Knuth Prize

Jewish recipients of the Knuth Prize documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 48% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.

48%of all recipients are Jewish

8 documented recipients

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Richard Lipton2014

Complexity theorist; Knuth Prize laureate (2014)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Knuth Prize

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Oded Goldreich2017

Israeli cryptographer who laid the foundations of modern cryptography; Knuth Prize (2017)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Knuth Prize

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Cynthia Dwork2006

Co-inventor of differential privacy, the standard for protecting personal data; Gödel Prize (2017), Knuth Prize (2020)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Knuth & Gödel Prizes

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Moshe Vardi2000

Israeli-American pioneer of logic in computer science; Gödel Prize (2000), Knuth Prize (2021)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Knuth & Gödel Prizes

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Noga Alon2005

Israeli combinatorialist; Gödel Prize (2005), Knuth Prize (2022)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Knuth & Gödel Prizes

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Éva Tardos2012

Hungarian-American founder of algorithmic game theory; Gödel Prize (2012), Knuth Prize (2023)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Knuth & Gödel Prizes

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Micha Sharir2025

Israeli pioneer of computational geometry; Knuth Prize laureate (2025)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Knuth Prize

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Noam Nisan2012

Israeli pioneer of algorithmic game theory and complexity; Gödel Prize (2012), Knuth Prize (2016)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Knuth & Gödel Prizes