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Summary: This page is a list of people identified as Jews, either by themselves or by others. "Jewishness" has the meanings both of "adherence to the religion of Judaism" and "membership in the ethnic group 'Jews'". People of both groups are listed here. This page does not differentiate between Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism, Reform Judaism or Reconstructionist Judaism. It also does not take into account whether those listed acknowledge their Jewish identity or origins. Many may have spent th ...

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List of Jews

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

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

Table of contents
1 Performing arts
2 Business
3 Cartoons and comics
4 Crime
5 Law
6 Literature and journalism
7 Military
8 Music and Song
9 Philosophy and Academic
10 Politics
11 Religious figures
12 Science and mathematics
13 Spies
14 Sports
15 Visual arts
16 Miscellaneous
17 Jewish fictional characters
18 Leaders and personalities with partial Jewish lineage (or unknown)
19 See also
20 External links

Performing arts

Actors / actresses

Comedians

Directors

Hollywood bosses

Illusionists

Business

Cartoons and comics

Crime

Law

Literature and journalism

Military

US generals

  • Julius O. Adler (World War II)
  • Leopold Blumenberg (Civil War)
  • Phineas Horowitz (Civil War)
  • Stanley H. Hyman (Vietnam)
  • Frederick Knefler (Civil War)
  • Alfred Mordechai (Civil War)
  • Leopold Newman (Civil War)
  • Maurice Rose (World War II)
  • Edward S. Salomon (Civil War)
  • Robert B. Solomon (Vietnam)

Music and Song

Philosophy and Academic

Politics

US Politicians

Israeli Politicians

Political activists

  • Abe Foxman, US director of the Anti-Defamation League
  • David Horowitz, US neoconservative writer and social activist
  • Mel Mermelstein, Auschwitz survivor and reward-winner from the Institute for Historical Review
  • Irv Rubin, chairman of the Jewish Defense League
  • Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi-hunter
  • Tim Wise, anti-racism lecturer and activist

Revolutionaries

Other Politicians

Religious figures

Biblical figures

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

Rabbis (Talmudic)

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

Rabbis (Middle Ages)

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

Rabbis (Orthodox)

Rabbis (Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist, and other)

Religious leaders (other)

Science and mathematics

Spies

Sports

Visual arts

Miscellaneous

Jewish fictional characters

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