• M. Gordon Wolman1927Geomorphologist known for foundational work on river processes and fluvial geomorphology
• M. Lincoln Schuster1924Co-founded Simon & Schuster and, with Pocket Books, helped create the mass paperback…
• Mac Miller1992American rapper and record producer.
• Mack Gordon1943Lyricist of 'You'll Never Know' (Academy Award 1943) and 'Chattanooga Choo Choo'
• MacKinlay KantorPulitzer Prize for Fiction
• Madame Goldye Steiner, aka Gladys Mae SellersMadame Goldye Steiner was the first known African-American woman singer of khazones, or…
• Madeleine Albright1937First female US Secretary of State (1997-2001)
• Madeleine Blaustein1960American voice actress known for anime dubbing including Pokemon.
• Madeleine Borg1878Madeleine Borg, a juvenile rights advocate, is known for reframing juvenile…
• Madeleine Elbogen1944Étudiante en sciences de l'université de Strasbourg repliée à Clermont-Ferrand, prise…
• Madeleine May KuninMadeline Kunin broke ground as the first woman governor of Vermont and the only woman to…
• Madeleine Milhaud1925Librettiste et récitante, gardienne de l'œuvre de Darius Milhaud pendant plus de quarante…
• Madeline Brandeis1897Born in San Francisco in 1897, Madeline Brandeis was a noted children’s book author and…
• Madeline Kahn1974Acclaimed comic actress (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein)
• Madison Beer1999American singer-songwriter.
• Mae Questel1908Voice actress who was the original voice of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl.
• Mae Rockland Tupa1937Mae Rockland Tupa (b. 1937) is an accomplished multimedia artist and author whose…
• Magdalen Flexner1907A distinguished lawyer and foreign service officer, Magdalen Flexner succeeded in…
• Maggie Gyllenhaal1977Actress and director, Oscar-nominated for Crazy Heart
• Magnus Hirschfeld1868Physician and sexologist
• Mahinarangi TockerNew Zealand singer-songwriter Mahinaarangi Tocker (1955-2008) was best known as a Maori…
• Maida Herman SolomonProfessor of social economy Maida Solomon was recognized as a pioneer in the field…
• Maimie Pinzer1885Maimie Pinzer (1885-1940) was a resilient and ambitious woman with a strong survival…
• Mala Zimetbaum1944Escaped Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944 to carry word of the killings, and defied the SS to…
• Malcolm Frager1935Classical pianist
• Malcolm Glazer1928Owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (NFL) from 1995 and Manchester United (soccer) from…
• Malka Heifetz TussmanMalka Heifetz Tussman introduced into Yiddish poetry one of the most rigid verse forms…
• Malka Kolodny1910Malka Fisz Kolodny served as one of the first teachers in pre-State Palestine.
• Malka Lee1904A writer of lyrical and sometimes sentimental poetry, Malka Lee was one of the most…
• Malvin Wald1948Screenwriter of The Naked City
• Mamie Gamoran1900Mamie Goldsmith Gamoran combated assimilation in America by writing children’s books on…
• Man Ray1890Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky), Dada and Surrealist artist and photographer
• Mandy Moore1984Singer and actress starring in the acclaimed series This Is Us.
• Mandy Patinkin1952Tony- and Emmy-winning actor and singer of stage, Homeland and The Princess Bride.
• Manès SperberAuthor
• Manfred Clynes1925Neurophysiologist and inventor who coined the term 'cyborg'
• Manfred KochenComputer & information scientist
• Manfred Mann1940Keyboardist and bandleader (Manfred Mann, Earth Band).
• Manfred Sakel1900Psychiatrist who introduced insulin shock therapy for schizophrenia
• Manfréd Weiss1892Fondateur des usines de Csepel, plus grand complexe industriel de Hongrie et deuxième…
• Mania Wilbushewitch ShochatZionist and socialist, radical and revolutionary, Mania Shochat left behind her labor…
• Manoel Bocarro Francês1647Médecin, mathématicien et astronome marrane, correspondant de Galilée, comte palatin de…
• Manson Benedict1972Designed the Manhattan Project's uranium-enrichment plant
• Manuel Blum1995Computational Complexity Theory
• Manuel Fernandes Vila Real1641Consul du Portugal à Paris et publiciste de la maison de Bragance : ses écrits firent…
• Manuel Rosenthal1904Conductor and composer
• Manya Gordon StrunskyManya Gordon Strunsky was a socialist activist and a respected writer on political and…
• Mar Zutra II495Exilarque de Babylonie qui conduisit vers 495 une révolte armée contre l'empire sassanide…
• Mara Wilson1996American actress and writer
• Marc & Laurent Grosman (Celio)French entrepreneurs, founders of the Celio menswear brand.
• Marc Benioff1999Founder and CEO of Salesforce (1999), the company that made software a service and San…
• Marc Besen1950Founded the Sussan retail group and built the Highpoint shopping centre
• Marc Blitzstein1905Composer of opera and musical theater
• Marc BlochProfiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
• Marc Bolan1947Singer-guitarist of glam-rock pioneers T. Rex ('Get It On').
• Marc Breuer1941Organisateur des cours de judaïsme par correspondance pour les jeunes juifs isolés de…
• Marc Chagall1912Modernist painter and stained-glass artist drawing on Jewish folk life
• Marc Ecko1993Fashion designer and entrepreneur, founder of Ecko Unltd. streetwear
• Marc et Laurent Grosman1985Brothers who developed Célio into a leading French menswear retail chain, building on the…
• Marc Feldmann1944Immunologist who pioneered anti-TNF therapy for rheumatoid arthritis.
• Marc Galanter1931Law and society scholar
• Marc Jacobs1986Fashion designer, founder of the Marc Jacobs label
• Marc Jarblum1943Président de la Fédération des sociétés juives de France, financier du sauvetage sous…
• Marc Kastner1945Physicist
• Marc Kirschner1945Cell biologist known for work on the cytoskeleton and cell cycle control
• Marc Lasry1959Moroccan-born co-founder and CEO of Avenue Capital Group, one of the largest…
• Marc Levy2000France's best-selling contemporary novelist (Et si c'était vrai), tens of millions of…
• Marc Maron1963American comedian and host of the pioneering WTF podcast, plus the series Maron and GLOW.
• Marc Minkowski1962Orchestra conductor
• Marc Nerlove1969Econometrician of dynamic agricultural supply and panel data
• Marc Norman1998Co-writer of Shakespeare in Love (Academy Award 1998)
• Marc Randolph1997Co-founder and first CEO of Netflix (1997), the DVD-by-mail idea that grew into the…
• Marc Rich1934Commodities trader
• Marc Rowan1962Co-founder and CEO of Apollo Global Management
• Marc ShaimanTony Award — Best Musical
• Marc-Olivier Fogiel2001French journalist and TV host
• Marcel Cohen1884French linguist of Semitic and Ethiopian languages and early sociolinguistics.
• Marcel Dalio1937Actor in La Grande Illusion and La Règle du jeu
• Marcel FrydmanFrench entrepreneur, founder of the Marionnaud perfumery chain.
• Marcel G. Cohen de Mehrez1949Founder of MGC International, France's leading ethnic-cosmetics house, present in 88…
• Marcel Marceau1947French mime artist who created Bip the Clown
• Marcel Mauss1872French sociologist and anthropologist
• Marcel Ophüls1927Documentarian ('The Sorrow and the Pity'
• Marcel Proust1913French novelist, author of In Search of Lost Time
• Marcel Rayman1944Fighter of the FTP-MOI in Paris and one of the men of the Affiche rouge, executed at…
• Marcel Reich-RanickiLiterary & drama critic
• Marcel Riesz1886Analysis
• Marceline Loridan-Ivens1928Marceline Loridan-Ivens, a French activist of the heart, was a writer, filmmaker…
• Marcelo EpsteinContinuum mechanics
• Marcia DavenportAuthor
• Marcia Falk1946Marcia Falk is a poet, translator, and liturgist whose knowledge of the Bible and of…
• Marcia Freedman1938Marcia Judith Prince Freedman was an American-Israeli feminist writer, Knesset member…
• Marcia Koven1926Marcia Koven was the founding curator of the Saint John Jewish Historical Museum, one of…
• Marciano brothers (Guess)1947Founded Guess jeans/fashion brand (Georges, Maurice, Paul, Armand)
• Marcus Feldman1942Biologist known for mathematical work in population and evolutionary genetics
• Marcus Goldman1869Founded Goldman Sachs
• Marcus Loew1924Founded Loews/MGM Studios
• Marcus Samuel1853Founder of Shell Transport and Trading (later Royal Dutch Shell)
• Marek Edelman1943Co-founder of the Jewish Combat Organisation and last commander of the Warsaw Ghetto…
• Marga Minco1920Marga Minco (b. 1920) is a Dutch writer famous for her literary work relating to the…
• Margalit OrnsteinChoreographer and dance teacher Margalit Ornstein is perceived as the “founding mother”…
• Margalit OvedMargalit Oved—dancer, choreographer, singer, actress, musician—is the epitome of a…
• Margaret Geller1947Astronomer
• Margaret Gene Arnstein1904Margaret Gene Arnstein was a principal architect of the American nursing profession.
• Margaret Jane Radin1941Property theorist
• Margaret Kivelson1928Space physicist who used magnetometry to reveal a subsurface ocean on Jupiter's moon…
• Margaret Levi2019Political economist of trust and governance
• Margaret Mahler1897Psychoanalyst known for the theory of separation-individuation in children
• Margaret Naumburg1890By founding the Walden School and creating her own system of education based on…
• Margaret Seligman Lewisohn1895Margaret Seligman Lewisohn—education advocate, philanthropist, art collector, and college…
• Margarete Berent1887Margarete Berent was the first female lawyer to practice in Prussia and the second female…
• Margarete KahnGerman mathematician Margarete Kahn worked with fellow Jewish woman Klara Löbenstein and…
• Margarete Muehsam-Edelheim1891Margarete Muehsam-Edelheim was a journalist with a doctorate in law.
• Margarete SusmanMargarete Susman published her first writings, a book of poetry, in 1901 and went on to…
• Margarete ZuelzerMargarete Zuelzer’s life epitomizes both the successes and frustrations of women…
• Margarethe Meyer Schurz1832Margarethe Meyer Schurz used the training she gained in Germany to create the first…
• Margarethe WallmannAlthough trained in classical ballet, Margarethe Wallmann chose to study and teach…
• Margarita AligerPoet / lyricist
• Marge PiercyPoet / lyricist
• Margherita Sarfatti1880Born into a wealthy Venetian Jewish family, Margherita Sarfatti joined the Socialist…
• Margo Glantz1930Margo Glantz is a Mexican-Jewish writer, journalist, literary critic, and academic.
• Margot Klausner1905Margot Klausner was co-founder and president of Israel’s major film and television studio…
• Marguerite Brandon-Salvador1910Cofondatrice de l'Union libérale israélite, première femme vice-présidente d'une…
• Marguerite Klein1966Médecin scolaire, directrice d'une maison d'enfants de l'OSE et présidente des…
• Marguerite Wolff1883London-born Marguerite Wolff was a member of Berlin’s intelligentsia in the early 20th…
• Maria Anna Schirmann1893Maria Anna Schirmann, a distinguished Viennese physicist, was unable to escape…
• Maria Goeppert Mayer1963Theoretical physicist who explained the magic numbers with the nuclear shell model
• Maria Gorokhovskaya1921Ukrainian-born Maria Gorokhovskaya was the top performer among all athletes, both male…
• Maria Grinberg1908Classical pianist
• Maria Szymanowska1819Première pianiste virtuose professionnelle d'Europe à vivre de ses tournées : ses Vingt…
• Mária Telkes1948Pioneer of solar energy
• Maria WinetzkajaMaria Winetzkaja was a rebellious and independent woman whose international opera career…
• Maria Yudina1899Classical pianist
• Mariamne I37 BCEDernière princesse hasmonéenne, épouse d'Hérode le Grand : son mariage lia la dynastie…
• Mariana KroutoiarskaiaMariana Kroutoiarskaia was a talented Russian composer and music producer who dedicated…
• Mariana YampolskyOne of the most prominent and influential artists of Mexico, Mariana Yampolsky grew up…
• Marianne BreslauerMarianne Breslauer was known for her style of quiet, poetic street scenes of Paris and…
• Marianne Cohn1944Resistance courier who led Jewish children across the Swiss border and, arrested with a…
• Marianne Picard1965Éducatrice, elle succède à son mari à la direction de l'école Lucien-de-Hirsch de Paris
• Marie Grunfeld Jastrow1898Author of two critically acclaimed books on immigrant life, Marie Grunfeld Jastrow was…
• Marie Jahoda1907Social psychologist
• Marie Pichel Levinson WarnerBorn in 1895 in Ohio, doctor Marie Pichel Warner worked for the birth control movement in…
• Marie RambertInfluenced by Isadora Duncan, Emile Jacques-Dalcroze, and Vaslav Nijinsky, Marie Rambert…
• Marie SyrkinMarie Syrkin is best known as a polemicist for the State of Israel, whose keen arguments…
• Marie Trommer1895Marie Trommer was an early twentieth-century writer, poet, artist, art critic, and…
• Marie van der Zyl201848th president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews (2018-2024), only the second…
• Marietta Blau1937Physicist who developed the photographic emulsion method for detecting particles, the…
• Marika Gidali1937After surviving the Holocaust and immigrating from Budapest to Brazil, dancer Marika…
• Marilou Berry2004Actrice révélée par Comme une image, puis réalisatrice de comédies populaires
• Marilyn Bergman1928Film and song lyricist
• Marilyn Golden1954Marilyn Golden was a long-time disability rights advocate who played a leading role in…
• Marilyn Hirsh1944Marilyn Hirch studied art history used her experience to teach and serve in India.
• Marilyn Monroe1956Iconic actress who converted to Judaism in 1956 (marriage to Arthur Miller)
• Marilyn Safir1938Marilyn Safir is an Israeli-American psychologist who played a critical role as a…
• Marin Karmitz1974Fondateur de MK2, producteur de Godard, Chabrol, Kieslowski, Haneke et Kiarostami
• Marina Ratner1938Ergodic theory
• Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco1895Classical and film composer
• Mario Davidovsky1934Electroacoustic composer (Synchronisms)
• Mario SalvadoriContinuum mechanics
• Marion Eugénie Bauer1882Marion Eugenie Bauer was a modernist and experimental composer whose musical scholarship…
• Marion HartogMarion Hartog and her sister Celia published influential poetry and books on Jewish…
• Marion Phillips1881As Chief Women’s Officer of the Labour Party, Marion Phillips was one of the most…
• Marion Simon Misch1869Marion Misch participated in a great number of volunteer activities through her lifetime…
• Marisa Abela2024British actress
• Mariss Jansons1943Orchestra conductor
• Marius Nacht1993Check Point Software Co-founder
• Marjorie AgosínMarjorie Agosín was an award-winning Chilean Jewish poet, memoirist, novelist, literary…
• Marjorie Guthrie1917First a dancer, then a teacher, Marjorie Guthrie founded the Woody Guthrie Children’s…
• Marjorie Shostak1945Despite a lack of formal training as an anthropologist, Marjorie Shostak wrote one of the…
• Marjorie WylerMarjorie Wyler was a Jewish Theological Seminary professor for over half a century and…
• Mark Ablowitz1945Soliton theory and the inverse scattering transform
• Mark Azbel1932Condensed matter physicist
• Mark Berdichevsky1923Geophysicist, a major figure in the development of magnetotellurics for probing the…
• Mark BlaugEconomist
• Mark Boal2009Journalist-screenwriter of The Hurt Locker (two Academy Awards 2009) and Zero Dark Thirty
• Mark Braverman1984Computational complexity and information complexity
• Mark Charlap1954Composer of Peter Pan
• Mark Cuban1958Owned the Dallas Mavericks
• Mark Davis1955Owner and managing general partner of the Las Vegas Raiders (NFL) since 2011 and the Las…
• Mark GertlerEconomist
• Mark GetmanReform rabbi and actor who has appeared in 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' and 'Succession'.
• Mark Granovetter1943Economic sociologist
• Mark GreeneCancer researcher, oncogene and receptor biology
• Mark Hambourg1879Classical pianist
• Mark HelprinAuthor
• Mark Kac1914Probability theory
• Mark Krasnoselskii1920Nonlinear functional analysis and fixed-point theory
• Mark Krein1907Functional analysis
• Mark L. Polansky2001NASA astronaut on three Shuttle missions, commanding two
• Mark Levine2011Co-founded Dollar Shave Club with Michael Dubin in January 2011, after the two met at a…
• Mark Medoff1986Playwright-screenwriter of Children of a Lesser God
• Mark Naimark1909Operator algebras
• Mark NelkinFluid mechanics
• Mark Peskanov1956Classical violinist
• Mark Pincus2007Founder of Zynga (2007), whose FarmVille taught a billion people to play games with their…
• Mark Pinsker1925Major contributions to information theory.
• Mark Ptashne1940Molecular biologist who first isolated a gene repressor, revealing how genes are switched…
• Mark RaizenPhysicist (atomic, molecular and optical physics)
• Mark Ratner1942Theoretical chemist and a father of molecular electronics
• Mark Ronson2006Producer of 'Uptown Funk' and Amy Winehouse's 'Back to Black'
• Mark Rothko1903American abstract expressionist painter of luminous color-field works
• Mark Skolnick1946Geneticist who led the discovery of the BRCA1 breast cancer gene.
• Mark Sonnenblick2025Co-wrote 'Golden' (Academy Award 2025)
• Mark Spitz1972American swimmer
• Mark Strand1934Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and US Poet Laureate
• Mark Taimanov1926Pianist and chess grandmaster
• Mark Tushnet1945Constitutional scholar and leading figure of the Critical Legal Studies movement
• Mark Volman1947Singer of The Turtles and Flo & Eddie (also with Frank Zappa).
• Mark Wilf2022President and co-owner of the Minnesota Vikings since 2005
• Mark Zuckerberg2004Founder of Facebook
• Markus ReinerContinuum mechanics
• Marla Sokoloff1998Actress, played Lucy Hatcher on The Practice
• Marlee Matlin1965Oscar-winning deaf American actress and activist.
• Marlène Jobert1966Actrice majeure du cinéma français des années 1960-1980, puis autrice de contes musicaux…
• Marsha Berger1953Computational fluid dynamics
• Marsha Ivins1990Aerospace engineer and NASA astronaut, veteran of five Space Shuttle missions
• Marshall Brickman1977Co-wrote Annie Hall (Academy Award 1977) and Manhattan with Woody Allen
• Marshall Fixman1930Theoretical chemist known for polymer dynamics theory
• Marshall Herskovitz1952Co-created 'Thirtysomething' and 'My So-Called Life'
• Marshall Nirenberg1968Genetic Code
• Marshall Rosenbluth1927Co-created the Metropolis Monte Carlo algorithm.
• Marshall Sahlins1930Anthropologist known for 'Stone Age Economics' and 'Islands of History'
• Marshall SegallPsychologist (cross-cultural psychology)
• Marshall Sklare1921Founder of the modern sociological study of American Jewry
• Marta Friedländer-Garelik1906Just the third Austrian woman to establish a legal practice, Marta Friedländer-Garelik’s…
• Marta Kauffman1956Co-creator of the enduring sitcom 'Friends'.
• Marta Weinstock-Rosin1997Developed rivastigmine (Exelon), a leading drug for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's dementia…
• Martha A. WetsteinMartha A. Wetstein quickly and briefly became a bright star in prison reform.
• Martha Ackelsberg1946Martha Ackelsberg is a Jewish feminist lesbian anarchist activist, community leader, and…
• Martha Argerich1941Argentine pianist regarded as one of the greatest of her generation
• Martha Minow1954Legal scholar of equality and difference
• Martha Morton1865As a female playwright, Martha Morton faced adversity within the male-dominated New York…
• Martha Nussbaum1947Philosopher of ethics and the capabilities approach
• Martha Schlamme1923Martha Schlamme was an internationally known singer who rose to prominence after the…
• Martha Tamara Schuch Mednick1929Both through her psychological research and through her collaboration with a diverse…
• Martha Wolfenstein1869Martha Wolfenstein is a forgotten figure in American Jewish literature today, but near…
• Martha WollsteinResponding to the public health crisis of the early twentieth century with a declaration…
• Marti Friedlander1928London-born Marti Friedlander migrated to New Zealand in 1958.
• Martin BronfenbrennerEconomist
• Martin Buber1878Jewish philosopher of dialogue, author of 'I and Thou'
• Martin Chalfie1947Showed that the jellyfish's green fluorescent protein (GFP) can light up chosen cells in…
• Martin Charnin1977Lyricist and director of Annie
• Martin Cooper1973Led the Motorola team that built and demonstrated the first handheld cellular mobile…
• Martin Davis1928Foundational work in computability and mathematical logic.
• Martin Deutsch1917Physicist
• Martin Feldstein1977Public-finance economist
• Martin Fishbein1936Social psychologist who developed the theory of reasoned action
• Martin Golubitsky1945Bifurcation theory and pattern formation
• Martin Goodman1939Founder of Timely Comics (1939), the company that became Marvel Comics
• Martin Hellman1945Co-invented public-key (Diffie-Hellman) cryptography.
• Martin J. Fettman1993Veterinary pathologist and payload specialist on STS-58, the first veterinarian in space
• Martin Kamen1940Chemist who co-discovered carbon-14, the isotope used in radiocarbon dating and metabolic…
• Martin Karplus2013Theoretical chemist who pioneered computer simulations of molecules, from the Karplus…
• Martin Kimmel1958Co-founder, with Milton Cooper, of Kimco Realty (1958), the shopping-centre company named…
• Martin Kruskal1925Discovered solitons in the Korteweg-de Vries equation
• Martin Landau1994Academy Award-winning actor (Ed Wood
• Martin Orne1927Psychiatrist known for research on hypnosis and demand characteristics
• Martin Perl1927Physicist
• Martin Reiman2016Pioneer of heavy-traffic queueing theory
• Martin Rodbell1925Awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize for the discovery of G-proteins in cellular signal…
• Martin Roth1917Psychiatrist influential in the classification of mental disorders in old age
• Martin Schechter1930Partial differential equations and spectral theory
• Martin Schwarzschild1912Astrophysicist
• Martin Seligman1942Founder of positive psychology and theorist of learned helplessness
• Martin ShubikEconomist
• Martin Sorrell1985Built WPP from a shell company into the world's largest advertising and public relations…
• Martin SummerfieldFluid mechanics
• Martin Uman1936Atmospheric physicist and a leading authority on lightning
• Martin WeitzmanEconomist
• Marty Balin1942Co-founder and singer of Jefferson Airplane/Starship.
• Marty Feldman1974British comic actor and writer (Young Frankenstein)
• Marty Glickman1936Sprinter pulled from the US relay at Berlin 1936 because he was Jewish
• Marv Wolfman1973Co-creator of Blade (1973), Cyborg, Raven, Starfire and Deathstroke
• Marvin Caplan1919Director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights who lobbied for the Civil Rights…
• Marvin Chodorow1913Physicist
• Marvin Cohen1935Physicist
• Marvin Glass1960sToy designer whose studio created Operation, Mouse Trap, Lite-Brite, Rock 'Em Sock 'Em…
• Marvin Goldberger1922Physicist
• Marvin Goldfried1936Clinical psychologist and pioneer of psychotherapy integration
• Marvin Goldstein1939NASA's chief aeroacoustician
• Marvin Hamlisch1944Composer of A Chorus Line and The Way We Were
• Marvin Harris1927Anthropologist and founder of cultural materialism, author of 'Cows, Pigs, Wars, and…
• Marvin LiebmanConservative political organizer who later became a gay-rights advocate.
• Marvin Minsky1927Co-founder of artificial intelligence
• Marvin SimonComputer & information scientist
• Mary (mother of Jesus)First-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, mother of Jesus and venerated in Christianity.
• Mary Ann Magnin1876Founder of I. Magnin (San Francisco, 1876), the West Coast's temple of high fashion…
• Mary Antin1881With the publication of the memoir The Promised Land in 1912, the first bestseller…
• Mary Arbitman Fellman1917Mary Arbitman Fellman was the first woman editor of the Omaha Jewish Press, led multiple…
• Mary Belle Grossman1879In 1918, Mary Belle Grossman became one of the first two women admitted to membership in…
• Mary Fels1863Mary Fels used her wealth and her talents to further the Zionist cause, arguing…
• Mary Frank1933Mary Frank was a sculptor and painter inspired by dance, photography, and the moving body.
• Mary Goldsmith PragOne of California’s first Jewish educators, Mary Goldsmith Prag came to San Francisco as…
• Mary Jacqueline Fabian1900Mary Jacqueline Fabian was a talented soprano who toured throughout the United States in…
• Mary Kay Bergman1961American voice actress who was the lead female voice on South Park.
• Mary Moss1864Despite living with her parents for much of her life, Mary Moss lived a vivid existence…
• Mary the Jewessc. 100 CEAlchemist of Hellenistic Egypt credited with the water bath — the bain-marie, which still…
• Marya ZaturenskaPulitzer Prize for Poetry
• Masarjawaihc. 683Médecin juif de Bassorah, auteur de la première traduction connue d'un grand traité…
• Mascha Kaléko1907Mascha Kaléko was a German-Jewish poet whose literary works have made her a mainstay of…
• Mat Ishbia1980Majority owner of the Phoenix Suns (NBA) and Phoenix Mercury (WNBA) since 2023
• Matan Adelson2023Owner of the basketball club Hapoel Jerusalem since June 2023, which won the Israeli…
• Mateo Alemán1599Auteur du Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604), le livre le plus lu d'Europe à son époque et…
• Mateus Solano1981Brazilian actor of Ashkenazi Jewish descent celebrated for his villainous turn in the…
• Mathieu Amalric2004Acteur et réalisateur, deux fois César du meilleur acteur, prix de la mise en scène à…
• Mathieu Kassovitz1995French director and actor (La Haine)
• Mathieu Muller1943Avocat vainqueur d'un procès en diffamation contre le propagandiste nazi Julius…
• Mathilda May1988Actrice césarisée pour Le Cri du hibou, metteuse en scène de théâtre, Molière du…
• Mathilde Dorothy De Rothschild1895Mathilde Dorothy De Rothschild was deeply involved in all facets of Zionist politics.
• Mathilde Krim1926Scientist and philanthropist Mathilde Krim made tremendous contributions to AIDS research…
• Mathilde SchechterMathilde Schechter, wife of Solomon Schechter, founded the Women’s League for…
• Matilda Steinam Kubie1869Matilda Steinam Kubie directed her energies toward the support and growth of charitable…
• Matilde Bassani Finzi1918Matilde Bassani Finzi was an active Italian anti-fascist who relentlessly fought the…
• Matisyahu1979Reggae and hip-hop musician known for the song One Day.
• Matt Haimovitz1970Classical cellist
• Matt Lucas1974British comedian ('Little Britain', 'The Great British Bake Off')
• Matt Silverstein2004Co-created the Comedy Central adult animated series Drawn Together with Dave Jeser
• Matt Stone1971American co-creator of South Park.
• Mattathias the Hasmonean167 BCEPriest of Modi'in whose refusal to sacrifice to pagan gods in 167 BCE ignited the…
• Matthew Broderick1986American actor (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Producers)
• Matthew Franklin2013Co-invented identity-based encryption with Dan Boneh
• Matthew Meselson1930Geneticist who, with Franklin Stahl, proved that DNA replicates semiconservatively.
• Matthew Rabin2001Founder of formal behavioral economics
• Mattie RotenbergThe first woman and the first Jew to be granted a doctorate in physics at the University…
• Matvei Bronstein1906Theoretical physicist
• Maud Nathan1862Suffragist and consumer-rights reformer, president of the Consumers' League of New York…
• Maude Apatow1997Actress known for 'Euphoria' and roles in Judd Apatow's films.
• Maureen Forrester1957Canadian contralto, Companion of the Order of Canada, celebrated for her Mahler
• Maurice "Hank" Greenberg1925Longtime CEO of insurance giant AIG
• Maurice Abravanel1903Orchestra conductor
• Maurice Alter1979Founded the Pacific Group and built Werribee Plaza and Pacific Epping
• Maurice Auslander1926Homological algebra
• Maurice Bloomfield1855American Sanskrit and Vedic scholar, major figure in Indo-European studies.
• Maurice DruonAuthor
• Maurice Goldhaber1911Physicist
• Maurice Lévy1987Longtime CEO/chairman of Publicis Groupe, building it into one of the world's largest…
• Maurice N. Eisendrath1902President of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations who marched at Selma in 1965 and…
• Maurice Obstfeld2003International macroeconomist
• Maurice Rajsfus1980Rescapé de la rafle du Vél d'Hiv devenu l'historien de la police française et des…
• Maurice Rentner1923Seventh Avenue designer and manufacturer (Maurice Rentner, Inc.)
• Maurice Richlin1959Co-wrote Pillow Talk (Academy Award 1959) and The Pink Panther
• Maurice Sendak1963Author and illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are
• Maurice Szafran1997Co-founded the weekly Marianne with Jean-François Kahn in 1997 and ran it until 2013
• Maurice Vanikoff1937Président des anciens combattants juifs, fondateur de Races et Racisme et de l'Amitié…
• Maurice W. GoldblattBiochemist, research on prostaglandins
• Mauricio Kagel1931Avant-garde composer
• Maury Yeston1945Broadway composer (Nine, Titanic)
• Max Abraham1875Physicist
• Max Adler1986Actor best known for playing Dave Karofsky on the musical series Glee.
• Max Azria1949Tunisian-French fashion designer who founded BCBG Max Azria.
• Max Baer1934Boxing
• Max Bergmann1886Biochemist who pioneered the chemistry of proteins and peptide synthesis.
• Max Black1909Analytic philosopher of language and science
• Max Born1954Co-founder of quantum mechanics who gave the statistical interpretation of the wave…
• Max BrodAuthor
• Max Brooks1972Author of the bestselling zombie novel 'World War Z' and 'The Zombie Survival Guide'.
• Max Dehn1878Topology and group theory
• Max Delvalle1967The first Jewish president in Latin America — briefly President of Panama in 1967, having…
• Max Dessoir1867Psychologist and philosopher who pioneered the study of aesthetics
• Max Dresden1918Physicist
• Max Ehrich1991American actor and singer known for 'The Young and the Restless.'
• Max Eitingon1881Psychoanalyst who organized the first psychoanalytic training institute
• Max Factor1928Founder of Max Factor
• Max Fleischer1930Pioneering animator who created Betty Boop, invented the rotoscope, and brought Popeye…
• Max Gaines1933Pioneer of the American comic book format with Famous Funnies (1933-34)
• Max Gluckman1911Social anthropologist, founder of the Manchester School, studied conflict in African…
• Max GoldbergOpened the first commercial parking lot in Detroit in 1918 and became the city's 'Parking…
• Max Greenfield1980American actor best known as Schmidt on the sitcom New Girl.
• Max Hoffman1954New York importer who opened postwar America to European sports cars and instigated the…
• Max Horkheimer1895Director of the Frankfurt School and co-founder of critical theory
• Max JacobPoet / lyricist
• Max JakobFluid mechanics
• Max Jammer1915Physicist and historian of physics
• Max Kohl1962Polish Jewish immigrant grocer who built Kohl's Food Stores in Milwaukee and opened the…
• Max Levchin1975Ukrainian-born co-founder of PayPal (led its anti-fraud engineering) and founder/CEO of…
• Max Margules1856Meteorologist who laid theoretical foundations for atmospheric energetics, fronts and…
• Max Maven1950Master mentalist who redefined mind-reading as theater
• Max MunkFluid mechanics
• Max Mutchnick1965Co-creator of the groundbreaking sitcom 'Will & Grace'.
• Max Newman1897Led the design of the Colossus code-breaking computer.
• Max Noether1844Algebraic geometry of curves and surfaces
• Max Ophüls1902Master director of elegant films such as La Ronde.
• Max Perutz1962Hemoglobin Structure
• Max Rostal1905Classical violinist
• Max Rudolf1902Orchestra conductor
• Max Scheler1874German phenomenologist and founder of philosophical anthropology (of Jewish descent)
• Max Steiner1939Film Composer - Gone with the Wind and Casablanca
• Max Temkin2011Co-created Cards Against Humanity, one of the best-selling party games of the past…
• Max Thorek1880Founded the International College of Surgeons and pioneered early mammoplasty (free…
• Max Tishler1906Chemist who developed industrial syntheses of vitamins, cortisone, and antibiotics.
• Max von Oppenheim1899Découvreur en 1899 du site de Tell Halaf en Syrie, qui donna son nom à toute une culture…
• Max Weinreich1894Linguist who founded modern Yiddish scholarship and co-founded YIVO.
• Max Wertheimer1880Founder of Gestalt psychology
• Maxim Litvinov1933Commissaire du peuple aux Affaires étrangères de l'URSS (1930-1939) : reconnaissance…
• Maxim Vengerov1974Russian violinist regarded as one of the finest of his generation
• Maxine Clark1997Founded Build-A-Bear Workshop, which turned buying a stuffed animal into making one
• Maxine KuminPulitzer Prize for Poetry
• Maxine Singer1931Molecular biologist who helped decipher the genetic code and shaped recombinant DNA…
• Maxwell Finland1902Infectious disease physician who was a leader in the clinical study of antibiotics
• Maxwell Jacob Friedman2022American professional wrestler
• Maxwell Rosenlicht1924Algebraic groups and differential algebra
• Maxwell Wintrobe1901Physician who founded modern hematology and introduced the hematocrit and red-cell…
• May Berenbaum2011Entomologist of insect-plant chemistry and pollinator decline
• May Brodbeck1917May Brodbeck, whose career in the sciences ran the gamut from teaching high school…
• Maya Beiser1963Classical cellist
• Maya Deren1917Mother of American avant-garde film ('Meshes of the Afternoon')
• Maya PlisetskayaMaya Plisetskaya was one of the legendary ballerinas of her generation.
• Maya Rudolph1972Versatile comedian and Saturday Night Live star of Bridesmaids.
• Mayana Zatz1947Mayana Zatz is one of the pioneers of human and medical genetics in Brazil.
• Mayer Amschel Rothschild1744Founder of the Rothschild international banking dynasty
• Mayer Cahen1852Médecin-chef de l'hôpital Rothschild et de la Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord
• Mayer Lehman1850One of the three founding brothers of Lehman Brothers
• Mayim Bialik1975Actress and neuroscientist, star of Blossom and The Big Bang Theory
• MC Serch1967Rapper of hip-hop group 3rd Bass ('The Gas Face').
• MCA1964Rapper/bassist of the Beastie Boys (Adam Yauch, 1964-2012).
• Meir Aron Goldschmidt1845Fondateur de l'hebdomadaire satirique Corsaren (1840) et auteur d'En Jøde (1845), premier…
• Meir Banai1961Acclaimed Israeli singer-songwriter from the renowned Banai musical family.
• Meir Dagan2002Major general and Director of the Mossad (2002-2011)
• Meir Har-Zion1955Foremost fighter of Unit 101 and the paratroopers in the 1950s
• Meir Lahav1936Chemist known for chirality and crystal engineering
• Meir of Rothenburgc. 1270The Maharam
• Meir Shalev1948Beloved Israeli novelist and columnist.
• Meir Stampfer1952Epidemiologist known for major studies on nutrition, lifestyle and chronic disease
• Meir Wilchek1935Biochemist who developed avidin-biotin technology, widely used in biological research and…
• Meirav CohenIsraeli public figure appearing in Israeli television.
• Mel Blanc1940'The Man of a Thousand Voices' — voiced Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and most Looney Tunes
• Mel Brooks1974Writer-director and comedian behind The Producers, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein
• Mel ShapiroTony Award — Best Book of a Musical
• Mel Tormé1945The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting)
• Mela MuterMela Muter was the first professional Jewish woman painter in Poland.
• Melanie Blatt1975English pop singer, member of All Saints
• Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz1945Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz (1945-2018) was a lesbian-feminist writer and editor.
• Melanie Klein1882Founder of object relations theory and child psychoanalysis
• Mélanie Laurent2009French actress, director and singer
• Melba Levin-Rubin1906Melba Levin-Rubin was an accomplished early-twentieth-century lawyer who was active in…
• Melchior Lengyel1939Hungarian writer whose story became Ninotchka
• Melford Spiro1920Psychological anthropologist known for studies of the Israeli kibbutz and Burmese Buddhism
• Melissa Bernstein1988Co-founded Melissa & Doug, whose wooden puzzles and pretend-play toys are among the…
• Melissa Hayden1923Melissa Hayden showed unparalleled versatility and range in her ballet dancing during a…
• Melissa Manchester1951Singer-songwriter
• Melissa Rauch1980Actress best known for playing Bernadette on The Big Bang Theory.
• Melville GreenPhysicist (statistical mechanics, Green-Kubo relations)
• Melville Herskovits1895Founder of African and African-American studies in anthropology, author of 'The Myth of…
• Melville Shavelson1958Screenwriter of Houseboat and Cast a Giant Shadow
• Melvin BaronContinuum mechanics
• Melvin Calvin1961Photosynthesis
• Melvin Frank1973Writer-director of A Touch of Class and Road to Utopia
• Melvin Hochster1943Commutative algebra
• Melvin Lax1922Physicist
• Melvin Schwartz1932Physicist
• Melvin Simon1960Founded Melvin Simon & Associates in Indianapolis in 1960 with his brothers Herbert and…
• Melvin Spira1925Renowned plastic surgery educator and humanitarian who authored over 200 articles and…
• Melvyn Douglas1963Oscar-winning actor (Hud, Being There)
• Menachem Begin1977Sixth Prime Minister of Israel (1977–1983)
• Menahem ben Saruqc. 920 CEGrammarian and lexicographer
• Menahem Golan1929Prolific Israeli filmmaker and co-founder of Cannon Films.
• Menahem Max Schiffer1911Complex analysis
• Menahem Pressler1923Classical pianist
• Menahem Saleh Daniel1925Notable et grand propriétaire de Bagdad, député au premier parlement ottoman en 1877 puis…
• Menashe LustigHasidic actor who starred in the film Menashe.
• Menasseh ben Israel1604 CEScholar, philosopher and printer
• Mendele Moykher SforimAuthor
• Mendy PellinComedian and media personality known for Jewish satirical content.
• Merav Bahat2021Co-founder and chief executive of the Israeli cloud-security company Dazz (2021), sold to…
• Meredith Monk1942Composer, choreographer and filmmaker ('Book of Days')
• Merle Fainsod1907Pioneering Sovietologist
• Merrill Hassenfeld1943President of Hasbro from 1943 and its head from 1960
• Merton Miller1990Modigliani–Miller theorems on capital structure and dividend policy (1958, with Franco…
• Mervyn LeRoy1900Director ('Random Harvest', 'Little Caesar')
• Meshullam da Pierac. 1200Catalan Hebrew poet of the anti-Maimonidean circle in 13th-century Spain.
• Meta Pollak Bettman1880Meta Pollak Bettman was an untiring volunteer in Jewish and civic causes in the early…
• Meyer Abrams1912Literary critic (The Mirror and the Lamp)
• Meyer family (Galeries Lafayette)Galeries Lafayette department-store dynasty
• Meyer Fortes1906Social anthropologist known for kinship studies of the Tallensi of West Africa
• Meyer Guggenheim1882Swiss pedlar who emigrated in 1847 and built one of the great mining and smelting fortunes
• Meyer Habib2013Dirigeant du secteur de la joaillerie, vice-président du CRIF puis député des Français de…
• Meyer SchapiroProfiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
• Meyera Oberndorf1941Meyera Oberndorf blazed trails in Virginia politics as the first woman and first Jewish…
• MG Finn1958Chemist known for click chemistry and bioconjugation
• Mia ArbatovaTold first by her parents that dancing was immodest and then by Israeli pioneers that…
• Micaela Feldman/Mika Etchebehere1902Micaela Feldman, known primarily as “Mika Etchebehere/Etchebéhère,” was a…
• Micha Kaufman2010Co-founded Fiverr in 2010 and has been its chief executive since the first day
• Micha Sharir2025Israeli pioneer of computational geometry
• Michael Aizenman1945Mathematical physics
• Michael Aloni1984Israeli actor and TV host known internationally for his starring role in the series…
• Michael Balcon1938Head of Ealing Studios and of Gaumont-British
• Michael Balint1896Psychoanalyst who developed object relations theory and the Balint group
• Michael Ben-Or2015Israeli inventor of randomized asynchronous consensus
• Michael Bender1943Geochemist known for ocean and ice-core biogeochemistry and paleoclimate reconstruction
• Michael BennettPulitzer Prize for Drama
• Michael Berry1941Physicist
• Michael Bloomberg1981Founder of Bloomberg LP
• Michael BoskinEconomist
• Michael BrunoEconomist
• Michael Chabon1963Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist ('The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay')
• Michael Chekhov1953Acteur et pédagogue, créateur de la « technique Chekhov » du geste psychologique…
• Michael Chertoff2005US Secretary of Homeland Security 2005-2009
• Michael Costa1808Conductor and composer
• Michael Curtiz1942Film director of Casablanca (1942, Best Director Oscar)
• Michael D. CohenCanadian actor known for playing Schwoz in Nickelodeon's 'Henry Danger' and 'Danger…
• Michael Dell1984Founded Dell from a university dorm room and built the direct-sales PC
• Michael Diamond (Mike D)1965Beastie Boys founder Michael Diamond, a pioneer of hip-hop.
• Michael Douglas1944American actor known for Wall Street and Fatal Attraction.
• Michael Dubin2011Co-founded Dollar Shave Club in 2011 and wrote and performed the launch video that built…
• Michael Eisner1942CEO of The Walt Disney Company (1984-2005)
• Michael Fayer1947Physical chemist known for ultrafast infrared spectroscopy
• Michael Fekete1886Analysis
• Michael Fisher1931Chemical physicist known for statistical mechanics of critical phenomena
• Michael Freedman1951Solved the 4-dimensional Poincare conjecture (Fields Medal)
• Michael GasterFluid mechanics
• Michael Ghil1944Climate scientist who applied dynamical systems theory to climate variability
• Michael Gielen1927Conductor and composer
• Michael Gore1980Composer of Fame (two Academy Awards 1980)
• Michael Green1946Physicist
• Michael Greenberg1954Neuroscientist, research on activity-dependent neuronal gene expression
• Michael Grunstein1946Molecular biologist who showed histones regulate gene expression
• Michael HaydenGairdner Award (biomedicine)
• Michael Heidelberger1888Regarded as the father of modern immunochemistry for quantifying the antibody-antigen…
• Michael Howard2003Leader of the British Conservative Party (2003-05) and Home Secretary
• Michael Kadoorie1941Chairman of CLP Holdings, which supplies three quarters of Hong Kong with electricity…
• Michael Kanin1942Screenwriter of Woman of the Year (Academy Award 1942)
• Michael Karin1951Molecular biologist known for work on NF-kB signaling in inflammation and cancer
• Michael Klein1940Computational chemist known for molecular simulation of condensed matter
• Michael Kors1959World-renowned fashion designer whose luxury brand became a global label.
• Michael Kremer2019Nobel laureate in economics (2019) for experimental approaches to fighting poverty
• Michael Landon1936Actor (Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie)
• Michael Lehmann1988Director (Heathers)
• Michael Levin1969Developmental biologist, research on bioelectric signaling in growth and regeneration
• Michael Levine1954Developmental biologist, research on gene regulation in embryonic patterning
• Michael Levitt2013Computational Chemistry
• Michael Lewin1910Founder and chief of plastic surgery at Montefiore Medical Center who established a…
• Michael Mann1995Director of Heat, The Insider and Collateral
• Michael Masser1941Songwriter
• Michael Milken1946Drexel Burnham Lambert financier who developed the modern high-yield ('junk') bond market
• Michael Mitzenmacher2020Analyzed balanced allocations and Bloom filters used across the internet
• Michael Moritz1954Welsh-born longtime partner at venture-capital firm Sequoia Capital
• Michael N. Hall2023Discovered the TOR pathway governing cell growth
• Michael Nyman1944Composer (The Piano)
• Michael Ovitz1975Co-founder and chairman of Creative Artists Agency (CAA)
• Michael Pepper1942Physicist
• Michael Polanyi1891Physical chemist known for reaction rate theory and adsorption
• Michael Posner1936Cognitive neuroscientist known for research on attention
• Michael Rabin1931Introduced nondeterministic and randomized algorithms
• Michael Rapaport1970Actor and comedian known for Boston Public and Atypical
• Michael Roll1946Classical pianist
• Michael Rosbash1944Geneticist who with Jeffrey Hall isolated the period gene and showed how its protein…
• Michael Rosenbaum2001Actor, played Lex Luthor on Smallville
• Michael Rosenfeld1946Molecular biologist, research on gene expression and transcriptional regulation
• Michael Rossmann1930Structural biologist who solved the first atomic structure of a virus and identified the…
• Michael RothschildEconomist
• Michael Rubinstein1956Theorist of polymer dynamics
• Michael S. Brown1941Awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize for discovering the LDL receptor and the regulation of…
• Michael Saks2004Complexity theorist
• Michael Scheflan1945Co-authored the landmark 1982 paper introducing the transverse rectus abdominis…
• Michael Schwerner1939CORE field worker murdered by the Klan alongside James Chaney and Andrew Goodman during…
• Michael Sela1924Immunologist who co-developed Copaxone for multiple sclerosis and pioneered synthetic…
• Michael SilvermanBiomedical researcher
• Michael SipserComputer & information scientist
• Michael Sporn1933Cancer researcher who introduced the concept of chemoprevention and studied retinoids
• Michael Steinhardt1940Co-founder of Steinhardt Partners, one of the earliest and most successful hedge funds…
• Michael Stewart1964Book writer of Hello, Dolly!, Bye Bye Birdie and Barnum
• Michael Stuhlbarg1968American actor known for A Serious Man and Call Me by Your Name.
• Michael Szwarc1909Polymer chemist who discovered living polymerization
• Michael T. Weiss1996Actor — Jarod in the TV series The Pretender
• Michael TanenhausPsychologist (psycholinguistics)
• Michael Tilson Thomas1944Conductor and educator who led the San Francisco Symphony
• Michael Vartan2001Actor: Michael Vaughn in Alias, and roles in Never Been Kissed, One Hour Photo and…
• Michael W. Twitty2017Culinary historian of African-American and Jewish foodways, twice awarded the James Beard…
• Michael Walzer1977Political philosopher of just and unjust wars
• Michael Weigel1970Israeli actor featured in the internationally praised series 'Shtisel.'
• Michael Wigler1947Molecular biologist who identified human oncogenes and advanced cancer genomics
• Michael Woolfson1927Physicist who developed direct methods for solving crystal structures of molecules
• Michaël Youn2000French comedian, TV host and actor (born Michaël Benayoun) of Moroccan/Algerian Jewish…
• Michael Zegen1979Actor known for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Boardwalk Empire
• Michal AviadIsraeli documentary and feature film director.
• Michal Braverman-Blumenstyk2020Founder of Microsoft's cybersecurity centre in Israel (2013) and first woman to head the…
• Michal Govrin1950Michal Govrin, born in 1950 is an Israeli poet, writer, and stage director.
• Michal KaleckiEconomist
• Michal Schwartz2023Weizmann Institute neuroimmunologist who showed that the immune system is needed to…
• Michal Smoira-CohnOne of Israel’s best-known musicologists, Michal Smoira-Cohn was involved in innumerable…
• Michel Adam LisowskiFrench entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Fashion TV.
• Michel Berger1973French singer-songwriter and producer (Starmania)
• Michel Boujenah1985Tunisian-French Jewish comedian and actor, César winner for 'Trois hommes et un couffin'.
• Michel Bréal1832French philologist regarded as the founder of modern semantics.
• Michel de Montaigne1580Renaissance thinker who created the essay as a literary form (maternal converso ancestry)
• Michel Debre1959Prime Minister of France (1959-62) and principal author of the constitution of the Fifth…
• Michel Devoret1953Physicist who showed quantum tunnelling and energy quantisation in a macroscopic…
• Michel Drach1974Réalisateur des Violons du bal, récit de son enfance juive cachée sous l'Occupation
• Michel Dreyfus-Schmidt1980Sénateur du Territoire de Belfort pendant vingt-huit ans, avocat des libertés…
• Michel Drucker1998French TV host
• Michel Goudchaux1848Ministre des Finances de la Deuxième République, premier juif à diriger les finances d'un…
• Michel Hazanavicius2011French writer-director of The Artist (Academy Award Best Picture 2011)
• Michel Kichka2012Belgian-Israeli cartoonist and Bezalel teacher
• Michel Kikoine1920Lithuanian-born French Expressionist painter of the École de Paris
• Michel Loeve1907Probability theory
• Michel Mirowski1924Invented the automatic implantable cardiac defibrillator
• Michèle SardeWriter Michèle Sarde’s biographies, novels, and essays cover a wide range of themes and…
• Michelle Monje2021Pediatric neuro-oncologist who showed that neuronal activity drives glioma growth…
• Michelle Trachtenberg2000American actress
• Michiel Huisman2014Actor: Daario Naharis in Game of Thrones, Sonny in Treme and the lead of The Haunting of…
• Mick Jones1955Guitarist-singer of The Clash and Big Audio Dynamite.
• Mickey Drexler1983Apparel retail executive, CEO of the Gap clothing chain and later chairman/CEO of J.Crew
• Mickey Hart1943Drummer of the Grateful Dead.
• Mickey Katz1909Yiddish-English musical comedy star
• Micky Arison1979Chairman of Carnival Corporation
• Midge Decter1927Though she began her career in publishing at liberal Jewish journals, Midge Decter became…
• Mieczyslaw Horszowski1892Classical pianist
• Miguel de Barrios1683Le plus grand poète séfarade d'Occident de son siècle : capitaine de l'armée espagnole à…
• Miguel de CervantesAuthor
• Miguel de Silveira1638Auteur de El Macabeo (1638), épopée baroque en vingt chants sur Judas Maccabée — le grand…
• Miguel Najdorf1910Polish-Argentine chess grandmaster
• Mike Binder1958Director and comedian ('The Upside of Anger', 'The Comedy Store')
• Mike Bloomfield1943Pioneering blues-rock guitarist (Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Electric Flag).
• Mike Brant1970Israeli-French pop singer, star of 1970s French chanson with hits such as 'Laisse-moi…
• Mike Flanagan (Irish-Israeli soldier)1948Irish soldier of the British Army present at the liberation of Bergen-Belsen who, in June…
• Mike Leigh1943British director of Secrets & Lies.
• Mike Nichols1931EGOT-winning director of The Graduate.
• Mike Posner2016Singer-songwriter of 'Cooler Than Me' (2010) and 'I Took a Pill in Ibiza' (Grammy…
• Mike Reiss1991Showrunner des Simpson, cocréateur de The Critic, quatre Emmy Awards
• Mike SolomonovIsraeli-American chef and champion of modern Israeli cuisine.
• Mike Stoller1933Songwriter and composer of rock and roll classics with partner Jerry Leiber
• Mikey Madison2024American actress
• Mikhail Botvinnik1911World Chess Champion 1948-1963
• Mikhail Eisenstein1903Architecte de l'Art nouveau de Riga : ses immeubles de la rue Alberta font de la ville la…
• Mikhail Fridman1989Founder of Alfa Group
• Mikhail GasparovLiterary & drama critic
• Mikhail Gromov2009Geometer who reshaped modern geometry
• Mikhail Gurevich1893Soviet aircraft designer, co-founder of the Mikoyan-Gurevich (MiG) bureau — the 'G' in MiG
• Mikhail Ioffe1969Soviet plasma physicist (Ioffe bars)
• Mikhail Khodorkovsky1963Oil magnate (Yukos), later dissident
• Mikhail Shifman1949Physicist
• Mikhail SvetlovPoet / lyricist
• Mikhail Tal1960World Chess Champion 1960-61, 'the Magician from Riga'
• Mikhail Usanovich1894Chemist known for the Usanovich theory of acids and bases
• Miklós Radnóti1944L'un des plus grands poètes hongrois du XXe siècle : ses dernières églogues, écrites dans…
• Miklós Rózsa1907Film composer of epic scores including Ben-Hur and Spellbound
• Mila Kunis1983Ukrainian-born American actress, star of Black Swan and That '70s Show
• Mila Racine1943Convoyeuse d'enfants juifs vers la Suisse pour le Mouvement de jeunesse sioniste, arrêtée…
• Milana Vayntrub2013American actress and comedian
• Mildred Cohn1913Biochemist who pioneered the use of isotopes and NMR to study enzyme reactions.
• Mildred Dresselhaus1930Physicist known as the 'queen of carbon science' for carbon nanomaterials
• Mildred Elizabeth Levine Albert1905Mildred Albert charmed the fashion world as an international fashion consultant…
• Mildred WertheimerMildred Wertheimer was a scholar of international relations and political science in the…
• Milena Rudnytska1933Cheffe du mouvement féministe ukrainien de l'entre-deux-guerres et députée au Sejm…
• Miles Bakshi2002Actor and voice performer, grandson of animator Ralph Bakshi.
• Milford Wolpoff1942Paleoanthropologist and leading proponent of the multiregional hypothesis of human…
• Milly Shapiro2002Broadway 'Matilda' star who made a chilling film debut in Ari Aster's 'Hereditary'.
• Milos Forman1975Two-time Oscar-winning director (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus)
• Milton Babbitt1916Serialist classical composer
• Milton Berle1948Pioneering television comedian ('Mr. Television'), born Mendel Berlinger
• Milton Friedman1962Free Market Economics
• Milton Harris1906Polymer chemist known for textile and fiber chemistry
• Milton Levine1956Created the Ant Farm and co-founded Uncle Milton Toys
• Milton Orchin1914Organic chemist known for hydroformylation and organometallic chemistry
• Milton Plesset1908Physicist
• Milton Rokeach1918Social psychologist known for research on human values and beliefs
• Milton Rosenau1869Physician and a founder of American preventive medicine and public health
• Milton SteinbergAuthor
• Mimi PinzónMimi Pinzón published a wide variety of acclaimed literary works in Yiddish, including…
• Mimi Rogers1987American actress and producer. Jewish father (born Miriam Spickler).
• Mimis CohenDirector of the Craniofacial Center and Chief of the Division of Plastic, Reconstructive…
• Mina Ben-ZviMina Ben-Zvi was among the first women to serve in the military in Palestine, first as…
• Mina Fink1913Mina Fink was one of Australia’s most influential twentieth-century community leaders.
• Mina Fridman Ruetter1922Mina Fridman Ruetter (1922-2003), an Argentinean-born Jew, was the most prominent leader…
• Mina Tomkiewicz1917Mina Tomkiewicz was a Polish author who wrote two books based on her personal experience…
• Mindel Cherniack Sheps1913As a pioneering physician, biostatistician, and demographer, Mindel Cherniack Sheps was…
• Mindru Katz1925Classical pianist
• Mindy Sterling1953Actress best known as Frau Farbissina in the 'Austin Powers' films.
• Minna CitronPainter and printmaker Minna Citron was one of the first American artists to address…
• Minna Regina FalkMinna Regina Falk was a historian, writer, and professor who is remembered for her work…
• Minnie Dessau Louis1841Minnie Dessau Louis was an essayist, journalist, and poet, but she is best known for her…
• Minnie Low1867Known as the “Jane Addams of the Jews,” Minnie Low was a leader in the Jewish social…
• Mir Basri1983Écrivain, économiste et poète de langue arabe, dernier président de la communauté juive…
• Mirali Sharon1931Mirali Sharon was one of Israel’s most important choreographers in the 1970s and 1980s.
• Miranda July1974Multidisciplinary artist, writer, and director of 'Me and You and Everyone We Know'.
• Mire GolaA passionate idealist, Mire Gola organized anti-German resistance in World War II as a…
• Miri Regev1965Miriam “Miri” Regev is a former Brigadier-General in the Israel Defense Forces…
• Miriam Adelson1991Casino Magnate and Philanthropist
• Miriam Albert1920Miriam Albert became the first national president of B’nai B’rith Young Women in 1946.
• Miriam Baratz1889Miriam Baratz was a founding member of Deganyah Aleph, the first socialist Zionist…
• Miriam Ben-Porat1918Although Miriam Ben-Porat is perhaps best known as the first woman to be appointed an…
• Miriam Bernstein-CohenMiriam Bernstein-Cohen was an influential actor, director, poet, and translator in Europe…
• Miriam Dworkin WaddingtonPoet / lyricist
• Miriam Finn ScottMiriam Finn Scott, a child diagnostician and educator, believed that the key to child…
• Miriam Freund-Rosenthal1906Miriam Freund-Rosenthal brought her passion for art and history to her leadership of…
• Miriam Fried1946Classical violinist
• Miriam Gideon1906Prolific composer Miriam Gideon took inspiration for her compositions from great poetry…
• Miriam KainyMiriam Kainy, Israel’s first established woman playwright, won the Israel Prime…
• Miriam KarpiloveMiriam Karpilove was a pioneer among women writers of Yiddish fiction.
• Miriam Kastner1935Marine geochemist known for research on sediment and mineral diagenesis and gas hydrates
• Miriam KatinMiriam Katin is an award-winning comics artist best known for her Holocaust memoir We Are…
• Miriam KramerClassical violinist
• Miriam Kressyn1911Miriam Kressyn was that rare talent known for both her performances and her work as a…
• Miriam Markel-MosessohnMiriam Markel-Mosessohn was a Hebrew writer.
• Miriam MichelsonMiriam Michelson grew up in the iconic mining town of Virginia City, Nevada, the seventh…
• Miriam Naor1947Miriam Naor was widely esteemed for her expertise in criminal law.
• Miriam Novitch1908Miriam Novitch was a member of the French Resistance during World War II and, after, an…
• Miriam RaskinAfter participating in the 1905 Russian Revolution and immigrating to New York, Miriam…
• Miriam Schapiro1923Miriam Schapiro helped pioneer the feminist art movement, both through her own pushing of…
• Miriam Shomer ZunserMiriam Shomer Zunser, journalist, playwright, and artist, was an important promoter of…
• Miriam Shtarkman-Verlinsky1904Miriam Shtarkman-Verlinsky was a trailblazer for women in the legal field in Israel, with…
• Miriam Yalan-Stekelis1900Miriam Yalan-Stekelis revolutionized Israeli children’s literature with her classic poems…
• Miriam ZoharMiriam Zohar is known as one of the leading ladies of Israeli theater, performing as a…
• Mirra Burovsky-EitingonMirra Burovsky was the first Jewish actress to star in the mainstream Russian theater.
• Mirra Ginsburg1909Although she moved to North America at a young age, Mirra Ginsburg’s passion for Russian…
• Mirta Kupferminc1955Mirta Kupferminc (b.1955) is an internationally recognized contemporary Argentine Jewish…
• Miryam UlinoverBorn in Poland, Miriam Ulinover was one of the great Yiddish poets of the early twentieth…
• Mischa Elman1891Classical violinist
• Mischa Maisky1948Latvian-Israeli cellist and the only pupil of both Rostropovich and Piatigorsky
• Mischa Mischakoff1895Classical violinist
• Mischa SchwartzComputer & information scientist
• Mischket LiebermannMischket Liebermann was an actress who was an active member of the KPD (Communist Party…
• Misha Dichter1945Classical pianist
• Misha Gildenman1942Engineer from Volhynia known as 'Uncle Misha', who led a Jewish partisan company in…
• Misha Nonoo2011Womenswear designer
• Mitch Albom1997Author of Tuesdays with Morrie, one of the best-selling memoirs ever published
• Mitch Kapor1983Creator of Lotus 1-2-3, the spreadsheet that put the PC in every office
• Mitch Leigh1928Broadway composer (Man of La Mancha)
• Mitch Miller1911Conductor and record producer
• Mitchell Feigenbaum1944Physicist
• Mitchell Goldhar1994Founder of SmartCentres, one of Canada's largest commercial property groups, and owner of…
• Mitchell Hurwitz1963American writer and creator of Arrested Development.
• Mitchell Parish1950Sleigh Ride (lyrics)
• Mitchell Rales1984Built Danaher with his brother Steven from 1984, turning a real estate trust into a life…
• Mo Ostin1996Ran Warner Bros. Records from 1972 to 1994 on the principle that the artist decides, and…
• Modern NetherlandsLike Jewish women everywhere, Dutch Jewish women struggled with issues of assimilation…
• Modi Rosenfeld1971Israeli-born stand-up comedian ('Modi'), star of the Jewish comedy circuit worldwide
• Moe Howard1897Comedian and leader of the Three Stooges
• Moïse Allatini1856« L'ange de Salonique » : bâtisseur de la première industrie moderne de la ville —…
• Moïse Cahen1832Médecin, président du Consistoire israélite de Paris pendant vingt ans, auteur d'une…
• Moïse de Camondo1936Banquier et collectionneur : il légua à la France son hôtel du parc Monceau et l'une des…
• Moïse Kisling1920Polish-born French painter of the École de Paris, known for portraits and nudes
• Mollie Parnis1933Fashion designer, founder of the Mollie Parnis dress house
• Mollie SlottDuring a 56-year tenure with the Chicago Tribune-New York Daily News Syndicate, Mollie…
• Mollie Steimer1897Mollie Steimer earned nationwide attention for her refusal to compromise her anarchist…
• Molly Cone1918Molly Cone wrote for over four decades, producing more than 40 books.
• Molly Gordon2023American actress and film-maker
• Molly Picon1898A lively comic actress, Molly Picon brought Yiddish theater to a wider American audience.
• Moni Naor2014Israeli cryptographer (Weizmann Institute)
• Monica Raymund2012American actress and director
• Monica Unikel1963Mónica Unikel-Fasja is a chronicler of Jewish immigrant stories.
• Monroe WallGM Cancer / Sloan-Kettering Prize
• Montague Eder1865Physician and early advocate of psychoanalysis in Britain
• Monty Hall1921Iconic host and co-creator of the long-running game show Let's Make a Deal.
• Moran Atias1981Israeli actress and producer, star of Tyrant
• Mordecai Kaplan1881Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, was a lifelong supporter of…
• Mordecai Richler1931Canadian novelist ('The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz')
• Mordechai Anielewicz1943Commander of the Jewish Combat Organisation during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of…
• Mordechai ben DavidPioneering Hasidic music legend.
• Mordechai Frizis1940Colonel de l'armée grecque, premier officier supérieur grec tué au combat dans la guerre…
• Mordechai Gur1967Commander of the paratroop brigade that reached the Western Wall in 1967
• Mordechai Tenenbaum1943Commander of the Bialystok ghetto uprising of August 1943 and one of the founders of the…
• Mordehai Heiblum2025Israeli quantum-electronics experimentalist (Weizmann Institute)
• Mordehai Milgrom1946Physicist
• Moritz Abraham Stern1807Number theory
• Moritz Cantor1829Leading historian of mathematics
• Moritz Daniel Oppenheim1830Regarded as the first Jewish painter of the modern era
• Moritz GoldnerMusician
• Moritz Gottlieb Saphir1837Le troisième nom, avec Heine et Börne, du feuilleton juif de langue allemande : créateur…
• Moritz Kaposi1837Dermatologist who first described the skin cancer now known as Kaposi's sarcoma.
• Moritz Pasch1843Foundations of geometry
• Moritz Presburger1904Logic
• Moritz Romberg1795Neurologist who wrote the first modern textbook of nervous-system diseases
• Moritz Rosenthal1862Classical pianist
• Moritz Tramer1882Pioneer of child and adolescent psychiatry
• Moritz Traube1826Chemist and physiologist known for semipermeable membranes
• Morrie Ryskind1935Marx Brothers writer (A Night at the Opera)
• Morris "Two-Gun" Cohen1922Aide-de-camp and bodyguard to Sun Yat-sen
• Morris AdelmanEconomist
• Morris Cohen1911Materials scientist and metallurgist known for steel and phase transformations
• Morris Friedkin1917Biochemist, research on thymidylate synthesis and folate metabolism
• Morris Ginsberg1889Leading figure of early British academic sociology at the LSE
• Morris Halle1923Linguist, co-developer of generative phonology with Noam Chomsky.
• Morris Hirsch1933Differential topology and dynamical systems
• Morris Janowitz1919Founder of military sociology
• Morris Kharasch1895Organic chemist known for free-radical addition (the Kharasch effect)
• Morris Loeb1863Physical chemist and philanthropist of American chemistry
• Morris Michtom1902Created the first Teddy bear (1902) with his wife Rose, naming it after Theodore…
• Morris Milgram1916Real-estate developer who built racially integrated housing for over 20,000 people before…
• Morris Mirkin1958Founder of Budget Rent a Car (Los Angeles, 1958), the discounter that opened car rental…
• Morris Opler1907Anthropologist known for his ethnographic studies of the Apache
• Morris Raphael Cohen1880American philosopher of law and science
• Morris Rosenberg1922Sociologist who created the widely used self-esteem scale
• Morris Schnitzer1995Soil chemist of humic substances
• Morris Stoloff1898Film music director
• Morris Swadesh1909Linguist who created lexicostatistics, glottochronology and the Swadesh word list.
• Morris Tepper1916Directed NASA's meteorological satellite program, overseeing TIROS, Nimbus and GOES
• Mort Sahl1927The father of modern political stand-up
• Mort Shuman1938Songwriter partner to Doc Pomus on Brill Building hits for the Drifters and Elvis Presley.
• Mort Weisinger1941Co-creator of Aquaman, Green Arrow and Johnny Quick (1941)
• Morteza Neydavoud1927Maître du tar et compositeur de Morq-e sahar, « L'oiseau de l'aube », la chanson la plus…
• Mortimer Adler1902American philosopher and educator, leader of the Great Books program
• Mortimer Elkind1996Radiation biologist of cellular repair
• Mortimer Mishkin2009Neuroscientist who mapped the brain's memory and visual systems
• Mortimer Zuckerman1937Co-founder of Boston Properties (BXP) with Edward Linde (1970)
• Morton Brown1931Topology
• Morton Denn1939Authority on polymer processing
• Morton Deutsch1920Social psychologist and founder of the field of conflict resolution
• Morton Feldman1926Avant-garde classical composer
• Morton Fried1923Anthropologist of political organization, author of 'The Evolution of Political Society'
• Morton Gould1913Composer and conductor
• Morton Gurtin1934Continuum thermodynamicist of configurational forces
• Morton Hamermesh1915Physicist
• Morton Panish2001Co-developed the room-temperature semiconductor laser behind fiber optics
• Morton White1917American philosopher of holism and pragmatism
• Mosesc. 1300 BCEBiblical prophet and lawgiver of the Exodus
• Moses AbramovitzEconomist
• Moses Barron1884Pathologist whose research on the pancreas helped inspire the discovery of insulin
• Moses Curiel1645Jerónimo Nunes da Costa — agent of the Portuguese crown in Amsterdam for fifty years…
• Moses de Leonc. 1240 CEKabbalist credited with compiling and disseminating the Zohar, the central work of Jewish…
• Moses Gideon Abudiente1633Auteur de la Grammatica Hebraica (Hambourg, 1633), première grammaire de l'hébreu écrite…
• Moses Gomberg1866Chemist who discovered organic free radicals (triphenylmethyl)
• Moses Hamon1545Médecin personnel de Soliman le Magnifique : il obtint du sultan, vers 1545, le firman…
• Moses Hayyim Luzzatto1707 CEPhilosopher, ethicist and poet
• Moses ibn Ezrac. 1055Hebrew poet and philosopher of the Spanish Golden Age, master of secular and penitential…
• Moses ibn Gikatillac. 1050Grammarian, poet, and Bible commentator who translated Hayyuj's grammatical works into…
• Moses ibn Tibbonc. 1240 CEPhysician and translator of scientific, medical and philosophical works (Averroes…
• Moses Isserlesc. 1530 CELegal scholar and philosopher (the Rema) who wrote on astronomy and philosophy and…
• Moses Kimhic. 1127Grammarian whose primer 'Mahalak Shebile ha-Da'at' became a widely used Hebrew grammar…
• Moses Kunitz1887Biochemist who pioneered the crystallization and purification of enzymes
• Moses Maimonides1180Medieval rabbi, philosopher and physician
• Moses Mendelssohn1783Philosopher and leading figure of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment)
• Moses Montefiore1784British financier and philanthropist for Jewish causes
• Moses Narbonic. 1300 CEPhilosopher and physician
• Moses Phillips1881Rabbi from Suwałki who began selling hand-sewn shirts from a pushcart to coal miners in…
• Moses Schonfinkel1889Founder of combinatory logic
• Moses Soferc. 1810The Chatam Sofer
• Moses Zacutoc. 1620Italian kabbalist and Hebrew poet, author of the drama 'Yesod Olam.'
• Moshe Arens1962Aeronautical engineer who built Israel Aircraft Industries' engineering capability, later…
• Moshe Atzmon1931Orchestra conductor
• Moshé Catane1949Spécialiste des gloses françaises de Rachi, bibliothécaire principal de la Bibliothèque…
• Moshe Datz1991Israeli singer, half of Duo Datz, third at the 1991 Eurovision with 'Kan', seven points…
• Moshe Dayan1967Israeli Chief of Staff and Defence Minister
• Moshe Flato1937Mathematical physics
• Moshe Halevy1925Founder of the Ohel theatre (1925), the workers' theatre that became one of the pillars…
• Moshe IdelIsraeli scholar and leading authority on Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah.
• Moshe LobelActor featured in Yiddish-language cinema such as Shttl.
• Moshe Safdie2019Israeli-Canadian architect of Habitat 67 and Marina Bay Sands
• Moshe Shalev2023Raised Haredi in Bnei Brak, enlisted at twenty-three through the programme opening the…
• Moshe Shapiro1944Theoretical chemist known for coherent control of molecular processes
• Moshe Sharett1954Second Prime Minister of Israel and its first Foreign Minister
• Moshe Vardi2000Israeli-American pioneer of logic in computer science
• Moshe ZonderIsraeli screenwriter and creator behind hit series including Fauda and Tehran.
• Moss Hart1947Broadway legend (You Can't Take It with You)
• Moussa B. H. Youdim2006Co-developed rasagiline (Azilect), a Parkinson's disease drug developed at the Technion…
• Mozes LewensteinPharmacologist, work on opioid antagonists
• Muhammad Asad1980Traducteur et commentateur du Coran en anglais (The Message of the Qur'an, 1980), auteur…
• Munis Tekinalp1936Économiste et publiciste, principal théoricien civil du kémalisme : son Kemalism (1936)…
• Muriel RukeyserPoet / lyricist
• Muriel Spark1918British novelist ('The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie')
• Murray Bookchin1982Fondateur de l'écologie sociale et du municipalisme libertaire
• Murray Gell-Mann1969Classification of elementary particles and their interactions (quark theory)
• Murray Gerstenhaber1927Deformation theory
• Murray HorwitzTony Award — Best Musical
• Murray Jarvik1923Psychopharmacologist who co-invented the nicotine patch
• Murray Koffler1962Founded Shoppers Drug Mart and co-founded Four Seasons Hotels
• Murray Perahia1947American pianist of Sephardic Jewish heritage, esteemed interpreter of Mozart, Bach…
• Murray Rothbard1926Austrian School economist and a founding theorist of anarcho-capitalism
• Murray Schisgal1982Playwright
• Murray WeidenbaumEconomist
• Myer Prinstein1904Athletics
• Myra Ava FreemanThe first Jew to be appointed lieutenant governor of a Canadian province and the first…
• Myra Cohn Livingston1926Both through her poetry and her teaching, Myra Cohn Livingston inspired children to…
• Myra Hess1890Classical pianist
• Myriam Ackermann-Sommer2023Première femme rabbin orthodoxe de France, ordonnée en 2023, fondatrice du premier kollel…
• Myriam Anissimov1943Born to parents who were members of the French resistance, Myriam Anissimov worked as an…
• Myriam Moscona1955Myriam Moscona is a Sephardic Mexican poet, novelist, journalist, and translator.
• Myriam Sarachik1933Physicist
• Myron Scholes1997Black–Scholes option-pricing formula (1973, with Fischer Black)

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