• E. D. Hirsch Jr.1928Literary theorist
• E. G. D. Cohen2004Theorist of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
• E. L. Doctorow1931American historical novelist ('Ragtime', 'Billy Bathgate')
• E. Peter Greenberg1948Microbiologist who helped discover bacterial quorum sensing
• E. Roy WeintraubEconomist
• E. Y. Harburg1896Lyricist of 'Over the Rainbow' (Academy Award 1939) and all The Wizard of Oz songs
• Ed Asner1970American Jewish actor ('The Mary Tyler Moore Show', 'Up')
• Ed Snider1933Founded and owned the Philadelphia Flyers
• Eddie Cantor1892Vaudeville and film comedian, singer and radio star
• Eddie Fisher1928Popular 1950s singer and entertainer.
• Eddie Pola1963Co-wrote 'It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year'
• Eddy Goldfarb1949Invented 800+ toys including the wind-up chattering 'Yakity-Yak Talking Teeth,' KerPlunk…
• Eden Sher2013American actress
• Edgar Bronfman Jr.1955Ran Universal Studios/MCA and Warner Music (via Seagram)
• Edgar Bronfman Sr.1929Head of Seagram
• Edgar G. Ulmer1904King of Poverty Row ('The Black Cat', 'Detour')
• Edgar Rubin1886Psychologist known for figure-ground perception and Rubin's vase
• Edie Windsor1929Before Edie Windsor became an LGBT activist, she was a computer programmer at IBM in the…
• Edis De Philippe1912Opera in Israel owes its creation primarily to singer, director, producer, and impresario…
• Edith Altschul Lehman1889Known to many as the cultured wife of one of New York’s most popular governors and…
• Edith Bülbring1903German-born scientist Edith Bülbring was renowned for her work in smooth muscle…
• Edith Fisch1923With great courage and dogged determination, Edith Lond Fisch became a lawyer, legal…
• Edith Gerson-KiwiEdith Gerson-Kiwi was a world-renowned musicologist and a pioneer in the research of the…
• Edith Gregor Halpert1900Edith Gregor Halpert was an influential American art dealer, collector, and businesswoman…
• Edith Head1897Legendary costume designer with a record eight Academy Awards for Hollywood classics.
• Edith I. SpivackA leading member of the Law Department of the City of New York for seventy years, Edith…
• Edith Jacobi Baerwald1878Edith Jacobi Baerwald devoted her energy to philanthropic organizations, but she also…
• Edith Konecky1922In her acclaimed novels, Edith Konecky depicted the world of nouveau riche Jewish…
• Edith Mendel SternA prolific writer as well as an activist in the mental health field, Edith Stern authored…
• Edith Rosenwald Stern1895Edith Rosewald Stern used her family’s wealth for her community’s good.
• Edith Somborn Isaacs1884Edith Somborn Isaacs made an impact on New York City both through her own volunteerism…
• Edith Stein1891Jewish-born phenomenologist and philosopher (later a Catholic saint)
• Edith Weiss-MannEdith Weiss-Mann’s distinguished career as a concert artist, music journalist, and…
• Edith Windsor1929LGBT rights activist whose Supreme Court case struck down the Defense of Marriage Act.
• Edmond Fischer1920Awarded the 1992 Nobel Prize for discovering reversible protein phosphorylation as a…
• Edmond FlegPoet / lyricist
• Edmond Jabès1912French-Egyptian poet and philosophical writer
• Edmond Safra1966Founded Republic National Bank of New York
• Edmund Husserl1900Philosopher who founded phenomenology
• Edmund Klein1921Dermatologist, pioneer of topical cancer immunotherapy
• Edmund Landau1877Analytic number theory
• Edmund LoeweMusician
• Edmund North1970Co-wrote Patton (Academy Award 1970)
• Edna Arbel1944While Edna Arbel was a justice on Israel’s Supreme Court from 2004 to 2014, her career…
• Edna Ferber1885Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist ('So Big', 'Giant', 'Show Boat')
• Edna Goldsmith1874Edna Goldsmith was a driving force in the establishment of the Ohio Federation of Temple…
• Edna Stern1977Classical pianist
• Edouard Baer1966French actor, director and radio host from an Alsatian Jewish paternal family
• Édouard Brézin2011French theorist of critical phenomena
• Edouard Colonne1838Orchestra conductor
• Eduard BagritskiiPoet / lyricist
• Eduard Bernstein1850Democratic-socialist theorist
• Eduard Donath1848Chemist known for technical and applied chemistry
• Eduard Heine1821Analysis
• Eduard Helly1884Convex geometry
• Eduard LoeweMusician
• Eduard Steuermann1892Pianist and composer
• Eduard Suess1831Geologist who founded modern tectonics and hypothesized the supercontinent Gondwanaland
• Eduardo Saverin2004Co-founder of Facebook
• Eduardo SontagComputer & information scientist
• Edward AndradeContinuum mechanics
• Edward Anhalt1964Screenwriter of Becket (Academy Award 1964) and Panic in the Streets (1950)
• Edward Asner1929Emmy-winning actor known for 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', 'Lou Grant' and 'Up'.
• Edward E. DavidComputer & information scientist
• Edward EliscuPoet / lyricist
• Edward Feigenbaum1936Father of expert systems and Turing Award laureate.
• Edward Fredkin1934Pioneer of reversible computing
• Edward G. Robinson1931Celebrated film actor (Little Caesar, Double Indemnity)
• Edward Ginzton1915Physicist
• Edward Goldsmith1928Environmentalist
• Edward Israel1881Astronomer of the Greely Arctic expedition (Lady Franklin Bay, 1881-84) whose…
• Edward Kasner1878Differential geometry
• Edward Kleban1975Lyricist of A Chorus Line
• Edward Lasker1885German-American chess and Go master, five-time US Open chess champion and author (cousin…
• Edward LazearEconomist
• Edward LichtensteinPsychologist (behavioral health, smoking-cessation research)
• Edward Ott1941Chaos theorist and co-inventor of chaos control
• Edward Sapir1884Linguist and anthropologist central to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic…
• Edward Scolnick1940Molecular biologist who advanced oncogene research and led major drug discoveries at Merck
• Edward Shils1910Sociologist known for work on tradition, intellectuals, and the 'center and periphery'
• Edward Stolper1952Geochemist known for igneous petrology and the study of planetary materials
• Edward Szpilrajn-Marczewski1907Measure theory and dimension theory
• Edward Teller1952Hydrogen Bomb
• Edward Ullendorff1920British scholar of Ethiopian and Semitic languages.
• Edward WallantAuthor
• Edward Witten1951Mathematical physics and string theory
• Edward Zigler1930Developmental psychologist and a founder of the Head Start program
• Edward Zipser1939Meteorologist known for research on tropical convection and mesoscale weather systems
• Edward Zwick1998Director of Glory and Defiance and producer of Shakespeare in Love, which won the Academy…
• Edwin Borchard1924Yale scholar who fathered the declaratory judgment in American law
• Edwin Cohen1892Protein chemist known for blood plasma fractionation
• Edwin Cohn1892Biochemist who developed blood plasma fractionation, enabling the medical use of albumin…
• Edwin Kessler III1928Meteorologist known for radar meteorology and the study of severe storms
• Edwin Land1947Polaroid Camera
• Edwin S. Lowe1956Named and popularised Bingo, and named and sold Yahtzee — both still among the most…
• Edwin Salpeter1924Astrophysicist
• Edwin SeligmanEconomist
• Edwin Spanier1921Algebraic topology
• Efim Fradkin1924Theoretical physicist
• Efim Geller1925Soviet chess grandmaster, six-time world-title candidate
• Efim Zelmanov1955Group theory
• Efraim Racker1913Biochemist who reconstituted and elucidated the enzyme that synthesizes ATP.
• Efrem Zimbalist1889Classical violinist
• Egon Balas1995Holocaust survivor who founded disjunctive programming in integer optimization
• Egon FriedellLiterary & drama critic
• Egon Orowan1902Physicist who helped develop the theory of crystal dislocations and applied it to plate…
• Egon Schwelb1899Deputy director of the UN Division of Human Rights who helped shape early UN human-rights…
• Ehud Barak1999Prime Minister of Israel
• Ehud Hrushovski1959Model theory and its applications to algebra
• Ehud Olmert2006Twelfth Prime Minister of Israel
• Ehud Shabtai2006Waze Navigation App Founder
• Eitan Tadmor2022Israeli-American pioneer of numerical methods for conservation laws
• EL Konigsburg1930Elaine Lobl Konigsburg is best remembered from her many beloved children’s novels…
• El-P1975Rapper-producer, co-founder of Run the Jewels and Definitive Jux.
• Elaine Feinstein1930Elaine Feinstein was the preeminent Jewish woman literary author in late 20th- and early…
• Elaine Lustig Cohen1927With her modernist combinations of typography and photomontage, Elaine Lustig Cohen was a…
• Elaine May1932Half of the comedy duo Nichols & May
• Elaine Oran1944Pioneer of computational combustion
• Elaine ShowalterLiterary & drama critic
• Elana Dykewomon1949Elana Dykewomon was a poet, novelist, editor, theorist, lesbian, and cultural worker.
• Eleanor Antin1935Conceptual artist and filmmaker ('The Man Without a World')
• Eleanor Glueck1898For half a century, Eleanor Glueck worked with her husband, a professor of criminology at…
• Eleanor Perry1962Screenwriter of David and Lisa
• Eleanor Rosch1938Cognitive psychologist known for prototype theory of categorization
• Eleazar ben Yair73 CECommander of Masada, the last Jewish position holding out against Rome, until its fall in…
• Eleazar ha-Kalirc. 570Prolific early liturgical poet (payyetan) whose piyyutim remain part of the synagogue…
• Elena Gal'pern1930Chemist who theoretically predicted the structure of the C60 fullerene
• Elena Kabischer-JakersonElena Kabischer was a talented graphic artist, painter, and sculptor in the early…
• Elena Kagan2010Supreme Court justice since 2010
• Elfriede Jelinek1946Nobel Prize-winning Austrian novelist and playwright ('The Piano Teacher')
• Elga Ruth Wasserman1924Chemist Elga Wasserman – a recipient of a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Harvard in 1949…
• Elhanan Helpman2010Israeli co-founder of the new theory of international trade
• Eli BihamComputer & information scientist
• Eli Cohen1965Legendary Israeli intelligence agent who infiltrated the top levels of the Syrian…
• Eli Gafni2017Israeli-American theorist of asynchronous computability
• Eli GorenClassical violinist
• Eli Harari1988Israeli-American physicist who founded SanDisk in 1988 and invented the floating-gate…
• Eli HeckscherEconomist
• Eli Reshotko1930Authority on laminar-turbulent transition in flight
• Eli Roth1972American filmmaker known for Hostel and Cabin Fever.
• Eli Ruckenstein1925Chemical engineer known for catalysis, colloids and interfaces
• Eli Sternberg1917Elastician
• Eli Upfal2020Israeli authority on randomized algorithms
• Eli Wallach1915Prolific character actor of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
• Eli Yablonovitch1946Physicist
• Eliad CohenIsraeli model, actor, and entrepreneur, an internationally recognized LGBT icon.
• Eliahu Inbal1936Orchestra conductor
• Eliana ShechterIsraeli actress who appeared in Israeli film and television productions.
• Elias Canetti1905Nobel Prize-winning novelist ('Auto-da-Fé', 'Crowds and Power')
• Elias Snitzer1925Physicist
• Elias Stein1931Harmonic analysis
• Elie AzoulayFrench entrepreneur, founder of the Lansay toy company.
• Elie Chouraqui1979French-Israeli film director, screenwriter and producer (Harrison's Flowers, Les…
• Elie Horn1962Founder of Cyrela, Brazil's largest homebuilder, and the first Latin American to sign the…
• Elie Kakou1994Tunisian-born French Jewish comedian, celebrated for his stage characters.
• Elie Metchnikoff1908Discovered phagocytosis and cellular immunity
• Elie Semoun1995French comedian and actor of Moroccan Jewish descent, half of the duo Elie et Dieudonné.
• Elie Tahari1974Fashion designer and businessman, founder of the Elie Tahari label
• Elie Wiesel1986Holocaust survivor and writer (Night)
• Elie Wollman1917Microbiologist who elucidated the mechanism of bacterial conjugation and gene transfer.
• Eliezer 'Laizy' ShapiraIsraeli actor who appeared in the series Srugim.
• Eliezer ben Hyrcanusc. 90Prominent Tannaitic sage of the generation after the Temple's destruction
• Eliezer Ben-Yehuda1858Lexicographer who led the revival of Hebrew as a modern spoken language.
• Eliezer Berkovits1908Orthodox rabbi and Jewish theologian and philosopher
• Elihu Abrahams1927Condensed matter physicist
• Elihu Katz1926Communications scholar
• Elijah Delmedigoc. 1458 CEAverroist philosopher who taught in Renaissance Padua
• Elijah Levita1469Renaissance Hebrew grammarian and lexicographer.
• Elijah Montaltoc. 1600Physician to the French court of Marie de Medici and medical author
• Elijah of Vilnac. 1770The Vilna Gaon
• Elinor Caplan1944Elinor Caplan is a Canadian Liberal Party politician who spent a quarter-century in…
• Elinor Guggenheimer1912Elinor Guggenheimer first toured New York City day nurseries as a member of the…
• Elinor MorgenthauElinor Morgenthau’s accomplishments were largely invisible, as she helped her husband…
• Elinor Ostrom2009First woman Nobel laureate in economics (2009) for the governance of common resources
• Eliot Aronson1932Social psychologist known for cognitive dissonance research and the jigsaw classroom
• Elisa LispectorPolish-born writer Elisa Lispector was nine years old when her family immigrated to…
• Elisabeth Badinter1944Elisabeth Badinter is one of France’s most prominent and controversial philosophers.
• Elisabeth Bergner1897Elisabeth Bergner, born in Austrian Galicia, was one of the most successful and popular…
• Élisabeth Gille1937Élisabeth Gille (1937-1996) was a French author known most of all for biography of her…
• Elisabeth Goldschmidt1912Elisabeth Goldschmidt was the founder of genetic studies as a research and teaching…
• Elisabeth Rozetta Geleerd1909Elizabeth Rozetta Geleerd’s work on extreme psychological conditions such as amnesia and…
• Elise RichterElise Richter could not pursue a university degree until she was in her 30s, when she…
• Elisheva Barak-UssoskinAfter earning her law degree in 1977, Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin quickly advanced through…
• Elisheva BichovskyAfter making Aliyah in 1925, Elisheva Bichovsky (born in Russia as Elizaveta Zhirkova)…
• Elisheva Cohen1911Elisheva Cohen was a successful curator, known for her work with the Israel Museum.
• Elissa RhaïsElissa Rhaïs’s novels and short stories, set in her native Algeria, were a great success…
• Eliyahu Golomb1931Architect and de facto leader of the Haganah, forerunner of the IDF
• Elizabeth Berkley1995American Jewish actress ('Saved by the Bell', 'Showgirls')
• Elizabeth Blume SilversteinElizabeth Blume Silverstein’s long and productive life revolved around her work in…
• Elizabeth Borowsky2017Co-developed the topological theory of set consensus
• Elizabeth Brandeis Raushenbush1896Following in the footsteps of her famous father, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis…
• Elizabeth Diller2022Architect of New York's High Line and The Shed
• Elizabeth Glaser1947Elizabeth Glaser’s fight to save her HIV-positive children led to her creation of the…
• Elizabeth Holtzman1941Elizabeth Holtzman pursued a public career epitomizing some of the most important trends…
• Elizabeth KolbertPulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction
• Elizabeth Loftus1944Cognitive psychologist known for research on memory and eyewitness testimony
• Elizabeth Neufeld1928Biochemist who elucidated the cellular basis of lysosomal storage diseases.
• Elizabeth SternElizabeth Stern was an American-Jewish writer, essayist, and journalist.
• Elizabeth Swados1951Elizabeth (Liz) Swados was an American composer, writer, and theatrical director.
• Elizabeth Taylor1959Legendary film actress who converted to Judaism in 1959
• Elkan Blout1990Chemist of polypeptides and instant color photography at Polaroid
• Ellen Auerbach1906The life of Ellen Auerbach was a constant journey of self-discovery.
• Ellen Barkin1954American actress known for 'Sea of Love' and 'The Fan.'
• Ellen Frankel1951A pioneering feminist leader in business and the arts, Ellen Frankel served as the first…
• Ellen Lehman MccluskeyEllen Lehman McCluskey, a firm believer that quality design is a result of close…
• Ellen Moers1928Ellen Moers’ Literary Women (1976), the third and last book of her career, is a benchmark…
• Ellen Phillips1821Ellen Phillips influenced generations of young Jewish girls and boys in…
• Ellen Phyllis HellmannDelving into the appalling disparities and conditions of Black South Africans through her…
• Ellen Shulman Baker1989Physician and NASA astronaut, mission specialist on three Space Shuttle flights
• Ellery QueenAuthor
• Ellida Geyra1932Ellida Geyra was Israel’s first woman film director.
• Ellie Greenwich1940Songwriter of 'Da Doo Ron Ron,' 'Leader of the Pack' and 'River Deep - Mountain High.'
• Elliot Goldenthal2002Composer of Frida (Academy Award 2002)
• Elliot Handler1945Co-founded Mattel and designed its toys
• Elliot Meyerowitz1951Plant biologist who elucidated the genetic control of flower development
• Elliot Montroll1916Physicist
• Elliott Gould1970Actor (M*A*S*H, The Long Goodbye), later recurring on Friends
• Elliott Lieb1932Mathematical physics
• Elliott Sober1948Philosopher of biology and of science
• Elliott Yamin1978Singer who rose to fame as an American Idol finalist and R&B recording artist.
• Elma Ehrlich Levinger1887Early twentieth-century author and educator Elma Ehrlich Levinger wrote over thirty books…
• Elmer Bernstein1922Film composer of scores including The Magnificent Seven and The Ten Commandments
• Elmer RicePulitzer Prize for Drama
• Elon Gold1970Stand-up comedian and actor
• Elon Lindenstrauss1970Ergodic theory and number theory (Fields Medal)
• Elsa MoranteAuthor
• Elsa Neumann1872Elsa Neumann was the first woman to receive a doctoral degree from the University of…
• Elsa TrioletAuthor
• Elsa Zylberstein2008French actress with a Polish-Jewish father
• Else Berg1877Else Berg was a Jewish artist whose life and work unfolded across Berlin, Paris, and…
• Else Frenkel-Brunswik1908Psychologist and co-author of studies on the authoritarian personality
• Else Lasker-SchülerElse Lasker-Schüler was a German-Jewish poet, short story writer, novelist, and…
• Else Lasker-SchüllerPoet / lyricist
• Else Rahel Samulon-Guttmann1898Else Samulon-Guttmann showed her exceptional intelligence early in life, studying law at…
• Elsie ChomskyElsie Chomsky, one of the many young Jewish educators influenced by reformer Samson…
• Elsie K. SulzbergerElsie K. Sulzberger had an important public career through her leadership in the National…
• Elsie Margaret Binger Naumburg1880Elsie Margaret Binger Naumburg was a researcher of South American avifauna and a…
• Elsie Oschrin Bregman1896Psychologist Elsie Oschrin Bregman’s pioneering research changed how psychologists…
• Elvin Kabat1914Immunochemist who was a founder of quantitative immunochemistry and antibody structure.
• Elvis Presley1935The 'King of Rock and Roll'
• Elyse GoldsteinElyse Goldstein was one of the first women rabbis in Canada.
• Emanuel Ax1949American pianist born in Lviv to Jewish Holocaust survivors, a leading recitalist and…
• Emanuel Donchin1935Cognitive psychophysiologist known for research on event-related brain potentials
• Emanuel Feuermann1902Cellist regarded as one of the greatest of the twentieth century
• Emanuel Lasker1894German chess master
• Emanuel Margoliash1920Biochemist who used cytochrome c to establish the molecular clock of evolution
• Emanuel Mendes da Costa1717 CENaturalist, conchologist and mineralogist
• Emanuel Parzen1929Statistics
• Emeric Pressburger1942With Michael Powell created The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death
• Emil Freireich1927Oncologist who pioneered combination chemotherapy that made childhood leukemia curable.
• Emil G. Hirsch1851Reform rabbi and founding member of the NAACP (1909) who spoke against racial…
• Emil Gilels1916Soviet pianist renowned for his powerful interpretations of Beethoven and Brahms
• Emil Hauser1893Classical violinist (Budapest Quartet)
• Emil LedererEconomist
• Emil Newman1911Film music director
• Emil Post1897Pioneered the theory of computation and recursive functions.
• Emil Waldteufel1837Waltz composer
• Emil Warburg1846Physicist
• Emil Wolf1922Physicist
• Emile Benveniste1966Structural linguist known for major work on Indo-European languages and theory of…
• Emile Berliner1887Gramophone
• Emile Durkheim1895Sociologist, a founding figure of modern sociology as an academic discipline
• Emile Meyerson1859French philosopher of science
• Emile Zuckerkandl1922Biologist who co-introduced the molecular clock concept in evolutionary biology.
• Emilia Bassano LanierPoet / lyricist
• Emilie M. BullowaAs a lawyer and activist, Emilie M. Bullowa devoted her life to justice for the…
• Emilio Segrè1905Physicist
• Emily Bear2001Pianist and composer
• Emily Carter1960Theoretical chemist known for quantum chemistry and materials modeling
• Emily Ratajkowski1991American model, actress and author of Jewish descent.
• Emily Solis-CohenEmily Solis-Cohen was a prominent poet, historian, and philanthropist.
• Emma B. Mandl1842Emma B. Mandl immigrated to the United States at age fifteen and helped found the Baron…
• Emma Goldman1869Influential anarchist writer and activist, a pioneering advocate for free speech and…
• Emma Lazarus1849American poet of 'The New Colossus', inscribed on the Statue of Liberty
• Emma Leon GottheilAs a translator, Emma Leon Gottheil helped spread the ideals of Zionism across America…
• Emma Levine-TalmiPolitician and writer, Emma Levine-Talmi, grew up in a liberal Jewish home in Warsaw…
• Emma Mordecai1812Emma Mordecai (1812-1906) navigated direct challenges to her Jewish faith and to her…
• Emma Wolf1865Author of five novels and numerous short stories, Emma Wolf was a pioneering Jewish…
• Emmanuel FarhiEconomist
• Emmanuel Krivine1947Orchestra conductor
• Emmanuel Levinas1906French philosopher of ethics and the priority of the Other
• Emmanuel Moreno2006Sayeret Matkal officer killed on a deep operation in Lebanon (2006)
• Emmanuel Rashba1927Physicist
• Emmanuel Schwartzenberg2000French media journalist (Le Figaro, LCI)
• Emmanuel Todd1951French anthropologist and historian known for his analysis of family systems
• Emmanuelle Chriqui1975Canadian actress of Moroccan-Jewish heritage best known for playing Sloan in HBO's…
• Emmerich Kálmán1882Hungarian composer of popular Viennese operettas such as Die Csárdásfürstin
• Emmy Klieneberger-Nobel1892Microbiologist who discovered the L-forms of bacteria and pioneered mycoplasma research.
• Emmy Noether1882Founder of modern abstract algebra
• Emmy Rossum1986Actress and singer, star of Shameless and Phantom of the Opera
• Enrico Macias1962Algerian-born French singer-guitarist
• Enzo Sereni1944Zionist leader and parachutist killed at Dachau after a 1944 rescue mission into Italy
• Ephraim Hertzano1950Invented Rummikub, which won the Spiel des Jahres in 1980 and is sold in dozens of…
• Ephraim Katchalski-Katzir1916Biophysicist and pioneer of protein research who served as the fourth President of Israel.
• Ephraim SparrowFluid mechanics
• Erast Gliner1923Physicist
• Erez SafarMusician, DJ and producer who founded the Sephardic Music Festival celebrating Jewish…
• Eric AdelbergerPhysicist (experimental gravitation, tests of the equivalence principle)
• Eric André1983Comedian and creator of the surreal Adult Swim series 'The Eric Andre Show'.
• Eric Balfour2001Actor: Gabriel Dimas in Six Feet Under, Milo Pressman in 24 and Duke Crocker in Haven
• Eric Benhamou1955CEO of 3Com and chairman of Palm
• Eric Berne1910Psychiatrist who founded transactional analysis
• Eric Carmen1949Singer-songwriter
• Eric Dane2006Actor: Mark Sloan in Grey's Anatomy and Cal Jacobs in Euphoria
• Eric Delson1945Paleoanthropologist specializing in primate and human evolution
• Eric Goldberg1992Disney animator
• Eric Hobsbawm1917Historian of the Age of Revolution, Capital, Empire and Extremes
• Eric Kandel2000Signal transduction in the nervous system underlying memory
• Eric Kripke2005Creator of Supernatural and showrunner of The Boys
• Eric Lander1957Geneticist who was a principal leader of the Human Genome Project.
• Eric Lenneberg1921Psychologist who proposed the biological foundations of language and the critical-period…
• Eric Maskin1950Nobel laureate (2007) for developing the theory of mechanism design
• Eric Reissner1913Author of the Reissner plate theory used across structural engineering
• Eric Roth1994Screenwriter of Forrest Gump (Academy Award 1994), Munich and A Star Is Born
• Éric Weil1904German-French philosopher of logic and political philosophy
• Eric Wolf1923Anthropologist known for 'Europe and the People Without History'
• Erica JongAuthor
• Erica Morini1904Classical violinist
• Erich Auerbach1892Author of Mimesis, the foundational work of comparative literature
• Erich Fromm1900Humanistic psychoanalyst and social philosopher
• Erich Gruenberg1924Classical violinist
• Erich Leinsdorf1912Orchestra conductor
• Erich Neumann1905Analytical psychologist known for work on consciousness and development
• Erich Segal1970Author-screenwriter of Love Story
• Erich von Stroheim1885Silent-era titan ('Greed') and actor ('Sunset Blvd.')
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold1938Film Composer - The Adventures of Robin Hood
• Erik Erikson1902Developmental psychologist who formulated psychosocial stages and the identity crisis
• Erika Landau1931Erika Landau (1931-2013) was a psychotherapist and educator known for her interest in…
• Erna Patak1871Erna (Ernestine) Patak was a social worker and one of the Zionist veterans in Vienna in…
• Erna Proskauer1903Erna Proskauer dreamed of becoming a judge in Germany but lost her job in 1933 and…
• Ernest Becker1924Cultural anthropologist, author of the Pulitzer-winning 'The Denial of Death'
• Ernest Beutler1928Hematologist and geneticist who advanced the treatment of inherited blood and metabolic…
• Ernest Bloch1880Swiss-American composer known for Jewish-themed works including Schelomo
• Ernest Courant1986Co-invented strong focusing, the basis of modern particle accelerators
• Ernest Eliel1921Organic chemist known for the study of stereochemistry
• Ernest Gellner1925Philosopher and social anthropologist, theorist of nationalism
• Ernest Gold1921Film composer (Exodus)
• Ernest Lehman1959Screenwriter of North by Northwest, West Side Story and The Sound of Music
• Ernest MandelEconomist
• Ernest Nagel1901Philosopher of science, author of 'The Structure of Science'
• Ernest Oppenheimer1880Diamond magnate
• Ernest RabinowiczContinuum mechanics
• Ernest Witebsky1901Immunologist who established criteria defining autoimmune diseases
• Ernestine Rose1810Pioneering 19th-century suffragist and orator who led the campaign for married women's…
• Ernestine Schumann-HeinkErnestine Schumann-Heink was a prominent opera singer whose career spanned from the time…
• Ernie Grunfeld1976NBA player and executive
• Ernst Bergmann1903Organic chemist and founding figure of Israeli science
• Ernst Bloch1885German Marxist philosopher, author of 'The Principle of Hope'
• Ernst Boris Chain1906Biochemist awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize for isolating penicillin and developing it into a…
• Ernst Cassirer1874Neo-Kantian philosopher of symbolic forms
• Ernst Gombrich1909Author of The Story of Art, the world's most-read art history book
• Ernst Gräfenberg1929Gynaecologist who devised the first practical intrauterine device, the Gräfenberg ring
• Ernst Hellinger1883Functional analysis
• Ernst Ising1900Physicist
• Ernst Kris1900Psychoanalyst known for work on ego psychology and the psychology of art
• Ernst Lubitsch1892German-American film director known for To Be or Not to Be.
• Ernst Pick1872Immunologist and pharmacologist known for research on immunity and drug action
• Ernst Pringsheim1859Physicist
• Ernst Spiegel1895Neurologist who co-invented human stereotactic neurosurgery.
• Ernst Steinitz1871Algebra
• Ernst Toch1887Classical and film composer
• Ernst Tugendhat1930German analytic philosopher
• Ernst Wynder1922Epidemiologist whose research helped establish the link between smoking and lung cancer.
• Erran Baron CohenComposer and musician who scored films including 'Borat' and 'The Dictator'.
• Errol Morris1948Documentarian ('The Thin Blue Line'
• Ervin Drake1919Songwriter (It Was a Very Good Year)
• Ervín Schulhoff1894Classical composer and pianist
• Erving Goffman1922Sociologist who studied the interactional organization of talk and everyday conversation.
• Erwin Chargaff1905Biochemist who formulated Chargaff's rules of DNA base composition, a key step toward the…
• Erwin Hahn1921Physicist who discovered the spin echo in nuclear magnetic resonance
• Erwin Panofsky1892Founder of modern iconology in art history
• Esfir Il’inishna ShubEsfir Shub was active as an editor, director, and writer of nonfiction films for twenty…
• Este Haim1986Bassist-singer of the sister rock band Haim.
• Estee Lauder1946Cosmetics entrepreneur (born Josephine Esther Mentzer), co-founder of Estee Lauder…
• Estelle Harris1928Actress famed as George's mother Estelle on Seinfeld.
• Estelle Joan Sommers1919Estelle Joan Sommers was a designer, entrepreneur, and executive who made her career in…
• Estelle Liebling1880Estelle Liebling was a talented opera singer who performed at the Dresden Royal Opera…
• Estelle Newman1896Estelle Reiss Newman innovated new programs for aiding the blind, from providing…
• Estelle SternbergerBelieving in a future where all people had a voice and women’s work was valued, Estelle…
• Estera TenenbaumDismissed from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in 1934 for being a Jew, a woman, and a…
• Esther AbrahamsConvicted of stealing lace from a London store in 1786, Esther Abrahams was transported…
• Esther Barsel1924Esther Barsel was a lifelong activist, committed to the Liberation struggle in South…
• Esther BrandeauEsther Brandeau was born in southwestern France around 1718, descended from exiles of the…
• Esther Conwell2009Physicist of electron transport in semiconductors and DNA
• Esther Dischereit1952Esther Dischereit, a German-Jewish writer living in Berlin, speaks for the second and…
• Esther FrumkinEsther Frumkin was the pseudonym of the Jewish educator, writer, and…
• Esther Gamlielit1919Esther Gamlielit was prominent in a lineage of Yemenite singers, after Brachah Zefira and…
• Esther Goldfrank1896American anthropologist known for her ethnographic work on Pueblo peoples
• Esther Herlitz1921Esther Herlitz was a feminist trailblazer in Israeli politics and diplomacy.
• Esther Herrman1823Esther Mendels Herrman’s generosity and activism helped create many vital Jewish and…
• Esther Jane RuskayEsther Jane Ruskay was a distinguished and outstanding writer and speaker in the Jewish…
• Esther Jungreis1936Esther Jungreis, a leading Jewish public orator from the 1970s to the 1990s, was a…
• Esther KreitmanEsther Kreitman was the sole female writer in what many consider to be the most prominent…
• Esther Leah Medalie Ritz1918Esther Leah Medalie Ritz defended human rights throughout the myriad conflicts of the…
• Esther Lederberg1922Microbiologist who discovered the lambda phage and developed replica plating.
• Esther Loeb Kohn1875Esther Loeb Kohn helped bridge the gap between Chicago’s volunteer and professional…
• Esther Lowenthal1883Esther Lowenthal’s long career teaching economics at Smith explored subjects from…
• Esther LuriaEsther Luria was a freelance journalist whose work appeared in many politically…
• Esther M. Broner1927A novelist, playwright, and ritualist, Esther M. Broner emerged on the literary scene in…
• Esther RaabEsther Raab was a Hebrew poet and memoirist who had the distinction of being the first…
• Esther Rome1945A coauthor of Our Bodies, Ourselves, a classic women’s resource book, Esther Rome came of…
• Esther Rosencrantz1876An accomplished doctor and tuberculosis researcher in her own right, Esther Rosencrantz…
• Esther Rosenthal-ShneidermanEsther Rosenthal-Shneiderman was a Soviet-Yiddish educator, journalist, writer, and…
• Esther Shumiatcher-HirschbeinYiddish writer Esther Shumiatcher-Hirschbein was born in Belarus in 1899 and emigrated to…
• Esther Ziskind WeltmanTrustee and philanthropist Esther Ziskind Weltman was instrumental in giving shape and…
• Esti Ginzburg1990Israeli model and actress who has appeared in international campaigns and films.
• Ethan Bortnick2010Pianist and songwriter
• Ethan Coen1957American filmmaker and one half of the Coen brothers.
• Ethan Klein1985YouTuber and podcaster who co-created h3h3Productions.
• Ethan Slater2018American stage actor
• Ethel TobachBorn in the Ukraine, Ethel Tobach spent most of her life in New York City as a professor…
• Ethical Monotheismc. 1300 BCEThe belief in one God and a single universal moral law — originated by the ancient…
• Etta Cone1870Art collector Etta Cone and her sister Claribel amassed one of the largest private art…
• Etta Lasker RosensohnAn influential philanthropist and social activist, Etta Lasker Rosensohn focused most of…
• Etta Wedell Mastbaum1886Etta Wedell Mastbaum was the scion of a prominent nineteenth- and twentieth-century…
• Etty Hillesum1914Etty Hillesum’s diary, which she kept between 1941 and 1943, is the only extant source…
• Eugen Bamberger1857Organic chemist known for the Bamberger rearrangement
• Eugen Goldstein1850Physicist
• Eugen Merzbacher1921Physicist
• Eugene Braunwald1929Cardiologist regarded as one of the most influential figures in modern cardiovascular…
• Eugene Dynkin1924Lie algebras and probability
• Eugene Feenberg1906Physicist
• Eugene Garfield1925Created citation indexing and the journal impact factor.
• Eugene Guth1905Co-founder of the statistical theory of rubber elasticity
• Eugène IonescoPlaywright
• Eugene Istomin1925Classical pianist
• Eugene Jarecki1969Documentarian ('Why We Fight', 'The House I Live In')
• Eugene Levy1946Canadian actor known for Schitt's Creek and the American Pie films.
• Eugene Meyer1933Bought The Washington Post at auction in 1933 and rebuilt it
• Eugene Minkowski1885Psychiatrist and pioneer of phenomenological psychopathology
• Eugene Mirman1974Stand-up comedian and voice of Gene on 'Bob's Burgers'
• Eugene Ormandy1899Conductor who led the Philadelphia Orchestra for over four decades
• Eugene Wigner1902Mathematical physics
• Eugenia GinzburgAuthor
• Eugenia Goodkind Meyer1878A prominent civic leader in Westchester County, New York, Eugenia Goodkind Meyer was a…
• Eugenie Baizerman1899Artist Eugenie Baizerman rarely exhibited her work and never sold a painting during her…
• Eugénie Foa1796Eugénie Foa (1796-1852) was, to our knowledge, the first Jewish woman to support herself…
• Eugenie Schwarzwald1872Eugenie Schwarzwald was progressive educator who imprinted her charismatic personality on…
• Eugenio Calabi1923Differential geometry
• Eugenio Elia Levi1883Lie algebras
• Eva BesnyöPhotographer and photojournalist Eva Besnyö was born in Budapest in 1910.
• Eva Gabor1919Hungarian-American actress who starred in 'Green Acres' and voiced Disney's 'The…
• Eva Gabriele Reichmann1897Born in Silesia, Eva Gabriele Reichmann studied economics in Germany and, after fleeing…
• Eva Green1980French actress known for 'Casino Royale', 'Penny Dreadful', and Tim Burton films.
• Eva Hesse1936Eva Hesse created innovative sculptural forms using unconventional materials such as…
• Eva Michaelis SternEva Michaelis Stern was co-founder and director of the fundraising arm of the Youth…
• Eva Salber1916Using the lessons she learned as a doctor in South Africa, Eva Salber worked with poor…
• Eva Schocken1918As the daughter of Salman Schocken, founder of Schocken Books, and later as editor and…
• Eva SopherEva Sopher was a Brazilian-Jewish theater manager and cultural entrepreneur in Porto…
• Éva Székely1952Hungarian swimmer
• Éva Tardos2012Hungarian-American founder of algorithmic game theory
• Eva Zeisel1906Eva Zeisel’s modernist ceramic work achieved major fame and critical success and even…
• Evan Cohen1974American actor known for his role in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam.
• Evan GarfeinChief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New…
• Evan GinzburgWrestling historian and associate producer of the film The Wrestler.
• Evan Goldberg1982Canadian filmmaker and frequent writing partner of Seth Rogen.
• Evan Rachel Wood1987American actress known for Thirteen and Westworld.
• Evan Wolfson1957Founder of Freedom to Marry and long considered an architect of the legal strategy for…
• Evangelyn Barsky1894One of the first two women allowed to pass the bar in Delaware, Evangelyn Barsky made a…
• Eve Arnold1913Eve Arnold was a groundbreaking photographer and writer, known for photographing fashion…
• Eve Kosofsky SedgwickLiterary & drama critic
• Eve Marder2023Neuroscientist of neural circuit stability
• Eve Merriam1916Eve Merriam was an accomplished poet and playwright, best known for her books of…
• Eve Queler1936Opera conductor
• Evelyn Berezin1925Designed an early computerized word processor and reservation systems.
• Evelyn Fox Keller1983Physicist turned historian and philosopher of science
• Evelyn Garfiel1900Evelyn Garfiel’s Jewish scholarship on topics like the prayer book and the Hebrew…
• Evelyn Torton Beck1933Evelyn (Evi) Torton Beck is a multi-faceted scholar, analyst, activist, feminist, dancer…
• Evelyn Witkin1921Geneticist who discovered the bacterial SOS response and advanced the study of DNA repair.
• Evelyne Chetrite1984Fashion designer, co-founder of Sandro (SMCP group)
• Evelyne SerfatyEvelyne Serfaty was one of the most active women in the Moroccan Communist Party.
• Everett Gendler1928Rabbi who marched in Selma and Mississippi and joined King, Heschel and Abernathy in the…
• Evgeny Kissin1971Russian-born pianist and child prodigy, one of the leading concert pianists of his…
• Evgeny Lifshitz1915Physicist
• Evgeny LikhtmanPhysicist (co-originator of supersymmetry)
• Evgeny ShvartsPlaywright
• Evsey DomarEconomist
• Ewa Kuryluk1946Ewa Kuryluk is an author, writer, essayist, artist, and art historian.
• Eyal Ofer1950Israeli-born shipping and real-estate magnate (Ofer Global / Zodiac Maritime), son of…
• Eydie Gorme1928One of the great stylists of the American popular song, Eydie Gorme achieved national…
• Ezekiel Emanuel2010Oncologist and bioethicist
• Ezra Koenig1984Frontman and songwriter of the Grammy-winning band Vampire Weekend.
• Ezra Miller1992American actor known for The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Flash.
• Ezra the Scribec. 450 BCERe-established Torah observance in Judea and shaped the biblical canon

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