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Rest of World
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This page is a list of people identified as Jews. "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 ethnicities 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. A scant few listed here may have spent their lives ignoring or even actively disguising their Jewish origins. Individuals listed may only partially be of Jewish ancestry (though that is 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 considered Jewish, but attempts to note such issues in order that more restrictive definitions may be applied by the reader based on their own opinions or interpretations of the issue.

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

Contents

[edit] Arts (performing)

[edit] Actors / Actresses

See: List of Jewish actors and actresses

[edit] Aristocratic

[edit] Comedians

[edit] Directors

[edit] Motion picture production

[edit] Illusionists

[edit] Musicians

[edit] Film composers and Hollywood/Broadway song writers

[edit] Classical musicians

[edit] Popular, rock, jazz

[edit] Arts, Visual

[edit] Artists and architects

[edit] 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. comic book writer and co-creator of many Marvel Comics heroes
  • Harvey Pekar, U.S. comic book writer; (American Splendor)
  • Paul Palnik, U.S.cartoon artist; (The God of Cartoons; Eternaloons}
  • 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 mother)
  • Mort Weisinger, U.S. comic book and magazine editor; (Superman, Supergirl)

[edit] Film Critics

[edit] Fashion

[edit] Business

[edit] Controversy

[edit] Crime

[edit] Militants

[edit] 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.

[edit] Law

[edit] Literature and journalism

[edit] Poets and Lyric Writers

[edit] Writers

[edit] Media

[edit] Military

[edit] 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
  • David Shaltiel, Israeli general, directed HaGanah counterintelligence prior to and during 1948 War of Independence, later served as Israeli Ambassador to the Netherlands.
  • 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

[edit] U.S. military

  • Julius O. Adler Brigadier General,(World War II) Commanded the 77th Infantry Division
  • Jeremy Michael Boorda Admiral, (Vietnam; Kosovo)
  • Wesley Kane Clark, former NATO commander during the Bosnian War (Jewish father, raised Baptist, converted to Catholicism)
  • 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
  • Jean Lafitte Buccaneer leader who aided Gen. Jackson's defeat of British in thebattle of New Orleans in 1812 War.
  • 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.
  • 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 S. Salomon (Civil War)
  • Haym Salomon (American Revolution), Sons of Liberty, Financier
  • Francis Salvador (American Revolution), "Paul Revere of the South"

[edit] 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, 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

[edit] Politics

[edit] International world politicians

[edit] Israeli politicians

See: List of Israeli politicians (most are Jewish)

[edit] Political activists

[edit] U.S. politicians

[edit] Russian revolutionaries and politicians

[edit] World War II Ghetto politicians

[edit] World revolutionaries and politicians

[edit] Religious figures

[edit] Biblical figures

See: List of Jewish Biblical figures.

[edit] Rabbis

See: List of rabbis.

[edit] Other religious leaders

[edit] Scientists and philosophers

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

[edit] Chess players

Ref: http://www.jinfo.org/Chess_Players.html

[edit] Sports

[edit] Miscellaneous

[edit] Personalities with distant and/or partial (1/8 or less) Jewish heritage

  • Alan Alda, US actor (claims himself to possibly be a descendant of "Conversos" on his Italian father's side)
  • Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author (paternal great-grandfather, Colonel Isidoro Suarez, was Jewish)
  • Fidel Castro, Cuban leader (may be descended from Islamic or Jewish Conversos)
  • Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (His mother, Leonor de Cortinas, may have been a descendant of Jewish converts to Christianity)
  • Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator (according to "Adolf Hitler" by John Toland, Franco's grandmother was descent from Conversos)
  • Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer (one-sixteenth Jewish)
  • Christopher Hitchens, British-born journalist and contrarian (Jewish maternal great-great-great-grandmother; brother Peter Hitchens traced their ancestry as 1/32 Jewish)
  • Val Kilmer, US actor (distant Sephardic Jewish ancestry)
  • Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright (acknowledged descent from Conversos)
  • Elvis Presley, U.S. musician (maternal great-great-grandmother Nancy Tackett, née Burdine, was, or at least believed to have been Jewish)
  • Rainer Maria Rilke, Czech-born Austrian poet (according to "Rilke - Sein Leben, seine Welt, sein Werk" by Wolfgang Leppmann, maternal great-great-grandmother, Theresia Mayerhof, was Jewish)
  • Carlos Santana, Mexican-born U.S. musician (acknowledges descent from Conversos)
  • Sylvester Stallone, US actor (Russian Jewish maternal great-grandfather; surname "Labofish")
  • Meryl Streep, U.S. actress (acknowledges distant Sephardic Jewish heritage)
  • Raoul Wallenberg, Protector of Jews during Holocaust (one Jewish great-great grandparent)

[edit] Fictional characters

See also: List of Jewish superheroes

[edit] External links

he:יהודים מפורסמים באומות העולם ja:ユダヤ人の一覧 zh:犹太人列表

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