List of Sephardic Jews

The following is a list of Sephardic Jews. See also List of Iberian Jews.

A list of notable Jews of Sephardic ancestry:

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness. Revisions and additions are welcome.

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Maurice Berger, cultural historian, art critic, curator (Sephardic Mother ;father non-Sephardic Jew)^[2]
Caryl Brahms, writer ^[3]
June Brown. British actress
Tony Bullimore,^[4] British yachtsman

Inês Pires, Mistress of King John I of Portugal. Ancestor of Dukes and Portuguese Kings of the House of Braganza and many of European royalty and nobility.^[8]

^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
^ Lee, Felicia. “Facing Down His Color as a Path to Privilege,” The New York Times (5 May 1999), pp. E1, 10; reprinted as “A Writer Confronts His Color as A Path to Privilege,” in The International Herald Tribune (6 May 1999)
^ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle Dec 10, 1982 p.12
^ "Bullimore's sister buoyed by rabbis' support", Jewish Chronicle January 24, 1997 p.1
^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "he was of Portuguese Jewish descent"
^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only son of David Guedalla, an almond broker in Mincing Lane, who came from a Spanish-Jewish family ... He was buried in Golders Green Jewish cemetery"
^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born into old, established Jewish family"
^ Isabel Violante Pereira, "De Mendo da Guarda a D. Manuel I," Lisbon: Livros Horizonte, 2001. Notice that Inês Pires is only presently presented as a conversa, and that for centuries there was no known doubt regarding her non-Jewish Portuguese ethnicity (which, of course could have been hidden for religious and political reasons, her being the mother of Afonso, 1st Duke of Braganza).
^ Encyclopaedia Judaica 11:1290
^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "The Mocatta family were Jews driven from the Iberian peninsula in 1492"
^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_Michele