator of Superman
- Jerome Siegel, U.S. comics
artist; co-creator of Superman
- Joe Simon, U.S. cartoonist;
co-creator of Captain
America
- Art Spiegelman,
Swedish-U.S. comic-book artist; creator of Maus
- Matt Stone, Co-creator of South Park (Jewish
father)
- Mort Weisinger, U.S. comic
book and magazine editor; (Superman,
Supergirl)
Fashion
- Kenneth Cole, U.S. fashion
designer
- Marc Jacobs, U.S. clothing
designer
- Calvin Klein, U.S. fashion
designer, CK
- Donna Karan, U.S. fashion
designer, DKNY
- Leonard
A. Lauder, controls Estee Lauder
- Ralph Lauren, U.S. fashion
designer
- Stella McCartney, British
fashion designer (Jewish mother)
- Isaac Mizrahi, U.S. fashion
designer
- Judith Leiber, Hungarian
borm, U.S. handbag designer
- Levi Strauss, U.S. "Father of
Jeans"
Business
- Roman Abramovich, Russian
billionaire
- Philip Anschutz, chairman
of Qwest
Communications International, and acquired United Artists Theaters, and Regal Cinemas in 2000
- Steve Ballmer, U.S. CEO of Microsoft (Jewish
mother)
- Peter
Bentley,
Chairman of Canadian timber giant Canfor Corp. (son of Holocaust
survivors, won restitution case from Swiss bank regarding seizure of
father's business in Germany)
- Boris Berezovsky, Russian
billionaire
- Michael Bloomberg,
Billionaire, U.S. politician, founder of Bloomberg
News
- Sergey Brin Russian-born U.S.
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-U.S. owner of Vivendi Universal
- Isaac
Carasso, Spanish founder of Danone group
- Andre Citroen, French
automaker of Citro�n
- Joshua Lionel Cowen,
U.S. toy inventor and manufacturer (Lionel trains)
- Jack Cohen, British
businessman, founder of Tesco supermarkets
- Mark Cuban, U.S. billionaire
owner of Dallas Mavericks,
founder of Broadcast.com (sold to Yahoo!).
- Marcel Dassault, French
industrialist
- Michael Dell, U.S. founder of
Dell Inc.
- Stanley Druckenmiller,
billionaire, famous for his "billion dollar bet against the British
pound in 1992 that generated 30% returns for George Soros
- Larry Ellison, U.S. CEO of Oracle Corporation
(adopted by Jews)
- Donald Fisher founder of The Gap
- Mikhail Fridman, Russian billionaire
- Rob Glaser, founder and CEO of Real Networks,
makers of Real Player
- Alan Greenspan, U.S.
economist, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve
- Maurice
R Greenberg, billionaire, CEO of AIG
- Andrew Grove, Hungarian-born
U.S. co-founder of Intel
- Vladimir Gusinsky,
Russian billionaire
- Leona Helmsley, real estate
- Carl Icahn, billionaire who
Took over TWA and controlled it until 1993, also owner of Lowestfares.com
- Peter Ivany, Australian Media
Mogul, earned his fortune running Hoyts cinemas world wide
- David
H Koch, oil Billionaire who runs Koch
Inudstries
- Bruce
Kovner, billionaire, started Caxton
Hedge Fund and is American Enterprise
Institute Vice Chairman
- Mikhail Khodorkovsky,
Russian billionaire
- Henry Kravis, billionaire,
American financier
- Samuel J. LeFrak & family,
billionaire, major developer in downtown Manhattan
- Issachar Berend Lehmann,
banker and patron of the Jewish communities in Halberstadt and Dresden, Germany
- Lev
Leviev, Russian-born Israeli diamond billionaire
- Daniel M. Lewin, Israeli
Internet entrepreneur
- Alfred Lowenstein,
Belgian soldier, aviator, sportsman, entrepreneur
- Robert Maxwell, British
communications magnate
- Moses Haim Montefiore,
Italian-born English financier, philanthropist and Zionist
- Rupert Murdoch, billionaire
who is largest shareholder and managing director of News Corporation, which
is the parent company of the Fox
News Network
- Roy Neuberger, U.S. art
dealer of Neuberger & Berman
- Samuel
I Newhouse Jr, Billionaire who owns 26 Newspapers such as Parade Magazine, Conde Nast, Vogue etc.
- Harry Oppenheimer, South
African diamond and gold mines billionaire, (became Christian)
- William Paley, U.S.
billionaire who built CBS
- Ronald
O. Perelman, billionaire, chairman of the board of Revlon
Inc. and Products
Corp.
- Ron Popeil, U.S. inventor
(Jewish father)
- Mike
Klein, Canadian born investment magnate
- Sumner Redstone, U.S. CEO
of Viacom
- Paul Reichmann, Canadian
real estate magnate
- Charles
Revson, Revlon cosmetics
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild,
German banker, first of the Rothschild family
- Nathan Mayer Rothschild,
British financier and philanthropist
- William
Rosenberg, U.S. founder of Dunkin Donuts
- David Sarnoff, General
Manager of RCA corporation
- Haim Saban, television producer
(Mighty Morphin Power
Rangers) and media mogul
- Oeri, Hoffman and Sacher families
billionaires, Roche pharmaceutical fortune
- Howard Schultz,
entrepreneur, joined Starbucks founders
in 1982 and bought it in 1987
- Robert
Shapiro, former CEO of Monsanto
- Zev
Siegal cofounder of Starbucks
- Ron
Sommer, CEO of Deutsche Telekom
- George Soros, Hungarian-born
U.S. billionaire, investor, philanthropist
- Leonard
N Stern, Billionaire, Manhattan real estate mogul who owns
the Soho
Grand, and Tribeca
Grand Hotel in Manhattan
- Laurence Tisch, U.S.
billionaire, owned CBS
- Preston
R Tisch, U.S. billionaire, owned several companies with his
brother including CBS
- Victor Vekselberg,
Russian billionaire
- Max Warburg, German banker
- Paul Warburg, U.S. banker, Federal Reserve founder
and board member
- Sandy Weill, U.S. banker
- Daniel Wildenstein,
major French art dealer and horse breeder
Controversy
Crime
- Yigal Amir, Israeli assassin
(of Rabin)
- David Berkowitz, "Son of
Sam", U.S. serial killer
- Ivan Boesky, U.S. insider
trader, swindler
- Mickey Cohen, U.S. gangster
- Moe
Dalitz, U.S. gangster
- Ira Einhorn U.S. political
activist and killer
- Andrew Fastow U.S. Enron
executive
- Baruch Goldstein,
U.S.-born Israeli killer
- Meyer Lansky, U.S. gangster
- Leopold and Loeb, U.S.
killers
- Michael Milken, U.S. "junk
bond' king, swindler, philanthropist
- Kevin Mitnick, U.S. hacker
- Jonathan Pollard, Israeli
spy
- Jackie Presser, U.S. labor
leader, embezzler
- Joseph
Prushinowski, Israeli-born swindler, aka The Robin Hood Rabbi
- Julius Rosenberg, U.S.
spy, sold atomic secrets to Russia
- Arnold Rothstein, U.S.
gangster
- Jack Ruby, U.S. assassin of Lee
Harvey Oswald
- Dutch Schultz, U.S. gangster
- Moller
Eli, British gangster
- Bugsy Siegel, U.S. gangster
- Serge Stavisky, Russian
born French swindler
- Mark
Swartz, Tyco scandal
- Alfred
Taubman, Sotheby's scandal
- Salomon Morel, Russian death
camp commander
- Jake Guzik, Chicago maffia
(Capone era)
- Sam
Waksal, U.S. ImClone biotech scandal
Victims
As there were 6 million Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust alone,
this list can of course represent only a minute fraction of victims.
- Menahem Mendel Beilis,
Russian victim of Russian blood libel mistrial
- Stephen
Belson, New York City firefighter, the September 11, 2001 attacks
- Alan Berg, U.S. radio
personality, killed by neo-Nazis
- Nick Berg, U.S. entrepreneur,
beheaded by Iraqi insurgents
- Alfred Dreyfus, French army
officer falsely accused of treason
- Efraim
Elrom, Israeli consul was murdered by condemned turkish
terrorists
- Alan
Feinberg, New York City firefighter, the September 11, 2001 attacks
- Anne Frank, Dutch teenage
Holocaust victim and writer
- Leo Frank, lynched in Georgia,
U.S.A.
- Jeremy Glick, United Flight
93 passenger, the September 11, 2001 attacks
- 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, assassinated Ernst vom Rath, which
initiated Kristallnacht
- Mordechai
Gvirtig, poet, murdered by Nazis in the Krakau Ghetto during
the Holocaust
- Leon Klinghoffer,
wheelchair-bound vacationer shot and thrown overboard the passenger
liner Achille Lauro
by Palestine Liberation Front
terrorists
- Chandra Levy, U.S. intern,
mysteriously murdered in Washington, DC
- Mel Mermelstein, Holocaust
survivor who sued for damages
- Edgardo Mortara, Jewish
Italian child kidnapped by Catholics
- Daniel Pearl, U.S. Wall Street Journal
journalist, decapitated by Islamic terrorists
- Darin
Howard Pontell, U.S. Navy Lieutenant, Pentagon, the September 11, 2001 attacks
- Yankel Rosenbaum,
Australian Jewish rabbinical student beaten and stabbed by an anti-Semitic mob in Crown Heights, Brooklyn
- Jay Sebring, U.S. hairdresser,
victim of the Manson Family
- Nancy Spungen, Murder victim
and girlfriend of Sid Vicious
- Rudolf Vrba, escaped from
Auschwitz and told the world about it
- David Weiss, New York City
firefighter, the September 11, 2001 attacks
- Abraham Zelmanowitz,
U.S. programmer, World Trade Center worker, the September 11, 2001 attacks
Law
- Rosalie Abella, Canadian
Supreme Court Justice
- Tobias Asser, winner of 1911 Nobel Peace Prize
- Louis Brandeis, U.S.
Supreme Court Justice
- Stephen Breyer, U.S.
Supreme Court Justice
- Benjamin N. Cardozo,
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- Arthur Chaskalson, Chief
Justice of the Republic of South Africa
- Marcia Clark, U.S. lawyer,
prosecutor in the trial of O.J. Simpson
- Zelman Cowen, Australian
legal scholar and Governor-General
- Alan Dershowitz, U.S.
lawyer
- Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court
Justice
- Felix Frankfurter, U.S.
Supreme Court Justice
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- Arthur J. Goldberg,
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- Richard Goldstone, South
African judge, international war crimes prosecutor
- Isaac Isaacs, Australian High
Court Justice and Governor-General
- William Kunstler, U.S.
lawyer famous for defending controversial "radical" clients such as the
"Chicago Seven" protesters of the 1968 Democratic
National Convention.
- Stanley
Mosk, U.S. jurist, California Supreme Court Justice and
Attorney General
- Louis
Nizer, British born American jurist
- Barry
Scheck, U.S. lawyer, known for the trial of O.J. Simpson
- Robert
Shapiro, U.S. lawyer, 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
- Eugene Volokh, Professor of
Law, UCLA
- Simon Wiesenthal , lawyer
and Nazi hunter
Literature and journalism
Poets
- Danny Abse, British poet
- Al Alvarez, British poet
- David Avidan, Israeli poet
- Joseph Brodsky, Soviet-born
poet, Nobel laureate
- Bryher, British poet (probably
Jewish father)
- Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet
- Ivor Cutler, British poet,
humorist, musician
- Nissim Ezekiel, Indian
poet, playwright and art critic
- Erich Fried, Austrian poet
- Allen Ginsberg, U.S. poet
- Leah Goldberg, Israeli poet
- Heinrich Heine, German poet
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal,
Austrian poet & dramatist
- Immanuel the Roman,
Italian religious erotic poet
- Isidore
Isou, Romanian-born French poet
- Irving Layton, Romanian-born
Canadian poet
- Emma Lazarus, U.S. poet
- Denise Levertov, British
poet (Jewish father)
- Jenny Joseph, British poet
- A. J. Levin, Canadian poet
- Amy Levy, British poet &
novelist
- Mina Loy, British poet (Jewish
father)
- Erich
Mühsam, German poet and revolutionary
- Dalia Rabikovich, Israeli
poet
- Isaac Rosenberg, British
war poet
- Siegfried Sassoon,
British war poet (Jewish father)
- Antoni Slonimski, Polish
poet
- Stephen Spender, British
poet & essayist (Jewish mother)
- Julian Tuwim, Polish poet
- Tristan Tzara, Romanian-born
French poet
Writers
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon,
Israeli writer
- Isaac Asimov, Russian-born
U.S. science fiction writer
- Paul Auster, New York-based
postmodern detective writer, filmmaker and 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, U.S. writer
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda,
Lithuanian-born, "Father of modern Hebrew language"
- Phyllis
Bennis, head of the Middle
East Project at the Institute for Policy
Studies
- Henri Bergson, French
philosopher, 1927 Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
- Carl Bernstein,
Investigative reporter who, along with Bob Woodward helped unearth Watergate.
- Ludwig B�rne
- Max Brod, Czech-Israeli writer
and composer
- Harold Brodkey, U.S.
novelist
- Elias Canetti, Bulgarian
author, Nobel prize winner
- Otto Maria Carpeaux,
Austro-Brazilian literary and musical critic, journalist and historian
- Michael Chabon, U.S. writer
- Isaac Deutscher,
Polish-born British historian
- Ilya Ehrenburg, Soviet
writer and international peace activist
- Harlan Ellison, U.S.
fantasy writer
- Israel Isidor Elyashev
("Ba'al Machshavot"), physician (neurologist); Yiddish literary critic
- Howard Fast, U.S. writer of
historical fiction, political activist
- Itzik Feffer, Soviet writer
- Jonathan Safran Foer,
U.S. author
- Anne Frank, Dutch Holocaust
victim, diarist
- Thomas L. Friedman,
U.S. journalist and columnist
- David Frum, Canadian-born U.S.
neo-conservative commentator; speechwriter for George W. Bush
(2001-2002)--wrote "Axis of Evil" for 2002 State of the Union Address
- Maurice
Girodias, French writer and publisher
- Gluckl of Hamelin,
German Yiddish religious writer
- David Goodis, U.S. mystery
writer
- Nadine Gordimer, South
African writer, won a Nobel Prize for Literature
- Vassily Grossman, Soviet
journalist and writer
- Ben Hecht, U.S. novelist,
playwright, screenwriter and Zionist activist
- Ilya
Ehrenburg, Russian journalist and writer
- Susan
Jacoby, Author, (father half-Jewish, converted to Catholicism)
- Erica Jong, U.S. writer of
fictional and non-fictional works that focus on female sexual desire.
- Franz Kafka, Czech-born,
Austrian-Germany, writer
- Imre Kert�sz, Hungarian
author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and winner of the Nobel
Prize
- Arthur Koestler,
Hungarian-born Austrian and English novelist and activist
- Jerzy Kosinski, Polish born
American novelist
- Irving Kristol, founder of
the neo-conservative movement
- William Kristol, U.S.
political commentator
- Charles Krauthammer,
U.S. Neo-conservative columnist and political commentator
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec,
Polish writer
- Jan
Lecho, Polish writer
- Julius
Lester, U.S. children's author and academic
- Primo Levi, Italian novelist
and chemist
- Sonia
(Wolff) Levitin, German-born, American novelist, winner of
the National Jewish Book Award, Edgar Allen Poe Award
- Norman Mailer, U.S. novelist
and social critic
- Bernard Malamud, U.S.
writer
- David Mamet, U.S. playwright
- Patrick Marber, British
playwright
- Benjamin
Masten, U.S. Magazine Editor, Audience of Two
- George Mikes, British
(Hungarian born) humorous writer
- Arthur Miller, U.S.
playwright
- Judah Monis, author of the
first Hebrew textbook published
in North America, and first
Hebrew instructor in a North American college
- Walter Mosley, U.S. novelist
- David
Erik Nelson
co-creator of The Giant Squid (http://www.squid.poormojo.org) and
co-founder of Poor Mojo's Almanac(k) (http://www.poormojo.org)
- M. J. Nurenberger,
Conservative editor of Jewish newspapers and author of The Scared And the Doomed.
- Adolph Ochs, German-born
builder of the New York
Times
- Amos Oz, Israeli writer
- Cynthia Ozick, U.S. writer
- Dorothy Parker, U.S. writer
- S. J. Perelman, U.S. writer
- I. L. Peretz, Yiddish writer
- Harold Pinter, British
playwright
- Norman Podhoretz, U.S.
writer
- John Podhoretz,
Conservative U.S. columnist and political analyst
- Chaim Potok, U.S. writer
- Marcel Proust, French
writer, (son of a Jewish mother)
- Ayn Rand, Russian-born U.S. 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, U.S. writer
- Bruno Schulz, Polish writer
and painter
- Erich Segal, U.S. writer,
educator
- Irwin Shaw, American novelist,
screenwriter
- Sidney Sheldon, American
novelist, screenwriter
- Robert Silverberg, U.S.
science-fiction author
- Isaac Bashevis Singer,
U.S. writer
- William Steig, U.S. writer,
author of Shrek
- Arthur
Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times
- Natan
Tenenbaum, Polish writer
- Harry Turtledove,
American writer
- Louise Wener, British author
and rock singer
- Nathanael West, U.S. writer
- (?)Jon Woronoff
- Herman Wouk, U.S. writer
- Elie Wiesel, U.S.,
Hungarian-born, French writer about Holocaust; Nobel Prize winner
- Avraham B. Yehoshua,
Israeli novelist
- Israel Zangwill, English
writer and Zionist
- Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer
Media
- Israel Asper, Canadian
philanthropist and founder of Global Television Network
- Carl Bernstein, U.S.
journalist, investigated Watergate break-in with Bob Woodward
- Wolf Blitzer, U.S. news
anchor for CNN
- Joe Bob Briggs, U.S.
syndicated film critic
- David Brooks, U.S. newspaper
columnist for New York Times
- Aaron Brown, U.S. journalist,
TV host
- Liz Claman, CNBC anchor
- Alan Colmes, U.S. liberal
commentator for Fox News' Hannity
& Comes.
- Matt Drudge, U.S. radio Host
and operator of the Drudge
Report
- Giselle Fernandez, TV
news reporter (father is Hispanic)
- Al Franken, U.S. Radio host
- Amira Hass, Israeli journalist
- Marty Kaplan, U.S. Radio Host
- Daryn Kagan, CNN anchor
- Larry King, U.S. TV and radio
talk show host
- Tony Kornheiser, U.S.
columnist for the Washington Post, radio host, and televsion host
- Ted Koppel, U.S. news anchor,
ABC TV Nightline
- Charles Krauthammer,
Conservative U.S. columnist for the Washington Post
- William Kristol, editor of
the Weekly Standard
- Elena Lappin, British
novelist and journalist, known as U.S. deportee
- Rachel Maddow, U.S. Radio
Host
- Rob Malda, Creator of Slashdot
- Marc Maron, U.S. Radio Host
- Robert Novak, U.S.
conservative tv commentator, (converted to Catholicism)
- Randi Rhodes, U.S. Radio Host
- Morley Safer, Canadian-born
U.S. news reporter, CBS TV 60 Minutes
- William Safire, U.S.
newspaper columnist, speechwriter for U.S. President Nixon
- Michael Savage,
U.S. radio personality
- Jessica Savitch, U.S. news
anchor
- Laura Schlessinger,
U.S. radio personality (Jewish father, she later converted to Orthodox
Judaism)
- Sam Seder, U.S. Radio Host
- Jerry Springer, U.S. Radio
Host and TV Talk-show Host
- Joel Stein, U.S. columnist for TIME magazine
- Mike Wallace,
U.S. news reporter, CBS TV 60 Minutes
- Barbara Walters, U.S. news
commentator, ABC TV 20/20
- Ruth Westheimer, U.S.
Radio Host
- Jacobo Zabludovsky,
Mexican news anchor
Military
- Mordechaj Anielewicz,
Polish Warsaw ghetto leader
- Ivan Chernyakhovsky,
Russian Soviet military commander
- David Abramovich Dragunsky,
Russian anti-Zionist Colonel-General
- Vladimir Jabotinsky,
Russian founder and leader of British Jewish Legion
- Berek Joselewicz, Polish
colonel, organized Jewish squads and uprisings
- 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
U.S. financier of the American Revolution and Revolutionary War
- Antony
Wolfe, Englishman, private in the army of the Republic of Texas,
killed at the Battle of the Alamo in
1836
- Yona Yakir, a Soviet General,
purged by Stalin
Israeli military
- Ron Arad, Israeli pilot, missing
in action
- Ehud Barak, Israeli general and
Prime Minister
- Menachem Begin, Prime
Minister of Israel
- 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
U.S. 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
U.S. 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), Lieutenant Colonel,
highest-ranking Jewish officer in the Continental Army
- Leopold
Blumenberg (Civil War)
- Wesley Kane Clark,
former NATO commander during the Bosnian War (Jewish father, raised
Baptist, converted to Catholicism)
- David
Camden DeLeon (Mexican War), "The Fighting Doctor", doctor
under General Zachary Taylor, Congressional Citation
- LeRoy
Diamond (World War II, Pacific), Corporal, Navy Cross and
Purple Heart
- Hyman
Epstein (World War II, Pacific), Army medical aide, killed in
New Guinea after heroic rescues defying snipers
- David
Nunez Cardozo (American Revolution), South Carolina
Grenadiers, led an assault on British-held Savannah, Georgia
- Leon
Dyer, (Civil War, Mexican War, Seminole War), Colonel,
post-Alamo volunteer, escorted Gen. Santa Anna to D.C.
- Herbert
P. Grossman Private First Class {World War II) Silver Star
for gallantry in action at Leyte, Philippine Islands
- Levy
Myers Harby (War of 1812), Navy Captain, began military at 14
- Phineas
Horowitz (Civil War)
- Stanley
H. Hyman (Vietnam)
- Isadore
S. Jachman
Sergeant U.S.A (World War II), Medal of Honor (posthumously) for
actions saving his paratroop company during fighting in Flamierge,
Belgium
- Jack
H. Jacobs Captain U.S.A (Vietnam) Medal of Honor recipient
- Leopold Karpeles (Civil
War) Sergeant, Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery and heroism
- 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
- Jean Lafitte Buccaneer leader
who aided Gen. Jackson's defeat of British in thebattle of New Orleans
in 1812 War.
- John
L. Levitow Sergeant U.S.AF (Vietnam) Medal of Honor recipient
- Uriah
P. Levy
(War of 1812) First Jewish U.S. Admiral; ended the Practice of
Flogging; bought, restored, and gave Montecello (Jefferson's home) as a
gift to the American people
- Aaron
Lopez, (American Revolution), Supplied transoceanic ships and
coastal vessels to Navy
- David
"Mickey" Marcus,
(World War II), U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel, West Point graduate,
Divisional Judge Advocate, Division Commander, attended the "Big Five"
meetings, volunteered to join D-Day airborne assault without formal
training. Distinguished Service Cross, Bronze Star, and British
decorations. Volunteered to Israeli Army to defend against Transjordan
Arab Legion. Became first Israeli brigadier general, and served as
Commander of Jerusalem front.
- Alfred
Mordechai (Civil War)
- Ben
Moreel Admiral,(World War II) Formed the Seabees
- Mordecai
Myers, (War of 1812), Captain, New York City's first Jewish
Mayor
- Leopold
Newman (Civil War)
- Manuel
M. Noah, (American Revolution), Served with General Marion,
Financier
- Hyman Rickover U.S.
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
- Edward
Rosewater, (Civil War), Union Army telegrapher for President
Lincoln, transmitted Gettysburg Address
- Ben
L. Salomon (World War II, Pacific) Captain, U.S.A Medical
Corps, Medal of Honor (posthumously) for actions during Battle of Saipan
- Edward S. Salomon (Civil
War)
- Haym Salomon (American
Revolution), Sons of Liberty, Financier
- Francis Salvador
(American Revolution), "Paul Revere of the South"
- Mordecai
Sheftall (American Revolution), "The Great Rebel"
- Seligman
Brothers, (Civil War), Financeers
- Frances
Slanger, (World War II, France), Lieutenant, U.S. Army Nurses
Corps. Killed in action.
- Robert
B. Solomon (Vietnam)
- Judah
Touro, (War of 1812), civilian volunteer in American Army,
Philanthropist
- John
Ordroneaux (War of 1812), French Commodore, Continental Navy
Privateersman
- Max
Warshaw,
(World War II, North Africa), Staff Sergeant, Army Medic, two Silver
Star medals, three Bronze Star medals, the Purple Heart, the
Ex-Prisoner of War Medal, the Pre-Pearl Harbor Medal, the European
Theater of Operations Medal with six campaign clusters, the Victory
Medal, the New York State Conspicuous Cross Medal (for highly decorated
veterans), and the Army Combat Medic Badge.
- 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
Politics
International world politicians
- Peter
Baume, Australian Cabinet Minister
- Joe
Berinson, Australian Cabinet minister
- Eduard Bernstein, German
founder of Evolutionary Socialism
- L�on Blum, Prime Minister of
France
- Marek Borowski, Polish
politician
- Leon Brittan, British Cabinet
minister
- Moss
Cass, Australian Cabinet minister
- Barry
Cohen, Australian Cabinet minister
- Irwin Cotler, Canadian
Justice Minister
- Michael Danby, Australian
politician
- Benjamin Disraeli,
British Prime Minister (converted to Anglican Christianity at age 13
but very conscious of his Jewish origin throughout his life)
- Sid
Einfeld, Deputy Premier of New South Wales, Australia
- Laurent Fabius, Prime
Minister of France
- Bronisaw 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
- Tony Leon, South African
opposition leader
- Peter Mandelson, British
Labour MP and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (father was
Jewish)
- Pierre Mend�s-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
- Sir Roy Welensky, Prime Minister
of Rhodesia
- 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, U.S.
director of the Anti-Defamation League
- Jonah Goldberg, U.S. conservative writer
- David Horowitz, U.S. 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
- Michael Schwerner, U.S. civil rights activist
- Adam
Shapiro, cofounder of the international
Solidarity Movement
- Simon Wiesenthal,
Nazi-hunter
- Tim Wise, anti-racism lecturer
and activist
U.S. politicians
- Jack Abramoff, lobbyist
linked to Tom DeLay
- Elliott Abrams, State
Department and NSC
- Gary Ackerman, Congressman
from New York
- Madeleine Albright,
Secretary of State (raised Christian by parents who converted)
- 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
- Shelley Berkley,
Congresswoman from Nevada
- 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
- Eric Cantor, Congressman from
Virgina
- Ben Cardin, Congressman from
Maryland
- Emmanuel
Cellar, Congressman from New York
- William Cohen, Senator from
Maine; Defense Secretary (father was Jewish)
- Roy Cohn, U.S. prosecutor and
assistant to Sen. Joe McCarthy
- Norm Coleman, Senator from
Minnesota
- Susan Davis, Congresswoman
from California
- 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
- Bob Filner, Congressman from
California
- 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
- Jane Harman, Congresswoman
from California
- Chic Hecht, Senator from Nevada
- Steve Israel, Congressman
from New York
- Jacob Javits, Senator from
New York
- John Kerry,
Senator from Massachusetts and 2004 Presidental candidate (recently
acknowledged that father was ethnically Jewish but raised Catholic by
converted parents)
- 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
- Sander Levin, Congressman
from Michigan
- Joe Lieberman,
Vice-President candidate and U.S. Senator from Connecticut
- Nita Lowey, Congresswoman from
New York
- 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, Former
Under-secretary Department of Defense
- Robert Reich, Former
Secretary of Labor in the Clinton Administration
- 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
- Bernie Sanders, Congressman
from Vermont
- Jan Schakowsky,
Congresswoman from Illinois
- Adam Schiff, Congressman from
California
- James Schlesinger,
Secretary of Defense and CIA Director (Converted to Christianity)
- Charles Schumer, Senator
from New York
- Allyson Schwartz,
Congresswoman from Pennsylvania
- David Segal, City Councilman
from Providence, Rhode Island
- Brad Sherman, Congressman
from California
- Arlen Specter, Senator from
Pennsylvania
- Elliot Spitzer, New York
Attorney General and Candidate for Governor
- Sol Star, mayor of Deadwood, South Dakota
for 14 years starting in 1884, also portrayed in the United
States television series Deadwood.
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
Congresswoman from Florida
- 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
- Pavel Axelrod, Soviet
revolutionary
- Matvei
D. Berman, Soviet chief of Gulag system
- Simeon
Dimanstein, Soviet Commissar of Nationalities
- Jacob
Fuerstenberg, Russian aide to Lenin
- Lev Kamenev, Russian Bolshevik
leader (Jewish father)
- Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet
Politburo member
- Mikhail
Koltsov, Soviet journalist
- Adolph
Ioffe, Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs (Karaite)
- 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
World War II Ghetto politicians
- Chaim Rumkowski
- Adam Czerniakow
World revolutionaries and politicians
- Daniel Cohn-Bendit,
French student leader
- Kurt Eisner, German
revolutionary politician
- Emma Goldman, U.S. feminist
and anarchist
- Abbie Hoffman, U.S. radical
- B�la Kun, Hungarian revolutionary
leader
- Rosa Luxemburg, Communist
leader
- Karl Marx, German founder of
Marxism. (Atheist. Raised a Lutheran)
- Jerry Rubin, U.S. radical
- Irv Rubin, U.S. 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)
- Matyas Rakosi, Hungarian
communist Prime Minister
- Leon Trotsky, Russian
communist who proposed the theory of "permanent revolution"
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 purported Karaite
- Anan ben David, purported
founder of the Karaites
- Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan
- 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,
inspired the 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
- Akiba
Eger, Intermediary between the Prussian Emporers, Wilhelm I
and II, and the Prussian Jewish communities.
Scientists and philosophers
- See:
List of
Jewish scientists and philosophers and List of Jewish
Nobel Prize winners.
Chess players
- Gerald Abrahams, British
chess player
- Semyon Alapin, Chess player
- Boris Alterman Israeli
chess player (Grand Master)
- Yuri Averbakh, Russian chess
player
- Alexander Belyavsky,
Chess player
- Joel Benjamin U.S. chess
player (Grand Master)
- Hans Berliner U.S. chess
player (former World correspondence chess champion)
- Ossip Bernstein, Chess
player
- Arthur Bisguier, U.S.
chess player
- Isaac Boleslavsky,
Ukrainian chess player
- Mikhail Botvinnik,
Russian chess player, former world champion
- Gyula Breyer, Hungarian chess
player
- David Bronstein, Ukrainian
chess player
- Rudolph Charousek, Chess
player
- Irving Chernev,
Russian-American chess player and writer
- Arnold Denker, U.S. chess
player (Grand Master)
- Nathan Divinsky, Canadian
chess player and mathematician
- Larry Evans, U.S. chess player
(Grand Master)
- Reuben Fine, U.S. chess player
- Bobby Fischer, U.S. chess
player, World Champion (converted to "Christian Identity")
- Salo Flohr, Czech chess player
- Semyon
Furman, Chess player
- Efim Geller, Soviet chess
player
- Harry Golombek, British
chess player
- Gisela Kahn Gresser,
U.S. chess player
- Boris Gulko (Grand Master)
- Isidor Gunsberg,
Hungarian/British chess player
- Mikhail Gurevich (chess player)
(Grand Master)
- Daniel Harrwitz, German
chess player
- William Hartston, British
chess player
- Israel Horowitz, U.S.
chess player
- Bernhard Horwitz,
German/British chess player
- David Janowski, Polish
chess player
- Gary Kasparov, Russian chess
player, former world champion
- Alexander Khalifman,
Russian chess player, former FIDE world champion
- Ernest Klein (chess
player)
- Ignatz
von Kolisch, Chess player
- George
Koltanowski, Chess player
- Viktor Korchnoi, Russian
chess player (Jewish mother)
- Edward Lasker, U.S. chess
player
- Emanuel Lasker, German
chess player, World Champion
- Andrei Lilienthal, Chess
player
- Johann L�wenthal,
Hungarian chess player
- Miguel Najdorf,
Polish-Argentine chess player
- Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian
chess player, pioneer of hypermodern style
- Judit Polg�r, Hungarian chess
player
- Susan Polg�r, Hungarian/U.S.
chess player
- Zs�fia Polg�r,
Hungarian/Israeli chess player
- Lev
Polugaevsky, Chess player
- Fred Reinfeld, U.S. chess
player
- Samuel Reshevsky, U.S.
chess player
- Richard R�ti, Czech chess
player, pioneer of hypermodern style
- Akiba Rubinstein, Polish
chess player
- Emanuel Schiffers,
Russian chess player
- Vasily Smyslov, Former
world chess champion
- Boris Spassky, Russian chess
player (mother Jewish), former world champion
- Rudolf Spielmann,
Austrian chess player
- Leonid Stein, Ukrainian chess
player
- Wilhelm Steinitz,
Austrian chess player, generally regarded as first official World
Champion
- Emil Sutovsky, Isreli chess
player (Grand Master)
- Peter Svidler, Russian chess
player
- L�szl�
Szab�, Chess player
- Mark Taimanov, Russian chess
player
- Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess
player, former world champion
- Siegbert Tarrasch, Chess
player
- Saviely
Tartakover, Chess player
- Simon Winawer, Chess player
- Daniel Yanofsky, Canadian
chess player (first Grand Master in British Commonwealth)
- Johannes Zuckertort,
Polish chess player
Ref: http://www.jinfo.org/Chess_Players.html
Sports
- Cal
Abrams, U.S. baseball player,
- Jeff Agoos, U.S. soccer player
- Marv Albert, U.S. sportscaster
- Lyle Alzado, U.S. football
player (Jewish mother, raised Jewish)
- Bob Arum, U.S. boxing promoter
- Red Auerbach, U.S. basketball
coach
- Max Baer, U.S. boxer (Jewish
father)
- Harris
Barton, U.S. football player
- Boris Becker, German Tennis
Star (Jewish Mother)
- Jack Kid Berg, English boxer
- Moe Berg, U.S. baseball player
- Len Berman, U.S. sportscaster
- Chris Berman, ESPN talk show
host (father Jewish)
- Kenny
Bernstein, U.S. drag racer
- Gary Bettman, U.S. National
Hockey League commissioner
- Matthew Bloom, U.S.
professional wrestler
- David
Bluthenthal, U.S. basketball player
- Larry Brown, U.S. basketball
coach
- Noah
Cantor, Canadian football player
- Mike
Cammalleri, Canadian hockey player (Jewish mother)
- Brian Cashman, U.S. General
Manager of the New York Yankees
- Howard Cosell, U.S.
sportscaster
- Mark Cuban, U.S. owner of the
Dallas Mavericks
- Ben
Davidson, U.S. football player
- Al Davis, U.S. owner of the
Oakland Raiders
- Ren� Dreyfus, French Grand
Prix auto racing champion
- Deena
Drossin, U.S. long-distance and marathon runner
- Bernie Ecclestone,
British owner of F1 racing
- Steve
Ellman, U.S. owner of the Phoenix Coyotes
- Theo Epstein, U.S. General
Manager of the Boston Red Sox
- Page Falkenberg, U.S.
professional wrestler
- Jay Fiedler, U.S. football
player
- Benny Friedman, U.S.
football player elected to Hall of Fame in 2005
- Marty Friedman,
U.S. basketball player
- Joel Gertner, U.S.
professional wrestler manager
- Malcolm Glazer, U.S. owner
of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, majority owner of Manchester United
- Bill Goldberg, U.S.
professional wrestler, NFL player
- Shawn Green, U.S. baseball
player
- Hank Greenberg, U.S.
baseball player
- Randy
Grossman, U.S. football player
- Alfr�d Haj�s, Hungarian
swimmer
- Jeff
Halpern, U.S. hockey player
- Michael Hayes,
U.S. professional wrestler
- Paul Heyman, U.S. professional
wrestling manager & promoter
- Melissa Hiatt, U.S.
professional wrestling valet
- Ken Holtzman, U.S. baseball
player
- Glen Jacobs, U.S. professional
wrestler
- Bob Kraft, U.S. owner of the New
England Patriots
- Lenny Krayzelburg,
Ukrainian-born U.S. swimmer
- Sandy Koufax, U.S. baseball
player
- Marv Levy, U.S. football coach
- Scott Levy, U.S. professional
wrestler
- Sid Luckman, U.S. football
player
- Ron Mix, U.S. football player
- Art Modell U.S. owner of the
Baltimore Ravens
- Kevin Nash, U.S. professional
wrestler
- Brian Pillman, U.S.
professional wrestler
- Randy Poffo, U.S. professional
wrestler
- Jerry Reinsdorf U.S. owner
of the Chicago Bulls, owner of the Chicago White Sox
- Barney Ross, U.S. world
champion boxer
- Mike Rossman, U.S. world
champion boxer (Jewish mother)
- Jerome Saganovich, U.S.
professional wrestler
- Abe Saperstein, U.S.
founder of the Harlem Globetrotters
- Dolph Schayes, U.S.
basketball player
- Mathieu Schneider, U.S.
hockey player
- Bud Selig, U.S. baseball
commissioner
- Dean Simon, U.S. professional
wrestler
- Anna
Smashnova, Israeli tennis player
- Ed
Snider, U.S. owner of the Philadelphia Flyers
- Mark Spitz, U.S. olympic swimmer
- David Stern, U.S. basketball
commissioner
- Steve Stone, U.S. baseball
player
- Daniel
Suher, U.S. cross country runner
- Paul Tagliabue, U.S. NFL
commissioner
- James Toney, U.S. world
champion boxer
- Dara Torres, U.S. swimmer
(Jewish father)
- Suzyn Waldman,
NY Yankees TV play-by-play announcer in mid-1990s and current
commentator/analyst for NY Yankees radio broadcasts, first woman to do
either position on a regular basis for a Major League baseball team.
- Neil
Walk, U.S. basketball player
- Brian Yandrisovitz,
U.S. professional wrestler
Miscellaneous
- Moshe Bar, Open Source/Linux
software notable, founder of Qlusters, Inc, book author and project
manager of openMosix clustering software
- Gypsy Boots, U.S. health guru
and TV personality
- Howard Braham, Inventor
- Kitty Carlisle, U.S. game
show panelist
- Alex Chiu, inventor of
"immortality ring" (by religion only)
- Judith Steinberg Dean,
medical doctor and wife of U.S. Democratic politician governor Howard
Dean
- Kitty Dukakis, wife
of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate governor Michael Dukakis
- Barry Greenstein, U.S.
professional poker player and philanthropist
- Monty Hall, Canadian game show
host
- Nigella Lawson, British
cooking show host
- Monica Lewinsky, U.S.
intern to President Bill Clinton
- Cindy Margolis, supermodel
and Internet businesswoman
- Bill Nye, U.S. scientist and TV
personality (Bill Nye the Science Guy)
- Max Nordau, Hungarian Zionist
leader
- Judith A. Resnik, U.S.
astronaut, killed on space shuttle Challenger
- Geraldo Rivera, U.S. talk
show host (Jewish mother)
- Morton Shulman, Canadian
physician, coroner, politician and talk show host; inspiration for
Canadian TV series Wojeck and U.S. TV series Quincy, M.E.
- Richard Simmons, U.S.
health guru and TV personality (mother Jewish)
- Jerry Springer, U.S. talk
show host and former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio
- Ben Stein, U.S. actor, lawyer,
game show host and former Presidential speech writer
- Karl Targownik, prominent
psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor
- Michel Thomas,
French/American language teacher
- Lindsey Vuolo, U.S. Playboy
Playmate (Jewish mother, father converted from Catholicism)
Personalities with distant and/or partial Jewish
heritage
Note: according to some interpretations of Jewish law, anyone is Jewish
who has matrilineal Jewish ancestors mother, mother's mother, etc.
- David Beckham, English
Soccer (maternal grandfather is Jewish)
- Helena Bonham Carter,
actor (mother from family of Jews who converted to Catholicism)
- Fidel Castro, Cuban leader
(may be descended from Islamic or Jewish Conversos)
- Stephen Fry, comedian and
author (maternal grandparents are Jewish)
- Zsa Zsa Gabor and Eva Gabor,
U.S. actresses (Vanity Fair 6/01 article says one set of grandparents
died in the Holocaust and other relatives may have converted to
Christianity). The Gabors are also distant cousins of U.S. congressman Tom Lantos.
- Muriel
Gray, broadcaster (Jewish maternal grandmother)
- Christopher Hitchens,
British-born journalist and contrarian (Jewish maternal grandmother)
- Garry Kasparov, former
world chess champion (Jewish father)
- 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)
- Colin Powell, former U.S.
Secretary of State (father's side has Jewish strain through Broomfield
according to his autobiography)
- Elvis Presley, U.S. musician
(maternal great-great-grandmother Nancy Tackett, nee Burdine, was, or
at least believed to have been Jewish)
- Carlos Santana,
Mexican-born U.S. musician (acknowledges descent from Conversos)
- Jack Straw, British Foreign
Secretary (one grandparent was Jewish)
- Meryl Streep, U.S. actress
(acknowledges distant Jewish heritage: great-grandparent)
- Raoul Wallenberg,
Protector of Jews during Holocaust (one Jewish great-great grandparent)
- Caspar Weinberger, U.S.
Secretary of Defense (Christian, paternal grandfather was Jewish)
- Pete Sampras, paternal
grandmother was Jewish
- Ludwig Wittgenstein,
paternal grandparents were 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
- 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
- Seth Cohen from U.S. show The OC (Jewish father)
- 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!
- Friedman (first name not given),
from Joan of Arcadia
- Monica Geller, from U.S.
sitcom Friends
- Ross Geller, from U.S. sitcom Friends
- Emmanuel Goldstein, in Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Natalie
Green, from The
Facts of Life
- Rachel 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 (Will
Lee, who played the character, was Jewish in real life)
- Isaac
the Jew and his daughter Rebecca, from the novel Ivanhoe
- Janice, from U.S. 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 U.S. drama
"The West Wing".
- Rhoda
Morgenstern, from The
Mary Tyler Moore Show
- Pickles
family, from The
Rugrats (half-Jewish family, mother Jewish, mentioned in
special Passover episode, a Chanukah episode was also made)
- Grace
Polk, from Joan
of Arcadia
- Kitty Pryde aka Shadowcat
formely of the X-Men
and Excalibur mutant groups.
- Willow Rosenberg, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Jane
Smith, character played by Angelina Jolie in Mr. and Mrs. Smith
- 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
- Charlotte York-Goldenblatt,
from Sex and the City
(converted)
- Toby Ziegler, from the U.S.
drama "The West Wing" (Richard Schiff, who plays
the character, is Jewish in real life)
- Doctor Zoidberg from U.S.
TV Cartoon Show "Futurama"
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