Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Note that "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. Table of contents 1 List of noted Jews 1.1 Business 1.2 Entertainment 1.3 Music 1.4 Philosophy, Literature, and Psychology 1.5 Politics 1.6 Rabbis 1.7 Religion (non-rabbis) 1.8 Science and Mathematics 1.9 Sports 1.10 The Visual Arts 1.11 War 1.12 Miscellaneous 2 External links List of noted Jews Business Roman Abramovich, Russian billionaire Vladimir Gusinsky, Russian billionaire Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft Boris Berezovsky, Russian billionaire Michael Bloomberg (born 1943), founder of Bloomberg Financial Markets, Mayor of New York City (2002-) Isaac Carasso, Spanish founder of Danone group Andre Citroen, French automaker Joshua Lionel Cowen, American inventor and founder of toy manufacturer Lionel Corporation Mark Cuban, billionaire owner of Dallas Mavericks Michael Dell (born 1965), founder of Dell Computer Corporation Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation Mikhail Fridman, Russian billionaire Alan Greenspan (born 1926), economist, chairman of the American Federal Reserve Milton Hershey, Hershey Chocolate founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian oligarch Roy Neuberger, financier (Neuberger & Berman) who uses money to buy and publicize rare art (staunchly atheistic Jew) Ron Popeil, US inventor Sumner Redstone (born Murray Rothstein), CEO of Viacom Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1743-1812), German banker, first of the Rothschild family David Sarnoff, General Manager of RCA corporation Ron Sommer, CEO of Deutsche Telekom George Soros, Hungarian millionaire Victor Vekselberg, Russian billionaire Max Warburg (1867-1946), German banker Paul Warburg (1868-1932), American banker, Federal Reserve founder and board member Entertainment Anouk Aimee, French actress Woody Allen (born 1935), United States comedian, film director Jason Alexander, US actor, known from Seinfeld Patricia Arquette, US actress Bea Arthur, US actress, known from Maude and Golden Girls Ed Asner, US actor Lauren Bacall, US actress Barbara Bain, US actress, known from Mission Impossible Theda Bara, US actress Rosanne Barr, US actress Richard Belzer, US actor and comedian Jack Benny, US comedian Milton Berle, US comedian Sandra Bernhard, US actress Sarah Bernhardt, French actress Joey Bishop, US comedian and actor, member of the Rat Pack Jack Black, US actor and rock musician Mel Blanc, US cartoon voice actor David Blaine (born 1973), US illusionist Yasmine Bleeth, US actress Lisa Bonet, US actress, known from The Cosby Show Ernest Borgnine, US actor Tom Bosley, US actor Fanny Brice, US comedienne Albert Brooks, US actor Mel Brooks (b. 1926) US comedian, filmmaker Lenny Bruce, US satirist George Burns, US comedian James Caan, US actor Sid Caesar, US comedian Dyan Cannon, US actress Eddie Cantor US comedian, singer, entertainer Al Capp, US cartoonist Kate Capshaw, US actress Kitty Carlisle, US game show panelist Nell Carter, US actress Jill Clayburgh, US Oscar-nominated actress Sacha Baron Cohen, UK comedian best known for his fictional character, Ali G Joan Collins, British actress, known from Dynasty David Copperfield, US illusionist Billy Crystal, US actor and comedian Jamie Lee Curtis, US actress Tony Curtis, US actor Rodney Dangerfield, US comedian Larry David, US actor and comedy writer Sammy Davis Jr, American actor and performer Kirk Douglas, US actor Richard Dreyfuss, US actor Fran Drescher, US actress. Peter Falk, US actor Corey Feldman, US actor Marty Feldman, British comedian Norman Fell, US actor Harvey Fierstein, US actor Larry Fine, US actor, one of the Three Stooges Carrie Fisher, US actress, star of Star Wars movies Max Fleischer, US animated cartoonist Al Franken, US actor and comedy writer Bonnie Franklin, US actress, known from One Day at a Time Allen Funt, candid camera tv show creator Eva Gabor, Hungarian-American actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress Uri Geller, Israeli spoon bending magician Estelle Getty, US actress, known from Golden Girls Melissa Gilbert, US actress, known from Little House on the Prairie Jeff Goldblum, US actor Gilbert Gottfried, US comedian Seth Green, US actor Jennifer Grey, US actress Joel Grey, US actor Charles Grodin, US actor Steve Gutenberg, US actor Buddy Hackett, US comedian Monty Hall, Canadian game show host Goldie Hawn, US actress Judd Hirsch, US actor Dustin Hoffman, US actor Judy Holliday, US Oscar-winning actress Harry Houdini (1874-1926), US illusionist John Houseman,(born Jacques Haussmann) Romanian-born American actor Curly Howard, US actor, one of the Three Stooges Moe Howard, US actor, one of the Three Stooges Shemp Howard, US actor, one of the Three Stooges Kate Hudson, US actress, daughter of Goldie Hawn Amy Irving, US actress Ricky Jay, US magician and actor Ron Jeremy, US pornstar Al Jolson, US singer, actor, early sound film star Carolyn Jones, US actress, known from The Addams Family Madeline Kahn, US actress Gabriel Kaplan, US actor Andy Kaufman, US actor and comedian Danny Kaye, US actor, dancer, and singer Harvey Keitel, US actor Jack Klugman, US actor Stanley Kubrick, US director Lisa Kudrow, US actress Rikki Lake, US talk show hostess Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-US actress Martin Landau, US actor Piper Laurie, US actress Linda Lavin, US actress Stan Lee (born 1922), US comic book creator Jennifer Jason Leigh, US actress Eugene Levy, US actor Al Lewis, US actor, Grandpa on The Munsters Richard Lewis, US comedian Jerry Lewis, US actor and comedian 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 Peter Lorre, US actor Tina Louise, US actress Jon Lovitz, US actor and comedian Ali MacGraw, US actress Howie Mandel, Canadian comedian Marx Brothers, US actors Marlee Matlin, US Oscar-winning deaf actress Benjamin "Petey" Masten, US radio personality Walter Matthau, US actor Anne Meara, US comedienne and actress Bette Midler, US singer and actress Marilyn Monroe, US actress Rick Moranis, Canadian actor Judd Nelson, US actor, member of the Brat Pack Laraine Newman, US actress, known from Saturday Night Live Paul Newman, US actor Leonard Nimoy, US actor, known from Star Trek Sharon Osbourne, actress wife of Ozzy Osbourne Gwyneth Paltrow, US actress Sara Jessica Parker, US actress S.J. Perelman, US writer Rhea Perlman, US actress Suzanne Pleshette, US actress Kevin Pollack, US actor Tracy Pollan, US actress wife of Michael J. Fox Roman Polanski, director Natalie Portman, US actress'' Gilda Radner, US actress, known from Saturday Night Live Harold Ramis, US actor Joan Rivers, US comedian Winona Ryder, US actress Emma Samms, British actress, known from Dynasty Adam Sandler, US actor/comedian Laura Schlessinger, US radio personality Jerry Seinfeld, US comedian William Shatner, Canadian actor, known from Star Trek Ally Sheedy, US actress Dinah Shore, US actress Simone Signoret, French actress Jaclyn Smith, US actress, original Charlie's Angels Rena Sofer, US actress Steven Spielberg, US director Howard Stern, US radio personality Ben Stiller, US actor and comedian David Suchet, British actor, cited as the definitive Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot Elizabeth Taylor, British actress Rachel Weisz, British actress Ruth Westheimer, sex expert Billy Wilder (1906-2002), director Music Herb Alpert, US musician Irving Berlin, US songwriter, composer Dan Bern, US songwriter, singer Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), US conductor, composer Ernest Bloch, Swiss-born composer Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer (converted to Buddhism) Aaron Copland, US composer Sammy Davis, Jr, US singer Neil Diamond, US singer Paul Dukas, French composer Bob Dylan (b. 1941), US singer, songwriter Perry Farrell, US musician, bandleader Kenny G, US musician Art Garfunkel, US singer Benny Goodman, US musician, bandleader Billy Joel, US singer Jascha Heifetz, US violinist Susannah Hoffs, one-fourth of the US band The Bangles Otto Klemperer, German-born conductor Ted Lewis, musician, entertainer György Ligeti, Hungarian composer Gustav Mahler, composer (converted to Catholicism) Barry Manilow (born 1946), US entertainer Felix Mendelssohn, Romantic composer (converted to Christianity) Yehudi Menuhin, US/British violinist, conductor, educator Giacomo Meyerbeer, Opera composer Mezz Mezzrow, US jazz musician Darius Milhaud, French composer Nathan Milstein, US violinist Randy Newman, US singer Jacques Offenbach, French composer Itzhak Perlman, US violinist Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer Curt Sachs, musicologist Artur Schnabel, pianist Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer Artie Shaw, US musician, bandleader Gene Simmons, bass player for KISS Paul Simon, US musician Slash, lead guitarist for Guns 'n Roses Georg Solti, Hungarian/US conductor Phil Spector, US record producer and songwriter Isaac Stern, US violinist Barbra Streisand, US singer, actress Willie "The Lion" Smith, US pianist Paul Stanley, guitar player for KISS Sophie Tucker, Russian born US singer and entertainer Jane Wiedlin, one-fifth of the US band the Go-Gos Kurt Weill, German/US composer John Zorn, American saxophonist and composer Philosophy, Literature, and Psychology Sholem Aleichem, Yiddish writer Theodor Adorno, German philosopher, sociologist, composer, music theorist, essayist Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel Prize winner Isaac Asimov, American science fiction author Saul Bellow, American writer Walter Benjamin, German philosopher, critic, essayist Noam Chomsky (born 1928), American linguist, political writer Jacques Derrida (born 1930), French philosopher Anne Frank (1929-1945), Holocaust victim, diarist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian psychologist Zellig Harris, American linguist Max Horkheimer, German philosopher, sociologist Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), German philosopher and holocaust victim Franz Kafka Austrian/German-Bohemian writer Irving Layton, (born Israel Pincu Lazarovitch) Romanian-born Canadian poet. Maimonides (1135-1204), Philosopher, doctor, rabbi Herbert Marcuse, German/American philosopher, sociologist, political scientist Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), American writer Erich Mühsam (1878-1934), German poet and revolutionary Nachmanides Philosopher, mystic, rabbi Amos Oz (born 1937), Israeli writer Daniel Pearl (1963-2002), Wall Street Journal journalist, kidnapped and killed. I. L. Peretz, Yiddish writer Ayn Rand (1905-1982), writer Philip Roth (b.1933), American writer Robert Silverberg, American science fiction author Isaac Bashevis Singer, (1904-1991), Yiddish writer Baruch Spinoza, (1632-1677) philosopher Tristan Tzara, (1896-1963) (born Sami Rosenstock) Romanian-born French poet Elie Wiesel, writer Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Austrian philosopher Stefan Zweig, (1881-1942), Austrian writer Politics Madeleine Albright (born 1937), US Secretary of State (1997-2001) Ehud Barak (b.1942), Israeli prime minister (1999-2001) Menachem Begin (1913-1992), Prime Minister of Israel (1977-1983) David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973), founder of Israel, Prime Minister of Israel (1948-1953 and 1955-1963) Judah P. Benjamin (1811-1884), Secretary of State for the Confederate States of America Michael Bloomberg (born 1943), founder of Bloomberg Financial Markets, Mayor of New York City (2002-) Barbara Boxer, US Senator from California Norm Coleman, US Senator from Minnesota Moshe Dayan (1915-1981), Israeli politician and general. Directed the 1956 Suez War and Six-Day War Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British Prime Minister (1868 and 1874-1880), raised as an Anglican Kurt Eisner (1867-1919), German politician (socialist), first prime minister of Bavaria Dianne Feinstein, US Senator from California Russ Feingold, US Senator from Wisconsin Emma Goldman (1869-1940), feminist and anarchist Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), founder of Zionism Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (1860-1935), British politician and Viceroy of India Vladimir Jabotinsky, Zionist leader Henry Kissinger (born 1923), US Secretary of State (1973-1977), winner of 1973 Nobel Peace Prize Herb Kohl, US Senator from Wisconsin Ferdinand Lassal, German Socialist revolutioner Joe Lieberman, Vice President candidate and US Senator from Connecticut Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919), German Communist leader Karl Marx (1818-1883), founder of Marxism, raised as a Lutheran Julius L. Meier, governor of the State of Oregon Golda Meir (1898-1978), Prime Minister of Israel (1969-1974) Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist Benjamin Netanyahu (born 1949), Prime Minister of Israel (1996-1999) Shimon Peres (born 1923), Prime Minister of Israel (1977, 1984-1986, and 1995-1996), shared winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995), Prime Minister of Israel (1974-1977 and 1992-1995), shared 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, assassinated in 1995 Walther Rathenau (1867-1922), German industrialist and statesman Jack Ruby (1911-1965) US assassin of assassin Herbert Samuel (1870-1963), British politician and High Commissioner of Palestine Charles Schumer, US Senator from New York Ariel Sharon (b. 1928), Israeli general and prime minister Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), Russian Bolshevik Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952), leading Zionist and first President of Israel Paul Wellstone former US Senator from Minnesota Ron Wyden, US Senator from Oregon Grigory Zinoviev (1883-1936), Russian Bolshevik Rabbis Hillel Shammai Judah haNasi (Judah the Prince, redactor of the Mishnah) Abba Mari Asher ben Jehiel Abraham ibn Ezra Bahya ibn Paquda 11th century Spanish Jewish philosopher Abraham ibn Daud Gersonides, Levi ben Gershom, the Ralbag Maimonides Moshe Ben Maimon, aka the Rambam Nahmanides Moshe ben Nahman of Gerondi, aka the Ramban Yair Bacharach Israel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov, founder of Hasidic Judaism Dovber of Mezeritch Shneur Zalman Jacob Abendana Jacob Ettlinger Nosson Zvi Finkel Zecharias Frankel - Founder of the positive-historical school of Judaism Samuel Holdheim A founder of classic German Reform Judaism Samson Raphael Hirsch - Founder of neo-Orthodox Judaism Abraham Isaac Kook - First chief rabbi of pre-State Israel in Palestine. Moses Chaim Luzzato - Kabbalist, mystic Solomon Schechter - Founder of Conservative Judaism as a distinct movement Elliot N. Dorff - Bioethicist Nosson Zvi Finkel Louis Finkelstein - Talmud scholar Robert Gordis - Leader in Conservative Judaism Abraham Joshua Heschel - Hasidic, Conservative Jules Harlow - Liturgist Yitzchok Hutner Meir Kahane - Extremist Mordecai Kaplan - Founder of the Reconstructionist movement Isaac Klein Harold Kushner Jacob Neusner - Prolific writer Joel Roth Zalman Schachter-Shalomi - Jewish Renewal Menachem Mendel Schneerson Last Rebbe of Lubavitch (Chabad) Hasidic Judaism Joseph Soloveitchik - Leading figure in American Modern Orthodoxy Adin Steinsaltz - Talmud scholar Religion (non-rabbis) Abraham (approx. 1980 BC - 1890 BC), first patriarch of Judaism Moses (approx. 1530 BC - 1470 BC) leader of Jewish exodus from Egypt and receiver of Jewish law Jesus Christ (4 BC - 29 AD), Messianist and central figure of Christianity Saul of Tarsus (approx. 2 BC - 67 AD), later known as Saint Paul David, king of ancient Israel Science and Mathematics Niels Henrik Bohr (1885-1962), Danish physicist, winner of 1922 Nobel Prize Albert Einstein (1879-1955), scientist, winner of 1921 Nobel Physics Prize Paul Erdös, prolific mathematician Richard Feynman (1918-1988), US physicist Rosalind Franklin, British chemist Murray Gell-Mann, US physicist Stephen Jay Gould, US paleontologist and author of popular science Fritz Haber, German chemist Roald Hoffmann, theoretical chemist Karl Gustav Jacobi, German mathematician Hans Krebs biologist, discovered Krebs Cycle Benoit Mandelbrot (born 1924), Mathematician, creator of fractal geometry Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist Herman Minkowski, German mathematician Gregory Pincus (1906-1969), Biologist, inventor of the birth control pill Steven Pinker, Canadian psychologist Lionel Rothschild, 2nd Lord Rothschild (1868-1937), British zoologist, businessman, and politician Oliver Sacks (born 1933), neurologist and author Carl Sagan, US astronomer Jonas Salk polio vaccine Leo Szilard physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project Edward Teller, physicist, worked on the hydrogen bomb Stanislaw Ulam, mathematician, worked on the hydrogen bomb, descendant of Joseph Caro John Von Neumann, mathematician and computer scientist Robert Oppenheimer, US physicist, leader of the Manhattan Project Andre Weil, French mathematician Steven Weinberg Nobel prize winning physicist Sports Bob Arum, American boxing promoter Moe Berg, American spy and baseball player Marty Friedman, defensive basketball player in early basketball history Bill Goldberg, U.S. professional wrestler Hank Greenberg, baseball player Sandy Koufax, Major League Baseball pitcher Barney Ross, world champion boxer Mike Rossman, world champion boxer James Toney, world champion boxer The Visual Arts Richard Avedon, U.S. photographer Marc Chagall, Russian/French painter and stained glass artist Judy Chicago, U.S. feminist painter and artist Rube Goldberg, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, sculptor, and author Al Hirschfeld, U.S. caricaturist Peter Max, artist Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter Helmut Newton, German photographer Jules Pascin, French artist Camille Pissarro, French impressionist painter William Steig, U.S. cartoonist and illustrator War Sarah Aaronsohn (1890-1917), head of Nili, a Jewish spy-ring in Palestine assisting the British during WWI. David Ben-Ishay or King David, biblical Jewish king (tribe of Judah), the conqueror of Yevus and the builder of Jerusalem Denise Bloch (1915-1945), SOE agent, decorated in WW II Eli Cohen, Israeli spy Moshe Dayan (1915-1981), Israeli politician and general. Directed the 1956 Suez War and Six-Day War Simon bar Kokhba leader of the second Jewish revolt Yoni Netanyahu (1946-1976), Israeli war hero Ilan Ramon ((1955-2003), Israeli pilot, Israel's first astronaut Julius (1918-1953) & Ethel Rosenberg (1915-1953), American spies who sold nuclear information to the USSR Samson, biblical judge (Shofet) with super-human strength Ariel Sharon, Israeli general Prime Minister of Israel (2001-?) Krystyna Skarbek (1915-1952), SOE agent Hannah Szenes (1921-1944), SOE agent Joseph Trumpeldor, soldier and early Zionist Miscellaneous David Berkowitz, US serial killer, Son of Sam murders Louis Brandeis, US Supreme Court Justice Alan Dershowitz, US lawyer Alfred Dreyfus, French army officer falsely accused of treason Bobby Fischer , US chess player Abe Fortas, US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, US Supreme Court Justice Meyer Lansky, US gangster Leopold and Loeb, US killers Monica Lewinsky, US intern to President Bill Clinton, involved in a scandal Bess Myerson, Miss America, tv entertainer Kevin Mitnick, US hacker Arnold Rothstein, US gangster Bugsy Siegel, US gangster Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter See also: List of people by belief, List of Biblical figures External links for more on this topic see http://www.jewhoo.com/ This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.