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

Arts, Performing

Actors / Actresses

Comedians

Directors

Hollywood Bosses

Illusionists

Arts, Visual

Artists

Cartoons & Comics

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

Clothing

Business

Controversy

Crime

Victims

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

Law

Literature & Journalism

Writers

Media

Military

Israeli military

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

US military

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
  • Jonathan Pollard, United States Navy intelligence analyst, passed information to Israel
  • Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg, allegedly gave United States atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union
  • Krystyna Skarbek, Polish-born British Special Operations Executive agent
  • Hannah Szenes, Hungarian-born British-Palestine, Special Operations Executive agent
  • Mordechai Vanunu, Moroccon-born Israeli, spied on Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor, (converted to Christianity)
  • Moshe Marzouk, Israeli spy and Karaite Jew executed by Egypt, part of the Lavon Affair

Musicians

Politics

International world politicians

Israeli politicians

See: List of Israeli politicians (most are Jewish)

Political activists

US politicians

Russian revolutionaries and politicians

WW2 Ghetto politicians

World revolutionaries and politicians

Religious Figures

Biblical figures

See: List of Jewish Biblical figures

Rabbis

See: List of rabbis

Other religious leaders

Scientists & Philosophers

See: List of Jewish scientists and philosophers & List of Jewish Nobel Prize winners

Sports

Miscellaneous

African-American Jews

Personalities with unproven and/or distant partial Jewish heritage

  • David Beckham, English Soccer (mother's father is Jewish)
  • Fidel Castro, Cuban leader (may be descended from Conversos)
  • Christopher Columbus, explorer (may have been a Converso)
  • Christopher Hitchens, British-born journalist and contrarian (Jewish maternal grandmother)
  • John Kerry, Senator from Massachusets (Catholic. Paternal Jewish grandparents converted to Catholicism)
  • Vladimir Lenin, leader of Russian Bolsheviks during Russian Revolution (maternal grandfather was Jewish)
  • Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright (acknowledged descent from Conversos)
  • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, US first lady (1 grandparent was Jewish)
  • Colin Powell, US Secerarty of State (father's side has Jewish strain through Broomfield according to his autobiography)
  • Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (1 grandparent was Jewish)
  • Carlos Santana, Mexican born US musician (acknowledges descent from Conversos)
  • Jack Straw, British Foreign Secretary (1 grandparent was Jewish)
  • Raoul Wallenberg, Protector of Jews during Holocaust (1 Jewish great-great grandparent)
  • Caspar Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (Christian, father's father was Jewish)
  • Wanda Wasilewska, Polish communist leader, alleged Stalin mistress and collaborator
  • Pete Sampras, Father's mother was Jewish

Fictional Characters

See also: List of Jewish superheroes

See also

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