• A. A. Brill1874First psychoanalyst to practice in the United States and translator of Freud
• A. Adrian Albert1905Abstract algebra
• A. Alfred Taubman1924Pioneering shopping-mall developer who reshaped American retail architecture
• A. AlvarezPoet / lyricist
• A. B. Yehoshua1936Israeli novelist ('Mr. Mani', 'The Lover')
• A. Brooks Harris2007Author of the Harris criterion for disordered systems
• Aaron Aaronsohn1906Agronomist who discovered wild emmer, the ancestor of cultivated wheat, and founded the…
• Aaron Altaras1995German-Israeli actor featured in film and television.
• Aaron ben Amram924Court banker (jahbadh) of the Abbasid caliphate, pioneer of early medieval banking
• Aaron Ciechanover2004Discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
• Aaron Copland1900Composer who defined an American classical sound with Appalachian Spring and Fanfare for…
• Aaron Director1901Economist and co-founder of the law and economics movement at the University of Chicago
• Aaron Ismach1922Inventor of the jet injector gun used in mass vaccination campaigns
• Aaron Jay Kernis1960Classical composer
• Aaron Klug1982Crystallographic Electron Microscopy
• Aaron Krickstein1990American tennis player
• Aaron Lansky1980Founded the Yiddish Book Center (1980) and rescued more than a million Yiddish books from…
• Aaron Levie2005Co-founder and CEO of Box (2005), the enterprise cloud pioneer he launched from his USC…
• Aaron Rosand1927Classical violinist
• Aaron Shatkin1934Molecular biologist who discovered the mRNA 5' cap essential to gene expression
• Aaron Sorkin1961Screenwriter of The West Wing and The Social Network, master of rapid dialogue.
• Aaron Spelling1980Record-setting television producer (Beverly Hills 90210, Dynasty, Charlie's Angels)
• Aaron Swartz2005Co-developer of RSS, co-owner of Reddit, architect of Creative Commons licences
• Aaron T. Beck1960Father of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), the most-practiced psychotherapy in the…
• Aaron Taylor-Johnson2010English actor
• Aaron WynerComputer & information scientist
• Abayec. 320Babylonian Amora whose legal debates with Rava shape Talmudic reasoning
• Abba Kovner1942-1944Author of the first call to armed Jewish resistance from inside the Holocaust and…
• Abba LernerEconomist
• Abbey Simon1920Classical pianist
• Abbi Jacobson1984American comedian and co-creator and star of Broad City.
• Abby Joseph Cohen1952A leading voice in the United States investment banking and finance industry, Abby Joseph…
• Abby Mann1961Screenwriter of Judgment at Nuremberg (Academy Award 1961)
• Abby Stein1991American author, rabbi, and transgender activist who left the Hasidic world to become a…
• Abe Bookman1946Engineered and marketed the Magic 8 Ball, in production continuously since 1950
• Abe BurrowsTony Award — Best Musical
• Abe Fortas1965Supreme Court justice
• Abe Nathan1927Israeli humanitarian and peace activist who founded the Voice of Peace radio station.
• Abe Pollin1923Owned the Washington Wizards/Bullets
• Abe Silverstein1908NASA engineer who directed early space-flight development, planned…
• Abel Kiviat1912Athletics
• Abel Wolman1919Standardized the chlorination of drinking water — credited with ~91 million lives saved
• Abigail Breslin2006American actress
• Abigail Minis1701Remarkable in every sense for her time, Abigail Minis ran multiple successful businesses…
• Abigail Van Buren1918In 1990 alone, advice columnist “Dear Abby” and her staff received over fifty-five…
• Abner Shimony1928Physicist and philosopher of science, foundations of quantum mechanics
• Abrahamc. 2000 BCEBiblical patriarch credited with founding ethical monotheism — the belief in one God and…
• Abraham Abuchowski1949Biochemist who invented PEGylation, the modification of proteins with polyethylene glycol…
• Abraham Abulafia1240 CEPhilosopher and founder of the 'ecstatic' school of Kabbalah, developing a systematic…
• Abraham bar Hiyyac. 1070 CEMathematician, astronomer and philosopher
• Abraham Barak Salem1882The 'Jewish Gandhi' — lawyer and reformer who fought caste-like discrimination inside…
• Abraham Bedersic. 1230Provencal Hebrew poet known for intricate verse and his surveys of earlier Hebrew poets.
• Abraham ben Abraham1749Polish nobleman of the Potocki family who converted to Judaism and was burned at the…
• Abraham ben Garton1475Printed Rashi's commentary on the Pentateuch (Reggio di Calabria, 17 February 1475), the…
• Abraham Cahan1860Founding editor of the Yiddish Forward and author of The Rise of David Levinsky.
• Abraham Charnes1982Co-founder of applied linear programming and data envelopment analysis
• Abraham Cresques1375Majorcan Jewish cartographer, 'master of maps and compasses' to the Crown of Aragon
• Abraham de Balmesc. 1440Grammarian and translator, the first to treat Hebrew syntax systematically ('Mikneh…
• Abraham Farrar1639Physician and poet, president of the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam (1639)
• Abraham Fraenkel1891Co-founder of axiomatic set theory (Zermelo-Fraenkel)
• Abraham Galante1914Principal historian of Ottoman and Turkish Jewry, professor at Istanbul University and…
• Abraham GeigerAbraham Geiger (1810-1874) was one of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the…
• Abraham Gradis1744Bordeaux shipowner and royal purveyor who provisioned French Canada through the Seven…
• Abraham HertzbergFluid mechanics
• Abraham ibn Daudc. 1110 CEPhilosopher, astronomer and historian
• Abraham Ibn Ezra1089Medieval Hebrew grammarian and biblical commentator.
• Abraham ibn Muhajir1100Jewish vizier at the court of Seville, patron of the community and of the golden age of…
• Abraham Jacobi1830Regarded as the father of American pediatrics
• Abraham Joshua Heschel1907Jewish theologian and philosopher of religion
• Abraham Lempel1936Co-created the LZ family of data-compression algorithms.
• Abraham Luchins1914Gestalt psychologist known for the Einstellung (mental set) effect
• Abraham Maimonides1213Nagid of Egyptian Jewry, court physician and founder of the Jewish-Sufi pietist movement
• Abraham Maslow1908Founder of humanistic psychology and the hierarchy of needs
• Abraham Miguel Cardoso1626Marrano-born physician and theologian, leading voice of the Sabbatean messianic movement
• Abraham Nitzan1944Theoretical chemist known for molecular electronics and charge transfer
• Abraham Pais1918Physicist and historian of science
• Abraham Polonski1942Co-founder of the Armee Juive, the Zionist armed resistance in France, which smuggled…
• Abraham Polonsky1948American screenwriter and director (Force of Evil, Body and Soul), later blacklisted…
• Abraham Ribicoff1961Governor of Connecticut, US Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and Senator
• Abraham Robinson1918Created non-standard analysis
• Abraham Salomon Camondo1832Banker of the Ottoman Empire, the 'Rothschild of the East', philanthropist and founder of…
• Abraham Seneor1492Last court rabbi of Castile and financier of the Catholic Monarchs, converted under royal…
• Abraham Sinkov1907Pioneering U.S. Army cryptanalyst.
• Abraham TaubFluid mechanics
• Abraham Tuschinski1921Built the Theater Tuschinski in Amsterdam (1921), still called the most beautiful cinema…
• Abraham Usque1553Printer of the Ferrara Bible (1553), the first complete Spanish translation of the Hebrew…
• Abraham Wald1902Founded statistical decision and sequential analysis theory.
• Abraham Zacutoc. 1452 CEAstronomer and mathematician
• Abram Amsel1922Learning theorist known for frustration theory in behavior
• Abram BergsonEconomist
• Abram Besicovitch1891Geometric measure theory
• Abram Chayes1922International law scholar
• Abram Ioffe1880Physicist
• Abram Kardiner1891Psychoanalyst who linked psychoanalysis and cultural anthropology
• Abu al-Barakat al-Baghdadi1080Philosopher-physicist of Baghdad, 'the Unique One of his Time', precursor of the concept…
• Abu al-Munajja ibn Sha'ya1112Fatimid Jewish administrator who built the great irrigation canal that still bore his…
• Achille Fould1849Four-time French finance minister under Napoleon III and organizer of the 1855 Exposition…
• Achille Halphen1861Juge et secrétaire du Consistoire israélite de Paris, dont le nom fonde le prix Halphen…
• Achille Naftalis1941Médecin militaire du 21e régiment d'infanterie, résistant du groupe de…
• Achinoam Nini1969Internationally acclaimed Israeli singer known as Noa who blends folk, world and Yemenite…
• Achy Obejas1956Writer, translator, and activist Achy Obejas was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1956 and moved…
• Action Bronson1983Rapper, chef and TV host.
• Ada Ascarelli SereniAda Ascarelli Sereni helped thousands of Jews emigrate to Palestine during and after…
• Ada LeversonAlthough essentially a product of the revolt against High Victorianism, as well as of…
• Ada Maimon (Fishman)One of the “spiritual mothers” of Jewish feminism in Israel, Ada Maimon founded the…
• Ada Yonath2009Studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
• Adah Isaacs MenkenIn her short but remarkable life, actress Adah Isaacs Menken became legendary for her…
• Adam Brody1979Actor known for The O.C. and Shazam!
• Adam Duritz1964Lead singer of Counting Crows.
• Adam Fischer1949Orchestra conductor
• Adam Goldberg1998American actor of Jewish heritage.
• Adam Grant1981Organizational psychologist known for research on motivation and work
• Adam GuettelTony Award — Best Original Score
• Adam Heller1933Electrochemist known for glucose biosensors
• Adam Horovitz1966Beastie Boys member (Ad-Rock) and pioneering hip-hop artist.
• Adam Lamberg1984American actor who played Gordo in the beloved series and film Lizzie McGuire.
• Adam Lambert1982Singer who rose from American Idol to front the legendary band Queen.
• Adam Levine1979American singer and frontman of Maroon 5.
• Adam NeumannIsraeli-American entrepreneur who co-founded WeWork.
• Adam Pally1982Actor and comedian known for Happy Endings and The Mindy Project
• Adam Politzer1835Otologist regarded as a founder of modern ear medicine.
• Adam Rayski1942Head of the Jewish section of the immigrant labour organisation MOI in France and a…
• Adam Riess1969Astrophysicist
• Adam Sandler1995American comedian and actor
• Adam Schlesinger1967Emmy- and Grammy-winning songwriter for Fountains of Wayne and 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.'
• Adam ShapiroStage and screen actor known for 'Never Have I Ever' and 'Steve Jobs'.
• Adam Ulam1922Historian and Sovietologist
• Adam Yauch1964Beastie Boys founder (MCA) and prominent Tibetan-freedom activist.
• Adele Bildersee1883A feminist before her time, Adele Bildersee was an advocate for women in education.
• Adele Bloch-Bauer1881Adele Bloch-Bauer was a wealthy society woman, hostess of a renowned Viennese salon, art…
• Adele Bluthenthal Heiman1900Adele Bluthenthal Heiman spent her life in Arkansas, helping create and lead the state’s…
• Adele Ginzberg1886Known as “Mama G.” by generations of admirers, Adele Ginzberg was an influential figure…
• Adele GoldbergComputer & information scientist
• Adele GoldstineComputer & information scientist
• Adele Gutman Nathan1889Adele Gutman Nathan was a prolific writer, theater director, and creator of historical…
• Adele Lewisohn Lehman1882Adele Lewisohn Lehman was a significant figure in the history of New York City…
• Adele Rosenwald Levy1892Adele Rosenwald Levy used her affluence to promote public-spirited philanthropy and…
• Adele Wiseman1928Adele Wiseman was one of Canada’s most highly regarded writers of the second half of the…
• Adeline Cohnfeldt Lust1860Adeline Cohnfeldt Lust was a writer who published two novels and numerous short stories…
• Adeline Schulberg1895Adeline Schulberg’s long and winding career path led her from socialist activist, to…
• Adi Shamir2002RSA Cryptography (Co-inventor)
• Adin Falkoff1921Co-designed and implemented the APL programming language.
• Adin Steinsaltz1937Renowned Talmudic scholar who produced a monumental translation and commentary on the…
• Adina Bar-Shalom1945Adina Bar-Shalom defines herself as a Haredi woman, not a feminist but a go-getter.
• Adina KahanskyZionist and women's rights activist Adina Kahansky emigrated from Lithuania to Argentina…
• Adolf Brodsky1851Classical violinist
• Adolf Grünbaum1923Philosopher of science, philosophy of space and time
• Adolf Hurwitz1859Complex analysis and number theory
• Adolf Lindenbaum1904Mathematical logic
• Adolf Magnus-Levy1865Physician who pioneered the study of basal metabolism and metabolic disorders
• Adolf Rosenberger1931Racing driver and co-founder of Porsche (1931) with Ferdinand Porsche and Anton Piëch
• Adolf von Baeyer1835Organic chemist who synthesized indigo dye
• Adolph Deutsch1897Film composer
• Adolph Frank1834Industrial chemist known for the potash industry and the cyanamide process
• Adolph Green1914Lyricist and librettist
• Adolph LoweEconomist
• Adolph Ochs1896Bought the near-bankrupt New York Times in 1896 and built it into America's newspaper of…
• Adolph Zukor1912Founded Paramount Pictures
• Adolphe Crémieux1870French Minister of Justice who abolished the death penalty for political crimes and, by…
• Adolphe Franck1810French philosopher and scholar of the Kabbalah
• Adolphine Schwimmer-VigevenoAdolphine Schwimmer-Vigeveno was an active member of the Jewish Women’s Council in the…
• Adolphus Elkin1891Australian anthropologist known for pioneering studies of Aboriginal cultures
• Adrian Kantrowitz1918Surgeon who performed the first US heart transplant and helped develop the intra-aortic…
• Adrian Krainer2021Developed the first drug for spinal muscular atrophy (nusinersen)
• Adrian Sunshine1930Orchestra conductor
• Adrien Arpel1941Adrien Arpel is a pioneering entrepreneur who has been highly successful in the skincare…
• Adrien Brody2002American actor, youngest Best Actor Oscar winner for The Pianist
• Adrienne Cooper1946A versatile performer, scholar, administrator, and activist who worked in the fields of…
• Adrienne Rich1929American poet and essayist ('Diving into the Wreck')
• Adrienne Shelly2007Actress, screenwriter and director
• Aenne Biermann1898In her short life, self-taught photographer Aenne Biermann made a profound impact on the…
• Agam Rudberg1986Israeli actress and model featured in Israeli TV dramas.
• Agnès Jaoui2000Scénariste, réalisatrice et actrice, la femme la plus césarisée de l'histoire du cinéma…
• Agnes Keleti1956Gymnast
• Agnieszka Holland1948Director ('Europa Europa', 'In Darkness')
• Agrippa I41Last king of a reunited Jewish Judea, who shielded the Temple from Caligula and helped…
• Aharon Appelfeld1932Israeli novelist of the Holocaust ('Badenheim 1939')
• Aharon Katchalsky-Katzir1914Biophysicist who pioneered the study of polyelectrolytes and non-equilibrium…
• Aharon Razin1935Biochemist who helped establish the role of DNA methylation in gene control
• Ai Tian1605The Kaifeng Jew whose 1605 meeting with Matteo Ricci revealed the Jews of China to the…
• Aida Bortnik1938Aída Bortnik was an Argentine journalist, dramaturge, and screenwriter who wrote the…
• Aidan Gallagher2019American actor and musician
• Akiba Rubinstein1912Polish chess grandmaster, one of the strongest players of the early 20th century and a…
• Akiva Goldsman2001Screenwriter of A Beautiful Mind (Academy Award 2001)
• Akiva Schaffer1977Emmy-winning member of The Lonely Island and director of comedy films and SNL Digital…
• Akiva Yaglom1921Physicist known for turbulence theory and statistical fluid mechanics
• Al Davis1929Longtime owner and managing general partner of the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders (NFL) from…
• Al Dubin1891Song lyricist
• Al Franken1975Writer and performer on Saturday Night Live from its first season, five Emmy Awards…
• Al Jaffee1964MAD magazine's iconic Fold-In creator (1964) and 'Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions'
• Al Jolson1886Entertainer born Asa Yoelson, son of a cantor
• Al Kasha1972Two Academy Awards for songs: 'The Morning After', 'We May Never Love Like This Again'
• Al Kooper1944Rock musician (organ on Dylan's 'Like a Rolling Stone'), founder of Blood, Sweat & Tears.
• Al Rosen1953Baseball
• Al Stillman1954Lyricist of '(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays'
• Ala Gertner1944One of four women hanged at Auschwitz for smuggling the gunpowder that blew up…
• Alain Afflelou1972French entrepreneur, founder of the Alain Afflelou international optical retail franchise.
• Alain Boublil1941Musical theater librettist (Les Misérables)
• Alain Chabat2002French comedian, actor and director (Les Nuls, Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra)
• Alain de Botton1969Swiss-British philosopher and popular author on everyday life
• Alain Finkielkraut1987French philosopher and essayist, member of the Académie française
• Alain Jakubowicz2010Avocat des parties civiles aux procès Barbie, Touvier et Papon, président de la LICRA de…
• Alain Wertheimer1948Co-owner and chairman of Chanel
• Alan Arkin1934Oscar-winning actor of Little Miss Sunshine.
• Alan Baker1939Transcendental number theory
• Alan Bergman1925Film and song lyricist
• Alan Bernstein1947Molecular biologist and cancer/stem-cell researcher, founding head of the Canadian…
• Alan BlinderEconomist
• Alan David Freeman1978Critical legal studies scholar of antidiscrimination law
• Alan Fersht1943Chemist who pioneered protein engineering to study enzyme catalysis and protein folding.
• Alan G. Hassenfeld1989CEO of Hasbro 1989–2003
• Alan Greenspan1926Economist who chaired the U.S. Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006
• Alan Guth1947Physicist
• Alan Heeger1936Chemist known for conductive polymers
• Alan Hoffman1992Pioneer of combinatorial optimization and linear programming duality
• Alan J. Pakula1976Director of the 'paranoia trilogy' — Klute, The Parallax View and All the President's Men
• Alan Jay Lerner1918Lyricist and librettist of My Fair Lady, Gigi and Camelot
• Alan Kazdin1945Clinical psychologist known for research on child behavior therapy
• Alan King1927Legendary Borscht Belt comedian and actor.
• Alan KruegerEconomist
• Alan Matarasso1953Pioneered the classification and treatment of abdominoplasty and facial contouring, and…
• Alan Menken1949Composer of Disney scores including The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast
• Alan Needleman1944Founder of computational fracture mechanics
• Alan OppenheimComputer & information scientist
• Alan Perlis1966First-ever Turing Award laureate (1966)
• Alan Prince1946Linguist and co-founder of Optimality Theory in phonology.
• Alan SherImmunologist, research on host immunity to parasitic infection
• Alan WinemanContinuum mechanics
• Alana Haim1991Musician in the sister band HAIM who made a breakout acting debut in 'Licorice Pizza'.
• Alber Elbaz2001Fashion designer, longtime creative director of Lanvin
• Albert Abdullah David Sassoon1818Built the Sassoon Docks, the first wet docks in Bombay, and endowed the David Sassoon…
• Albert AftalionEconomist
• Albert Ballin1891Director of HAPAG who built the world's largest shipping line and invented the modern…
• Albert Bourla2020Greek-American veterinary scientist
• Albert Brooks1947American actor, comedian, and filmmaker known for Broadcast News and Drive.
• Albert Cohen1968French-language novelist of Corfiot Jewish origin, author of the acclaimed novel Belle du…
• Albert Ehrenzweig1906Leading scholar of conflict of laws (private international law) and torts
• Albert Einstein1905Theory of Relativity
• Albert Ellis1913Founder of rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT)
• Albert Goldsmid1895British Army officer who founded the Jewish Lads' Brigade in 1895 and led the Jewish…
• Albert HagueTony Award — Best Musical
• Albert Kahn1909Architect of Ford's Highland Park and River Rouge plants — the factories of the assembly…
• Albert Ladenburg1842Organic chemist known for structural studies of pyridine and benzene
• Albert Lewin1894Writer-director ('The Picture of Dorian Gray')
• Albert Libchaber1934Physicist
• Albert Maltz1947Playwright and screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten jailed in 1950 for refusing to…
• Albert Markov1933Violinist and composer
• Albert Memmi1957Author of The Colonizer and the Colonized (1957) and The Pillar of Salt
• Albert Messiah1921Physicist
• Albert Michelson1907Precision optical instruments and interferometry
• Albert Neisser1855Physician who discovered the bacterium that causes gonorrhea.
• Albert Neuberger1908Biochemist known for research on amino acid and protein metabolism
• Albert O. Hirschman1915Development economist and political theorist
• Albert Sabin1961Oral Polio Vaccine
• Albert Sacks1920Harvard constitutional scholar
• Albert SalamonRadiologist, early pioneer of mammography
• Albert Salomon1913Pioneer of the mammogram for early breast-cancer detection
• Albert Schatz1920Microbiologist who co-discovered streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against…
• Albert Schwarz1934Mathematical physics
• Albert Starr1926Implanted the first successful artificial heart valve (Starr-Edwards valve)
• Albert Vorspan1924Writer and leader on Jewish social justice and social action in Reform Judaism
• Albert Warner1923Co-founded Warner Bros. Studios
• Albert Weiss1879Psychologist influential in the development of behaviorism
• Albert Wohlstetter1913Strategist and nuclear-deterrence theorist
• Alberto Gerchunoff1910Author of The Jewish Gauchos (1910), founding work of Latin American Jewish literature
• Alberto Moravia1907Italian novelist ('The Conformist', 'The Time of Indifference')
• Alberto Sirlin1930Physicist
• Alden Ehrenreich2018American actor
• Aldo Ferraresi1902Classical violinist
• Alejandra Pizarnik1936With a vast body of work that includes books of poetry, prose works, essays, and diaries…
• Alejandro Jodorowsky1970Filmmaker and comics writer
• Aleksander Wat1900Poet and co-founder of Polish futurism, witness of the century in My Century
• Aleksei GoldenveizerContinuum mechanics
• Alessandro d'AnconaLiterary & drama critic
• Alessandro Piperno2012Novelist of Rome's Jewish bourgeoisie, winner of the Strega Prize (2012)
• Aletta Henriette Jacobs1854A pioneer in many realms—birth control, women’s suffrage, peace activism, and envisioning…
• Alex Band2001Singer of The Calling
• Alex Borstein1971Emmy-winning voice of Lois on Family Guy and star of Mrs. Maisel.
• Alex BouazizCo-founder and chief executive of Deel, the global payroll and hiring platform valued at…
• Alex Bregman2017Baseball
• Alex Brightman2019American musical-theatre actor and writer
• Alex ClareBritish singer-songwriter known for the hit 'Too Close' who embraced Orthodox Judaism.
• Alex Edelman1989Comedian and writer of the acclaimed solo show 'Just for Us'.
• Alex Eskin1965Dynamics on homogeneous spaces
• Alex Hirsch1985Animator who created the acclaimed Disney series 'Gravity Falls'.
• Alex Inkeles1920Sociologist of modernization and national character
• Alex Karp2003Co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies (2003), the data-analysis company serving…
• Alex Lubotzky1956Group theory and expander graphs
• Alex North1910Film composer of A Streetcar Named Desire and Spartacus
• Alex Wolff1997Actor known for Hereditary and Pig (Jewish father)
• Alex Zunger1947Physicist
• Alexa KarolinskiGerman-Jewish documentary filmmaker and co-creator of the acclaimed series 'Unorthodox.'
• Alexander Akhiezer1911Theoretical physicist
• Alexander Beilinson1957Geometric representation theory
• Alexander Belavin2011Co-author of the BPZ paper founding conformal field theory
• Alexander Belyavsky1953Chess grandmaster
• Alexander Bickel1924Constitutional scholar
• Alexander Borovsky1889Classical pianist
• Alexander Brailowsky1896Classical pianist
• Alexander Del Mar1836Monetary economist and historian
• Alexander Dessler1928Space physicist known for research on magnetospheric and space plasma physics
• Alexander EfrosPhysicist (semiconductor and quantum dot theory)
• Alexander Friedmann1888Physicist
• Alexander Galich1968Bard of the Soviet dissidence whose forbidden songs circulated on clandestine tape
• Alexander Gerschenkron1904Economic historian
• Alexander Givental1958Symplectic geometry and mirror symmetry
• Alexander Goldenweiser1880Boasian anthropologist known for his critical studies of totemism
• Alexander Grothendieck1928Reshaped algebraic geometry with scheme theory (Fields Medal)
• Alexander Gutman1902Physician-scientist, research on uric acid metabolism and gout
• Alexander Hollaender1983Founder of radiation biology
• Alexander Khinchin1894Co-established the Wiener-Khinchin theorem in signal theory.
• Alexander Khinchine1894Founder of Soviet probability theory
• Alexander Kompaneets1914Physicist
• Alexander Lesser1902Boasian anthropologist known for his study of the Pawnee Ghost Dance
• Alexander Levitzki1940Biochemist who pioneered signal transduction inhibitors (tyrphostins) as cancer drugs
• Alexander Luria1902Founder of modern neuropsychology and the study of the brain's functional organization.
• Alexander Markov1963Classical violinist
• Alexander Men1935Russian Orthodox priest and religious philosopher (of Jewish descent)
• Alexander NoveEconomist
• Alexander Ostrowski1893Analysis and number theory
• Alexander PatashinskiPhysicist (statistical physics, phase transitions)
• Alexander Pechersky1943Red Army officer who planned and led the Sobibor uprising of 14 October 1943 — the most…
• Alexander Pines1945Physical chemist known for solid-state NMR spectroscopy
• Alexander Polyakov1945Theoretical physicist
• Alexander Rich1924Biophysicist who discovered Z-DNA and co-discovered polysomes and the structure of…
• Alexander Rudensky1956Immunologist, research on regulatory T cells and immune tolerance
• Alexander S. Wiener1907Immunohematologist who co-discovered the Rh blood factor with Karl Landsteiner, making…
• Alexander Schneider1908Violinist and conductor
• Alexander Shapiro2021Authority on stochastic programming under uncertainty
• Alexander Smolensky1954Banker (SBS-Agro)
• Alexander the Alabarch40Alabarch of Alexandria, financier of the Temple gates and of kings, brother of the…
• Alexander Varshavsky1946Biologist who discovered the ubiquitin system's N-end rule governing protein lifespan.
• Alexander von Zemlinsky1923Composer and conductor of fin-de-siècle Vienna, teacher and brother-in-law of Schoenberg
• Alexander Weinstein1897Applied mathematics
• Alexandr Gelfond1906Transcendental number theory
• Alexandre Adler1992French historian and journalist, geopolitics analyst
• Alexandre Arcady1982French director born in Algiers to a Jewish Algerian mother (Le Grand Pardon, 24 Days)
• Alexandre Besredka1870Immunologist who advanced the understanding of anaphylaxis and local immunity.
• Alexandre Chorin1938Computational fluid dynamics
• Alexandre Horowitz1939Philips engineer who invented the Philishave rotary electric shaver (1939), used by…
• Alexandre Koyré1892Historian and philosopher of science
• Alexandre Millerand1920President of France (1920-24) and prime minister, of Alsatian Jewish descent on his…
• Alexandre Mnouchkine1945Founded Ariane Films and produced Fanfan la Tulipe, Le Corniaud, La Grande Vadrouille and…
• Alexandre Trauner1945Set designer of Les Enfants du paradis, built in hiding under the Occupation
• Alexandre Weill1847Écrivain franco-allemand, premier conteur du village juif d'Alsace dans la littérature…
• Alexei Abrikosov1928Physicist
• Alexei Starobinsky1948Physicist
• Alexey Chervonenkis1938Co-created VC theory underlying statistical learning.
• Alexis Weissenberg1929Classical pianist
• Alfonso de la Caballería1484Vice-chancellor of Aragon and first president of the Council of Aragon, who tried to stop…
• Alfonso de Valdés1527Erasmian humanist and Latin secretary to Emperor Charles V
• Alfonso de Zamora1517Hebraist of the Complutensian Polyglot Bible, first professor of Hebrew at Alcalá
• Alfred Adler1870Founder of individual psychology and the concept of the inferiority complex
• Alfred Alberts1931Biochemist who co-discovered lovastatin, the first commercial statin for lowering…
• Alfred Bader1924Chemist and founder of the Aldrich Chemical Company
• Alfred Bertheim1879Chemist who co-developed Salvarsan, the first effective syphilis drug
• Alfred Bester1953Author of The Demolished Man, the first novel to win the Hugo Award, and of The Stars My…
• Alfred Cohn1927Screenwriter of The Jazz Singer (1927), the first talking picture
• Alfred DöblinAuthor
• Alfred Dreyfus1906The officer at the center of the Dreyfus Affair, falsely convicted and fully…
• Alfred Einhorn1856Chemist who synthesized procaine (Novocain), the first safe injectable local anesthetic.
• Alfred Freudenthal1906Father of structural reliability and safety theory
• Alfred Fried1911Austrian pacifist
• Alfred Gilman1941Awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize for the discovery of G-proteins and their role in cellular…
• Alfred Goldberg1942Biologist who discovered how cells degrade proteins, laying groundwork for…
• Alfred Haar1885Haar measure and the Haar wavelet
• Alfréd Hajós1896Swimmer
• Alfred Hess1875Physician whose nutritional research helped conquer scurvy and rickets
• Alfred KahnEconomist
• Alfred KazinLiterary & drama critic
• Alfred KerrLiterary & drama critic
• Alfred Landé1888Physicist
• Alfred Lion1939Berlin-born Jewish refugee who founded Blue Note Records (1939), the most storied label…
• Alfred Loewy1873Algebra
• Alfred Lotka1880Mathematical biologist who co-created the Lotka-Volterra equations of population dynamics.
• Alfred Mirsky1900Cell biologist who advanced understanding of chromatin and the cell nucleus
• Alfred Naquet1884Chemist and senator, author of the 1884 law that restored divorce in France
• Alfred Neumann1944German novelist
• Alfred Newman1900Hollywood film composer who wrote the 20th Century Fox fanfare and won nine Oscars
• Alfred PolgarLiterary & drama critic
• Alfred Pringsheim1850Analysis
• Alfréd Rényi1921Contributions to information theory and probability.
• Alfred Schild1921Physicist
• Alfred Schnittke1934Soviet-Russian composer known for polystylistic symphonies and concertos
• Alfred Schutz1899Philosopher and sociologist of the phenomenology of meaning and everyday language.
• Alfred Sommer1942Epidemiologist who showed vitamin A prevents childhood blindness and death
• Alfred Stieglitz1902Photographer and gallerist who established photography as a fine art and championed…
• Alfred Tarski1901Foundational logician
• Alfred Tauber1866Analysis
• Alfred Uhry1989Pulitzer playwright and Academy Award screenwriter of Driving Miss Daisy
• Alfred Wallenstein1898Conductor and cellist
• Alfred Wetzler1944Escaped Auschwitz with Rudolf Vrba in April 1944 and co-authored the report that first…
• Alice Babette Toklas1877Alice Babette Toklas, cookbook author and memoirist, along with her companion Gertrude…
• Alice Davis Menken1870Alice Davis Menken was an influential social reformer whose many published works had a…
• Alice Goldmark BrandeisA longtime activist for women’s equality and labor rights, Alice Brandeis also promoted…
• Alice Heine1889First American-born Princess of Monaco, patron who made Monte-Carlo a capital of opera…
• Alice Hildegard Shalvi1926Israel Prize Laureate Professor Alice Shalvi was a leading Israeli feminist activist and…
• Alice Hoffman1995Novelist of Practical Magic and The World That We Knew
• Alice Hyneman SotheranAlice Hyneman Sotheran, author, lecturer, and reviewer for a variety of magazines in the…
• Alice JeitelesMusician
• Alice Lillie Seligsberg1873A passionate social worker and Zionist, Alice Lillie Seligsberg devoted herself to…
• Alice S. Petluck1873Alice S. Petluck was one of the first women in the United States to attend law school and…
• Alice Salomon1872Alice Salomon was an educator, feminist, economist, and international activist who was…
• Alice SchalekAlice Schalek first entered the public sphere at the turn of the century as the author of…
• Alice Schwarz-GardosAs a journalist, editor and foreign correspondent, Alice Schwarz-Gardos wrote articles…
• Alice Springer Fleisher Liveright1882Social worker Alice Springer Fleisher Liveright devoted much of her life to working for…
• Alicia Markova1910Dame Alicia Markova, Britain’s first and the first Jewish prima ballerina, combined…
• Alicia Partnoy1955Alicia Partnoy, a survivor of Argentina’s so-called “Dirty War” (1976-1983), is an…
• Alicia Silverstone1995American actress (Clueless)
• Alicia Steimberg1933Fiction writer Alicia Steimberg (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1933-2012) garnered important…
• Alicia Suskin Ostriker1937Alicia Ostriker is a feminist revolutionary, a poet, critic, and creator of contemporary…
• Alick Isaacs1921Virologist who co-discovered interferon, the body's antiviral defense protein.
• Alick IssacsBiologist / biomedical scientist
• Aline Bernstein1880Aline Bernstein was one of the first theatrical designers in New York to make sets and…
• Aline Brosh McKenna1967Screenwriter of The Devil Wears Prada and co-creator of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
• Aline KaplanAs executive director of Hadassah, Aline Kaplan credited the organization’s success to…
• Aline Kominsky-Crumb1948Aline Kominsky-Crumb was a pioneer of the autobiographical comics genre and a leading…
• Aline Saarinen1914Aline Saarinen first gained notoriety as an art critic and served as an associate art…
• Alisa Weilerstein1982Classical cellist
• Alison Brie2017Actress (Community, GLOW, Mad Men)
• Alison Gopnik1955Developmental psychologist known for research on children's learning and cognition
• Alison LuriePulitzer Prize for Fiction
• Alison Sudol1984Actress and musician (A Fine Frenzy) known for the Fantastic Beasts films
• Alix Dobkin1940From her childhood as a “red diaper baby” to her career as a pioneer of women’s music…
• Alix Kates Shulman1932Early radical feminist activist (New York Radical Women, Redstockings) and author of…
• Aliza GreenblattDeep love for the Jewish people informed the life of Aliza Greenblatt, an American…
• Alla Kushnir1941Soviet-born Israeli chess grandmaster and three-time Women's World Championship challenger
• Allan Bloom1930American philosopher, author of 'The Closing of the American Mind'
• Allan BorodinComputer & information scientist
• Allan MeltzerEconomist
• Allard K. Lowenstein1929Organized recruitment for the 1963 Mississippi Freedom Vote and helped bring white…
• Allegra Kent1938During ballerina Allegra Kent’s long career with the New York City Ballet, she starred in…
• Allen Bard1933Electrochemist, developer of scanning electrochemical microscopy
• Allen Ginsberg1926Beat Generation poet ('Howl')
• Allen GrossmanAcclaimed American poet and MacArthur Fellow.
• Allie Wrubel1947Composer of 'Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah' (Academy Award 1947)
• Ally Sheedy1985Actress of the 1980s Brat Pack (The Breakfast Club, WarGames). Jewish mother.
• Alma Deutscher2005British composer and prodigy who wrote the opera Cinderella as a child
• Alma Gluck1884Early-20th-century operatic soprano and one of the first million-selling recording…
• Alma Zack1970Israeli actress featured in the acclaimed series BeTipul.
• Alon Itai2016Israeli computer scientist (Technion)
• Alon NeumanIsraeli actor working in Israeli television drama.
• Alona BarkatIsraeli businesswoman and owner of the Hapoel Be'er Sheva football club.
• Alona Tal1983Israeli-American actress from Supernatural and Veronica Mars.
• Alonso Chirino1365Royal physician to Henry III and John II of Castile, author of the first medical…
• Alonso de Burgos1488Bishop and confessor of Isabella the Catholic, founder of the Colegio de San Gregorio of…
• Alonso de Cartagena1449Bishop of Burgos, humanist and diplomat, author of the great defense of the conversos
• Alphonse Halimi1957Boxing
• Alphonse Lévy1903Peintre et lithographe de la vie juive d'Alsace et d'Algérie, mémoire visuelle de deux…
• Alphonse Ratisbonne1843Born into the Ratisbonne banking family, co-founder of the Congregation of Notre-Dame de…
• Alton Meister1922Biochemist who elucidated glutathione metabolism and amino acid biochemistry
• Alvan Feinstein1925Physician regarded as a founder of clinical epidemiology and clinimetrics.
• Álvar García de Santa María1420Chroniqueur officiel de Jean II de Castille, conseiller royal
• Álvaro Mendes (Salomon ibn Ya'ish)1585Duc de Mytilène, artisan de l'alliance anglo-ottomane contre l'Espagne
• Alvin BoskoffSociologist
• Alvin Goldman1938Epistemologist, developed reliabilism and social epistemology
• Alvin Gouldner1920Reflexive sociologist
• Alvin Liberman1917Psychologist who developed the motor theory of speech perception.
• Alvin Roth2012Theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design
• Alvin Sargent1980Two-time Academy Award screenwriter: Julia, Ordinary People
• Alvin TofflerAuthor
• Alvin Weinberg1915Physicist
• Alwin Pappenheimer1908Immunologist known for research on diphtheria toxin and antitoxin
• Aly Raisman2012Gymnast
• Alyson Hannigan1997Actress: Willow Rosenberg in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lily Aldrin in How I Met Your…
• Amalia Kahana-Carmon1926Amalia Kahana-Carmon was an Israeli author, activist, literary critic, and feminist.
• Amanda Bynes2003Actress and former model
• Amanda Peet2000American actress (The Whole Nine Yards, 2012). Jewish mother.
• Amar'e Stoudemire2020Six-time NBA All-Star who went on to play and coach in Israel
• Amatus Lusitanus1511Renaissance physician who described the valves of the veins and advanced clinical…
• Amber Benson2000Actress (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Ambrósio Fernandes Brandão1618New Christian planter, attributed author of the Dialogues of the Greatness of Brazil…
• Amedee Mannheim1831Geometry
• Amedeo Modigliani1884Italian painter and sculptor of the École de Paris known for elongated portraits and nudes
• Amelia Greenwald1881American nurse Amelia Greenwald focused her career in public health nursing on training…
• Amélie Jakobovits1967Rebbetzin d'Irlande, de New York puis d'Angleterre, dite la grand-mère du judaïsme…
• Ami LuttwakIsraeli co-founder and chief technology officer of Wiz, and co-founder of Adallom before…
• Amiel FeinsteinComputer & information scientist
• Amir Haddad2016Chanteur franco-israélien, sixième à l'Eurovision 2016 avec J'ai cherché, meilleur…
• Amir Pnueli1996Israeli Turing Award laureate (1996) who introduced temporal logic for verifying computer…
• Amir Ronen2012Israeli co-founder of algorithmic mechanism design
• Amir Shinar2006Waze Co-founder
• Amira DotanAmira Dotan served in the Israel Defense Forces for seventeen years, fulfilling various…
• Amit Farkash1989Israeli actress and singer who starred in the series Victory (HaNesicha).
• Amit Rahav1995Israeli actor who starred in the Netflix miniseries Unorthodox.
• Amitai Etzioni1929Founder of communitarian thought and socio-economics
• Amnon Lotem2014Israeli co-author of the optimal aggregation algorithms for databases
• Amnon Shashua1999Co-founded Mobileye, pioneering camera-based driver-assistance and collision-avoidance…
• Amnon Yariv1930Physicist
• Amos de Shalit1926Physicist
• Amos Fiat2016Israeli co-inventor of the Fiat-Shamir digital-signature technique
• Amos Gitai1950Prolific Israeli filmmaker whose politically engaged films regularly screen at Cannes and…
• Amos Guttman1954Pioneering Israeli filmmaker known for his openly gay-themed cinema.
• Amos Joel Jr.1918Invented automatic call handoff, enabling cellular telephony.
• Amos Korman2026Israeli computer scientist bridging distributed computing and biology
• Amos Oz1939Israeli novelist ('A Tale of Love and Darkness')
• Amos Tversky1937Cognitive psychologist who co-founded the study of heuristics and biases
• Amotz Bar-Noy2011Israeli computer scientist of distributed and mobile computing
• Amotz Zahavi1928Evolutionary biologist who proposed the handicap principle explaining costly signals in…
• Amrita Sher-Gil1934Pioneer of modern Indian painting, born to a Hungarian Jewish mother and a Sikh father
• Amy Alcott1956One of the most fascinating figures in professional golf, Amy Alcott had a long and…
• Amy Eilberg1954Rabbi Amy Eilberg, ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1985, is notable as the…
• Amy Finkelstein2012Economist of health-insurance markets
• Amy Heckerling1954Director of 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' and 'Clueless'
• Amy Landecker1969Actress known for Transparent and A Serious Man
• Amy Levy1861Novelist, essayist, and poet Amy Levy was a popular and successful writer of the late…
• Amy Loveman1881Amy Loveman was an American editor and publisher in the early twentieth century whose…
• Amy Pascal1958Named one of the most powerful women in Hollywood in 2003, Amy Pascal has been president…
• Amy Schumer1981Stand-up comedian, actress and writer
• Amy Sherman-Palladino2017Creator of Gilmore Girls and of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the story of a Jewish…
• Amy Stiller1961Actress and comedian, part of the Stiller-Meara comedy family, with roles across film and…
• Amy Swerdlow1923Amy Swerdlow (1923-2012), child of a Communist household in the Bronx, shared her…
• Amy Winehouse1983Grammy-winning British soul singer whose album 'Back to Black' became a defining record…
• Ana María Shua1951Ana María Shua is an Argentine writer and screen writer who is internationally known as a…
• Ana PaukerBorn to an impoverished Orthodox family in Bucharest, Ana Pauker joined the Romanian…
• Analía Bortz1967Analía Bortz is the first Latin American woman ordained as a Conservative rabbi.
• Anan ben David770Founder of the Ananite movement, forerunner of Karaite Judaism
• Ananias of Adiabene30The Jewish merchant who brought the royal house of Adiabene to Judaism
• Anatol Rapoport1911Mathematical psychologist
• Anatol Zhabotinsky1938Biophysicist known for the Belousov-Zhabotinsky oscillating chemical reaction
• Anatole Abragam1914Physical chemist and physicist, pioneer of nuclear magnetism and magnetic resonance
• Anatole Dauman1959Producer at Argos Films of Hiroshima mon amour, Nuit et brouillard, Paris Texas and Wings…
• Anatoliy Vershik1933Representation theory, dynamics, and asymptotic combinatorics
• Anatoly Chubais1955Architect of Russian privatization, deputy PM
• Anatoly LurieContinuum mechanics
• Anatoly RybakovAuthor
• Anda Pinkerfeld Amir1902Anda Pinkerfeld-Amir was a Zionist poet, and author whose works reflected the tension…
• Andras Schiff1953Hungarian-British pianist renowned for his interpretations of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and…
• André Aciman1995Memoirist of Egypt's vanished Jewish community in Out of Egypt (Whiting Award) and author…
• André Amar1944Chef parisien de l'Organisation juive de combat, évadé du dernier convoi, puis philosophe…
• André Baur1943Président de l'Union libérale israélite, dirigeant de l'UGIF en zone nord, déporté avec…
• André Charpak1967Comédien, dialoguiste et réalisateur, auteur du Crime de David Levinstein, frère du prix…
• André Citroën1919Industrialist and engineer, founder of the Citroën automobile company
• André Elbogen1944Étudiant de Strasbourg replié à Clermont-Ferrand, combattant de l'Armée juive, fusillé à…
• André Glucksmann1977French philosopher, prominent 'Nouveau Philosophe' and critic of totalitarianism (Les…
• André Gorz1980Philosopher of political ecology and of the critique of work, co-founder of Le Nouvel…
• André Kostelanetz1901Orchestra conductor
• André Lwoff1902Awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize for work on lysogeny and the genetic control of viruses.
• André MauroisAuthor
• André Meyer1898Paris-born financier who led Lazard Frères' American operations for decades, building it…
• André Previn1929Composer, conductor and pianist
• André Schwarz-Bart1928French novelist ('The Last of the Just', Prix Goncourt)
• André SpirePoet / lyricist
• Andre Tippett2008Linebacker of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, five times a Pro Bowl selection with the New…
• Andre Weil1906Number theory and algebraic geometry
• Andrea Dworkin1946Influential American radical feminist writer and anti-pornography activist.
• Andrea Ghez1965Astronomer
• Andrea GyarmatiAndrea Gyarmati is a Hungarian Olympic medalist in swimming.
• Andrée Salomon1908Andrée Salomon, a heroine of the French Jewish Resistance, was responsible for saving…
• Andrei Broder2012Invented MinHash deduplication powering web search
• Andrei Shleifer1999Among the most-cited economists ever (behavioral finance, institutions)
• Andrés Laguna1555Humanist physician to Charles V and Pope Julius III, translator and commentator of…
• Andrew AbelEconomist
• Andrew Barth Feldman2019American actor and singer
• Andrew Dice Clay1990Stand-up comedian and actor (born Andrew Clay Silverstein). Jewish family.
• Andrew Fire2006Nobel laureate in medicine (2006) for the discovery of RNA interference (gene silencing)
• Andrew Garfield1983Actor, star of The Amazing Spider-Man and Hacksaw Ridge
• Andrew Goldberg1978American writer and co-creator of Big Mouth.
• Andrew Goodman1943Freedom Summer volunteer murdered by the Klan with Chaney and Schwerner near…
• Andrew Grove1936Co-founder and CEO of Intel
• Andrew Jarecki1963Documentarian ('Capturing the Friedmans', 'The Jinx')
• Andrew Ridgeley1982Co-founder of Wham!, one of the defining pop acts of the 1980s
• Andrew Rosen1997Fashion executive, co-founder of the contemporary brand Theory
• Andrew Salter1914Psychologist and early pioneer of conditioned reflex (behavior) therapy
• Andrew Sessler1928Physicist
• Andrew Strominger1955Physicist
• Andrew Tanenbaum1944Created the MINIX operating system.
• Andrew Vajna1985Hungarian-American producer of the Rambo films, Total Recall, Terminator 3 and Evita
• Andrew Viterbi1935Invented the Viterbi decoding algorithm.
• Andrey Makarevich1969Founder of Mashina Vremeni, the pioneering band of Russian rock
• Andrzej Mostowski1913Mathematical logic
• Andy Cohen1968Television host and producer of the 'Real Housewives' franchise and host of 'Watch What…
• Andy Kaufman1949Comedian and performance artist, played Latka on Taxi.
• Andy Lassner1966Television producer ('The Ellen DeGeneres Show')
• Andy Samberg1978Comedian and actor, SNL and Brooklyn Nine-Nine
• Aner Shapira2023Soldier who threw back seven grenades to shield civilians in a shelter on 7 October 2023
• Angela Buchdahl1972Angela Warnick Buchdahl is the first Asian American to be ordained as a rabbi and cantor.
• Angela Buxton1956Tennis
• Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu1921Born to a wealthy family in Bucharest in 1921, Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu was one of the…
• Angelica BalabanoffRebelling against her privileged upbringing, Angelica Balabanoff embraced socialism and…
• Angiola SartorioAngiola Sartorio was a prolific dancer, teacher, and choreographer who subverted fascism…
• Anilaeus and Asinaeus20Jewish brothers who ruled an autonomous Jewish territory inside the Parthian Empire for…
• Anish Kapoor1991Sculptor of Cloud Gate and the ArcelorMittal Orbit, Turner Prize 1991
• Anita Block1882As editor of the women’s page of the New York Call, one of America’s first socialist…
• Anita Brenner1905Anita Brenner, an anthropologist, journalist, and art historian, was born in…
• Anita BrooknerAuthor
• Anita Diamant1997Author of 'The Red Tent' (1997)
• Anita Pollitzer1894National Woman's Party organizer and Silent Sentinel who lobbied to secure Tennessee's…
• Anita ShapiraAnita Shapira is one of the most important and influential contemporary historians in the…
• Anitta Müller-Cohen1890Anitta Müller-Cohen was one of the most famous Jewish women in Vienna in the early…
• Ann Druyan1977Creative director of the Voyager Golden Record and co-writer of Cosmos
• Ann Landers1918For over forty years, the Ann Landers advice column—written by Esther Pauline Friedman…
• Anna Appel1888Anna Appel was known for her performance of motherly characters in Yiddish and English…
• Anna Braude Heller1888A brilliant pediatrician used to working in difficult circumstances, Anna Braude Heller…
• Anna Freud1895Founder of child psychoanalysis and theorist of ego defense mechanisms
• Anna G. ShermanAnna G. Sherman was one of the unsung heroes of the Hebraist movement in the United…
• Anna Halprin1920Anna Halprin was one of the founders of the American avant-garde in modern dance.
• Anna Held1873Anna Held was a performer with a flamboyant reputation for bathing in milk and champagne.
• Anna Jacobson1888As a member of Hunter College's German department and scholar of German literature, Anna…
• Anna KaplanAnna Kaplan was an American Jewish nurse who contributed significantly to developing the…
• Anna Karlin2020Theorist of online and randomized algorithms for web caching
• Anna KuliscioffBorn in Russia but educated in Switzerland, Anna Kuliscioff became one of the key figures…
• Anna LangfusAuthor
• Anna Margolin1887Despite her short writing career, Anna Margolin is regarded by literary critics as one of…
• Anna Maria GoldsmidAnna Maria Goldsmid was a Victorian Jewish advocate of women’s education and Jewish…
• Anna Maria JoklAuthor, psychoanalyst, and scriptwriter Anna Maria Jokl was greatly influenced by the…
• Anna Marks Allen1800Anna Marks Allen was part of a group of Philadelphia Jewish women who established and ran…
• Anna Moscowitz Kross1891Anna Moscowitz Kross helped reform the New York prison system by curbing abuses and…
• Anna Pavitt Boudin1883A dentist by career, Anna Pavitt Boudin is remembered for her prominent role in the…
• Anna Rosenberg1901Anna Lederer Rosenberg was an administrator, diplomat, and public relations and manpower…
• Anna Rozental1872Anna Rozental belonged to the generation of Jewish labor activists who had already been…
• Anna SchwartzEconomist
• Anna SeghersAuthor
• Anna SiposBorn in Hungary, Anna Sipos was the second-best women’s table tennis player of her time…
• Anna Sokolow1910Anna Sokolow (1910-2000), an American dancer and choreographer of Russian-Jewish descent…
• Anna Sophia PolakAnna Polak was an important figure in the Dutch women’s movement in the early…
• Anna SpitzerMusician
• Anna Strunsky Walling1879Anna Strunsky Walling was a Russian-born author, journalist, lecturer, and social…
• Anna TichoFrom the moment she arrived in the city in 1912 until the day she died in 1980, Anna…
• Anna Weiner Hochfelder1883Anna Weiner Hochfelder used her legal expertise to help women’s groups serve their…
• Annabelle Gamson1928More than any other artist in the mid-1970s, Annabelle Gamson initiated unprecedented…
• Annamie Paul2020First Black woman and first Jewish woman to lead a major Canadian federal party
• Anne Akiko Meyers1970Classical violinist
• Anne ApplebaumPulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction
• Anne Berest2021Autrice de La Carte postale, enquête sur sa famille maternelle déportée, prix Renaudot…
• Anne Fleischman Bernays1930Anne Fleischman Bernays is an American editor, novelist, and nonfiction writer.
• Anne Frank1947German-Dutch diarist whose 'The Diary of a Young Girl', written in hiding during the…
• Anne Klein1968Fashion designer (born Hannah Golofski), founder of Anne Klein & Co., pioneer of American…
• Anne Lapidus Lerner1942Anne Lapidus Lerner is a pioneering scholar of Jewish women’s studies and was the first…
• Anne Meara1929Comedian and actress of the duo Stiller & Meara who converted to Judaism.
• Anne Roiphe1935A prolific journalist, essayist and novelist, Anne Roiphe is an American writer known for…
• Anne Sinclair1984Journalist and television interviewer of 7 sur 7, chronicler of her grandfather Paul…
• Anne Wojcicki2006Co-founder and CEO of 23andMe (2006), which brought personal genetics to millions.
• Annette Daum1926A deeply religious feminist, Annette Daum dedicated her life to two causes: interfaith…
• Annette Greenfield Strauss1924Annette Greenfield Strauss began her career of public service volunteering for a Jewish…
• Annette Wieviorka1948Annette Wieviorka (b. 1948) is a major French historian of the Holocaust.
• Annie BakerPulitzer Prize for Drama
• Annie Edith Landau1873As an educator in Jerusalem at the beginning of the twentieth century, Annie Edith Landau…
• Annie Fischer1914Classical pianist
• Annie Leibovitz1949For decades, Annie Leibovitz and her camera have exposed to the public eye subtleties of…
• Annie Nathan Meyer1867Annie Nathan Meyer promoted women’s higher education and founded Barnard College, New…
• Annie Vivanti1890Poet and novelist discovered by Carducci, persecuted under the racial laws of 1938
• Anouk Aimée1932French actress Anouk Aimée is perhaps best known for her remarkable presence as an icon…
• Antal Doráti1906Orchestra conductor
• Antal Szerb1937Novelist of Journey by Moonlight and historian of literature, murdered in a forced-labor…
• Anthony Bourdain1956Chef and author whose show No Reservations redefined food-and-travel television.
• Anthony Epstein1921Pathologist who co-discovered the Epstein-Barr virus, the first virus linked to human…
• Anthony G. Amsterdam1935Criminal procedure scholar and capital-punishment litigator
• Anthony Greenwald1939Social psychologist who co-created the Implicit Association Test
• Anthony Hecht1923Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet ('The Hard Hours')
• Anthony Lake2005United States National Security Advisor and later Executive Director of UNICEF
• Anthony Mann1955Director of the psychological westerns with James Stewart — Winchester '73, The Naked…
• Anthony Newley1931Songwriter and performer
• Anthony Pratt1991Executive chairman of Visy and Pratt Industries, the world's largest privately owned…
• Anthony ShafferTony Award — Best Play
• Antón de Montoro1450'El Ropero de Córdoba', converso poet of the fifteenth-century Cancioneros
• Anton Rubinstein1829Russian composer and pianist who founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory
• Anton Yelchin1989Actor who played Chekov in the rebooted Star Trek films.
• Antoni OppenheimFluid mechanics
• Antoni SłonimskiPoet / lyricist
• Antonietta RaphaëlPainting and sculptor Antonietta Raphaël rose to fame in the 1950s.
• Antonio de Montezinos1644Traveler whose 1644 testimony on the Lost Tribes in the Andes set in motion the…
• Antonio Enríquez Gómez1640Playwright and poet of the Spanish Golden Age, exiled and hunted by the Inquisition
• Antonio Fernandes Carvajal1656First Jew endenizened in England and founder of the modern Jewish community of London
• Antonio Jose da Silva1733Portuguese playwright known as 'O Judeu' (The Jew)
• António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches1747Physician of the Enlightenment, member of the academies of St Petersburg and Paris…
• Antony (Tony) Ressler1959Co-founder of Ares Management, a leading alternative-credit and private-equity firm
• Antony Blinken2021US Secretary of State 2021-2025
• Anwar Shaul1929Iraqi poet and journalist in Arabic, founder of the magazine Al-Hasid and screenwriter of…
• Anzia Yezierska1880Polish-born American writer who chronicled Jewish immigrant life on the Lower East Side.
• Aquila of Sinope130Proselyte and disciple of Rabbi Akiva, author of the literal Greek translation of the…
• Ari Aster1986American filmmaker known for Hereditary and Midsommar.
• Ari Emanuel1995Hollywood super-agent
• Ari Fleischer1960White House Press Secretary (2001-2003)
• Ari Folman1962Israeli director whose animated documentary Waltz with Bashir earned worldwide acclaim.
• Ari Gold1970Singer-songwriter and filmmaker who was an openly gay pop pioneer.
• Ari Graynor1983Actress known for Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and The Disaster Artist
• Ari HershkowitzActor featured in the Hasidic-set drama 'Tzadeikis.'
• Ari Shaffir1974Stand-up comedian ('Skeptic Tank' podcast)
• Ari ShapiroAward-winning NPR journalist and host of All Things Considered.
• Ariadna Scriabina1944Poet and daughter of the composer Alexander Scriabin, who converted to Judaism and…
• Ariane Mnouchkine2019French theatre director who founded the Théâtre du Soleil
• Arieh Warshel2013Computational Chemistry
• Ariel and Shimon Ovadia (Ovadia & Sons)2011Twin brothers who founded the menswear label Ovadia & Sons (2011), named GQ Best New…
• Ariel DurantPulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction
• Ariel GoldenbergActor and performer whose work appeared in Brazilian screen productions.
• Ariel Goldmann2014Avocat, président du Fonds social juif unifié et de la Fondation du judaïsme français…
• Ariel Kaplan1994South African-born Australian actress from a Jewish performing family, known for 'The…
• Ariel Pakes2022Israeli-American econometrician of industrial organization
• Ariel Rechtshaid1982Producer for Vampire Weekend, Haim, Adele and Usher.
• Ariel Rubinstein2004Israeli game theorist of bargaining and bounded rationality
• Ariel Sharon2001Eleventh Prime Minister of Israel
• Ariel Wizman1962French-Moroccan Jewish actor, DJ, journalist and radio/TV personality born in Casablanca
• Aristobulus of Paneas160 BCEHellenistic Jewish philosopher who interpreted the Torah through Greek philosophy
• Arkadi Nemirovski1947Co-developed the ellipsoid and interior-point optimization methods.
• Arkady and Boris StrugatskyAuthor
• Arkady Migdal1911Physicist
• Arkady Vainshtein1942Physicist
• Arlo Guthrie1967Folk singer of Alice's Restaurant and City of New Orleans, son of Woody Guthrie and of a…
• Armand Fleischman1924Premier président du Fonds national juif de France en 1924, fondateur en 1931 de…
• Armand Lipman1929Officier d'artillerie et chef d'état-major, puis serviteur du judaïsme français et auteur…
• Armand Lunel1926Premier prix Renaudot 1926, romancier des juifs du Comtat et librettiste de Darius Milhaud
• Armie Hammer2017American actor
• Ármin Vámbéry1832Hungarian orientalist and pioneering Turkologist.
• Arnaldo Cohen1948Classical pianist
• Arnie Kogen1974Auteur de plus de cent parodies pour Mad, scénariste du Carol Burnett Show, trois Emmy…
• Arno Klarsfeld1998Franco-Israeli lawyer who represented Jewish deportees' families at the Touvier and Papon…
• Arno Penzias1933Physicist
• Arnold Arons1916Oceanographer who co-developed the Stommel-Arons model of abyssal ocean circulation
• Arnold Aronson1911Co-founded the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights in 1950 with A. Philip Randolph and…
• Arnold Drake1963Comic-book writer who co-created Doom Patrol and Deadman for DC Comics. Jewish American.
• Arnold Lazarus1932Psychologist who developed multimodal behavior therapy
• Arnold Levine1939Molecular biologist who discovered the p53 tumor-suppressor protein, central to cancer…
• Arnold Pick1851Neurologist and psychiatrist who first described the dementia now called Pick's disease.
• Arnold Rich1893Pathologist known for research on tuberculosis and hypersensitivity
• Arnold Rose1918Sociologist of race relations
• Arnold Schoenberg1921Austrian composer who pioneered atonality and the twelve-tone technique, a founder of the…
• Arnold Schönberg1874Revolutionary composer who pioneered atonality and the twelve-tone technique.
• Arnold SiegertPhysicist (theoretical physics)
• Arnold Steinhardt1937Classical violinist (Guarneri Quartet)
• Arnold ZellnerEconomist
• Arnold ZweigAuthor
• Arnon Milchan1991Founder of Regency Enterprises
• Arnošt LustigAuthor
• Aron Bielski1943Youngest of the four Bielski brothers whose partisan camp in the Belarusian forest saved…
• Aron Dolgopolsky1930Linguist, co-founder of the Nostratic hypothesis of ancient language macrofamilies.
• Aron Nimzowitsch1886Chess grandmaster and hypermodern theorist
• Árpád Göncz1990Écrivain et traducteur, condamné à perpétuité en 1958, premier président de la Hongrie…
• Arpad Nadai1883Pioneer of plasticity theory
• Árpád Weisz1930Football coach
• Arsène Darmesteter1846French philologist of Old French and historical semantics.
• Arseny Roginsky1990Historian who founded and chaired Memorial, the human-rights society (Nobel Peace Prize…
• Art Garfunkel1965Singer of the duo Simon & Garfunkel.
• Art Rupe1955Founded Specialty Records and launched Little Richard ('Tutti Frutti')
• Art Spiegelman1948Graphic novelist, Pulitzer Prize for 'Maus'
• Artem Dolgopyat2021Artistic gymnast
• Arthur (Jacques Essebag)1994French TV host and producer
• Arthur A. Ross1954Co-wrote Creature from the Black Lagoon
• Arthur Allen Leff1935Contracts scholar
• Arthur Ashkin1922Physicist
• Arthur B. Spingarn1878Headed the NAACP's national legal committee pro bono and chaired the organization for two…
• Arthur Berson1859Meteorologist and pioneer of high-altitude balloon research into the upper atmosphere
• Arthur Blank1942Owner of the Atlanta Falcons (NFL) since 2002 and Atlanta United (MLS)
• Arthur Burns1970Chaired the Federal Reserve (1970–78) after long leadership of the NBER and pioneering…
• Arthur C. Danto1924American philosopher of art and history
• Arthur Caesar1934Screenwriter of Manhattan Melodrama (Academy Award 1934)
• Arthur Eichengrun1867Chemist who played a central role in the development of aspirin.
• Arthur Erdelyi1908Special functions and asymptotic analysis
• Arthur Fiedler1894Orchestra conductor (Boston Pops)
• Arthur Fine1937Philosopher of physics and of science
• Arthur Freed1952Lyricist of 'Singin' in the Rain' and legendary producer of the MGM musicals
• Arthur Friedheim1859Pianist and composer
• Arthur Goldberg1962US Secretary of Labor, Supreme Court justice and ambassador to the United Nations
• Arthur GoldbergerEconomist
• Arthur Golden1997Author of Memoirs of a Geisha, translated into more than thirty languages and sold in the…
• Arthur Harari2023French co-writer of Anatomy of a Fall (Academy Award 2023)
• Arthur Hiller1923Canadian director of 'Love Story' and later president of the Academy of Motion Picture…
• Arthur Horwich1951Biologist who discovered chaperonins, the cellular machines that fold proteins.
• Arthur J. Barsky1898Global reconstructive surgery visionary who led the pro bono 'Hiroshima Maidens' project…
• Arthur J. Lelyveld1913Reform rabbi beaten with an iron pipe while registering Black voters in Hattiesburg…
• Arthur Jaffe1937Constructive quantum field theory
• Arthur Kantrowitz1913Physicist
• Arthur Koestler1905Novelist and essayist ('Darkness at Noon')
• Arthur KopitTony Award — Best Musical
• Arthur KornContinuum mechanics
• Arthur Kornberg1959DNA Synthesis
• Arthur Laurents1957Wrote the books of West Side Story and Gypsy
• Arthur Lourié1918First futurist composer of Russia, head of music of the young Soviet state, later exile…
• Arthur Miller1949Playwright
• Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.1951Publisher and chairman of The New York Times
• Arthur OkunEconomist
• Arthur Pap1921Philosopher of science and analytic philosophy
• Arthur Penn1922Director of the landmark film Bonnie and Clyde.
• Arthur RobertsBiomedical researcher
• Arthur Rock1957The first great venture capitalist of Silicon Valley: arranged the founding of Fairchild…
• Arthur Rosenfeld2005'Godfather of energy efficiency'
• Arthur Salomon1889Co-founder of the Salomon Brothers investment bank
• Arthur Schawlow1921Physicist
• Arthur Schnitzler1862Austrian playwright and novelist ('La Ronde', 'Dream Story')
• Arthur Schonflies1853Crystallographic groups and topology
• Arthur Schuster1851Physicist known for periodogram analysis and work on terrestrial magnetism and radiative…
• Arthur Schwartz1900Broadway composer
• Arthur Ship1928Maxillofacial surgery innovator and educator who served as president of the American…
• Arthur Tobolsky1919Polymer scientist of viscoelastic relaxation
• Arthur Waskow1933Rabbi and activist who founded the Shalom Center and helped shape the Jewish Renewal…
• Arthur Weiss1952Immunologist, research on T-cell receptor signaling
• Arthur Weisweiller1935Banquier et collectionneur, fondateur en 1935 de l'école Maïmonide, premier établissement…
• Artur Bodanzky1877Opera conductor
• Artur Rodzinsky1892Orchestra conductor
• Artur Rubinstein1887Polish-American pianist regarded as one of the greatest of the 20th century, especially…
• Artur Schnabel1932Austrian pianist and composer, celebrated interpreter of Beethoven and the first to…
• Arye Kohavi2009Invented the Watergen atmospheric water generator that extracts drinking water from air.
• Aryeh Dvoretzky1916Functional analysis
• Aryeh Neier1937Co-founder of Human Rights Watch, longtime ACLU executive director, and founding…
• Asael Bielski1942Second of the Bielski brothers and field commander of their partisan group
• Asaph the Physicianc. 550Author of the Sefer Asaf ha-Rofe, the earliest known Hebrew medical treatise
• Ascher ShapiroFluid mechanics
• Asenath Barzani1630The first known woman to head a yeshiva, the 'tanna'it' of Kurdistan
• Aser Rothstein1918Physiologist, research on cell-membrane transport
• Asher ben Jehielc. 1300The Rosh
• Asher Peres1934Physicist
• Asher Roth1985Rapper ('I Love College').
• Ashley Montagu1905Anthropologist known for challenging race concepts in 'Man's Most Dangerous Myth'
• Ashley Tisdale2006Actress: Sharpay Evans in the High School Musical films and Maddie in The Suite Life of…
• Asia Kate Dillon1984Actor who played TV's first major non-binary character in 'Billions' and appeared in…
• Asnat BarazaniAsnat Barazani was a highly educated and respected Torah scholar in late 16th and early…
• Assaf Naor1975Metric geometry and the geometry of Banach spaces
• Assaf Rappaport1983Israeli co-founder and chief executive of Wiz, the cloud security company Google bought…
• Assi Azar1979Popular Israeli television host who has presented Israel's Eurovision broadcasts.
• Assi Dayan1945Acclaimed Israeli actor and filmmaker.
• Assi Levy1969Israeli stage and screen actress acclaimed for her dramatic roles.
• Astrith Baltsan1956Astrith Baltsan is a decorated Israeli classical musician.
• Aubrey Lewis1900Influential psychiatrist who shaped British academic psychiatry
• Audrey Cohen1931Audrey Cohen was the founder and president of Audrey Cohen College in New York City…
• Audrey FlackThe only female member of the founding group of photorealists, New York-born painter and…
• August Belmont1837Rothschild agent who founded August Belmont & Co., chairman of the Democratic National…
• August Neander1813Church historian of the University of Berlin, called the father of modern church history
• August von Wassermann1866Bacteriologist who devised the Wassermann test, the first diagnostic blood test for…
• Aure Atika1970Actress and director
• Aurel Kolnai1900Moral and political philosopher
• Aurel Stein1907Explorer-archaeologist of the Silk Road who opened the library cave of Dunhuang
• Aurel Wintner1903Analysis, probability, and celestial mechanics
• Aurora Levins Morales1954Aurora Levins Morales is an author, artist, activist, and historian whose work as been…
• Austin Abrams2019American actor
• Austin GrossmanAmerican novelist and video-game writer of 'Deus Ex.'
• Avi Arad1993Founder and first CEO of Marvel Studios
• Avi LewisCanadian documentary filmmaker and broadcaster.
• Avi Loeb1962Astrophysicist
• Avi Nir1961Israeli media executive who as Keshet CEO produced globally adapted formats like…
• Avi Shlaim2000Oxford historian, one of Israel's 'New Historians', author of The Iron Wall and of a…
• Avi Toledano1982Israeli singer and composer
• Avi WeissProminent Orthodox rabbi and human-rights activist who founded Open Orthodox institutions.
• Avi Wigderson1956Foundational work on complexity and randomness
• Avigdor Kahalani1973Tank commander whose battalion held the Valley of Tears on the Golan (1973)
• Aviv Regev1971Computational biologist and a founder of the Human Cell Atlas using single-cell genomics.
• Aviva Baumann1984American actress who appeared in film and television including Superbad.
• Aviva Cantor1940Journalist and lecturer Aviva Cantor is the author of the theoretical work Jewish Women…
• Avivah Gottlieb ZornbergAvivah Gottlieb Zornberg is a highly regarded Torah scholar and author.
• Avner Friedman1932Partial differential equations and industrial mathematics
• Avraam Benaroya1909Founder of the Socialist Workers' Federation of Salonica and of the Greek labor movement
• Avraham Aviv Alush1982Israeli actor who portrayed Jesus in the film The Shack.
• Avraham FriedHasidic singer and beloved Jewish entertainer.
• Avraham Levy (CarCool)1970Israeli businessman who invented the accordion cardboard car sunshade (1970) and patented…
• Avram Goldstein1919Pharmacologist who helped discover the brain's endorphins and opiate receptors.
• Avram Hershko2004Discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
• Avrim Blum2021Foundational theorist of machine learning
• Avshalom Feinberg1915Co-founder and leading figure of the NILI intelligence network of the First World War
• Axel Kahn1990Prominent French geneticist and bioethicist
• Ayala ProcacciaDuring her years on the bench as a judge and a Supreme Court Justice, Ayala Procaccia…
• Ayelet Erez2026Israeli physician-scientist at the Weizmann Institute
• Ayelet TsabariAyelet Tsabari is a Canadian-Israeli writer of Yemeni heritage who writes and publishes…
• Ayelet Zurer1969Israeli actress, star of Munich and Man of Steel
• Ayn Rand1905Novelist and philosopher ('Atlas Shrugged', 'The Fountainhead')
• Azariah dei Rossic. 1511 CERenaissance scholar and pioneering critical historian
• Azriel RosenfeldComputer & information scientist

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