List of Sephardic Jews
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List of Sephardic Jews.
A list of notable Jews of Sephardic ancestry:
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[edit] A
- Paula Abdul (1962 - ) American actress, dancer, choreographer, singer, and television personality[1]
- Abravanel family
- Maurice Abravanel, conductor
- Senor Abravanel (Sílvio Santos), TV show host in Brazil and owner of SBT (Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão), the second biggest Brazilian television network.
- Uriel Acosta, rationalist
- George Allen, American politician (Sephardic grandparents)
- Albert Jean Amateau, rabbi
- Franck Amsallem, Algerian-born French-American jazz pianist
- Ronni Ancona, impressionist
- Edward Andrade, physicist
- Marc D. Angel, rabbi
- Samuel Avital, founder of Le Centre du Silence Mime School
- Hank Azaria, actor
- Max Azria, fashion designer, founder of BCBG
- Grace (Gracia) Aguilar, Sephardic poet, Daughter of Emmanuelle and Sara Aguilar
- Shlomo Moshe Amar, Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Born in Morocco
- Moshe Raphael d'Aguilar, Portuguese Rabbi, helped establish Jewish Community in Brazil after the Inquisition.
[edit] B
- Washington Bartlett, mayor of San Francisco, California
- Shoshana Bean, Broadway actress (mother is half Sephardic, half Ashkenazic; grandmother's family is from the Ottoman Empire)
- David Belasco, playwright
- Frieda Belinfante, cellist, conductor
- Baruj Benacerraf, immunologist, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine
- Shlomo Ben-Ami, Israeli diplomat
- Menasseh Ben Israel, rabbi, scholar, printer and diplomat
- Judah P. Benjamin, politician and lawyer
- Émile Benveniste, linguist
- David Benvenisti, writer, historian and geographer
- Jacques Benveniste, French immunologist
- Meron Benvenisti, vice-mayor of Jerusalem around 1980, researcher on the occupation of the West Bank
- J. D. Bernal, scientist, Marxist writer (Sephadic father and non-Jewish mother)
- Bernays family
- Edward Bernays, father of public relations
- Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records (English father and Sephardic mother)
- Niels Bohr, Nobel physicist (Danish father and Sephardic mother)
- Aage Bohr, Nobel physicist, son of Niels
- Lili Boniche, Algerian singer
- Jorge Luis Borges, author (descendant of Isidoro Suárez, Argentinian Colonel of possible Sephardic origins).
- Michel Boujenah, comedian
- Tony Bullimore[2], British yachtsman
[edit] C
- Calderon family
- Neve Campbell, U.S. actress (Her mother, Marnie, is Sephardic)
- Campos family
- Elias Canetti, author, Nobel Prize winner in literature
- Veza Canetti, author (Sephardic mother & Ashkenazic father)
- Georg Cantor, mathematician (Sephardic father)
- Cardoso family
- Benjamin Cardozo, United States Supreme Court justice
- Sem Tob de Carrión, Spanish poet
- Anthony Caro, sculptor
- Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, composer
- Miguel de Cervantes, writer (Sephardic ancestors)
- David Charvet, actor
- Emmanuelle Chriqui, actress
- Hélène Cixous, feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher and literary critic (Ashkenazic father and Sephardic mother)
- Albert Cohen, Greek-born Swiss writer
- Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Nobel Prize winner in physics
- Ronald Cohen, businessman and political figure
- Christopher Columbus, navigator (Sephardic ancestors)
- Isaac da Costa, poet
- Michael Costa, conductor and composer
- Sam Costa, singer and comedian
- Peter Coyote, actor (Sephardic father)
- Curiel family
[edit] D, E
- Moïse de Camondo
- Béatrice de Camondo
- Nissim de Camondo
- Lorenzo da Ponte, librettist
- Daniel De Leon, socialist
- Delgado family
- Cecil B. DeMille, film director (mother Sephardic)
- Jacques Derrida, philosopher
- Benjamin Disraeli, British politician
- Joseph Duveen, art dealer
[edit] F
- Fonseca family
- Karl Emil Franzos, author (Russian mother)
- Anna Freud, psychoanalyst (Sephardic mother & Ashkenazic father)
- Diane von Fürstenberg, fashion designer (Greek-Jewish Sephardic mother)
[edit] G
- Eydie Gorme, singer
- Hélène Grimaud, pianist
[edit] H
- Yehuda Halevy, poet
- Harari Family, prominent Egyptian family
- Sidney Hart, British trade unionist
- Heinrich Heine, poet (Sephardic mother)
- Henriette Herz, the first Jewish woman to host a salon (nee de Lemos)
- Leslie Hore-Belisha, British Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister
[edit] I
- Ivan Illich, polymath, polemicist (Sephardic mother)
[edit] J
- Edmond Jabès, author
[edit] K
- Lainie Kazan, singer and actress (Sephardic mother & Ashkenazic father)
- Otto Klemperer, conductor (Sephardic mother & Ashkenazic father)
[edit] L
- Emma Lazarus, poet
- Primo Levi, author
- Rita Levi-Montalcini, neurologist, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine
- Yosi Saffi Levy, sephardic Israeli singer in Los Angeles
- Benny Levy, author, secretary to Sartre
- Bernard-Henri Levy, philosopher
- David Levy, Israeli politician
- Uriah P. Levy, American Commodore
- Arthur Lourié, composer
- Isaac Luria, scholar and mystic (Ashkenazic father and Sephardic mother)
- Salvador Luria, Nobel Prize winner in medicine
- Rosa Luxemburg, revolutionary
- Lol Levy, actor
[edit] M
- Moses Maimonides, physician and commentator
- David Malouf, writer (Lebanese-Christian father and English-Jewish mother of Portuguese descent)
- Georges, Paul, Armand, and Maurice Marciano, founders of Guess?
- Benjamin Melendez, broker for the gang truce
- Albert Memmi, author
- Catulle Mendès, poet
- Sam Mendes, film director
- Jacob Mendes da Costa, physician
- Pierre Mendès-France, French politician
- Daniel Mendoza, boxer
- Mercado family
- Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, painter
- Darius Milhaud, composer (maternal Sephardic grandfather)
- Michael Mizrachi, poker player (Iraqi father)
- Isaac Mizrahi, fashion designer
- Alan Mocatta, Judge
- Patrick Modiano, author (Sephardic-Italian father and Flemish mother)
- Amedeo Modigliani, painter
- Michel de Montaigne, writer (His mother, Antoinette de Louppes, came from a rich Spanish Jewish family)
- Moses Montefiore, Jewish leader
- Monzon family
- Dario Moreno, singer
- Shelley Morrison, Actress
[edit] N
- Sir Gerald Nabarro, British MP
- Doña Gracia Mendes Nasi
- Yitzhak Navon, Israeli politician
- Yechiel Nahari, among the greatest Sephardic cantors of all time
- Mordecai Manuel Noah, playwright, diplomat, journalist and utopian
- Danny Nucci, actor
[edit] O
- Achy Obejas, writer
- Jerry Orbach, actor (father was a German Jew of Sephardic origin)
- Rodrigues Ottolengui, writer
[edit] P
- Pacheco family
- Pardo family
- Pereira family
- Jules Pascin, painter
- Murray Perahia, American concert pianist
- Victor Perera, Guatemalan author
- Sean Paul, Jamaican musician, Dancehall singer (Sephardic Jewish father)
- Pinto family
- Harold Pinter, playwright (originally Pinto)
- Camille Pissarro, painter
- Georges de Porto-Riche, playwright
- Prado family
[edit] Q, R
- David Ricardo, economist
- Rocamora family
- Edouard Roditi, author
[edit] S, T
- Jacques Saada, Canadian Cabinet minister and politician
- Charles Saatchi, founder of Saatchi and Saatchi
- Maurice Saatchi, founder of Saatchi and Saatchi
- Haim Saban, media mogul
- Safra Family, prominent Syrian bankers
- Francis Salvador, first American Jew to be killed in the American Revolution
- Jorge Sampaio, Portuguese President of the Republic
- Pete Sampras, professional tennis player (Sephardic Greek Jewish paternal grandmother)
- Jacob Samuda, civil engineer
- Nicolas Sarkozy, French politician (Sephardic grandfather, Hungarian father)
- Siegfried Sassoon, poet (Sephardic father)
- Victor Sassoon, hotelier
- Vidal Sassoon, hair stylist (Sephardic father)
- Neil Sedaka, singer
- Emilio G. Segrè, physicist, Nobel Prize winner in physics
- Peter Sellers, actor (descendant of Daniel Mendoza, a marrano boxer)
- Abraham Serfaty, Moroccan dissident
- Silvan Shalom, Foreign Minister of Israel
- Jamie-Lynn Sigler, actress (father Steve Sigler is Sephardic)
- Martial Solal, Algerian-born, French jazz pianist
- Raphael Soriano, modernist architect
- Sousa family
- Suasso family
- Baruch Spinoza, philosopher
- Matt Stone, animator (Sephardic mother)
- Meryl Streep, actress (Sephardic Dutch father and Irish/Swiss/English mother) Originally Messerschnitz
- André Suarès, poet
- Adolph Sutro, mayor of San Francisco, California
- Tarragona family
- Ralph de Toledano, journalist
[edit] U, V
- Mordechai Vanunu, nuclear technician
[edit] W, X
- Warburg family (Italian origin, Bologna)
- Aby Warburg, art critic
- Chaim Aharon Valero, banker, Jerusalem
- Aaron Valero, physician
[edit] Y
- Avrham B. Yehoshua, author
- David Levi Yulee, politician
- Ovadia Yosef, former Chief Rabbi of Israel, of Iraqui Descent
[edit] Z
- Zaporta family
- Alexander von Zemlinsky, composer (maternal Sephardic grandfather)
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Eichner, Itamar. "Israeli minister, American Idol", YNetNew.com, 2006-11-17. Retrieved on 2006-11-17.
- ^ "Bullimore's sister buoyed by rabbis' support", Jewish Chronicle January 24, 1997 p.1
