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Revision as of 14:22, 4 October 2002
List of noted Jews
- Madeleine Albright (born 1937), US Secretary of State (1997-2001)
- Menachem Begin (1913-1992), Prime Minister of Israel (1977-1983)
- David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973), founder of Israel, Prime Minister of Israel (1948-1953 and 1955-1963)
- Moe Berg, American spy and baseball player
- Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), American composer
- David Blaine (born 1973), American illusionist
- Michael Bloomberg (born 1943), founder of Bloomberg Financial Markets, Mayor of New York City (2002-)
- Aage Niels Bohr (born 1922), physicist, won 1975 Nobel Prize
- Niels Henrik Bohr (1885-1962), Danish physicist, winner of 1922 Nobel Prize
- Noam Chomsky (born 1928), American linguistic and political writer
- Jesus Christ, namesake of Christianity
- Eli Cohen, Israeli spy and hero
- David Copperfield, American illusionist
- David, king of ancient Israel
- Jacques Derrida (born 1930), French philosopher
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British Prime Minister (1868 and 1874-1880)
- Moshe Dayan (1915-1981), Israeli politician and general. Directed the 1956 Suez War and Six-Day War
- Michael Dell (born 1965), founder of Dell Computer Corporation
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German scientist, winner of 1921 Nobel Physics Prize
- Anne Frank (1929-1945), Holocaust victim
- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian psychologist
- Emma Goldman (1869-1940), feminist and anarchist
- Alan Greenspan (born 1926), economist, chairman of the American Federal Reserve
- Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), founder of Zionism
- Harry Houdini (1874-1926), American illusionist
- Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), German philosopher and holocaust victim
- {{Al Jolson]], star of the first sound film, The Jazz Singer
- Simon bar Kokhba leader of the second Jewish revolt
- Stan Lee (born 1922), American comic book creator
- Henry Kissinger (born 1923), US Secretary of State (1973-1977), winner of 1973 Nobel Peace Prize
- Maimonides (1135-1204), Philosopher
- Karl Marx (1818-1883), founder of Marxism
- Marx Brothers, American actors
- Golda Meir (1898-1978), Prime Minister of Israel (1969-1974)
- Benjamin Netanyahu (born 1949), Prime Minister of Israel (1996-1999)
- Yoni Netanyahu (1946-1976), Israeli war hero
- Daniel Pearl (1963-2002), Wall Street Journal journalist, kidnapped and killed
- Shimon Peres (born 1923), Prime Minister of Israel (1977, 1984-1986, and 1995-1996), shared winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1994
- Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995), Prime Minister of Israel (1974-1977 and 1992-1995), shared 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, assassinated in 1995
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982), writer
- Julius (1918-1953) & Ethel Rosenberg (1915-1953), American spies who sold nuclear information to the USSR
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1743-1812), Wealthy German banker
- Saul of Tarsus, later known as Paul
- Ariel Sharon (born 1928), retired Israeli general, Prime Minister of Israel (2001-)
- Baruch Spinoza, (1632-1677) philosopher
- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), Russian Bolshevik
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Austrian philosopher (born Jewish but converted)