• I. A. L. Diamond1960Billy Wilder's co-writer: Some Like It Hot, The Apartment (Academy Award 1960)
• I. L. Peretz1852Founding figure of modern Yiddish literature
• I. M. SingerMathematician
• I. Schapira1905Social anthropologist known for ethnographic studies of southern African peoples
• I.J. (Friz) Freleng1964Looney Tunes animation director
• I.J. Good1916Early work on the Fast Fourier Transform and Bayesian methods.
• Ian Kinsler2021Baseball
• Ian Nepomniachtchi2021Two-time World Chess Championship challenger (2021, 2023)
• Ian Ziering1964Actor who played Steve Sanders on Beverly Hills, 90210.
• Ida DehmelLiving a privileged existence in the wealthiest circles of German cultural society, Ida…
• Ida Espen Guggenheimer1866Ida Espen Guggenheimer, a woman with a deeply ingrained sense of social awareness, was an…
• Ida Fink1921A Polish-born writer who survived the Holocaust, Ida Fink published several collections…
• Ida Haendel1928Classical violinist
• Ida Henrietta Hyde1857Ida Henrietta Hyde was a pioneering physiologist in the late nineteenth and early…
• Ida Kaminska1899Ida Kaminska’s life adventures, extraordinary talent, astonishing vitality, and…
• Ida Klaus1905Ida Klaus was an influential labor lawyer, advocating tirelessly for the rights of…
• Ida Lewis SiegelIda Lewis Siegel was a volunteer leader in Toronto dedicated to Zionism and education.
• Ida MazeIda Maze was a “communitarian-proletarian” Yiddish writer who turned her Montreal home…
• Ida Nudel1978Refusenik known as the Guardian Angel of the Prisoners of Zion
• Ida Rosenthal1922Co-created the modern bra with standardized cup sizes and built Maidenform, the world's…
• Ida RubinsteinFrom an early age Ida Rubinstein studied dance and provoked scandal by pushing the…
• Ida Weis Friend1868Ida Weis Friend worked to improve the lives of those in her Southern Jewish community on…
• Idan Amedi2015Israeli singer-songwriter and actor
• Idan MatalonIsraeli actor and model featured in independent film.
• Idan Ofer1955Israeli shipping and energy magnate (Israel Corp), son of Sammy Ofer.
• Idan Reichel1977Israeli musician who founded the genre-blending Idan Raichel Project.
• Idina Menzel1971Tony-winning singer and actress who originated Elphaba in 'Wicked' and voiced Elsa in…
• Igal Talmi1925Physicist
• Ignaz Bruell1846Pianist and composer
• Ignaz Friedman1882Classical pianist
• Ignaz Moscheles1794Pianist and composer
• Igor AleinerPhysicist (condensed matter theory)
• Igor Dzyaloshinsky1931Physicist
• Igor Kipnis1930Harpsichordist
• Igor Klebanov1962Physicist
• Igor Krichever1950Integrable systems and algebraic geometry
• Igor Landau1944French business executive, former CEO of Aventis and chairman of Sanofi.
• Igor Levit1987Russian-German pianist acclaimed for his Beethoven sonata cycle
• Igor Melchuk1932Linguist who developed Meaning-Text Theory of natural language.
• Igor Oistrakh1931Classical violinist
• Igor Rodnianski2023Mathematician of general relativity and wave equations
• Igor Tyutin2009Co-discoverer of BRST symmetry in quantum field theory
• Ike Barinholtz1977Comedian and actor ('MADtv', 'The Mindy Project', 'Blockers')
• Ilan Chet1998Israeli pioneer of biological pest control (Hebrew University)
• Ilan Pappe1954Israeli-born historian and author.
• Ilan Ramon2003First Israeli astronaut
• Ilana Glazer1987American comedian and co-creator and star of Broad City.
• Ilana MasadIsraeli-American author and critic known for the novel All My Mother's Lovers.
• Ilana Vered1943Classical pianist
• Iliza Shlesinger1983Stand-up comedian
• Ilona Karmel1925Ilona Karmel transformed details of her experiences as a Polish-Jewish prisoner in Nazi…
• Ilona KronsteinIlona (Ili) Kronstein was an artist and graphic designer.
• Ilse Bing1899Ilse Bing was known as the “Queen of the Leica” for her work in photojournalism, fashion…
• Ilya EhrenburgAuthor
• Ilya Frank1908Physicist
• Ilya IlfAuthor
• Ilya Kaler1963Classical violinist
• Ilya Lifshitz1917Physicist
• Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro1929Automorphic forms and representation theory
• Ilya Prigogine1977Dissipative Structures
• Ilya Sutskever1986Co-created foundational deep-learning and GPT models.
• Immanuel Bonfilsc. 1300 CEMathematician and astronomer
• Immanuel EstermanPhysicist
• Immanuel Estermann1900Physicist
• Immanuel Frances1618Italian Hebrew poet and rabbinical scholar, an outspoken opponent of Sabbateanism.
• Immanuel of Romec. 1261Italian Hebrew poet, author of the 'Mahberot,' who introduced the sonnet form into Hebrew…
• Immanuel Velikovsky1895Author of Worlds in Collision
• Immanuel Wallerstein1930Founder of world-systems theory
• Imre Kertész2002Writing that upholds the individual experience against the barbarism of history (the…
• Imre Lakatos1922Philosophy of mathematics
• Ina PerlmanIna Perlman was a hands-on anti-Apartheid fighter and the face of “Operation Hunger,”…
• Inbal Dror2005Israeli couture and bridal designer
• Inbal Rabin-Lieberman2023Civilian security coordinator whose standby squad repelled the 7 October 2023 attack on…
• Inbar LaviIsraeli actress known for the series Imposters and Lucifer.
• Inés of HerreraInés of Herrera was a twelve-year-old prophetess whose message of salvation appealed to…
• Inna Faliks1978Classical pianist
• Iosif Gikhman1918Theory of stochastic differential equations
• Iosif Shklovsky1916Astrophysicist
• Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger1892Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger was the daughter, wife, mother, or grandmother of four…
• Ira BernsteinPhysicist (plasma physics)
• Ira Dyer1925Ocean acoustician known for research on underwater sound and ocean acoustics
• Ira Gershwin1924Lyricist - Collaborated with George Gershwin
• Ira Hirsh1922Psychologist and pioneer of psychoacoustics
• Ira JanIra Jan, a painter and writer, was the first Hebrew artist in pre-State Palestine.
• Ira Kaplan1957Singer, guitarist and co-founder of the indie rock band Yo La Tengo.
• Ira LevinAuthor
• Ira Pastan1931Molecular biologist who developed immunotoxins for targeted cancer therapy
• Ira Progoff1921Depth psychologist who developed the Intensive Journal method
• Ira Rennert1975Investor and Industrialist
• Irena Klepfisz1941Irena Klepfisz is a poet whose legacy is key to the history of Jewish, American and…
• Irena Szewińska1976Polish sprint legend born Irena Kirszenstein
• Irene Caroline Diner Koenigsberger1896A distinguished chemist credited with discovering the molecular structure of rubber…
• Irene Fine1936Faced with a mandatory internship for her PhD but nowhere she could teach courses on…
• Irene K. Fischer1907Geodesist who developed improved mathematical models of the Earth's size and shape (the…
• Irene Lewisohn1892Irene Lewisohn was a Jewish philanthropist whose devotion to the arts led to the…
• Irene Mayer Selznick1907Irene Mayer Selznick was a producer and philanthropist in Hollywood and New York.
• Irène Némirovsky1903French novelist ('Suite Française')
• Irene Rothschild Guggenheim1868Irene Rothschild Guggenheim founded the Brightside Day Nursery and made it her life’s…
• Irina Jacobson1924Irina Jacobson, the wife of the prolific and innovative Soviet-Russian choreographer…
• Iris Apfel1921For most of her career, Iris Apfel and her husband owned Old World Weavers, a successful…
• Irit Dinur2019Israeli mathematician who gave the celebrated combinatorial proof of the PCP theorem
• Irma AdelmanEconomist
• Irma Levy Lindheim1886Irma Levy Lindheim was a colorful American Zionist millionaire, fund-raiser, and educator.
• Irma May1899During the economic devastation of the 1920s, Irma May traveled throughout Eastern Europe…
• Irma Rothschild JungIrma Rothschild Jung, a native of Randegg, Baden, Germany, was born on July 1, 1897, and…
• Irma SternIrma Stern was a remarkably prolific artist, holding more than a hundred solo exhibitions.
• Irna Phillips1901Irna Phillips created hugely popular soap operas for radio and television and introduced…
• Irun Cohen1937Immunologist known for theories of the immune system as a cognitive network
• Irvin D. Yalom1980Psychiatrist
• Irvin GlassmanFluid mechanics
• Irvin Krieger1923Co-author of the Krieger-Dougherty law of suspensions
• Irvin StiglitzComputer & information scientist
• Irvine GlassFluid mechanics
• Irving Berlin1942White Christmas - Best-Selling Single
• Irving Brecher1944Screenwriter of Meet Me in St. Louis and Marx Brothers films
• Irving CaesarPoet / lyricist
• Irving Fritz1927Biochemist, research on carnitine and fatty-acid metabolism
• Irving Goldman1898Influential American plastic surgeon who helped establish and advance formal residency…
• Irving Gross1918Invented the walkie-talkie, pager and CB radio.
• Irving Howe1920Critic and historian of Jewish New York (World of Our Fathers)
• Irving Janis1918Social psychologist who developed the concept of groupthink
• Irving KahalPoet / lyricist
• Irving Kaplansky1917Algebra
• Irving KravisEconomist
• Irving LaytonPoet / lyricist
• Irving London1918Hematologist and physician-scientist
• Irving Lorge1905Educational psychologist known for research on intelligence and readability
• Irving Louis Horowitz1929Political sociologist and founder of Transaction publishers
• Irving Millman1923Microbiologist who co-developed the hepatitis B vaccine and blood test.
• Irving PolayesInstrumental in founding and expanding the ASMS Basic Maxillofacial Course, the first…
• Irving Ravetch1963Co-wrote Hud and Norma Rae with Harriet Frank Jr.
• Irving S. Sigal1988Merck molecular biologist
• Irving Segal1918Functional analysis
• Irving StoneAuthor
• Irving Thalberg1932Head of production at MGM in the 1930s
• Irving WallaceAuthor
• Irving Weissman1939Biologist who first isolated blood-forming stem cells, a landmark in stem cell science.
• Irwin Cotler1940Canadian jurist and former Justice Minister known internationally as a human-rights…
• Irwin Fridovich1929Biochemist who discovered superoxide dismutase and the biology of oxygen free radicals.
• Irwin I. Shapiro1929Astrophysicist who discovered the Shapiro time delay and pioneered radar astronomy of the…
• Irwin Jacobs1933Co-founded Qualcomm and pioneered CDMA wireless communications.
• Irwin Kostal1911Film music arranger
• Irwin Oppenheim1929Theoretical chemist known for nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
• Irwin Rose1926Awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
• Irwin Shaw1948American novelist and short-story writer (born Irwin Shamforoff to Russian-Jewish…
• Isa Kremer1887Isa Kremer (Belz, Bessarabia, 1887-Córdoba, Argentina, 1956) traveled the world…
• Isaac Aboabc. 1300 CEScholar and moralist
• Isaac Abravanel1437Statesman, Bible commentator, and Jewish philosopher of the late medieval period
• Isaac Alfasic. 1080Codifier whose halakhic compendium (the Rif) became a foundation of Jewish law
• Isaac Asimov1950Science Fiction Author
• Isaac Babel1894Russian short-story writer ('Red Cavalry', 'Odessa Tales')
• Isaac Bashevis Singer1978Novelist
• Isaac ben Sheshet1326 CETalmudic authority (the Ribash) whose responsa engaged questions of science, philosophy…
• Isaac Berenblum1903Cancer researcher who defined the two-stage (initiation-promotion) model of carcinogenesis
• Isaac Berger1956Weightlifting
• Isaac Boleslavsky1919Chess grandmaster and opening theorist
• Isaac Carasso1919Founder of Danone (1919), pioneering industrial yogurt production. Sephardic Jewish…
• Isaac Cardoso1679Court physician in Madrid who left Spain to live openly as a Jew in Verona
• Isaac de PintoEconomist
• Isaac Djerassi1922Oncologist who pioneered platelet transfusion and high-dose methotrexate chemotherapy
• Isaac Held1948Climate scientist known for research on atmospheric dynamics and climate modeling
• Isaac ibn Ghayyat1038Spanish poet, liturgist, and Talmudist who composed a large body of piyyutim.
• Isaac Israeli832Medieval physician and author of influential medical treatises on fevers and diet
• Isaac Karabtchevsky1934Orchestra conductor
• Isaac Larian1979Founded MGA Entertainment, the world's largest privately owned toy company
• Isaac Levitan1860Russian painter, master of the 'mood landscape'
• Isaac Luria1534Foremost kabbalist, founder of Lurianic Kabbalah
• Isaac Mizrahi1987Fashion designer and television personality, founder of his eponymous label
• Isaac Rosenberg1890British First World War poet ('Break of Day in the Trenches')
• Isaac Rubin1944Social psychologist who pioneered the empirical study of romantic love
• Isaac Stern1960Acclaimed American concert violinist
• Isaak Dunaevsky1900Soviet film and song composer
• Isaak Khalatnikov1919Physicist
• Isaak Kikoin1959Physicist
• Isaak KuninContinuum mechanics
• Isaak Pomeranchuk1913Physicist
• Isabella Vengerova1877Pianist and teacher
• Isabelle Huppert1953One of the most famous and most popular French actresses of her generation, Isabelle…
• Isadora Newman1878Isadora Newman was a celebrated writer, storyteller, poet, and artist.
• Isadore Singer1983Co-author of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem uniting analysis and topology
• Isaiahc. 740 BCEMajor Hebrew prophet whose vision of justice and peace shaped Western moral thought
• Isaiah Berlin1909British political philosopher and historian of ideas, known for 'Two Concepts of Liberty'…
• Isak Andic1984Turkish-Spanish entrepreneur, founder of the clothing retailer Mango in Barcelona in…
• Ishai Golan1973Israeli actor known for leading roles in Israeli film and television.
• Ishtar (Alabina)1996Israeli singer, lead vocalist of Alabina
• Ishtar (Esther Zach)1968Israeli singer (Alabina)
• Isidor Fankuchen1904Crystallographer who advanced X-ray studies of biological molecules including viruses
• Isidor Gunsberg1891World Chess Championship challenger against Steinitz (1891)
• Isidor Natanson1906Real analysis and theory of functions
• Isidor Rabi1944Resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei (NMR)
• Isidor Traube1860Physical chemist known for research on surface tension and colloids
• Isidore Cohen1922Classical violinist
• Isidore Ravdin1894Pioneered the use of albumin injections to treat burn and shock victims during wartime…
• Isla Fisher2010Actress who converted to Judaism in 2010
• Israel "Izzy" Englander1948Founder of Millennium Management, one of the world's largest multi-strategy hedge funds…
• Israel Gelfand1913Functional analysis
• Israel Gohberg1928Operator theory and integral equations
• Israel Goldstein1896American Jewish Congress president who publicly condemned church bombings and mobilized…
• Israel Herstein1923Ring theory
• Israel HorovitzPlaywright
• Israel KirznerEconomist
• Israel Kleiner1885Physiological chemist whose early experiments contributed to the discovery of insulin
• Israel Najarac. 1555Hebrew poet and liturgist whose hymns, including 'Yah Ribbon,' entered the synagogue…
• Israel S. Dresner1929'The most arrested rabbi in America'
• Israel Scheffler1923Philosopher of science, language, and education
• Israel SigalPhysicist (mathematical physics)
• Israel Yinon1956Orchestra conductor
• Israel Zangwill1864British author who coined 'The Melting Pot' ('Children of the Ghetto')
• Israela Oron1952Israela Oron is a retired Brigadier-General in the Israel Defense Forces who worked to…
• Issac Lévitan1890Russian landscape painter, master of the 'mood landscape'
• Issai Schur1875Representation theory
• Issay Dobroven1891Conductor and pianist
• Istvan Hargittai1941Physical chemist known for molecular structure and symmetry
• Istvan Kertész1929Orchestra conductor
• István Reményi GyenesMusician
• Ita KalishIta Kalish was a Zionist activist, Jewish Agency employee, Israeli civil servant…
• Italo Svevo1861Italian modernist novelist ('Zeno's Conscience')
• Itamar MosesTony Award — Best Musical
• Ithiel de Sola Pool1917Political scientist
• Itzhak Bentov1923Inventor who developed the steerable cardiac catheter used in angiography
• Itzhak Perlman1945Classical violinist
• Itzik Cohen1968Israeli actor known for the series Fauda.
• Itzik ShmuliIsraeli politician and former social-protest leader who served as a government minister.
• Iva Greenwald1958Developmental biologist, research on Notch signaling
• Ivan Fischer1951Orchestra conductor
• Ivan IllichProfiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
• Ivan Reitman1946Blockbuster director and producer behind 'Ghostbusters' and 'Stripes.'
• Ivan Roitt1927Immunologist who helped establish autoimmunity and authored a leading immunology textbook.
• Ivan SchullerPhysicist (condensed matter and materials physics)
• Ivanka Trump1981Businesswoman and former White House advisor who converted to Judaism.
• Ivry Gitlis1922Classical violinist
• Izaak Kolthoff1894Analytical chemist regarded as a father of modern analytical chemistry
• Izydor Lotto1840Violinist and composer

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